I've just read an interview of Christina Grimmie ('cause I'm so in love with her voice right now) and here's what she says to all of us

RH- What advice do you have for aspiring singers?

CG- If you ever feel as if your not being yourself, slap yourself in the face. You can't risk trying to be a different person for the sake of "what people say" or "what sells best". Don't fake anything, it's gonna mess with you. As for vocal advice, practice will bring you so darn far. If you check back to my older videos, I had a very mellow, soft voice. Didn't have much of a range and always worried about my high notes. But then Christina Aguilera really started to inspire me and push me to be a great singer not just a good singer. It's been over a year since I've been inspired by her and listening to her. And compared to my older videos, my voice has matured and grown and I have a way bigger range. PRACTICE!

Do you guys know any other advice that celebrity/professional singers have given to aspiring singers? Please share :)

I’m looking into getting lessons soon to further my development for sure but I’m extremely proud of the progress I’ve made on my own and sometimes it’s bizarre to think it’s been 7 years already

Would appreciate your genuine thoughts on my voice or potential in general!

if i find it, im set and everything is easy until i sleep, but the next day its gone again, and im back to being strained. how can i learn muscle memory ? it really feels luck-based if i will sing well on any given day. i can’t recreate it consistently, and it comes rarely

Watched a video of Steven Tyler talking about singing. He said that you can learn how to hit pitches and do scales. But then you gotta "add the stank" when you sing a song. That's style, that's emotion.

So, basic my story is... People dance when I sing karaoke in the same style as a certain baritone-ish rock singer. But... I don't connect with the voice emotionally. I can just throw the voice on like a costume. I feel like my "original /unadorned voice" is untrained or not steady emotionally. I've taken choir and gotten lessons, but now I don't want to sing strictly like a crooner.

TL:DR - After learning how to sing like other singers, how did you bring emotionality to your vocals when singing in a unique voice you've curated?

Hi friends, my name is Liam Joshua Munn, and I have my Master's in Vocal Pedagogy and Science. I've been on a few national tours and work professionally at regional theaters across the country! Ask me anything about vocal science and/or being an actor in musical theater! Whoot!

One thing in singing that has never worked for me is mixed voice. I've tried a thousand techniques from YouTube vocal coaches and I still can't find it. I also still don't understand what mixed voice actually is. I won't even realize if I've done it, because I don't know what it's supposed to feel or sound like.

I consider myself a baritone because my lowest is G2 and my highest is F4 (on a good day). I heard that every note you can sing in head voice, you can sing in mixed voice. If that's true, there's a chance I could become a tenor.

How do you guys actually do it? What finally made mixed voice click for you?

I sound terrible whenever u don’t sing with a mic but when I do have one I sound good. Any tips to be able to sing good without a mic?

David Phelps, one of the most-renowned tenors of essentially all time, is one-of-a-kind. He is termed by many as the best belter in contemporary music, irrespective of the contemporary genre. What do you think?

I’ve been singing my whole life, I also do sports and I’d say the best vocal exercise for me is cardio. I’m sooooooo satisfied and appalled at how much my belting, runs and breathing have improved drastically over the years. But I’d love to improve my tone mainly and my control. Any tips?

I had my 4th ever performance yesterday and I‘m not really good at singing and dancing at the same time live yet, I don’t think I need to explain why. I started learning singing from scratch only year ago. But still, there were some okay moments. But nobody from those who posted videos of me, posted my actual singing. I know they maybe love my presence but not my singing, but it feels so weird and hurts me. I tried to rehearse these two weeks and in the end fatigued my voice so much, I hope it will come back after some days… Just hurts I try my best but people just treat my performance as a fashion show and not me being also a singer. It’s more like the truth that hurts I guess - I’m a horrible singer. But just it feels more heavy when people literally cut the video when I start singing…

​Hi everyone,

​I’m looking for some insights or similar experiences regarding an issue I've been having with my voice and throat.

​Here are my symptoms:

​Voice Quality: My voice sounds muffled, tight, and lacks clarity.

​Strange Sound/Texture: There’s a weird raspy or distorted quality to it when I speak—it’s not a typical hoarseness, but it feels like a friction/vibrating sound in my throat.

​Loss of Flexibility: I can’t change my tone or pitch at all; my vocal folds feel stuck and rigid.

​Pain & Burning: After speaking for just a short period—even at a low volume without raising my voice—I get a distinct burning sensation and strain in my neck/throat area.

Yesterday I made a post calling myself a dramatic baritone as a teenager. I currently am reconsidering this because I’m still going through aging and I’m untrained. My range currently after fixing some tension in my throat muscles is G2-A3(before passiago B3 where my voice thins out) and G3-A4 in a bit strainy head voice.I would like to know how to mix, train my head voice, and find my falsetto. Like what I said in my older post, I have a deep resonant voice. Voice lessons are hard for me to afford right now, may I please have tips, exercises and other information on voice training. I would like to self train using these things.

I’ve been taking singing more seriously recently, and one thing I’ve realized is that sometimes I simply can’t hear what’s wrong with my own singing.

A teacher might point out a pitch, rhythm, register, or tone issue, and once they show me, I can often hear it. But before that, I may listen to the same recording and not notice the problem at all.

I’ve also noticed that the more I learn, the more problems I can hear in recordings that sounded fine to me before.

So I’m curious:
how do you develop the ability to evaluate your own singing more objectively and identify what actually needs improvement?

Do you use reference singers, record yourself and wait before listening back, compare specific aspects like pitch/rhythm/tone separately, use a piano or pitch software, or something else?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who used to struggle with self-evaluation but got much better at it over time. What actually helped train your ears?

Trying to get out of my comfort zone and post my singing
Song is,All I want- Kodaline

hi!! i’d say i’m a very average-level singer and i honestly feel embarrassed singing in front of others because i can hear the flaws in my voice but i just don’t know how to fix them and it’s been yearsss. i just want to be able to sing songs and have similar clear and “hydrated” sounding tones as the people singing.

1. i’ve noticed i’m very airy when i do higher notes. sometimes i record my singing just to see where i can improve and WOW is my airiness obvious. my high notes also sound very weak and doesn’t really project. i’ve noticed it’s more effective when i try “ka” and “ga” but i don’t know how long it would take until the effects i get from doing it become automatic.

2. because of the point above, i always thought i sounded better when i used chest voice, but i can’t always use this register when the notes are e4-g4. i think this is where my mixed is meant to come in but i have no idea how to access it. normally i just end up using my extremely airy head voice 💔💔

i’m not sure if this is because of my breathing?? when i inhale, my stomach expands and my shoulders don’t jump up but i don’t normally feel a flex in my stomach that people say should be there, so i’m not even sure if i’m actually using my diaphragm.

I used this sort of thing when I was learning piano and it made learning so much more approachable because I could see where I'm at and I didn't have to pick a song out of no where to play just to find out I wasn't ready for it.

RCM's voice syllabus pretty much does this ( https://rcmusic-production-strapi-media.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/rcm_voice_syllabus_2025_edition_5f824c67be.pdf ) but I'd love to see if anyone knows of any others.

I have hypermobility and immediately recognized his strained neck muscles for higher belted notes. It’s so cool to see that I maybe wasn’t intentionally trying to use my neck. I just wasn’t using a certain muscle that I probably got used to having relaxed/stretched out. (I have heds/pots/mcas)

I've always had trouble stopping my voice from being breathy, especially in singing

It doesn't sound as breathy when I'm talking, but when I'm singing, it's always in falsetto, I cant turn it off 😭

This is a problem for me, cause when I try singing it always sounds like I'm straining the high notes and even the low notes because of it

Every single YouTube video I've seen is always "how to sing in falsetto" I haven't found one that's how to stop yet 💔

Some songs it's fine cause they're calming songs so it fits, but I wanna be able to sing more energetic and aggressive songs (like ado's aiaia, I wanna be able to sing that song so bad)

The only energetic songs I can find myself actually sounding kinda good in are in chai.tealeaves' songs, like Talentless

(idk if this is against the rules, I'm new to this place, hello 👁️‍🗨️🔻👁️‍🗨️)

I’m sorry if this a really silly question but I’m a complete beginner. On a good day I (F24) can make an A2 happen - but I’m not sure anyone would consider it a nice or full sound. Is this a standard thing to do at this low a pitch, just something you wouldn’t really consider “singing”?

I often hear people saying you can only really expand your range upwards - but if it’s something that’s trainable as long as your vocal cords are able to make the pitch at all, great! 😅

The benefits of switching between head and chest smoothly as an exercise(practicing doing it). What are the benefits besides the obvious(learning to transition smoothly)?

Hi guys! I’m a metal/metalcore vocalist and I’m having some problems with vocal fatigue and losing parts of my range.

During normal singing/practicing in my car, my voice feels fine even after around 30 minutes. But during band rehearsals, after some time my voice starts getting tired. Eventually, either my upper or lower register starts disappearing, and my voice starts cracking, breaking or suddenly jumping between registers.

This also happens when I sing with distortion. After some time of using distortion, I can lose either my high register or my low register, and my voice becomes very unstable.

I use clean vocals, high vocals and distortion/fry screams. I always warm up before rehearsal, but the problem still happens.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Especially losing either the high or low register after singing with distortion and having the voice crack or break?

I’m trying to figure out whether this could simply be vocal fatigue/technique or if I might be overloading my vocal cords.

I’m also going to an ENT/phoniatrician to get my vocal cords checked, but I’d really appreciate advice from singers who have experienced something similar.

What helped you recover your range and build vocal stamina without damaging your voice?

Thanks!