caryme

This is cool! There's a lot of bad (and by bad, I mean misaligned with modern voice science and science-informed pedagogy) on the internet, so it's nice to see a resource striving to organize some good information.

A couple recommendations I'd suggest exploring to be even better aligned with current understanding:

Current literature does not distinguish between head voice and falsetto. While "falsetto" often carries a connotation of breathiness, that is not inherent to the register. Both are referred to in literature as laryngial mode M2, in which the Cricothyroid muscle is dominant in shaping the vocal folds. In contrast, chest voice or M1 is Thyroarytenoid dominant. While that may be a bit in the weeds, I found wrapping my head around this very helpful in cutting through a lot of confusing language around head voice .

Use of these different registers changes across genre and voice type. Classical sopranos and mezzos use head voice in their upper range, while musical theatre sopranos and mezzos bring their chest voice up (i.e. belting). Meanwhile, tenors and basses typically use chest voice for their full range in both classical and musical theatre genres, with much more use of head voice in pop/contemporary genres.

One other suggestion is to more prominently feature SOVTs (semi occluded vocal tract exercises). You reference them in your warm up section (lip trills and straw phonation) but these are highly effective and evidence-based tools to develop efficient phonation.

Further, for anyone looking to learn to sing (and anyone can learn to sing!), there's no better resource than a voice teacher. Most teachers nowadays teach online as well as in person. A great place to start looking for a teacher is through NATS or ICVT.

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meixyz

For all those who think they're not talented and therefore can't learn how to sing, some good news here: Learning to sing is a matter of coordinating and strengthening muscles, so it can be practiced and improved just like anything else. The predisposition is largely the same for everybody (vocal pathologies excluded).

The reason why most people can't just naturally sing well is that singing is not a primary biological function, but a bi-product of a survival mechanism (vocal folds, aka airflow control / airway protection).

The muscles interacting with the vocal folds (thyroarytenoid and cricothyroid) have antagonistic function and work on reflexes rather than control, so the hard part of learning how to sing is to train them to coordinate properly rather than work against each other.

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GiraffeNecktie

For overcoming pitchiness, the "one weird trick" I learned from a singing teacher is to imagine you are moving in the opposite direction from the actual pitch. If you're going higher, imagine you're going lower and vice versa.

This helped me overcome the tendency to constrict the throat when reaching for a higher note or to go flat when heading lower.

ninkendo

Nit: please don’t push to my browser history every time I expand one of the sections… I had to press my browser’s back button a dozen or so times to get back out of your site.

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Almondsetat

The youtube links are just unfiltered youtube searches. This is an extremely unserious AI website that doesn't actually care about offering good advice

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rmnclmnt

> Growl > > Famous examples: > Christina Aguilera, James Brown, Tina Turner

I was not expecting these names!

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jesperordrup

I think that everybody can sing better with a little guidance. Thats already worth something to 1 + those nearby

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dostick

Nirvana and Radiohead do not sing as entire band like barbershop trio/quintet. Their singers have names.

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erdemo

This is what I was looking for recently! Thank you!

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megous

This has a lot of Riggs/Manning's SLS/SS vibes. Incl. the exercises and terminology.

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jesperordrup

Updated. Less pops

gushogg-blake

Too many popups

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homeonthemtn

Hey this is really neat, thank you

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SwiftyBug

Singing is one of the few things that I suspect may not be just learned. Sure, you can improve a little, but not go from complete trash to someone you would actually tolerate hearing sing. I think our anatomies constrain us much more than for other things. How come some people can naturally sing and others produce a horrible screech? What I've been trying to find is a style that best suits my voice that will make it seem like I'm not horrible. Don't know what that is yet. Finding that is not so easy when you don't have a large vocal range nor a particularly interesting voice.

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aaarrm

Okay, what's the actual point of this website? It's just a glossary of singing terms, that if you sing at all you would know pretty much all of them. Even the "resources" section that links to youtube just links to a search on youtube of the term, not a specific video. Was this just your AI project for fun?

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