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I have a radical solution that I sometimes recommend for someone with zero experience, which is:

 

1.) Learn, and then

 

2.) Practice.

 

Try it for a while, and let us know how it goes.

 

P.S. If you had never played drums, and you lost your drummer, would you "have" to take over that as well?

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cant learn when you dont show me any useful links or tips. If you wont be helpful, then I suggest that you do not post in my topic.

 

And considering that I have seen you being an ass to other beginner singers in other topics, I am not surprised your ass hattery has extended to my topic.

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Its true that you're off-key, quite a lot actually.

 

I think the best approach to help fix this is to first play the vocal melody notes on a guitar or piano, take your time to listen to the exact pitch being played. Go through each phrase separately bit by bit, slow and precisely. Play a single note, then sing that single note, if at first the note isn't on key, then keep on repeating that note until it seems on key. Then move on to the next note and so on. A good listening environment would be helpful too, do it a quiet place with no disruptions and good acoustics to hear yourself. You can also try "cupping" your ears with your hands opened towards the back, you will hear yourself better, which gives a slightly more "true sound", and less of your "internal sound". You can also record yourself and play it back, but its very nerve racking for beginner singers to do it. Just try these tips and let us know how it goes.

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I have a radical solution that I

sometimes recommend for someone with zero experience, which is:

1.) Learn, and then

2.) Practice. Try it for a while, and let us know how it goes.


P.S. If you had never played drums, and you lost your drummer, would you "have" to take over that as well?


You're not very smart.

I'm done.

 

Can you tell us in your own words why you dislike yourself so much?

I mean I'm no Dr. Phil nor Maury but it sounds to me the

inadequacies in your life keep you from enjoying life so

much that you have to take your negativity out on other people.

 

What a sad thing it is...that you don't understand

the value of respecting someone else who did nothing to you. :cry:

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I have 0 singing experience. We recently lost our singer and I have to take over on vocals for now.


http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=1113177


Like I said, I have no experience singing at all, and any and all advice will be welcome, including warm up tips and stuff.

 

 

I listened.

Here is what I recommend:

 

-Forget about warm ups, exercises for now

-Learn the entire song frontwards and back.

-Use your musicianship to learn each note, each phrase

(I assume you play an instrument?)

 

and each verse until you got it down.

You don't have to try to sound perfectly polished but what you

do need is some focus and really need to nail down pitch...

(which IMO can be taught)

 

Slow the tempo down in half and note for note

repeat each note until it is in perfect pitch...

 

Watch the Sound of Music (seriously)

Sure I might have been around 10 when I saw it but

the lead character breaks it down.

 

 

 

So to recap:

 

-Learn the basics of music theory to establish perfect pitch

-Once perfect pitch has been attained learn the song note for note.

 

-Once that is done begin to use improvisation to connect

the notes together which form the vocals.:thu:

 

You need to learn the basics of singing, or theory.

It's easy money.

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Davie's and Johnny's responses are just right, I think. I'd call your voice inexperienced rather than bad. In fact, I like your tone a lot, and tone is much harder to work with than pitch. I think you could fix the instability problems quickly with lessons (if possible) and some practice. The problems with this vocal clip sound a lot worse than they actually are, so don't be discouraged.

 

Actually, there's a guy named Jonathan Richmond (solo and with the Modern Lovers) who made quite a career for himself in the 70s and beyond with a voice very like yours.

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i think the tone is also good. this might sound simple but you may not have even been trying to sing on pitch if you have zero experience. just remember / find the melody line for the song and try it. you man want to find a song with a simple melody line that is mostly or at least starts with the root notes of the chords..

 

 

But, most of all just have fun...

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yeah, don't even worry about proper technique at this point.

 

focus on PITCH, not technique

 

like johnb said: doing the do re me fa so la ti do (do re mi fa so le te do in minor) is gonna help a lot (that's found in the sound of music). You should be able to go up and down scales a capella, you know. I practice that sort of thing in my car and it takes awhile but you'll eventually get it.

 

another thing is pitch matching. Like play a note staccato on a keyboard or guitar (staccato, not sustained). Visualize the pitch in your head then hit it on a vowel like "eee"

 

do those until you can sing on pitch then worry about technique, warmups and all that other stuff.

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Always late for the party!

 

You play guitar right? If so, play the melody lines in your guitar and just listen, basicaly you will be playing what you should be singing, get your ears used to it, once you have it down start singing, first the chorus since in most songs that's where the hook is and that's what people will recognize and sing along with.

 

If you sing with the PA (I recomend that by the way so you can get used to mic technique as well), play an acoustic guitar unplugued so your voice comes up front and not the guitar. Once you start sounding unisom with the guitar line, move to the verses untill you have all the pieces down.

 

Never scream, never get stressed, just relax and sing. I fyou get frustrated, take a break, walk away, stress is a singers worst enemy.

 

As far as warm-up, as previuosly recomended, don't worry to much for now, try humming the song with the guitar a couple of times, it helps!

 

Most importantly remember to breathe! Finding where you breathe in a song is to me, the most important part of singing! Learn where you need to breath so you can sing the line with no stress, make notes on the tab untill you are so used to it that is comes naturally!

 

Best of luck in your new role, who knows, you might like it! Chicks dig singers!

 

Rod

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thank you to everyone that actually gave a response other than one bad apple. All of it is helpful and I will be sure to practice more. Ill post back on here in a few weeks to see if I have improved at all

 

I'm sure you can do it.

Just concentrate on the song and its structure.

Then you can play with the notes and as long as you adhere

to the structure, stay within the key signature you can't sing

a bad note.

 

What I do is break the song down.

 

Intro

Verse

Bridge

Chorus

2nd Verse

and so on...

 

Then I play each part over and over and over and over

until it is embedded in my head so I can play it back

from memory.:thu:

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Yeah, I like the tone and sound of the voice...the notes that ARE sung in tune sound nice.

 

It's just...yes, most of the singing is really off.

 

I'd start singing REALLY simple songs...not that this song sounds overly difficult, but it's got some quick-changing words and stuff that can get in the way a bit when you're trying to learn the BASICS of singing in tune.

 

I find you tend to sing "shine" (at the end of the choruses) always in tune.

 

Anyway, yes, just try and sing (and record yourself) basic, simple songs that you know really well, and don't play anything along with it (meaning no playing the guitar or anything. You want to focus 100% on just the singing)

 

And definitely post more clips here as you improve!!

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Hmm, well…I don’t know the intricacies of your own voice, so it’s really up to you to find an easy song for yourself to do and practice on. And not just one, but try and find 5 or so that you just feel CLICK with your voice. Easy songs consist of (at least for me), most or all of the following…

 

1. Within your comfortable range. You don’t ever feel a stretch either too low or too high

2. Your voice feels kind of relaxed when singing the song

3. It’s a fairly slow or mid-tempo song. NOT too fast and not too many words, as too many words make it more difficult to get good sound from your voice, especially when you’re new to singing You want songs with many long sounds like AAHH or EEEH or OOOH, etc. In fact, if you like songs that don’t have this, maybe try and NOT sing the words at first, but rather just sing the vowel sounds by themselves…it will sound odd, but it doesn’t matter. It might help you to get used to singing on the right NOTE before words come in to complicate stuff

4. It should be a song you don’t mind listening to several times over and over, after you’ve recorded yourself singing it, so you can hear your shortcomings and work to improve them

 

I’m sure there’re more things, but I can’t think right now. My brain is tired. Lol.

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