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How to become a good singer?

How do I become a good singer?

  • I am a terrible singer with zero natural talent, is it possible for me to become a good singer? How? Both my parents and my entire family are terrible at singing too. Am I genetically doomed to bad at singing?

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    As hilarious as this is going to sound, the first thing you need to do is just sing all of the time. Every song you know on the radio (actively try to hum along with songs you don't know), every song that gets stuck in your head, you even have to mimic the tonal inflections people use when they talk (Um not directly to them, that may perceived negatively). I'm gonna guess that you're one of those people that thinks that they're "tone deaf". You're not. Like, it's physically impossible for that to happen unless you have nerve damage in your ears or brain damage in your temporal lobes. If you can carry conversation, you have a basic ability to recognize tone changes and produce your own. Conversation itself is a play of rising and falling tones. That's the first step. That step is to begin the training of your ear and your vocal range. The next step is to try to mimic singular notes. Like, play a note, and try to sing it exactly. It's useful to get a little mechanism (ahem a tuner) that will tell you if you're flat or sharp. Use that to help make your voice match whatever instrument you're banging notes out on. When you get better at this, try doing scales. They cool. But sometimes super duper duper duper boring. Unless Maria is singing them (shameless Sound of Music reference). Never stop doing step one, and do step two when you feel like it. And with these two steps you will start developing your own ideas on what "good" singing is and where YOU fall in that range. The funny thing is with singing (and really a lot of abilities) that it's usually the best singers who are most aware of their own inabilities and shortcomings. It's the people that leave you breathless that, while loving the actual act of singing, can sometimes not stand the sound of their own flawed voice. To answer the last question. No. Not possible. There's really no way to tell if you'll be a "good" or "bad" singer just by lineage. Understanding and manipulating the delicate balance of presence, variety, and absence that is all human creation is not a result of your parents' ability to do so. This applies to singing, there are so many things that make up the huge camp that is "good singing", breathy singers, jumpy singers, soulful singers, sassy singers, silly singers, pitchy singers, pitch perfect singers, precise singers, flexible singers, sad singers. And all of them have a form all of their own that sounds pleasing to the ear and evocative to the emotions. So sing. Sing all of the time. Practice makes you more aware of intricacies you never knew existed.

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When you start learning to sing there are several things to avoid. These things can destroy your singing career forever. First of all you need to avoid alcohol because excess alcohol will damage your vocal cords for a long time. The only good news is that the effect of alcohol is reversible and this means that if you stopped drinking alcohol your voice will regain its original tone and overcome the bad effect that alcohol caused. Another important thing that you need to quit is smoking. Cigarettes and cigars has a high content of tar which accumulates on your larynx causing it to produce muffled sound because it won't be able to resonate properly with the presence of these amounts of tar. Although the effect of tar is not completely reversible but, if you stopped smoking you will be able to minimize its effect. Drinking a lot of water is a very important thing to learn when you are learning how to sing. Water has a marvelous effect on your sound. There is a huge misconception that honey may be good for your voice as it soothes the larynx but, the truth is completely the opposite. Honey can damage your vocal cords permanently. Dairy products also have the same adverse effect on your voice too. Do not attempt to drink milk or eat dairy products before singing, they will leash your voice and prevent you from singing in high scales and hitting high notes. Learn how to sing properly through certified teachers who are able to guide you through the proper way to proper singing. Some people attempt to learn singing alone but, this is not the right way to start. You need to seek the advice of a professional vocalization teacher in the beginning then you can complete the course on your own. You need to get at least the base from someone professional then try the rest by yourself. Do not neglect to warm up your voice, your vocal cords are muscles and they need warming up just as any other muscle in your body. Make sure that you spend a reasonable amount of time warming up your voice through high medium and low notes before you start singing full power. Singing without warming up your voice will strain your vocal cords and damage them immensely. In addition to warming up, you need also to cool down your voice after singing. Lip curl is very effective in these cases. Think of your voice like a car motor, before a performance trip you need to warm up the engine to avoid damaging it and when you reach your destination after long and exhausting trip, you need to leave the motor running on idle for couple of minutes before you shut it off. The same goes for your voice. Learn how to sing properly from the beginning and you will find that you are progressing very easy because you have the right and proper fundamentals. Watch this video to learn how to sing: Here are more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/LearningHowToSing

Charles Oboso

Feel and practice your vocals

Kanha Chachondia

The first requirement is to have at least some raw talent. I would say voice lessons can help you improve your raw talent.

Rae Joudain

Follow the rule of the Five Ps "Proper Practice Prevents Poor Performance". That's it.

Erwick Flynn D'Souza

Record yourself.  If you don't like how it sounds, you will need to change something.  Repeat, repeat, repeat.  Then, you might be ready to sing in public.  Start with kareoke.

Josh Johnson

http://www.singingsuccess.comBuy their program "Singing Success 360" or torrent it if you don't have money now, but be loyal and purchase it afterwards. I myself first torrent it and then purchased and this really improves my voice a lot. It drastically improved my vocal range, make the voice beautiful, and helps into sing in correct pitch. These days, I am not practicing but still my vocals are far far far far far better than before using this program.

Abhijeet Singh

let me rephrase that question for you, it should be "How can I sing in a good or in a more better way" you can start by learning classical singing even if it is not your genre, classical music increases your vocal capacity and in a way you will be able to get knowledge about classical music too. Keep practicing your vocals Practice song writing

Rohan Jakarkar

Yes.  You will never be a good singer.  Sorry, I've been in bands for many years.  I never had a great voice.  But I worked on it--like I worked on my guitar and piano.  And I became…adequate.  It's humbling seeing guys effortlessly come up and blow me away with their tone, or natural ear for harmony. Now, that said, there's a lot of not-great-singers who are legendary, because they've got passion.  Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, James Hetfield, Billie Corgan, Leonard Cohen. I love them all, but technically, they aren't great singers. Even if you don't agree with my list, you can, I'm sure, name singers that you really like who really aren't great singers. Anyway, I ended up singing for an altMetal band.  I found my range, found the kind of songs that I could sing well.  Wasn't that bad either--as long as I stuck within my talent level.

Adam La Rusic

Lol :P The first and foremost thing to become a singer is you have extraordinary voice ;) music should be in your soul and you sings from your heart,once it is done then i suggest you to go classes to brush your talent up, Meet with famous singers in your contacts, Learn every tiny thing in Singing, Resister on website like http://mahoul.com Go to , like shows. Do what your heart says.

Gourav Rao

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