Andrew Lamprecht
Minion of One
They seem to be more expensive than guitar lessons and I don't have much cash...should I just try to buy a nice book/cd set or something?
Worth it to take singing lessons?
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Matt42
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Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
I took a few rounds of lessons last year and it improved my singing drastically. If you have a good teacher who does more than make you run scales, but actually explains how to use your voice most effectively, I think it's worth it. For me, I've always had a decent voice, but I've never really known how to sing, what my teacher taught me was breath control, largely, but also how to avoid straining myself and singing from my throat. Even 4 or 5 lessons will help, that's all I took, and I have much better control, I can hit higher notes, and sing for much longer.
I took a few rounds of lessons last year and it improved my singing drastically. If you have a good teacher who does more than make you run scales, but actually explains how to use your voice most effectively, I think it's worth it. For me, I've always had a decent voice, but I've never really known how to sing, what my teacher taught me was breath control, largely, but also how to avoid straining myself and singing from my throat. Even 4 or 5 lessons will help, that's all I took, and I have much better control, I can hit higher notes, and sing for much longer.
Chickenwings
Alnico 6/8
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
Sing heaps. Get your repertoire of songs together. After that, go see a teacher and they can give you some feedback on ways to improve it. Their ideas will make a lot more sense to you after you have done a lot of self discovery.
Sing heaps. Get your repertoire of songs together. After that, go see a teacher and they can give you some feedback on ways to improve it. Their ideas will make a lot more sense to you after you have done a lot of self discovery.
Matt42
New member
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
That's a good point. By the time I took lessons, I knew 8-10 songs that I was very comfortable singing, and another 5-6 that I could pull out in a pinch. Even though we never worked on any of them during my four lessons, having a background that included some singing helped a ton.
They also did wonders for my girlfriend. She went from being a good singer with no power to an amazing singer with quite a lot of power.
That's a good point. By the time I took lessons, I knew 8-10 songs that I was very comfortable singing, and another 5-6 that I could pull out in a pinch. Even though we never worked on any of them during my four lessons, having a background that included some singing helped a ton.
They also did wonders for my girlfriend. She went from being a good singer with no power to an amazing singer with quite a lot of power.
Chris of Arabia
Desert RATT
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
I get the impression that if you think guitar lessons are worth the money, then it goes doubly so for singing.
I get the impression that if you think guitar lessons are worth the money, then it goes doubly so for singing.
dominus
King Midas to Cheap Guitars
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zen-Screaming-Vocal-Instruction/dp/B000AVZVTY/
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Screaming-2-Melissa-Cross/dp/073904852X/
http://www.amazon.com/The-Zen-Screaming-Vocal-Instruction/dp/B000AVZVTY/
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Screaming-2-Melissa-Cross/dp/073904852X/
Lazarus1140
New member
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
I have thought about hooking a dynamic mic up to a tuner so I could just work on pitch. I don't actually know, but I think that good pitch is related to muscle memory which apparently is learned very quickly.
In any case, and in my opinion, nothing is more important than good pitch and I have done nothing about that prticular defect iin my vocals.
I have thought about hooking a dynamic mic up to a tuner so I could just work on pitch. I don't actually know, but I think that good pitch is related to muscle memory which apparently is learned very quickly.
In any case, and in my opinion, nothing is more important than good pitch and I have done nothing about that prticular defect iin my vocals.
V
Varg
Guest
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
Hetfield took singing lessons after ...And Justice For All.
Hetfield took singing lessons after ...And Justice For All.
dominus
King Midas to Cheap Guitars
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
So you're saying that singing lessons are a bad thing.
So you're saying that singing lessons are a bad thing.
El Dunco
Sock Supplier to RHCP
Re: Worth it to take singing lessons?
There is so much to know about singing properly that you cannot fully comprehend from a CD or DVD. You need a singing teacher to examine you as well as hear you while you sing in order to correct mistakes before you make them and sustain that coaching so at the very least, you can maintain.
I can play shows night after night, day after night alternating between demanding soaring singing, guttural growls, piercing screams and a grungy rasp, never go hoarse and never falter in performance.
I've been doing this for 6 years and could not do so if I had not started with singing lessons when I was getting serious about singing lessons and vocal coaching which I continue to this day to maintain and constantly expand my range.
Do it.
That music from my band you like so much? Many of those switches between the rasp and scream were actually done in continuous takes and not punched in. Don't be like Hetfield. Learn from his mistake and become a trained vocalist early on so you don't "blow your voice out" and have to settle for such a drastic change in timbre.
There is so much to know about singing properly that you cannot fully comprehend from a CD or DVD. You need a singing teacher to examine you as well as hear you while you sing in order to correct mistakes before you make them and sustain that coaching so at the very least, you can maintain.
I can play shows night after night, day after night alternating between demanding soaring singing, guttural growls, piercing screams and a grungy rasp, never go hoarse and never falter in performance.
I've been doing this for 6 years and could not do so if I had not started with singing lessons when I was getting serious about singing lessons and vocal coaching which I continue to this day to maintain and constantly expand my range.
Do it.
That music from my band you like so much? Many of those switches between the rasp and scream were actually done in continuous takes and not punched in. Don't be like Hetfield. Learn from his mistake and become a trained vocalist early on so you don't "blow your voice out" and have to settle for such a drastic change in timbre.
