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You can match pitch very well but your actual singing voice isn't good how an improve it?
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∙ 14y ago
I think this is actually a reasonably involved question - because it is very difficult to answer without first hearing your voice. That said, though - I'll do my best. To define your voice as "not good" means one of (at least) three things:
1. You are singing with improper technique, and therefore, even though you are singing on pitch, your voice is not producing a sound that is pleasing to the human ear.
2. You are singing with proper technique and pitch but the sound that your voice is producing is a sound that is not pleasant to your ear.
3. You are singing with proper technique and pitch but the sound that your voice is producing is a sound that is not pleasant to other people's ears.
Without knowing you, it is hard to say which is which... but I can comment on all three of these and hopefully you'll be able to tell which suits you the best.
1. So... I could literally go on about vocal technique for an entire book. Obviously, that wouldn't work here, and it's been done a million times before... but I can definitely tell you three of the most important things I've ever learned about vocal technique. Before I get started, though, can I just say that most (seriously, like 90%) of all "vocal teachers" are not vocal teachers? They are repertoire coaches. They will help you learn a song and give you some half-cocked pointers on how to sing, but when it comes to actually building you to become a unique and developed singer, they are useless. I can't even tell you how many "teachers" I would love to go back and give a peace of my mind to because I have only realized now how little they knew for how much they charged. It's sad. Anyway, here we go: Ideally, the only things that you want to control about your voice are the things that should be in your control. I know that sounds funny, but it is true. These three core, foundational things about your voice should not change, no matter what else is going on. Unfortunately, in times of stress they also happen to be the first things that seem to go out the window.
a. Keep your throat relaxed. You should be able, while you are singing or speaking, to lightly hold your throat in your hands and gently move your voicebox side to side. There shouldn't be any resistance there. If your throat is rigid and tube-like, then you are killing yourself vocally. You voice will eventually get exhausted and burn out, and then your sound will deteriorate.
b. You should not hold any unnecessary tension in your jaw, your tongue, your neck, your shoulders, or pretty much anywhere else for that matter, because that tension adds up to you eventually getting tired and then your voice falling apart. This is why it's so hard to not screw this up when you get stressed (like right before you perform on stage in front of 500 people) because when you get nervous, you tense up like a coiled spring. The more you perform in front of people the more this will disappear.
c. You shouldn't sing through your nose, and you shouldn't sing from deep in your chest. You want to find a nice, happy, balanced place where you get the nice resonating quality from both your chest and your nasal passageways.
These three things, as simple as they may sound, have made a world of difference in how I view vocal instruction. I never realized that I had these bad habits myself until after I spent years trying to figure out why I had a fantastic voice as a kid and lost it as I got older. I used to sing freely and for fun when I was a kid - so my voice just did what it wanted to. As I got older I said "I want to sound like that guy" and slowly tore my voice apart. Now that I realized the cause of my problems, I've fixed them and my voice is back. It's such an enjoyment to just enjoy singing.
2. Do yourself the favor of realizing that the most famous and recognizable voices of popular music since the dawn of recording have made it that far because they were unique. They all had something specific about the quality or delivery of their voices that was particular to them and gave them the chance to stand out in a crowd. On one end of that spectrum you have singers like Nat King Cole who, while being incredibly unique can be regarded as a "singer with a beautiful voice" and on the other end you could have someone like the lead singer of Disturbed (name is escaping me right now) who, while exceptionally unique and talented, might not be singing "Unforgettable". Both of those singers are ridiculously good at what they do... but you'd be hard pressed to find too many Nat King Cole fans who think that the guy from Disturbed should put out a Christmas album. What I'm saying here is "be true to yourself". Cole wouldn't have had a career if he had tried singing Metal, and ditto in the reverse for the guy from Disturbed. Now, the hard part of this is (of course) actually being true to yourself. As we grow and listen to music around us we are continually shaped by the voices that we hear. As a result, we may have a preconceived notion of how we would like our voices to sound, regardless of how our voices want to sound on their own! Bob Dylan couldn't sing "Old Man River" and sound like anybody but Bob Dylan. And did he have a "great voice"? It's debatable... his voice is certainly incredibly recognizable, and has sold millions of records, but what makes somebody a singer? Get all of the ideas that your voice has to do what you tell it to out of your head. Your voice is like a fingerprint. It is unique to you and you should celebrate that instead of trying to hide it. It just might make you famous!
3. Ah, this one is no fun. Some people, through no fault of their own, simply do not have pleasing voices. Please take into account what I said above... I'm not going to tell you what a "pleasing voice" is. I like Nat King Cole and Disturbed and Tom Waits and Martin Sexton and a ton of other crazy singers who are completely unlike each other but who are all phenomenal in their own right. It's all a matter of taste, and for whatever voice you've got, there is usually some type of music that suits you and some type of audience that wants to hear it. But in relatively rare cases, nobody wants to hear you. And for those cases? I say sing anyway. We sing because it makes us feel good - and no one should ever take that away from you. And who knows? Maybe the reason no one likes your voice is because you are so unlike everyone else that no one even understands how to appreciate it yet!
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