What is it
The Wiggle Kit is a new handheld MIDI instrument and app to add and control vocal effects to your voice. In the app for your phone you can select the vocal effects (reverb, echo, delay etc.) and with the instrument that works with movement detection (up, down, left, right and twisting) you control the intensity of each vocal effect. Of course you can link the Wiggle to other apps as well, as it supports MIDI over bluetooth.

Where you can help
We're curious to hear what you think about the idea and if this is something you would use in your music making workflow. If you like to get some more information and see some videos of it action, visit our kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owow/wiggle-kit-a-new-instrument-for-singers

Best,
Team OWOW

I have been scouring the internet for information on how people can sing in a chest register like voice above the vocal break. that information varies, And is sometimes contradictory. Some people say that there is no such thing as chest or head, and that it's all one voice. Others say that the "high sounding chest voice" is actually a mixed voice. I have also heard Others say that the chest voice can actually be stretched to go past the vocal break.

All this information makes it difficult to know where to start or how to improve.

Here's a great Youtube vid I used to learn my vocal type. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IejHKpfHso

When it comes to contemporary/popular music. Don't worry about your vocal type too much, just change the key of the song to suit your range.

And for free vocal lessons, here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXCrEHXiwwM91dhx0HonrSQ

Good luck

Michael.

And lessons via Skype are extremely cheap. $20.00 AU and hour.

But as my channel grows, there will be nothing in the private lessons that cant be found in the videos.

I do have the information you need, I'm just not very experienced.

Hope I can help you, I understand the struggle of needing help but not being able to afford it. Which is why I offer this service.

Michael.

You are a bit nasal, and not a lot of resonance, otherwise you seem on the right track. Your pitch is good : )

So it's all trial and error really. You can learn, and should learn different techniques for getting that clear sound/resonance/twang. Bit it's going to take experimentation, and time to gain the experience and awareness.

Try singing single notes. Choose a word that's easy to sing for you. And go through your range, note by note. Record this. And take notes in a diary, on what you are doing, when you get the sound you want. Then repeat.

The techniques. Firstly I would try massaging your jaw and neck. This will help loosen your jaw hinge, and help create space in the back of your throat, to stop you from pushing the sound up into your nose.

Secondly, practice not just your word, semi tone by semi tone. Also practice the different singing vowels semi tone by semi tone, and record this to hear how it changes your sound color.

I am in a school choir and i dont really know if i sound good or not. What voice type may i be based on the timbre of my voice?

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1QQf16bBWbe

Now, let's get to the problem. I still have lessons left with my first teacher (pop singer) and today she told me that because I am a Baritone my voice will never sound good if I sing songs in the tenor range.
I personally prefere the tenor range when I listen to songs, so what she said was very discouraging for me.
The thing is my new more experienced opera singing teacher said the opposite. He said that I can learn to sing tenor beautifully. All it takes is long enough vocal cords to produce the tone in the first place, a perfect technique and the faith that it's possible.

Now people please tell me who is right. Because what my old teacher said discouraged me alot. I believe I will be able to sing in tenor range with the highest vocal quality possible, but now im standing in a turning point either my opra singer is right and the pop singer is wrong and I will have to learn that my old teacher is not as competent and skilled as I thought OR
She was right and I'm chasing something that will never happen( which is sing beautifully in the range I feel sound most beautiful to me (tenor))

I am male 24 years old, just in case this is important in any way

Thank you for taking the time

I manage to sing all the notes (the highest with some effort) by Royal Blood , About Wayne and Jaymes Young. So I suppose we have the same range?
With songs from female artists I always have problems, especially in the chorus.

I have two questions:
1) how can I determine my vocal range (like contralto, etc)?
2) can you suggest some songs which are adapt to that range?

Here are some examples of my music:

https://sta.sh/0z5wa2di0bz <--- dont miss this link!

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https://soundcloud.com/therealwillyboy/demands
https://soundcloud.com/therealwillyboy/misses-misery

if you're interested in working together please hit me up
I'd prefer you email me but you could also message me here i suppose

wyatthobbyistsailors@gmail.com

If this thread doesn't belong here or I'm annoying anybody let me know and i'll take it down.

Any tips on where to start would be great as I love singing but when I try to record something its not very good.

Thanks
Ryan

But please, don't be like so many others that give up singing just because they don't like how they sound during their voice change.
You will need to gain a new understanding of your voice.
Luckily, vocal training through the pubertal change can dramatically improve your ability to sing through this hard time.

My advice is to work with somebody who really knows what they're doing so they can help you choose appropriate songs and keys no matter what your voice is doing that day.

But here are a couple of things to keep in mind as you approach singing:
1. Be aware the your range will change daily–Again, due to the influence of hormone, your voice will thicken or thin more on any specific day and there will be little you can do to change this. Go with the flow, allow the voice to rest where it does and sing the best you can.

2. The place where your chest and head voice connect, called the bridge or passagio, will also change–We hear this all the time when the voice “flips” or disconnects to “falsetto“. In time, this place of transition will become more stable also, but only with the correct vocal instruction.

3. The most important thing to maintain in a transitioning voice is a sense of bottom and top, which correlates to thickening and stretching of the vocal cords–Since young people’s voices are transitioning to a larger, thicker instrument, making sure that the student is stretching their voice into the head register (even if it’s falsetto) is better than avoiding that area altogether. This is something I see in lots of young people. “I don’t sing high notes well, so I don’t sing songs with high notes”. This is why it’s so important that the voice teacher helps the student sing through their entire range, or else this fear of high notes will become a real inability to sing them.