r/Singinglesson

Hello everyone,

I'm have no previous singing experience, I'm just someone who finds themselves singing and self-correcting constantly. I've been doing this since high-school(2-3 years ago)

I enjoy observing my voice and I wish I had the option of vocal lessons but unfortunately I don't.

(This certainly isn't a vocal range post, I'm just trying to be as detailed as possible as to whats in my head)

I sing a variety of songs from "I don't wanna be" - Gavin Degraw which has a more twangy sound and Malice Mizer(All Tetsu, Gackt, and Klaha era's) which seems more operatic at times and chesty to me. I also enjoy learning to sing songs from Thirty Seconds to Mars, Bring Me The Horizon which to me feels like I'm merging my high voice with my chest voice all while managing how much sound comes through my noise and making a slight squeaking sounds(which I find sometimes distorts my voice if i hit the right spot/I'm trying learn to access that squeakiness and not automatically sounds nasally, it's hard to distinguish on command to me). Lastly, I attempt Amy Lee songs and Micheal Jackson songs which made me aware that I can just sings the same sounding notes in my chest voice, my high voice, and in the middle of that kinda like a piano.

Anyway, I'm not sure if any of my singing sounds good. This is the extent of which I understand what I'm doing or misunderstand.

Again, I will rush to music teacher as soon as it's possible for me as I have lots of fun singing. My mindset with this post is that whether or not I know what I'm doing I'm compelled to sing everyday. I guess i just like music that much so I might as well learn to what's turn into a hobby properly.

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This might be redundant but I'm trying to be detailed so I would like to add,

My rule of thumb as an untaught person is that my throat should feel perfectly fine after the singing I do. If it hurts, there's something for me to tweak. This ethic leads to me to clarity which is how I discover seperate properties of my voice(chest, high voice, and the voice in between that. The tendency to sound nasally as i go up and how to eliminate that or add it to me chest voice and add twang. The squeakiness I can add to reach higher notes in my chest voice and learn that middle voice and distortion. How I don't have to add breathiness when going high, and I can actually add the bass of my chest to that which helps me sing "The kill"(bury me). I've also learned some exercises to help me not strain(making a doot doot doot sound while singing a scale). Pushing my air out with my stomach which helps vibrato and "vocal weight?".

Anyways, that's everything I understand about my voice. It seems like i can mix different qualities like with a guitar amp (i started learning guitar 2 weeks ago). Feel free to correct me or give me tips. I really want to learn proper fundamentals so I at least have something to go off of.

Thank you!