Hi everyone! Pretty random question but thought y'all might know about this kinda thing. I was born deaf, I have cochlear implants so I can hear some, but I never learnt music listening and am terrible at picking up pitch/tone etc (no idea how much of this is something I wouldn't be able to do v something I could learn). I've been getting more into music over the last few years and started playing drums (which I'm pretty ok at, I have a decent sense of rhythm) and a little bit of piano/keyboard (which I basically do entirely through visually matching written notes to keys), but I've never played any other instruments and don't know how I'd go about learning one that relies more on hearing rather than seeing/feeling when the note is right.
I'd love to learn to sing (don't need to be amazing or anything, just for fun), but idk how realistic this is. I've had tons of speech therapy and have a pretty decent speaking voice so I think I could probably manage that part of it, but I have no idea where to start with knowing whether I'm singing the right note/key, what my voice quality's like etc. I'm into hard rock/indie/punk and some classic rock & metal and aiming to sing that kinda stuff. Mid-20s male with (I assume) a fairly average voice range.
If singing is worth pursuing, any ideas on how to go about it? I was thinking there might be some helpful tech out there - I find visual metronomes really helpful, is there something similar that would show me what notes I'm singing v the ones I'm aiming for? I'm assuming I'll need some coaching - any tips on what I should look for to find a teacher who can work with my needs?
Submitted May 16, 2026 at 03:03PM by DumpsterWitch327 https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/1tf0wte/can_a_deaf_guy_learn_to_sing_and_any_tips_if_so/?utm_source=ifttt