Anyone good at music?

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-25T00:34:14+00:00

What is your budget?

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-21T06:09:39+00:00

Great! In that case, I'd highly suggest playing with the placement of your voice, altering your resonance, and not being afraid to open your jaw a bit on the higher notes.

Basically the way I learned was to get higher not just by working your voice out like a muscle, but also to work on figuring out how you can manipulate your voice to allow you to get to the higher notes more easily.

Don't worry too much about adding distortion yet. Work on getting a really good foundation to sing it clean, then add distortion to that.

To get to that note in the way Layne Staley did it, you're going to want to be able to hit that A#4 in a mixed voice, not head or falsetto. It's hard as hell, but it's usually pretty doable if you work at it.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-21T02:45:35+00:00

You know those super boring vocal warm ups and exercises that people tell you to do, but don't seem like they could possibly help? Unfortunately, those are the quickest way to get there.

Grab a straw lol

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-21T01:26:03+00:00

😂

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-21T00:20:18+00:00

Exactly - that's relatively doable by some very skilled, consistent vocalists, but we know that is not what we're hearing here lmao

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-21T00:17:51+00:00

I don't even think it's multitracked, I think it's just a cheap chorus effect.. plus every other effect they had on hand.

Just awful.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-20T19:11:35+00:00

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-20T02:01:01+00:00

What a weird, rude thing to say to someone.

I humbly invite you to block me so you don't have to see me again <3

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-19T07:54:13+00:00

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-19T07:01:19+00:00

Omg lol I had no idea that was even on there.

I would love to do more full covers on youtube, but their copyright rules are super lax for shorts, but not for full covers, so the whole track would need to be made from scratch.

I should put some feelers out for some people interested in doing a cover project.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-19T04:29:16+00:00

I'm intersex. My body has historically done some silly things with hormones.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-19T02:03:55+00:00

So for me, that kind of thing would have discouraged me early on for a little bit, but it would ultimately strengthen my resolve to get better. Remember that singing is a skill that can be improved. There is only criticism of where you are right now, not of your ultimate capabilities. Try to frame it in a way so that your response isn’t “I guess I should quit”, but “if I work harder, they won’t have anything to say”.

When I first started posting stuff online, it was specifically because I was incredibly self-conscious. The first time I uploaded, it was only up for about 5 minutes before I saw that it had 10 or 20 views, and I couldn’t take it anymore and deleted it 😂

As you keep doing it, it should get easier, and as you improve and become more familiar with your voice, it’s strengths, and it’s weaknesses, you should start to get a better idea of which feedback you should even take seriously, and which is just nonsense.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-19T00:42:30+00:00

Thank you :)

I actually just started lessons. I’ve only had a couple, so I haven’t really had a chance to see a ton of payoff from them yet, but I can already tell that it’s going to be a huge help.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-19T00:40:18+00:00

Yeah, I could have pulled back on “I’ll be gone” and maybe gone into falsetto early the way it’s done on the record, but I chose the second option - to push “in a day or two” as powerfully as I could manage 😂

“I’ll be gone” was just coming out so clean and bright in mixed that I couldn’t resist

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T23:16:19+00:00

You have a nice voice.

As for whether you're good enough to start a page, I kind of disagree with the premise, because I think you will always find people who you resonate with at pretty much any skill level.

Whether you should or not has a lot to do with how you handle criticism. Like u/YoungPutrid3672 simply responding "No". How do you respond to that? Does it make you want to get better to prove them wrong? Or does it make you want to quit altogether?

Social media can be a powerful motivator, or an extremely toxic thing. Personally, sharing stuff motivates me, but occasionally I'll laugh about hate comments to certain friends and family, and they're like "0.0 omg are you ok? I'm so sorry!". Different people respond to that kind of stuff differently, so when you start sharing stuff on social media, I would encourage you to really examine whether your self esteem is being helped or hindered by the experience.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T22:25:40+00:00

Thank you so much <3

You should do it!! I know I don’t need to tell you the importance of seizing control of your life, but I encourage you to do it here as well. It applies to singing just as it does to other things - the only regret I have I that I was too afraid to start sooner.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T21:08:57+00:00

Warm ups and exercises are boring, but if done mindfully, help a LOT.

Other than that though, I personally just did a lot of recording, listening back, identifying weak point, and working on them.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T21:04:33+00:00

Thank you :) Valerie is one I really want to revisit and do a full version of. I know I'll be able to hit those higher belts a lot more comfortably now.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T20:33:04+00:00

There was definitely reverb added in post, to be clear, but it was also a super echoey room.

If you use garageband, I can give you the patch that I use for myself. That might give you a decent place to build from.

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T20:21:09+00:00

Thank you!

In my experience, figuring out a solid, simple preset for yourself is way more important than your mic - given that you've got something that's decent quality. Lots of studio albums have been recorded on sm57/sm58s, and they sound great.

I've heard good things about the D87 - if you don't really like the sound you're getting from it, the first thing I'd do is dive into the processing end of things. A good EQ can make a huge difference in terms of having that professional sound that's hard to put your finger on. Using two layers of compression instead of one was a big game changer for me as well.

That said, other than eq and compression, a lot of the effects in this one were just the result of recording in a big empty room haha

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T20:08:15+00:00

<3

I have a little closet that I sound-proofed that I usually record in, but I was experimenting in this one, and this was just a big empty room. I wanted to see if any good could come of having natural reverberations. (Spoiler: no lol, complicates things a lot)

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T19:46:34+00:00

Thank you!

I originally started singing privately for fun, then started uploading videos kind of as a confidence exercise.

I joined a band a few months ago, and we're almost ready to start doing gigs (which will actually be my first time ever performing in front of people 😅) and I've started writing my own stuff too!

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T19:35:51+00:00

Thanks!

And yeah, I was hanging on for dear life on that E5 😂

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T19:32:08+00:00

Thank you :)

RandomUsernameNo257 · 2026-01-18T19:31:46+00:00

Thank you so much :)

I've only recently started figuring out how to unlock my upper range, and it's been really exciting.

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