I've always wanted to be able to sing and I can to a point... I'm not tone deaf and I can hit the right pitches, but my voice sounds like crap whenever I've recorded it.

Can anyone point me in the right direction towards making it sound better? I've joined a choir, which will give me practise at least. I sing tenor.

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<kyle90> i got my SAT scores back
<kyle90> according to the sheet i got sent in the mail, I did "better than 99% of all college-bound seniors"
<kyle90> of course, thats comparing me to americans
<kyle90> so its not really a fair assessment

All you can do is practice and the choir will help a lot. If you let yourself you can really have fun. im in choir and i sing bass. I have a good time.

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Light And Darkness

According to Jack Sparrow in PotC, eunuchs have wonderful singing voices. A little snip, and you're ready.

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Get busy living or get busy dying. - Andy Dufresne

Yeah, singing tenor in a choir will really help you out a lot, be ready to hit those high notes . Just go out there and have fun, don't care if you're afraid of what everyone will think, sing loudly,open your mouth, and you'll be fine.

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yeah, most of singing is technicalities, you'll learn them in choir. (breath support, intonation, shape of vowels, placement of vowels, consonants, blending, head and chests voices and how to transition bewtween the two, how to warm up et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...and maybe eventually developing a vibrato). Get them down and you get singing down.
Have fun and sing out!! if you're going to make a mistake, make it a big one, that's what my chorus teacher always tells my class .

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

[This message has been edited by sugarless5 (edited December 27, 2003).]

Get someone to kick you in the balls.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

I've obviously lost them already: I'm learning how to sing.

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<kyle90> i got my SAT scores back
<kyle90> according to the sheet i got sent in the mail, I did "better than 99% of all college-bound seniors"
<kyle90> of course, thats comparing me to americans
<kyle90> so its not really a fair assessment

Buy someone else's vocal chords and have them surgically implanted into your throat.

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He has a powerful weapon
He charges a million a shot
An assassin that's second to none
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN

Oh yeah that would work.

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Here Ociffer, hold my beer while i look for my license.
*Remnant Temple beta taking a bit longer than planned but ill get it done*
Light And Darkness

Worth a shot.



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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

-Albert Einstein

Hey now! I sing and I still have my balls. Basically my guitar teacher taught me little exercises to do with the guitar to do all the stuff someone else said, pitch recognition, vowel/consonants sounds, all that stuff. It seemed to work well... *shameless plug* check the soundclick.com link in my sig.

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<< start the revolution >>

That's sick. I mean.. buy someone's vocal cords? When you could just steal them? Come now, good sir. What do you take us for?

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Just keep doing it. A lot.

If there's anything Morrowind taught me about life, it's that if you just keep devoting time and energy, you will get good, guaranteed.

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I have to agree with that. I deliver pizzas. I've had a lot of time to practice...

If it sounds good in your head then get minimicrophones and stick them in your ears, that way you'll record what you hear.

Try and find a popular singing voice like yours, if you sing in a choir you're unlikely to have a gravelly voice so adjust what you're trying to sing to what you can sing.

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"I am the signature virus! Copy me into your signature so that I can take over the world! Moohahahee!"

I have a naturally good voice, but to make it sound VERY good I imitate the voice styles of famous vocalists, like Bono from U2, Mike from U2, Main SInger from Nickleback, and especially Nick Cave and Greenday.
See what I mean?

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I hate you, I hate her, I hate the whole ******* human race. DIE!

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

What you can do to improve your singing is... well... sing. Sing for a long time, stopping only to take a breath, and build up your stamina!

You can also practice by playing notes on a piano, then singing them; then by thinking of a note in your head, singing it, then check on the piano if you've got it.

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GhostOfYoda - General doer of stuff.

There are also those who just aren't meant to sing. No matter how they practice, they'll always sound terrible.

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Like me, krok?

eh, I'll never be able to do high tones - I can grunt, though..

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Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Kroko raises a point.

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Baby Mama's Drama

I think if you really want to sing good, you have to take lessons with a private singing teacher. A choir is good for practice, but only a teacher, you see in private can point you to your personall difficulties.

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Sorry for the lousy English

Is Mike from U2, the Edge? or is it Bono's little brother, Mike-o?

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<< start the revolution >>

yeah, I was pretty good before I took voice lessons but I improved 500% since I started taking lessons. individual attention definitley helps, but it also costs money. Chorus will get your basic things down and you can try to improve them on your own if you want to do it without the money ($25 a week for private lessons adds up, but it's worth it for me)

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

[This message has been edited by sugarless5 (edited December 28, 2003).]

oops sorry I meant Mike Stipe from R.E.M

/me shoots himself

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}