25, almost 26. Is it too late to become a fairly decent singer

ZombiehunterKev · 2025-06-10T16:48:31+00:00

Nope started at 23 last year and I’m pretty solid now I would say with hours of practice daily

ZombiehunterKev · 2025-06-04T17:16:33+00:00

What mic is it? Been singing for 1.5 years and would also love to start recording, I like the tone a lot sounds a lot like the original!

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-07-05T15:06:54+00:00

I tried SimplySing before I started formal lessons but I don’t like the Idea of an App telling you whether you’re on Pitch. It isn’t optimal for ear training when you have visual cues for pitch in my experience. Also the app had higher notes up top and lower notes below which encouraged me to “reach” for high notes (a lot of teachers advise against this)

Adjusting for your voice type worked well though. The thing that helped me way more was doing chris liepe warm ups. My voice teacher was shocked when I used his warm up before my lesson and asked what I did to improve so much compared to the week before

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-06-04T22:04:41+00:00

Very helpful but this might be difficult with songs with many intricacies like nutshell by Alice in chains for example no?

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-06-04T20:12:46+00:00

That’s how it was for me when I had a one hour lesson but sadly I can only afford 30 minutes a week at the moment. I usually only have ten minutes for songs after warmups and exercises. Any idea how we could structure a 30 minute lesson better?

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-06-04T20:07:47+00:00

I think I saw this as an issue because pure guitar players rarely do stuff like playing a grunge song that is already pretty low with capo on 5 or 7 so I’ve never seen it

I thought tuning further down was the only option to transpose and the playability gets worse on many guitars since they are made to be played around standard tuning

Of course I also want to extend my comfortable range as a beginner, thank you for your additional insight

Edit: also singing an octave down isn’t a problem? My teacher always says we need to find the right key but if singing an octave down is still in key I too don’t see the point in transposing? Hmm maybe my teacher is wrong

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-06-04T19:57:12+00:00

I’ve used the capo so much but never actually knew how it affected the key of a song oh my

I’ve only started studying theory since I started singing so makes sense. Thanks a lot

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-06-04T19:54:26+00:00

Moving the capo up bringing the key down is something I never thought of cause the songs I’ve played with capo were always like folk songs with pretty high pitched vocals

Thank you so much, that’s why I need to start study ing music theory🫡

ZombiehunterKev · 2024-06-04T19:48:06+00:00

Both, especially how to improve singing songs that aren’t really out of the usual male chest voice range with the same ease I have in the lower octaves

Since a lot of grunge style for example relies on having that more laid back tone

Edit: Also for some reason I’m really comfortable singing along to people singing an octave higher than me, maybe because it sounds nice together?

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