How to learn how to sing

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Train your ears so you know how to stay on key

Quit smoking

Practice practice practice orrrrrr

Just get autotune like drake and fake it till you make it :heh:

A lot of people don't know drake still uses autotune now :scheme:
 

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growing up I used to try to imitate Russell Tompkins of the Stylistics and Phillip Bailey of Earth, wind and fire. My falsetto is still mean. I just learned how to hone in on my own sound after awhile. Breathing the proper way helps alot.
 

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i think i can carry a tune okay tho. guess ill have to post my voice and u guys will be the judge. im lowkey tryna become a singer :lupe:

been watchin the voice too much, got nikkas thinkin they can sing :russ:
 

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You can make your gift better by coaching/training but if you don't have the gift then it can't be taught.....

In order to be a singer, you have to be able to hear and differentiate tones. Those who don't have this skill are "tone deaf."

The second thing you must have is tone, which can be and improved but the best singers were born with their golden tone.

Lastly.... Control... Proper breathing can improve control, but just like with your tone, great control is gifted. Not every singer can sing the same song the same way.

It's possible to learn but you'll never be better than the singers that are naturally gifted and have great training. Take it from a singer. It's difficult even for decent singers.
 

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Take it one note at a time. I would suggest long tones (i forget what singers call them but it's considered long tones on an instrument other than your body). Essentially, you just take any note you want to work on, definitely internalize it before you sing it (that's a whole other topic in itself), breath in properly (another topic as well) and let your body resonate (which a lot of people don't do properly, they'll strain and force the note which is improper form and leads to other problems in the future). Just hold the note and sustain the pitch without straining and preferably with a tuner after you try to work on it without one for a little bit. I suggest using the tuner after working on it without one for a few minutes, then you'll see where you internal idea of a particular note is.

I'm not an expert by far but over the summer I worked on my singing a little bit to improve my internal recognition of tones. The quicker I internalize it with my body, the quicker my muscles will respond when I want to play a note on saxophone.

It's important that your body vibrates and produces the tone, not simply that you use you throat. That's how you get a full sound and correct. And, more times than not, you'll be more accurate than if you just depended on your throat. When you sing correct you should feel relaxed never tense.
 

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You can make your gift better by coaching/training but if you don't have the gift then it can't be taught.....

In order to be a singer, you have to be able to hear and differentiate tones. Those who don't have this skill are "tone deaf."

The second thing you must have is tone, which can be and improved but the best singers were born with their golden tone.

Lastly.... Control... Proper breathing can improve control, but just like with your tone, great control is gifted. Not every singer can sing the same song the same way.

It's possible to learn but you'll never be better than the singers that are naturally gifted and have great training. Take it from a singer. It's difficult even for decent singers.
Everything in this life can be taught.
 

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I guess you could be taught how to sing.
But I sure wouldn't want to start learning when I'm an adult.

I mean, I could probably teach some of you the mechanics of hitting and pitching, but you'd all suck dikk at it if you never played baseball as a kid.
 

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I'm not surprised that @concise disagreed with me but I'm a little floored that the church musician @Chris.B disagreed as well....

So Chris... You mean to tell me that you've never had or seen a member(s) that was either in the choir or wanted to be in the choir but couldn't sing.... singers that are so bad that they throw off the rest of the choir? Really, bro??? Those singers can be taught as well?

I'm not talking out of my behind. I've been involved with music pretty much all of my life which includes singing and playing instruments. I don't agree that people can be taught, especially when they're tone deaf.
 

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I'm not surprised that @concise disagreed with me but I'm a little floored that the church musician @Chris.B disagreed as well....

So Chris... You mean to tell me that you've never had or seen a member(s) that was either in the choir or wanted to be in the choir but couldn't sing.... singers that are so bad that they throw off the rest of the choir? Really, bro??? Those singers can be taught as well?

I'm not talking out of my behind. I've been involved with music pretty much all of my life which includes singing and playing instruments. I don't agree that people can be taught, especially when they're tone deaf.

I disagreed with you ... or did you disagree with yourself?

You can make your gift better by coaching/training but if you don't have the gift then it can't be taught.....

In order to be a singer, you have to be able to hear and differentiate tones. Those who don't have this skill are "tone deaf."

The second thing you must have is tone, which can be and improved but the best singers were born with their golden tone.

Lastly.... Control... Proper breathing can improve control, but just like with your tone, great control is gifted. Not every singer can sing the same song the same way.

It's possible to learn but you'll never be better than the singers that are naturally gifted and have great training.
Take it from a singer. It's difficult even for decent singers.
 
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