Hi everyone, not sure if this is the right place but I can’t find anything like “voice teachers” or “vocal training” that seems right.
Basically, I’ve always been a decent singer, but from the first time I tried to sing in a choir at age 8 I was ALWAYS getting in trouble for singing too loudly.
I spent the next 20 years training myself to sing quietly. Totally head voice.
While also…learning how to shout cheers very deeply and loudly…but without being “on pitch” because that’s “too sing songy.” So 1000% chest voice supported by diaphragm (breathing low & deep, etc.)
When I first started in choir, I was an alto 1 or 2. By the time I graduated, I was soprano 1 or 2. (Can do/did a decent approximation of the Queen of the Night’s aria / sop1 part in Handel’s messiah.)
Now, anything louder than lullaby level makes my voice go shaky and weak.
I’ve always had issues with my core and “supporting my breath.” Always got critiques that I was very breathy and not “on” the note.
I’ve tried tensing my stomach muscles, holding them to form a cylinder within my abdomen, flexing my ribs/muscles around my lungs…honestly I have tried so many things to learn how to properly support my voice and I just always default back to my quiet, breathy high school choir voice.
Truly I feel like I would be a GOOD singer - I just completely destroyed my ability to project on pitch. I think a big part is deeply engrained shame making it so I’m legitimately afraid of singing loudly / off-pitch.
HOW do I relearn how to belt??? Meaning sing loudly, not completely head voice??? (I can still “yell on pitch” so long as the song is fairly low, but as soon as it’s not just rapping I lose it.)
Open to any advice, links, tips, or instructional videos!!!
Submitted April 14, 2024 at 04:53PM by 76730 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1c42grp/how_to_sing_loudly_again/?utm_source=ifttt