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god if you were truely tone deft you would always be that way...

You did not have the chance to listen to my first recording..... flat out off key.

Now I am mostly off pitch at the end of each line.... not bad but not good yet.

Yes it took me almost a month to learn that song to be at that level.

hi, i sub under C hoping at least 1 person will be honest with me, and as long as they give me a 10 i feel they're being honest....ll....any less than a 10 and i think they're getting even with me....kkk....i do feel some r being honest...

PC? u say before u go out singing live u practice, what do u practice? just the song itself? r are there certain things u work on as ur singing....and if so before u go out do u feel that ur practice helped you. and  because of that practice u will sing better?

r is what ur calling practice really just going over a song to feel more comfortable with it before u get up to sing it...nothing wrong with that it's just not practice....

to me i would make sure that the song i was going to sing, r songs, were in the right key for me....that's a biggie, if ur straining to hit notes a lot then my bets it's a tad too high, there's no shame in lowering a key....

breath control......first of all i never go out and sing a song for the first time.....unless it's just goofin off....
each song has a lot to learn about it....where do u take breaths ? where do u take the deeppppp breaths?  the high notes...for some,  low notes....

to me if ur prepared before singing a song the rest will flow pretty well...ur much more relaxed so ur able to sing better....

on stage is NOT the place to fix things, r try new things.....go with what u know...practice at home....

some feel u have to be 100% before u get up to sing....if that were the case i would never sing....u have good nights bad nights everyone does....no biggie...

expecting too much breeds stress, just relax have fun...

i think some have a gift to sing....born with it....others have talent to sing, while others  have all the above, some have to work their butts off just to stay on key and no matter how hard they work it doesn't seem to get any easier...that's the way it is with everything......

i found out a longgg time ago, that there are tons better then i am, that in itself made it easier for me to get up and sing for the first time...i wasn't the best but i wasn't the worst either...but even if u r the worst that doesn't mean u have to stay the worst...
u may have just been in a room full of ringers that night....

a friend of mine asked me to go out to karaoke with him 1 night, i had never gone before...we went i got up and sang and got down....he said i sounded great i think i sucked, but all clapped....so it was ok....i could tell he wanted sooooo bad to get up and sing but never did, it took me 2 yrs to get him up to sing....yes he sucked, but he got up there, truth is after that night u couldn't get him down....good r bad he was hooked....as i said he sucked, in every sense of the word...and i told him so, in a nice way.......wasn't long he was asking me after he had sung...if he was the best in the room, r was he second r third best....i told him, my god son u just started singing what do u think? he took the hint....he started recording on his comp...sending to me to critique...and i would be honest with him....well it's been a couple years now and before i would say he was a 3 r 4, not even average...today i'll say he's a solid 7, sometimes an 8,  he's come a long way,

i think singing often is very important, it's kinda like using a hammer, at first it feels kinda funny flopping in ur hand then u learn how to hold it and let ur wrist do most of the work....by doing that u find ur arm doesn't get near as tired....same with singing...sure u need to practice but u have to have fun too, just let go and sing....i found that by just singing u in time fix alotta the problems u have singing, r u find ways around them...r they the right ways? betting not but if they work....
breath control to me anyway is just doing it, finding out what u need to do when and how much to breath then doing it....i know nothing about how to get more air...r the correct way to sing, i just sing...

for me when singing if i happen to take a song some place i hadn't planned on it going yet it sounds good that way...that excites me....that's when i feel i'm learning....

some say, slow down r speed up ur vibrato...yea right...lately i do have better control of it, depending on the key....but it's not something i practice....i'm a lazy singer, if it's gonna take time i find ways around it so it doesn't....that way i can call it all mine....l...not always a good thing...

Steven? i have mixed feelings on what u said about subbing here...if ur waiting till ur good enough to sing on here, then it could be a long wait....r u could be good enough already....personally i think any level of singing talent is fine on here...
if u ask 4 people on here in private what ur singing like and all 4 say u sing fine nothing to worry about...go for it.....would u believe um? r would u want to find 4 more that felt the way u do, that ur not good enough yet....is it an excuse to stay away from being a front man?  
like u said YOU have to confront urself and realize the truth about YOUR own singing...i think as long as u feel and think u suck at singing what someone r anyone else says won't make a difference....
i believe u have to believe in urself,  and if you do really suck, then u have friends like me to tell u so....ll

PC said something about well he can hear himself he knows how good r bad he is he doesn't need anyone to tell him....i disagree, most singers i feel beat themselves down a lot,  believing they can't sing as well as they can....that's normal i think...but what do i know about normal....l....i'll sub a song and know there are alotta things wrong with it, yet no one catches it,....i don't think they're listening to every word to see if it's off r not... i know i don't, i take the whole song in then i let u know how i felt about it....

i found that most of the very good singers r the ones that feel they can't sing very well...and the ones that can't carry a tune feel they can do no wrong...

ok that was JMO....for what it's worth....Billy

Hey again.   One thing to remember also is that in karaoke or whatever, we are trying to sing to an original artist's track, so the original artist is the one who has set the.........standard?
Who's to say that it is a good standard unless that artist had professional singing lessons?
If you created an original song, then your rendition would be the set standard for everyone else to try to mimic or re-invent to their own standards.

Did that make any sense?

How can I raise my vocal range 1 1/2 steps ?   I'd be able to do a pretty good Chicago if I could do that !  I feel that I'm currently caught in a somewhat dead register regarding song choice.. Dunno

only get extended range when I sing in a throat voice.
Like on that Don Henley stuff. I'm usually sitting when I do that stuff, almost half bent over, tensing my abdominal muscles and forcing a higher pitched sound from my throat after taking a deep breath, then exhaling slowly in the verse of the song. And yes, it's funny....I look constipated, and my face is probably as red as a beet