Hi all. I'm mtf trans, but have a naturally baritone/tenor voice. Ariana is my biggest vocal inspiration and I can sing most of her stuff, but naturally struggle because my biological range is lower than hers. Any tips on how I could sing in that range and reach/maintain a soft feminine timbre to match the pitch comfortably?

So literally I’ve never heard this from anyone but I realised when working on my own vocals that for some reason when I worked on my middle register, and lower register (like really low), extensively and kinda stopped trying to belt as high as most pop high notes, when I DID happen to feel like belting high it just came really easily?? I mean like casually belting up to F#5 without any difficulty. I’m not a vocal expert so I don’t know how that works but I feel like it’s something to do with muscle memory because all registers kinda work the same way…

But TLDR: Work on your really low register and your middle register and then for some reason you have an advantage in belting high…

Some people say it is and others say it isn‘t. Some say many teachers require bi-weekly sessions.

I can’t use my head voice without it being throaty and staticky sounding. My teacher transitions so seamlessly from chest to head voice that I can’t tell the difference. She keeps telling me to sing in the mask, and she keeps having me touch her face to feel it vibrate in the cheek and nose area lol. I simply do not understand what she is physically doing to accomplish that. I watched some videos about the mask, but they seem to be about opera, whereas my goal is to sing in a more modern style.

I am thinking about doing vocal lessons 2-3x per week for about three months and then going back down to once a week. I am making progress now but I am looking for a lot of change in a little bit of time. When I ask my teacher he says its not necessary but I really would like to improve faster and i know I need the guidance of a teacher. My goal is to try and make a career with singing. What should I do? Is doing more less9ns going to help me or I wasting money?

I often see men asking this question.

And like my answer is that i think its just bc people underestimate female audiences because it’s not only male viewers or like, the popular joke amongst men on the internet that there’s actually no women is deeply stupid and untrue. And it’s not that lower pitched males are like.. bad.. but it’s that higher pitched males are just more relatable to our ears and i feel like men with a deep voice can only sound intimidating or romantic and like these days men don’t do romantic songs as MUCH as they used to so.. naturally the high pitched male genre rose in popularity and recognition and i don’t think it will ever be unpopular again to be honest so i feel like baritones and basses should just get used to the competition instead of always complaining likeee, plus i know higher pitched
male voices were always teased by men until their popular by women and others so there’s that now 🤷🏽‍♀️

I can sing from C3 to G5 though from C5 it requires very high breathing to get, by which I meant that I need to save my breath so that I can stretch the high notes of C5-G5 or else my voice breaks. I have been in the constant shadow that people who are always better than me are tenors with good training techniques. I feel jealousy towards them and miserable towards me but I know that they are nice humble people who appreciate my singing so I respect them too.

I wish I could sing the entire Beates, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder etc's discography with ease (I can sing many here but the musically trained people said to me that sure you can sing but you need to make it look effortless, i.e, you need to be comfortable singing them).

So can you guys give me tips on what voice range am I and how should I improve like where can I start with some free resources etc?

(Regarding natural tone mainly)

I’ve been feeling pretty bad about my potential as a singer recently. I’m still waiting to get training for actual technique, but my tone is simply unusable. This isn’t even a case of the issues coming from being untrained, but rather my singing voice just being unnaturally fit for anything. I can’t sing high, medium or low music since the tone of my voice just never matches the song and drains the personality out of it even if I sing the right notes or transpose it to fit my range better. It’s very hard to describe my voice but I’m basically a baritone with none of the good qualities that would usually come from such a voice. Oddly enough, I would actually say that it encompasses all of the flaws of the 3 main voice types without any of the benefits. I quite literally have the lows of a tenor and the highs of a bass. My voice is both light and dull where I basically lack both the richness of a baritone and the brightness of a tenor with no good traits to speak of. My speaking voice is exactly like this too, and I’ve had multiple people comment on how strange my voice is when I talk.

I can‘t find any music that fits my voice and I don’t think there’s a practical use for it. I can’t sing along to ANYTHING. There is no genre fit for me. My voice just doesn’t have a good personality or practical application and I don’t know what to do with it. I know training would help with technique and range but my natural tone simply renders my voice unusable. My highs and lows sound especially bad. My intonation is fine, but the tone ruins it. My voice is oddly too deep and too thin to fit into any type of music (no matter what register I sing in) and I’m really doubting my ability to belong in music. I often get told to be myself and avoid being like others or disliking my voice, but my true voice is worthless. If anyone here has had this issue too, how did you fix it? It doesn’t seem possible for me to just change my natural singing voice and this has had a massive effect on my self esteem.

I recorded this video back in 2018, just driving around and singing in my car. But I was always too afraid to share it with anyone, online or irl. I have such anxiety around my voice. I’ll sing in my higher head voice sometimes, but no one irl has really heard my chest voice or heard me sing like this and I can’t help feeling like it’s actually dog shit. 😭 Like even when I think I’m singing well, I’m actually just blind to my own flaws.

You know those American Idol contestants that go to audition, all happy and confident and ready to win, just to end up in the B roll and being made fun of on YouTube in cringe compilations? I just can’t shake the feeling that I’m one of those. 😭

I actually showed it to a friend for the first time last night…I was super nervous. And her reaction was…hard to read. 😓 I mean, she said she liked it, but also said “I mean, we all do that”. 🤔 Which makes me think that my voice actually isn’t anything special and is, at the very best, completely average. (Which is better than the criticism I give myself, so I guess that’s something.)

But please please please…be brutally honest. I need to know. 😭

WHY CANT I HIT HIGH NOTES?? my voice feels trapped and strained DESPITE the fact that I have been practicing breathing exercises-really pay attention and make sure Im singing from my diaphragm(not too much to the point thats all im focusing on), even tried lip rolls and other techniques including vowel pronunciation someone help a girl out
I am an ex singer- I want to have my voice back.

I recently started learning how to sing. I'm a very shy and insecure person, so this was already a pretty big step for me. My dream job doesn't require singing, but being able to sing would be a huge advantage, so I decided to give it a try.

The weird thing is that when I'm actually singing, I usually like what I hear. I can tell when I'm out of tune, when I miss a note, and I'm starting to understand scales, chords, my vocal range, and how to make things sound good in theory. While I'm singing, it sounds fine to me.

But when I record myself and listen back, I absolutely hate it. I recently recorded myself doing a lip sync over a singing character, but I had removed the character's voice completely. I also lowered the key of the song because the original was higher than my vocal range, so I wasn't trying to force myself to sing in a range I couldn't reach. It was in a key that was comfortable and natural for me. Even though I obviously wasn't going to sound exactly like the original, I thought it should still sound decent. I knew I had hit the first note correctly, at least, but when I listened to the recording, I genuinely couldn't stand it. It sounded horrible to me. This happens with a large majority of the songs I sing.

My singing teacher told me it's normal to dislike your own voice. He actually sings extremely well and still doesn't like listening to himself. I've also heard a lot of other people say the same thing.

So is this really that common? Do most people dislike their own singing voice, regardless of how good they actually are?

I'm completely fine with the possibility that I just sound bad right now. I'm mostly wondering if, with enough practice and experience, it's possible to eventually listen to your own singing and genuinely think, "That sounds good."

Hi everyone!

I have joined my school musical because I was getting too much FOMO as I worked backstage and all my friends are actors, and now I have to sing almost every single song in the musical since I’m in ensemble.

The thing is, I’ve never actually tried to sing well, and I also have somewhat severe rhinitis that requires nasal cleansing twice as day or else I can’t breathe. It had been that way since I was 7 so for ten years. I still have that nasal voice as my baseline speaking voice even with the cleansing treatment and sometimes I have to do three times a day and still sound like my nose is blocked.

Is this something that’ll make singing harder or sound nasal forever? I don’t want to make the whole ensemble sound horrible.

If this helps, I like singing while strumming on guitar but I only like singing songs that are unconventional like Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl or I’m Cool(I love the Will Roland version). I don’t think I’m that bad at tone hearing but I still can’t ear tune my guitar after 5 years of playing it so maybe mildly bad?

And those who are wondering, it’s not allergic rhinitis! My specialist doctor(in my country nasal-ear-throat special doctor is a thing) told me it is likely chronic.

Thanks!

i have a really passionate love for music , song writing and producing silly tunes on my ipad. a couple of people have told me i’m really good at singing. but the issue is , i do not have a good vocal range. i can sing pretty high pitch and not crack my voice but i can NOT sing deep for the life of me. i sound super out of tune and i barley sound like im singing more just talking lol.
so real question is it ever possible to actually improve on singing or is it something people are just naturally born with?
thanks!

Help! I'm losing my voice and have an audition on the 12th. I normally practice for 45 minutes and need exercises that don't strain my voice box much so I can let it rest. Does anyone have suggestions for vocal exercises with less strain, plus ideas to fill the practice time? Any recommendations appreciated!

Hello everybody!

My background is in growled vocals (think Lamb of God etc) but lately I’ve been trying to get into some high power falsetto singing. The problem is that the way I’ve always applied grit to my voice doesn’t really work in that register as it’s way too volatile for even the smallest changes in support and projection of the voice.

To those who have managed to pull off Halford/Yannis style vocals, how do you keep it consistent without breaking the grit/distortion?

Here is me trying to sing some Beast in Black for reference:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIPLYQ64LVXPEQ6Sm3rfOj08niUEsQ7F/view?usp=drivesdk

Recently i used the online vocal test (idk if it's accurate), i barely reached A1 once and G5 once each time but mostly stressed or like unsupported, but my comfort zone is C3 to C5, is it good for a male? (I'm 17 btw) and will the high not vanish slowy as i grow up?

Hello !

I've been singing as an amateur for 5-10 years. I've always had a naturally powerful, full voice, but I've struggled with mixing/belting, especially around G4-B4. I could hit those notes, but only with a lot of effort, especially above G4 which is weird because I'm a tenor and not so good tenors can hit those notes quite easily (even with a faulty technique).

I tried working on my technique, doing warm-ups, focusing on support, etc. but nothing really helped. Worse, the more I sang during the day, the raspier my voice became. Listen my voice is naturally raspy, but it got so bad that I couldn't even sing above my passaggio without sounding extremely raspy at times (especially after 1/2 hours of training).

That's actually what led me to see an ENT 3 years ago. He checked my vocal cords and told me nothing was wrong. I was like…huh. Then he told me there had to be something wrong technically speaking if I thought my voice was damaged.

Well, I couldn't get an appointement again because of financial and personal reasons (I had to move out bc of college, getting my bachelor and stuff). So years later after the appointement (3 to be exact), with my voice getting even raspier, I finally realized what was wrong

I was literally breathing TOO MUCH AIR.

I had always seen people emphasize taking deep breaths, so I thought I wasn't supporting enough. The raspier my voice got, the more air I inhaled to compensate. At the beginning it worked but after a lot of years, my voice just couldn't take it anymore. Turns out I was using way more air than I needed, which was drying out my vocal cords and making the raspiness worse.

Now I just take a quick, deep, but not too deep, breath and use less air, and my voice is literally BLOOMING !! The notes I used to have to push for now come naturally. I can belt A4s and even higher without the excessive raspiness. I'm genuinely so happy.

TL;DR : I thought I wasn't supporting enough, so I kept taking deeper breaths and using more air. Turns out I was using WAY too much air, which was making my voice raspier. Using less air completely changed my singing voice.

I started practicing singing seriously about two weeks ago, and I feel like my ears have already improved a little.

Today I found a vocal critique I paid for two years ago, so I listened to the recording I had submitted back then.

Oh my god. I was SO bad !

And then I read the coach’s feedback:

“You have a very beautiful voice, and I can really tell that you love singing.”

I was like… wow. Vocal coaches really are kind people .

To be fair, the rest of the critique was actually very detailed and accurate. She pointed out problems with my low register, pitch, rhythm, breath, vocal attacks, etc. And interestingly, some of those tendencies are the same things my current coaches are noticing.

But it made me realize that a coach saying “you have a beautiful voice” or “you’re doing really well” probably shouldn’t be treated as an objective measurement of your singing level.

A good coach can genuinely find something good in your singing while also hearing ten things that need work.

I think two weeks ago I probably sounded pretty similar to that old recording. Now that my ears are getting a little better, I can finally hear what the coach was hearing back then.

So maybe one sign that your ears are improving is listening to an old recording and thinking:

“…why did nobody stop me?” 😂

Hello Reddit,

Could you please give me some honest feedback on how I sound.

I was singing in the tenor range not to long ago but recently switched to the bass range.

What would you rate my singing out of 10?

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I have had 3 or 4 lessons now so early days but wonder what I should expect? My goal is to work on my overall technique (improve diction, belting, breathing, trying to find my head voice and learn to use, increase my range). Never had lessons before so am a newbie. I have a few songs to practice at home and a couple of tips / pointers but should I be being given more exercises and routines to do at home like specific warmups? Or will this likely come when I am further into my learning. Don’t feel like I have really learnt anything yet and want to progress generally not just with a song I do each time

i sing mostly in japanese this song is a japanese song with a few english in it.
i train my voice for 4 months now(128 days) ,
and i feel im getting better than 4 months ago overall
my dream to become a singer in a music group.
i began singing since i was 12 years old, so i work on my voice, train, and record everyday.
can i be a singer, is my voice pretty
thank you x

Small. Narrow. Open vowels. Not Turned.

I felt the shift and narrowing inside. The vowels are still too wide, imo, but much more manageable than before.

It seems that width and support go hand-in-hand. Horn players call it blowing out, and I suspect the vocal equivalent is blowing wide. Probably a chicken and egg thing, but they seem to be inseparable.

Hi, I'm an amateur singer and I'm always interested in feedback about my voice: what I can improve, what I'm doing well, etc. Any help would be appreciated🥹