The Singing Training thread

Yeah, thats good to know (the getting used to training). As to the headvoice thing, I'm gonna clear that up next week - hell, half the reason I engaged a singing teacher was to strengthen my *upper* register! I dont nesc wanna be louder or more powerful, just clearer and hold better notes higher up. And work on smooth transitions between chest/head singing when it comes up. Im sure he wont dismiss it outright, I suspect he was just dazzled by my unusually low register and wanted to encourage it. Which I'm on the fence about - no one seems to like the tracks I record where I sing like I'm channeling Jim Kerr, haha.

OK so week 2, I stressed the need to train upper register stuff cause thats what neeeeds worrrk, and to my relief he was cool with it, so we did a buncha scales and holy crap, I seem to have like a 4 octave range or something, when did that happen!? Shouldve warmed up more before me lesson tho, my throats a bit sore now :/

Weird part of lesson: some thing about lying on a small inflatable ball so it stretches my diaphragm? Is that a thing!? It wasnt very comfortable.

Oh hello this thread. As a sort of gift for my mum, I decided to try and record a few covers on acoustic guitar and send them to her on CD. They're not sounding too bad actually, but as a novice there's always room for improvement. Had fun trying to do Bridge Over Troubled Water. I had a go at compressing the vocal in Reason but now I'm sort of regretting it cos now everything's the same loudness and this is a song that thrives on dynamic range.

I cant recommend lessons highly enough, as odd as my teacher is. 2 lessons in and the breathing technique alone has completely levelled me up.

It possibly helps that I'm already a decent singer I guess, and knew the basics. but yeah.

I might consider a lesson or two. Could be fun.

If you get nothing out of lessons other than breathing technique, it will be time/money well spent.

This week: vocal cries and volume work. Ow, my freaking throat.

(I will never be a very loud/punchy singer if I keep smoking, jesus)

There's one song in our repertoire where I'm supposed to do full on metal-style singing ending with some BM/DM style growls. I'm sure I used to be better at this kind of thing, I end up coughing and hacking or whatever. What's even more dumb is it's the first song we're going to play live in our setlist.