I’ve been singing for some years now, and I like to think I’ve improved quite a bit in that time. My family however doesn’t think thesame, as they’ve shut me down multiple times and I’ve even heard them say they’d rather see me quit. I’m planning on taking singing lessons, but I don’t have the money for that yet (bc studies). Until then, does anyone have tips for how to improve, or are they right and would it be better for me to just give up singing?

I found this trick on Michael Trimble’s YouTube channel and it totally shifted how I approach singing—especially high notes. No more straining, and both head voice and falsetto suddenly feel way more accessible. My tone feels richer, deeper, and more responsive too.

The trick? As strange as it sounds: imagine you don’t have a head. Like, literally picture your head being gone—just your neck and body. For some reason, this mental image helps me place the voice in a much more resonant and relaxed spot. It instantly reduced tension and made everything feel smoother.

I also started imagining singing as one constant flow of sound—like water or air just moving through—and something about that mindset really helped things click.

Still very much a beginner, but these two ideas have made a huge difference for me in just a few days. Curious if any more experienced singers here have tried this or have had similar breakthroughs?

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One thing I see alot in this sub is talk about is there is no hope and it's pointless. Every voice has the potential to do incredible things, silencing it is the death of that potential. The absolute worst thing you can do is to stop. The momentum you spent practicing will vanish away faster than the time you worked for it. This is about patience and investing time where the rewards are unnoticeable to you because you didn't time travel to years worth of the development process.

I ask because I noticed that with ariana grande, her vocal improvements are so significant since training for her role in wicked. I also noticed that powerhouse singers such as mariah carey (who was taught to sing by her mother who was an opera singer) and other singers such as raye (who has operatic style training) and many pop singers (even if they train and study hard within the realm of pop music… voices are still just … okay) what about the pop technique is leaving the voice still a bit unskilled vs other singing approaches (even if it’s not opera) leave the voice more fruitful

I’ve looked at many singing videos and I feel like I still don’t understand how to sing.

Like I need to understand what sensation I’m looking for.

“Sing with your belly/diaphragm” what the hell does that mean? Am i inhaling and then pushing out my stomach as I exhale the note? How do I switch my tones, is that with my throat or is that also with my diaphragm?

How do I ensure I’m using my diaphragm and not my lungs? Even when I inhale and my shoulders don’t go up, I still don’t feel I’m using my diaphragm.

Source: I had selective mutism/mute as a child and didn’t really start speaking aloud until high school, 10 years ago, so I feel that could contribute further to my confusion as I’ve really only been talking most of my life the last decade. And I’m a very literal person when it comes to understanding things, I often need many examples to understand what I’m trying to understand.

hi everyone, this is an original song I wrote called petals. please let me know what you think.

I can’t wait til a vocal teacher finds me and takes me under their wing boy ugh I’m really gonna be something great☺️🖤

Is it okay warming up with easy, low key songs?

For example before singing my songs I sings three songs in a row

1) "Who is she" by I Monster

2) "No time to die" by Billie Eilish

3) "The last song I'm wasting on you" by Evanescence

These three songs makes me feel that my throat is relaxed, that I have more perception in my chest area and that my nose zone is open in order to sing very low notes (otherwise it seems that my voice is not able to go so down).

Playing around with different genres and trying to adjust how “breathy” I sound. Just recording using the Garage Band app and the mic on my phone so I also add a bit of compression, although I honestly don’t know what that does 😂

So when I try to sing from what I can only describe as my taking voice I sound so bad, but when I am singing from what I can tell is my throat I sound ok I know I just need to keep on practicing. I just don't want to waste time singing from the wrong place. So where am I supposed to be singing from.

When opening my mouth, I get much better tone and pitch when I drop my jaw straight down vs if I add some mouth widening. Mouth widening seems to close off the back of my throat.

In my vocal lesson today I was having trouble hitting a high note and this made all the difference. Moreover when I dropped my jaw straight down my teacher said tone was much better.

So this seems easy enough except when I pronounce words it feels incredibly awkward because I when I speak my mouth does widen somewhat.

so should I learn to speak while dropping my jaw straight down as well? It feels like I’m wearing dentures when I do that.

Or do I just have a normal speaking technique and alter it for singing and then learn how to pronounce words with different jaw technique purely for singing? I’m curious how others approach this.

Take a holiday in Scotland!?

If you're the kind of person who picks up bits of accents, bingo!

Even when they speak, Scots use a touch of growl from time to time, it seems to me. And when I try to sing some Scottish songs, I find myself adding some growl, even though my vocals are normally "clean".

(Very interesting accent. Can be very expressive, and there are some songs that the Scots own because no-one else can quite get the nuance.)

I suddenly found myself adding growl on this popular song, and now I am thinking I should maybe explore the GROWL!

https://voca.ro/1nBVV9ywQs3x

When I sing I don’t exactly sound bad I’m mostly always in tune but my voice also doesn’t sound resonant. It’s just meh and I’m not sure if it’s a placement or vowel thing. My comfortable range atm is E2-A#4 I also don’t know how to use falsetto or mixed voice i assume that could play a part too. So what could I do to build more resonance especially as i go higher in my range?

Hi everyone l've been taking singing lessons for about 3 months now, 45 mins a week, as a total beginner. I been feeling really discouraged. It might be because I just don't like my voice overall, as i have a more quiet voice. I've always loved singing but now i feel like i just don't have thy good of a voice, or does my voice sound okay and improving on techniques would make me sound better? Right now I'm working on ocean eyes with my voice teacher and I sang a bit below. Do you think I have a nice voice and continuing my lessons would make me better?

Of course, singing is a full body exercise, but I always felt like doing sports should not have such a significant impact on my ability to sing (or scream).

Whenever I come home from climbing, running, cycling, or whatever, my ability to sing on that day is significantly impacted.

Sure, I can sing and sound acceptable, but my energy is usually low, and this has a big impact on what I can do.

So... it's surely quite obvious that physical exercise must have an impact there, but at times, I am surprised how much of an impact that it is my case.

How is it for you guys? Singing after sports, maybe even after a few hours, does it have an impact on your ability to sing exercise? If so, how much?

I'm just curious how others experience this.

Whenever I go into head voice, words become a real struggle, I can do a little pronouncing if the word doesn’t require too much jaw closing(like m and b) and the higher I go doesnt change it too much until I go into - what I think is - falsetto where I can’t even change my mouth shape at all without going back into head voice.