when did your voice come to fruition?
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I've had a longstanding love/hate relationship with my voice when it comes to singing; I'm really selfconscious about how it sounds, and I usually don't think it sounds too good. Every once in awhile though my friends tell me "don't worry about it, man, it'll come; you're only 18." That surprised me; I didn't really think my voice was still going through major changes. So when did your guys voices get to the point where you thought it was good? I know there's probably not a definite answer, but in your twenties? Late teens? 18? Just wondering what you thought.
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i also had to accept that i'm not a rock singer and never will be.
Man 2 words....
Billy Corgan
I miss you already, I miss you all day
Yeah, I need to have faith. I have the same problem as exhausted has; I love rock and roll so much, and refuse to accept that my voice won't let me sing it. Maybe that's just dumb, I don't know, but God knows in ten years I wanna be on the stage of MSG wailing away and throwing all those mike stands and guitars in the air :-).
Keep practising
I miss you already, I miss you all day
"We were done, done, done with all the fuck, fuck, fuckin around"-Modest Mouse
Yeah, right :-) Trust me, I guess it's a good thing I have to work for it, but any singing talent I have is going to be hardearned. I guess thats the best way to have it though.
have very funny names.
Like Lincoln, Zell, and Saxby.
What's wrong with things like "James"?
I think that this is crazy.
I think that it should stop.
I think this is the reason
They confirmed John Ashcroft.
Evanescence, Amy Lee - not a rock voice. Example of a band being formulated around a voice.
quite true...and she's the only member of her band who should be making music at all.
have very funny names.
Like Lincoln, Zell, and Saxby.
What's wrong with things like "James"?
I think that this is crazy.
I think that it should stop.
I think this is the reason
They confirmed John Ashcroft.
and possibly the only one who should NOT be designing dresses.
In that case, sing instead from your chest. use your chest voice not your head voice. Just go with the gut and belt it out. The shower voice that's your rock voice. Power, comes from your gut.
is that what that was - ok, we'll go with that.
But my scratching voice all alone was nothing like Buckley's baritone. I found much later on, after gigging and playing with bands and writing songs that your voice will change regardless of contrivances on your part: using PA systems and listening to other musicians with you will encourage you to bring out new tonalities in your voice and even write lyrics in a different way that brings out the sound of the words with the bands, even when you have a point to make in the lyrics themselves. Let the voice guide the poetry, I guess.
If you're living somewhere that doesn't appreciate you raising volume and trying for upper reaches of your vocal range, and if you haven't a big enough room a big to sing in, go out a couple of miles and shout in a field. I'm serious. Salif Keita built up his roar herding cattle in the country; if you live in a more confined space, invest in a walk out a few miles and test your volume. If you're not classically trained and you sing according to emotion (like me), the way to find out what your voice can do is to get miles away from everyone and sing into the wind when it's making you a bit breathless. Fight it and get breaths to sing from the gut when you can. If you can do it, you'll sing those notes from the soul and always have a resource to sing more.
Whole bunch of great lessons from Steven Tyler's voice coach. Don't buy the video though. Not worth it.
I really want to sing Grievance so bad, scream it from the rooftops, but every time I do, I crack notes left and right, and I sound so damn insincere. That really sucks, because this song just hits me right in the gut.
It sucks not being able to be a punk rocker :-(
i'm with ya on that one. i try to sing grievance all the time, but i still can't do it well for the life of me.
it's growing up just like me.