First of all, it happens to all of us! There are always those times when we hear ourselves and we sound crap. But as you’ll get to know now, you can actually do something about it and it’s not always the engineer’s fault!
Lack of proper training is the main reason you don’t sound good. It stems from not practicing the correct things and not knowing how singing works. Solve those issues and you will start to sound great in your recordings!
No jokes, it’s as straightforward as that but you have to follow it through with a daily routine. Read on ahead to understand how you too can improve your voice for the better!
No Proper Training
One of the issues with hearing yourself back and realizing that you don’t sing well enough has to do with the fact that you have not been properly trained before, that is the most common one.
Even though you have been training yourself and practicing by yourself, not having the correct knowledge of what to practice and how to go about it, will not result in you having a great idea about how things ought to sound.
So when you do record yourself, with no proper training, one of the things that surprise you the most is that you don’t sing well. Don’t worry though, there is an easy cure for that.
Because you have to realize the microphone that you’re using to record yourself does not have a bias towards you not making a sound anything other than how you actually sound, so not having done proper practice or proper training is the number one cause for you to not understand how that you don’t sing well.
Practice is Free
Practice is free and just as much as you would like to believe that you don’t sing well because of this, there is of course a solution to it.
Practice. If you know what to do is free. All you have to do is put in the time and it will show when you record yourself the next time because every time that you come back from your practice and you try to record yourself, you hear the nuances, the differences in your voice from before, you become aware where you have gone wrong and where you are actually singing better than you were before.
But of course, the prerequisite to that is knowing what to practice and this website is full of resources and gives you new ideas about what you ought to do and how much you should practice. I encourage you to look at other articles while you are still here.
Once, you do put in the time required from your end to sing better, I can assure you will become better and your recording will show that as proof.
Learning is cheap
As I just said right now, understanding what to practice is essential, so that is basically the idea behind learning how to sing; if you know what to practice, then, of course, you get yourself to the point where you are able to sing. But if you don’t know what to practice, then you’re in luck.
So my solution to learning singing is through online courses and I have written a really extensive article on why I believe that online courses are the way to go. Here.
Learning is cheap compared to private classes and how much it costs to pay college tuition to learn how to sing. Singing online by yourself is 10 times cheaper and far less stressful than it is to be in a college or in a room full of strangers.
You might be wondering, is learning the right things that important?
It’s important because if you keep practicing the wrong things, you develop a bad habit of it. A harmful habit that can lead you to have pains and not be able to perform singing at all.
It’s like smoking. If you develop a habit of it, it really doesn’t help you all that much, it actually hurts you. In your recovery there will be two things that happen, first, you need to quit which is letting go of a bad habit but the other is the healing of your lungs. There’s always a double correction when you’ve picked up a bad habit.
If you develop a bad singing habit just like smoking, this will stick with you and you are going to first, unlearn the bad habit and then second, learn the correct way to do it.
That really sums up why learning is so important, especially the right things.
Do these things (practice and learn the correct things) and there is no stopping you from sounding amazing when you record yourself.
Where Can You Learn Singing From?
If you don’t have the money or the time to go to a private teacher and get your singing to the point where it ought to be or you think about what you are capable of, then going through the online course is going to be the best choice for everyone for the majority of the times.
Even if you have someone to help you guide you through this, then it is still better that you have an online course in your backup so that you are able to rely on it and pave a path for your own learning.
Below are courses I believe you ought to be aware of if you’re in the market for one. I have written why I like this particular one and what you can expect to find in the course itself here.
If you’re having trouble warming up, then this is the one for you. But it won’t replace a full course that is meant to teach you how to sing.
My personal favorite and something I personally own, ‘The Four Pillars of Singing’.
Whatever you end up deciding I wish you all the best in your musical journey!