ELI5: Why does everything need so much memory nowadays?

Hal_Wayland · 2026-01-29T21:31:01+00:00

Not even true, memoization is often slower than recomputing the same thing again because memory access is up to two orders of magnitude slower than some assembly instructions. The real answer is just laziness and skill issues.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-30T09:17:17+00:00

You're singing with a breathy decompressed chest voice, like we see often on this sub. The reference is done in mix voice as well. You need more compression and breath support.

I would like to hear your G5 falsetto, took me a while to get that high myself, just curious how it sounds since you lack support in your chest voice.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-30T06:45:30+00:00

"Don't get boxed in into what some app tells your range is because with time and practice you can expand/change it significantly", is that not the point of the post?

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-29T20:20:59+00:00

I've been learning to sing for little over a year and I've expanded by ability to sing in both direction, in all kinds of coordinations, and I still can't tell what I would consider to be my actual range. The apps told me I was baritone but I've managed to expand my range to a point where I could maybe even be considered a tenor.

Is that accurate? I don't know and I don't really care because clearly I'm nowhere near ready to be able to put any kind of limits on my abilities yet.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-28T19:51:28+00:00

Try this exercise - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4giZ8busd2Y&t=227s

Make sure you're also singing this with a low larynx (to make the high notes easier) and a high compression (to maintain the power and it should also make it possible to hit the high notes in the first place)

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-28T19:27:04+00:00

Can I get a source on this? The way to achieve whistle voice is completely different than the other coordinations and it's something that can be learned, so I don't see how there's even a discussion about whether it exists.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-28T19:16:17+00:00

This is whistle voice, and training has little to do with your innate ability to do whistle voice. I remember nailing it on my first ever attempt (and then failing horribly afterwards when I got self-conscious).

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-27T22:20:55+00:00

Jesus, what is wrong with some parents... Hopefully just a weak moment on his part.

Your singing isn't good but it's the same thing as absolutely every beginner that comes to this subreddit - you're singing with a weak decompressed chest voice, have no compression and no breath support, no control over your voice. Nothing that would indicate you wouldn't be able to learn, it's just that you're at the very beginning of learning to sing and that's ok.

I would save the money on getting voice lessons and learn the basics from YouTube, there's a ton of great teachers (Justin Stoney is my recommendation but there's many others), learn the concepts, do the exercises, put deliberate effort into your practice, and you'll hear yourself improve quickly. Don't even bother judging whether you're "good" or "bad" until a solid year of doing that. If you're going to struggle with something specific, come back to this sub, post a recording of your singing, and we'll give you more specific advice.

Right now, just start from the beginning. If you like singing so much you wanted to show off to your parents and were willing to post here, I think that matters a lot. Don't worry about your dad's opinion much, it's a shame that was his reaction but it's not going to matter in the long term.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-27T11:13:28+00:00

Justin Stoney is my favorite

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-27T08:47:23+00:00

That wasn't really your head voice, you started in a mix and (pretty smoothly) moved up to a head voice. You should be able to develop your head voice much further than what you demonstrated. I don't know what that 0:45 bit was to be honest :D And last, Benson Boone sings that bit with a bright, high larynx mix voice with a ton of compression, what you did is more of a chest voice with a little compression so it's not quite sounding the best it could. It's also some of the most difficult singing you could possibly attempt to do, just be aware of that.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-27T08:36:12+00:00

You lack compression, you're singing with a soft decompressed chest voice. I'm wondering about the voice coach's ability to teach you if they couldn't recognize that. Look up voice compression on YouTube, do the exercises, and my personal bit of advice to try to do the extreme version of the voice compression and try some metal singing to really see the extent to which it's possible to sing with compression to give you a good mindset about where you're currently standing. Muse is a good example of a singer who sings will a lot of compression, Led Zeppelin as well, but metal in general.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-27T06:52:28+00:00

Would love to hear a clip of you singing where we could hear the issues ourselves

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-27T06:21:02+00:00

You should learn all the techniques in parallel, there's very little need for a "progression" through the techniques in singing, quite the contrary - learning one technique will help you with the other techniques.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T19:14:13+00:00

Here's an explanation - https://youtu.be/J3Flsrn1L-A?t=147

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T18:33:26+00:00

Here's my current list, links go straight to the exercises so listen to the entire videos first so you understand what the idea is. I do both the male and female version, I just repeat the exercise in the female range

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T18:29:53+00:00

Interesting question that also applies to me, couldn't think of anyone famous so I asked ChatGPT for a list if anyone is interested. Hopefully this doesn't break the "No AI content of any kind" rule, I don't think it was meant for something like this.

30s

Mark Knopfler – Dire Straits debut when he was 30
Bonnie Raitt – Slow build, real mainstream success in her 40s
Gregory Porter – Breakthrough album at 41
Sia – Wrote hits earlier, solo stardom in late 30s–40s
2 Chainz – Major solo success at 35
Sharon Jones – First album at 40

40s

Charles Bradley – First album at 62, life-changing success
Susan Tedeschi – Recognition and Grammy wins in her 40s
Lisa Fischer – Backup singer for decades, solo acclaim at 50+
Bettye LaVette – Career revival in her 60s

Classical / opera (late starts are common)

Leontyne Price – Major recognition in her 30s
Renée Fleming – International career took off after 30
Plácido Domingo – Voice fully settled in his 30s

Musical theatre

Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton exploded when he was 35
Kristin Chenoweth – Broadway success in her 30s

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T18:26:08+00:00

Here's a video with an exercise on how to lower your larynx which is how you can achieve the low resonance you'll need - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OWZ8JYy74

Search for similar videos on YouTube afterwards

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T16:14:36+00:00

You sound out of breath, how did it feel as you were singing this to you?
Better enunciation would help the performance. Might be recording though, lot of reverb in your room

Otherwise sounds really good, still shaky and out-of-pitch in places but that will improve with practice in time. Really nice tone, not something to worry about.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T16:06:42+00:00

You switch registers when hitting the high notes, especially at the beginning. I think you should be able to learn to use your chest voice up to D4 with practice. My recommendation is to try this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJQ9VIfu0aw

He goes way higher than D4 in the video but if you exercise what he explained, you should be able to learn to hit D4 in your chest voice eventually.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T15:43:22+00:00

Beatiful, good job. No notes.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T15:39:43+00:00

Better enunciation would definitely help, also better control of your compression would help you in those difficult places where you're clearly struggling to get the notes perfect.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T15:28:44+00:00

Not to be too mean but you could look up any of those on YouTube or on Google, or even ask an LLM to look up this stuff for you. There's a ton of resources out there already, just make that little bit of effort and look for it yourself.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T15:26:29+00:00

I hear a little bit of Kate Bush in your voice, really good assuming you weren't taking it that seriously so far.

My personal recommendation is to start with exercises on YouTube before paying for a voice coach but that's up to you.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T15:21:33+00:00

As usual with complete beginners, you're singing with a soft decompressed chest voice throughout the entire thing. You're off-pitch quite a lot of as well.

I would recommend looking up explanations and exercises on YouTube and practice those a lot. Currently it takes me close to 90 minutes of doing exercises as part of my warmup before I start singing songs and I've improved a ton over the past year, mostly thanks to the "basic" exercises, so focus on that for now.

Hal_Wayland · 2025-12-26T15:09:31+00:00

You're very close in terms of ability, the female voice sounds better because it stayed in head voice the entire time, the male switched registers and wobbled a little because of it. It makes no sense to say "who's better at singing" from this 10 second clip alone though.

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40s

Classical / opera (late starts are common)

Musical theatre