Learning to sing...tips?

Question

I love to sing...don't we all? lol. My voices isn't terrible and I can actually do very well and songs that are more like hymns - amazing grace, and carols like Away in a Manger, but music like Metallica and even country music sounds kind of bad when I sing it. Not like a dying cat or anything though lol. I'm not about to be the next American Idol or anything, but I'd love to be able to sing for people I know and be confident. Without seeing a professional, is there anything anyone can recommend?...and please keep the snarky comments like 'Sing Solo - So Low that no one can hear you'...to a minimum thanks.

Answer 1

we all love to sing..but just one thing ...a person with a country voice cant sing rock and a rocker cant sing jazz...understand???just the way aerosmith spoilt the song i dont wanna miss a thing...now just know u're strengths and work on them...know wat u're good at...and ya of course learning to read music does help a lot. try breathing exercises. and pitches..try to know u're range and go as high as u can....once u practice this u'll know the difference.

Answer 2

I believe if you replaced the word "belief" with the synonymous word "hypothesis" you wouldn't have a problem. Unless you're completely unthinking, it's impossible to not already have a preconceived ideas about what you're going to learn. There's nothing wrong with already having beliefs, you can't not have them... Anyhow as the result of learning you learn if you were either right, wrong, or somewhat both in your beliefs. Let's take something simple as an example. The Earth moves around the Sun. My Preconceived Hypothesis: From experience I can watch the sun move across the sky. The Earth feels like it's pretty still. So one can only conclude that the Sun is the one who's actually moving. ^The above is however incorrect. The argument against the above is that when you do the math it's a lot simpler for the Earth and planets to be circling the Sun and not everything circling the Earth. Also we can study Venus and note how the dark side of Venus changes (see as Venus goes around the sun different parts of it are lit up showing that it's moving around the Sun). And why it feels like the Earth is not moving is explained because we are in fact "moving with" the Earth. ===== As a side note I disagree with the person who said "beliefs tend to get in the way". That's not true, in fact, most scientific facts are actually "beliefs" before they're proven. You have a belief, you go out and prove that belief. Copernicus believed the Heliocentric model, he went out and proved it.

Answer 3

Join a choir. It doesn't have to be at a church. If you want to at a church then go for it but don't hold yourself back if u want more. Maybe a community ed class or as a University Ed course. Some where that u can learn the basic of notes and how they work so u can learn to sing those notes too. Once u start to learn u will probably want to learn more. Then go off to your own style of singing from there. U need to get that basic stuff down first.

Answer 4

Sheet music and play piano yourself so that you don't have to pay for a professional to teach you.

Answer 5

Practice makes perfect.......the more you train your vocals, the better they will sound.