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Question:ok please watch my video, i no i need coaching but i wanna no if coaching would do me any good or if im just horrible http://www.youtube.com/user/Singaslungs (the actual link won work) its the big one

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ok please watch my video, i no i need coaching but i wanna no if coaching would do me any good or if im just horrible http://www.youtube.com/user/Singaslungs (the actual link won work) its the big one

Are you ready? Here you go.

(This is what I would tell you if you wanted to be accepted into my studio as a voice student.)

Good work on setting the mood of your piece. You have an excellent sense of rhythm and beat. I can also tell that you put all of your self into singing your song, which is a rare quality that cannot be taught; it can only be experienced.

You need a teacher (NOT a coach, who will just help you learn songs) in order to learn how to breathe properly, how to support, how to extend your range, access both your chest and head voice, firm up your tone and to open up your pharyngeal space. If you have a vocal flaw it is that the back of your mouth--your soft palate--is WAY WAY too low. This can be trained, never fear. But it has to be fixed.

You also require diction help and intensive ear training. Your words have very few intelligible final consonants, which made you impossible to understand, especially toward the end... and what it the point of singing if your words aren't understood? Might as well play a violin or something else that needs no words. As to the ear training, you changed key frequently and have several random pitches. That'll take awhile, but also can be fixed. Join a choir and learn to hear harmony; that'll help lots.

My recommendations: 1) Study with a voice teacher, and realize that vocal study lasts as long as one's vocal career. 2) Join choir at school, and try to alternate semesters between soprano and alto (with the director's permission and help) to work your upper range and learn how to sing harmony. You are a soprano, believe it or not, but you would benefit from the ear training of singing alto. The range of (MOST) high school choral music will allow this. Not everything, but most. 3) Participate in contest EVERY YEAR 4) Learn to read music if you don't 5) sing vocal exercises everyday, and realize that singing songs isn't exercise. Exercise would be scales, the 'boring' stuff. Furthermore, let them be assigned by your voice teacher. Till you get one, do the warmups the choir director leads you through.

If singing scales does not appeal to you, you might be in the boat of the soccer player who wants to be professional, but who really, really hates to run. Learn to love to practice, or find something else.

FWIW... I would accept you into my studio (if you could convince me you would practice and do what I tell you, even if you don't see the point).

Good luck to you!

You're not horrible... but you need a lot of work. You changed keys a lot and had quite a bit of trouble staying in tune. My advice... start from the bottom up. If you aren't in chorus- join. Practice scales every day- you know do re mi fa sol la ti do. Try to convince your parents to let you have lessons. Singing is one of the most rewardign things a person can do for themselves.