stilldays wrote:
I noticed in the singsong voice thread that people with monotone might have trouble with singing I do and its hell because its my main interest area. Is there a way to overcome this? I'm getting better but controlling. The pitch is a problem.
I like to sing but I don't think people like to hear me sing!
I have been getting a little better at singing but its a slow process for me. I recently bought a digital audio recorder and that has helped me quite a bit. What it allows me to do is plug in ear phones and turn the microphone gain up high. This way I can sing and hear what I actually sound like in real time while recording.
One of my main problems with singing is that I can't really hear how bad I am without listening to a recording or something. The instant feedback is nice to have in order to hear whats actually coming out of my mouth and figure how everything feels when it sounds right. When I was a kid I did speech therapy mainly for pronunciation issues and had the same sort of problem. I couldn't actually hear that I was saying things wrong... they sound right to me.
But that would be my recommendation, record yourself and try to work on small things. When I first started recording myself (I used to just use my laptop to record with) I realized how frighteningly out of tune and inarticulate I was. Then I started just working on the basics and I have at least gotten somewhere with it... still have a looong ways to go though! I posted a link to a song I sung that could give you an idea of how bad I am... too embarrassed to post it here but if you go and find it imagine something 20x as bad and that was my singing a year ago.
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