r/ClassicalSinger

i always thought i had a decent voice as a kid but after puberty i feel like i took 100 steps backwards.

im a male tenor and my vocal inspirations are the weeknd/mj and i always see people covering their songs on social media and when I ask them how they do it some of them just say they dont do anything and they were born like it. like how on earth can they hit those notes and have a good mixed/head voice just from birth????

im really looking for singing tips and advice. recently i discovered my head/mixed voice, I dont even know which it is but looking for advice on how to improve. I cant really sing in my head/mixed that powerfully and it sounds really thick and Im really looking to wanna sing lighter and improve my range like the weeknd/mj

thanks alot!

https://reddit.com/link/1wzpwna/video/te09zgijtzth1/player

Mezzo. This is about high mix belting mostly. Everyday I just feel sorry for myself and the time I’ve lost from not knowing what to practice or how to practice to actually make progress. I still cannot sing any of the challenging repertoire I’ve been working on for years.

I’ve been singing for many years and am self taught mostly by mimicking my favorite singers and seeing what feels good. I have tons of traditional and show choir and musical theater experience. Because of these prior commitments I’ve had a few lessons in the past but I cannot afford them on my own and I don’t know if I ever will be. Between rent and gas and barely making $14 after taxes I’m just burnt out trying to sort finances out.

But I don’t want to give up just because I can’t afford proper lessons. I just want to be able to sing my favorite songs by Ariana and Zara and Celine. I want to book lead roles. I know it requires time and practice, my issue is I just feel like I’m never practicing the right things and that is just so heartbreaking to me. It sucks feeling so lost all the time. I’m so committed to spending the rest of my life becoming the most skilled (healthiest) vocalist I can be and I don’t know how to fulfill that and I lose skill everyday I cry through it instead of practicing.

Im 16 years old and im currently a baritone I’ve been training my voice doing workouts and warmups for about a year now I was wondering if I might become a tenor in the future with more practice everything since my highest head voice note is a D5. Another thing I wanted to note is that my mixed voice is my biggest flaw out of my chest, mixed, and head voice is there any tips you have for that?

I'm a vocal performance major at a top music conservatory.

l've gotten a lead role in a musical freshman year.
I was a lead role in a French opera my sophomore year. Won a national competition and
understudied the role of Figaro for a professional opera company the summer after. Now I'm in my junior year and I feel hopeless about school.

I still love performing and music and working towards being better, but | just can't stand being in school. I feel like I've just barely gotten by grade wise the last 2 years and now it appears my luck of getting by educationally has dried up. I sit in class now and have no internal motivation to intake what is being taught and when I get back to my room my heart just has no motivation to study or get homework done and I feel really stuck.

Don't get me wrong I'm pretty smart and have a good understanding of what's being given to me but I just sit down at the end of the day and I stare at my homework like it's a blank page which is resulting in me majorly falling behind and I don't know what to do anymore.

I try to communicate with my teachers but I always get told the same (just finish the degree) so it just gets harder every day. My lack of urgency to show up and work hard and be proud of what I'm doing and learning is driving me insane but my heart and brain have no will to improve no matter what I try and convince myself.
I just feel hopeless.

Hello!

I'm looking in to grad school, but I'm not really sure where to start. I wanna get a MM in Vocal Performance, but all the searches I've found are either inaccurate or don't have a music filter option. Are there any websites that could help me with my search?

TIA!