u/kikiartilleryservice

For me it was when a teacher told me to hold my breath without closing my throat. He said, that feeling, holding the air inside of you without engaging your throat muscles, that’s 90% of breath support.

When singing, your throat needs to be able to do some very intricate stuff with some pretty delicate muscles. So if at the same time you’re tasking your throat muscles with holding back a wall of air from below, there’s no way you can properly (or healthily anyway) use those intricate muscles for singing.

Breath support is nothing more than outsourcing the “holding back” of the breath to your diaphragm, so you free up your throat/laryngeal musculature to do precisely calculated things.

I’ve been working on my singing for years and I’ve made great progress, but I know I still have potential to grow and go from decent to excellent.

But to be fair, most of those years of improvement were wasted trying to weed out all the vague to just plain wrong advice out there and to be fair, I’m getting tired of it.

What are some things that you experienced brought your voice from good to excellent?

I’m a decent singer, I’ve worked hard on getting my technique down and I’m quite happy with the progress I’ve made.

The challenge is, one day my voice can feel super smooth and easy in my lower range, but I struggle a ton with the high notes. And then the next day, I’ll hit the high notes with ease and with power. Then the next day, I can hit them, but they sound way weaker.

I’m doing my warmups, I drink enough water. I’m honestly kinda lost as to why the changes are so manic. I’m working hard to get a band together but if I can’t get my voice consistent I don’t think I’ll be able to perform consistently.

I’m a rock vocalist, usually do more up tempo alt stuff, but I’ve been experimenting a bit.

Today I came up with a riff and tbh I don’t really know what to do with it lol. As soon as I add drums to it, it doesn’t work, but I do think it has potential.

I can’t seem to upload it here so if you want to hear it DM me (or check my page, I’ve uploaded it to other subs)

Any musicians want to hop aboard and see where the train ends? Obviously vocals are covered but anyone else (guitar, bass, drums, production, etc.) is welcome to join. Should be fun.

When I’m writing, I try to let my subconscious bring me stuff. The melodies/lyrics/chords that come from there tend to be the best.

However, I notice if I come up with a good hook or lyric BY ITSELF, any parts that I write to accompany it basically always sound like trash.

The best songs I’ve written are the ones where I try to envision the composition (music, vocals, storyline and vague gibberish lyrics) ALL AT ONCE. Needless to say that is also the most difficult way to write because I need my full focus and mentally “unplug” any overthinking/filters.

I write altrock with orchestral elements so that doesn’t make it easier ofc.

Anyone who recognises this? How do you write better parts under existing tracks? Or alternatively, how do you get your mind in the right place to envision the whole composition?

Our first songs are virtually guaranteed to be mediocre at best. But we keep going and going to train the creative writing muscles. How many songs did you write until you made something where you were like “oh shit did I write that?”

I’m starting to notice a trend with myself and I want to know if others have experienced it too.

I believe I write pretty good songs. Not world class material but able to convey my intentions and memorable enough to sick in at least my mind for a while.

I have also been working on my voice for quite a while, and can sing a couple of fairly difficult songs at a sustainable level that could carry me through a night’s set list.

HOWEVER — I have trouble singing my own songs. And I can’t really tell why. It’s in the upper half but definitely not out of my range, and the phrasing is no higher math.

The only thing I can imagine is that I can sing covers more easily because I subconsciously pick up the little vocal decisions that made the songs work for the original artist.

Has anyone else had this problem and if so, how did you deal with it?

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When I write, I often build a rough melody with some words or half-phrases scattered around first. Then I refine it so it actually says something.

Often enough I write something that builds tension and then needs a release. So then the first 3 lines build up the tension, and the 4th needs to either release it or bring it full circle. The problem is that I always struggle to find the perfect resolution to complete the circle. I could swear I spend 50% of the time stuck on a 3-word line that just doesn’t have enough notes to fit what I need to say in order for it to make sense.

I’m sure I’m not the only one. How do you guys experience this and resolve it? Just keep grinding it, or do you rework the first lines? How do you tell when to stop trying?

Where do you find you get the best inspiration and freedom to think and be creative without interruption and/or distraction?