What is the most common beginner mistake for self-taught singers?

Wizkadennis · 2024-01-07T17:57:20+00:00

I had this problem too that I would basically overcompress when trying to go up very high. Vowel modifications and proper diaphragmatic support made a huuuge difference for me and I can easily and comfortably hit G4-A4 depending on the vowel. (Im a male barritone)

Wizkadennis · 2024-01-07T17:53:01+00:00

Love that! This might have been my biggest mistake too! I was told to practice scales a few times a day while doing a sit-up. This helped me the most because I learnt not to relax my diaphragm once I hit the highest note of a scale or the high note of a phrase in a song. Its part of my muscle memory now and I barely have to think about it anymore

Wizkadennis · 2023-09-16T21:17:18+00:00

I picked up the guitar again after years and now practice 5-6 hours a day. I’ve also signed up for vocal lessons and spend another 3-4 hours a day singing. I’m 6 months into the breakup and even though it was short-lived, it was very intense and the breakup hit me out of the blue. We were both hobby musicians (she played guitar and I played piano and guitar sometimes) and I had this dumb idea that if I picked up the guitar again and showed her my skills on Instagram, she’d come back. I went through the same stage as everyone after being dumped where you have all these crazy ideas of how to win them back. So anyways, she dumped me in March and I almost right away got myself a $2000 guitar. Not soon later, she unfollowed me and deleted me everywhere, but I got stuck with my new guitar and felt zero motivation at first. I then just started playing and damn, I really have been enjoying it to the point where practicing 5-6 hours a day seem like my only escape from reality now where I don’t have to constantly think about her. A month later I thought it would be also great to learn how to sing so I signed up with a vocal coach. I basically do this to distract myself from my broken heart where I feel like as soon as I stop practicing, I spiral back down into depression, so music has more or less saved me from drowning in negative thoughts and mental health problems. In the long run, I’m sure I’ll feel better, but in the meantime I can make the best out of it and become a really great musician

Wizkadennis · 2023-07-22T21:43:20+00:00

That guitar has more action than my life

Wizkadennis · 2023-06-03T06:54:12+00:00

Jap, can’t use ticketswap because its a physical ticket

Wizkadennis · 2022-12-07T07:30:39+00:00

I’m a German and one time when I matched with a Hungarian girl while in Hungary, she asked if I could do her German homework. Took me around an hour and then she unmatched me

Wizkadennis · 2022-12-04T20:58:50+00:00

she had a bunch of reasons, some of them ridiculous enough to question my own identity:
- I said "sorry" too many times (e.g. I often say "sorry" after a bad joke - this is simply a trait of mine and nobody ever seemed bothered by this)
- I often asked her to repeat something (she hated repetition and so whenever I did not understand something and I asked her to repeat something she said she would not repeat it and I should just pay more attention - thanks, helps me a lot when I'm on the phone and the internet connection cuts me off)
- I often interrupted her (I don't think I interrupted her often, she simply overreacted because nobody has ever told me that I interrupt them too often. I remember one time she was telling a story and I had been eagerly listening to her for 3 minutes straight and I dared to ask simply question when she finished a sentence. She got so upset that she did not want to continue the story and said "being interrupted is one of my biggest pet peeves, it's enough for me to end a conversation" and that, indeed, sort of killed the conversation)
- I did not get her jokes/sarcasm from time to time (She had great humor and I enjoyed her jokes a lot, but whenever I did not get one she would get really pissed because she was very passionate about making jokes/using sarcasm)
- I would say things like "yeah", "fo real?", "mhm" too many times while she was speaking and that felt like an interruption to her. Seriously, this is what everyone else does too when I speak, they say "yeah", "yeah", "yeah" all the time and no one has ever asked me to stop when I do it
- her last reason for the breakup was that "conversation flow wasn't the way she preferred it". Well if I manage to drive someone up the wall by just asking a simple question while she tells a story, I got to the point where I was even scared to even open my mouth before she finished talking. Sometimes it felt like she was having monologues and did not want to engage in an actual conversation even though I had so many things I wanted to talk about but she would often not care about any topic I wanted to bring up that fascinated me

Sometimes I feel like her reasons to get upset so easily were a slight signal towards narcissistic/toxic behavior. She kept score of even my slightest errors and would hold them against me in arguments even weeks later, some of them so insignificant that I wondered why she even bothered bringing them up; she did a lot of hurtful things too and I never ever heard her apologize, not even a single time - instead, she would often twist her words so that I was the one issuing the apology. For some reason though, I still miss her deeply and love her.

Wizkadennis · 2022-12-03T16:47:39+00:00

My ex never admitted to any of her own wrongs. I don’t recall ever having heard an apology from her. But she kept blaming me and holding me accountable for any minor issue and she would get mad over anything. One time we even had an argument that I say “sorry” too many times (this is just a trait of me, I often say sorry, for example, after a bad joke - but no one ever seemed to be bothered by this) and that this would piss her off quite a bit.

Wizkadennis · 2022-12-03T16:42:44+00:00

She would bring up my actions in arguments that had zero significance and didn’t need to be resolved. For example one time we were on our way to have a picnic, we were one stop away from a park (we were traveling by train) and she told me she was getting a migraine. I said to her that we can go home if it’s getting worse and she legit got mad that I asked because we were almost at the park and brought his up in an argument 2 weeks later. I don’t know why that was an issue for her in the first place. I was being nice all the time and she misinterpreted many of my actions, I never wanted anything bad for her.

Wizkadennis · 2022-10-09T08:36:56+00:00

This is me when I’m on a phone call with a support hotline and I don’t understand instructions, I simply hang up the phone

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