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**Kayacterype** · 01-21-2009, 12:16 AM

HI Gerec,

Probably the best thing you can do is get yourself a voice tutor and take lessons. A website can't analyze your voice and give you suggestions while you are singing. A good voice tutor will teach you how to breathe and project your voice into the room.

It will be next to impossible for you to listen to yourself and thereby critique your own singing, if you don't know what to listen for ... a tutor would be a far better approach. Even professional instrumentalists, myself included, spent years and years under the tutelage of another; get thyself a tutor if you are serious about properly developing your vocal skills.

Voice, as you probably know, is supported from the (pardon the expression) gut ... notice professional singers as they inhale while singing - their chests to not inflate per se ... very little movement in the chest area ... the majority of support for proper voice control and projection must come from using the stomach muscles.

There might be a group class for beginning voice somewhere in your region. Another possibility is working with a church choir director - some are highly educated in voice, others not, but in any case will be able to offer sage advice from their own personal experiences. Somewhere along the line of their education, they also, obtained voice instruction, too.

01-21-2009, 12:16 AM	#2
Kayacterype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 397 Senior Member	HI Gerec, Probably the best thing you can do is get yourself a voice tutor and take lessons. A website can't analyze your voice and give you suggestions while you are singing. A good voice tutor will teach you how to breathe and project your voice into the room. It will be next to impossible for you to listen to yourself and thereby critique your own singing, if you don't know what to listen for ... a tutor would be a far better approach. Even professional instrumentalists, myself included, spent years and years under the tutelage of another; get thyself a tutor if you are serious about properly developing your vocal skills. Voice, as you probably know, is supported from the (pardon the expression) gut ... notice professional singers as they inhale while singing - their chests to not inflate per se ... very little movement in the chest area ... the majority of support for proper voice control and projection must come from using the stomach muscles. There might be a group class for beginning voice somewhere in your region. Another possibility is working with a church choir director - some are highly educated in voice, others not, but in any case will be able to offer sage advice from their own personal experiences. Somewhere along the line of their education, they also, obtained voice instruction, too.
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