How To Know If You Can Sing?

(Last Updated On: June 28, 2023)

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Singing as an act goes beyond just singing, opening the mouth to utter some melodious songs in the shower or your bedroom. It is an act and art that goes beyond you as a person. However, it might be practically impossible to perceive the way others think you sound while singing. Know the extent to which you can sing well involves an easy effort; learn to listen to yourself.

Factors That Can Determine Whether You Are A Good Singer

Based on the aforementioned statement, some indicators would show you to what extent you are good at singing. The following factors are essential in telling if you are a good singer or not:

The ability to hit the Notes

One critical determinant of whether you are a good singer is to ask yourself this fundamental question: Am I straining myself to hit the note? You might have been wondering if you’re always caught in the realm of straining for those high notes? Or reaching those low notes is the problem you face? Come to think of it, while your favorite singers sing those songs; you perceive it to be easy. But while you try it, you are caught up in fantasy. Do you know want to know the Secret? It is effortless; every good singer you see have their vocal range. They already know the highest or the lowest range they can go to. How then do you know how to overcome the challenge of straining of note or reaching the low notes? Very easy! Look for songs that fit your range. However, if the songs don’t fit your range, transposing to suit your reach is the best alternative. Also, moving all notes to a certain degree, either higher or lower until you achieve that melody complement level.

Strength of the voice

Another question that can be fundamental in knowing whether you are a good singer is: Does my voice sound strong or weak? Our body plays a vital role while we sing. The whole body is in action as soon as we have prepared our leaps to utter set of syllables to form a line for the song. This is just to say your body plays a significant role in the singing process.  Good singers are known for their deep breathing in comparison with the people who don’t sing. This deep breathing has been known to be germane in supporting of the sound. One prominent way to substantiate the fact that our body dictates the way we sing is to look into how body posture affects the way we sing. A good singing posture is said to contribute to directing of the breath and helps in maximizing your expression through directing of the sound.

Control of Voice

Pitch hearing training is essential in enhancing good vocal skills, but somethings are crucial in this regard. Have you ever ask yourself before if the tone you’re hearing in your head is what you are producing while singing? Little wonder, you don’t know how to sing on keys. The sound, however, operates in such a way that it vibrates to a particular extent, and this is widely known and called the pitch.

Most of the time, we sing; our desire is mostly that we want our song to be in consonance with the vibration that accompanies the sound from our hearing sense. But unfortunately, this a gift that is not evenly distributed; while some can do it from their natural inclination, some need to undergo some training for them to be able to do this. And the training they do is the pitch hearing training that was mentioned earlier.

Tone and Timbre

Can anything so frustrating like someone who can sing all the right notes, but still sounds terrible when heard? Maybe you’ve ever noticed that while you sing or someone else does? Well, the ability to discern this can be found in the first pay attention to listening to the way you sing your vowels. It has been noted that singers with those tones you found heavenly are people who are conscious of the maximizing clear and consistent vowel sounds. They place more time on the vowel sounds, rather than the consonant sounds.

The discussion on tone entails the overall characteristic sound or what is called timbre of the voice. This involves the assessment of whether the voice is smooth or hoarse, soft or hard, broad or narrow, etcetera. Note that none of these timbres are bad, but an understanding of their attributes is fundamental. The timbre is the overall attributes of your voice. Singing of all right notes, with your tone off or with incongruence between your song and timbre, it is still producing inferior sound. That is the reason why you need to pay more attention to the evaluation of your timbre. Ask yourself, is my voice hard or soft, heavy or light, smooth or hoarse?


More In-depth Methods To Assess Whether You Can Sing?

The Self-critical Evaluation

What is this trying to say? This entails your singing, recording it in order to listen back to it. Just the way you do the singing at your leisure, you can also be deliberate with using it as a means to access your singing skills. Doing this is very simple; you can simply get one of your favorite songs that is very simple. What you do is to sing aloud along the lines of the song. Do this passionately, not like someone being monitored by anyone. You can get a very safe and conducive place to do the singing aloud. 

However, this seems to be the most significant problem many professional and amateur singers are facing today. Getting a pocket-friendly and affordable recorder will go a long way, or you can make use of some trustworthy recording apps on your mobile devices. You can then take two recordings. In the course of you singing aloud with that your favorite song and getting it recorded, don’t forget to regulate the volume to ensure that the song vocal’s level is not different from yours.

Also, you can plug on your headphones and sing aloud along listening to the song. While doing this, ensure that your recorder is somewhere in the room where it will adequately capture your voice as you sing, and endeavor to be sure it’s on for recording. Afterward, you can then listen to the two records. Then you can then evaluate yourself by asking yourself some questions like: How close am I to the target? Is any area where I sound a fair better? If yes, you can carry a tune.

Furthermore, You can listen to your vocals in isolation. Note that your vocals might not be perfect, but you still need to assess if there are places whereby it’s listenable. It is essential also to note that there is a place of natural inclination and the place of development in singing harmonies, just like in every other thing. While some will find it very easy to sing harmonies naturally, some will not get some part of the song right, which would need further efforts. Unfortunately, if your recording isn’t appealing to you and your friends, you might find it very difficult to carry a tune.

Instructively, it is an incontestable fact that many of us don’t like our voices while you listen to them recorded. Against that background, using this to test your vocal ability might not be the best. You must also understand the fact that you are not impartial in evaluating your voice like our honest friends, vocal couches, and your listeners after the performance, who tell us how well we sound in the course of our performance.

The Audience’s Assessment Method

This method involves you performing at the front of the audience. Here, the reaction of the audience can be of help in determining the extent to which your voice is appealing to the people. Relying on your family or friends’ evaluation of your family most times might be deceptive and uncritical since they wouldn’t want to discourage you from doing what you‘re doing. Going outside in the public place or where unfamiliar people can critically assess you. This set of people would be the best set of people who can help project the true picture of how you sound. 

However, take note of the fact that, while some people evaluate, they are only being helpful to you, and might not be sincere. However, their niceness doesn’t amount to the fact that your voice is good. While some would assess you accordingly, while doing this, please do well to ensure that you can read the face of your audience in terms of their facial expression and body language.

Vocal Teacher

Hiring a vocal teacher would, in a significant way, help in helping you know how well you’re doing in terms of your vocal skill. Voice coaches or teachers have known technocrats in training students on voice. Who else do you think would better fit in in this regard? They’re in the best position to give you feedback on how well you’re doing and also improving. As they are teaching you, they would be assessing your progress, and point to important areas where you need to improve and where you could be better.

Since the interaction within you and your coach is a mutual one, you can also ask him some questions on how you can improve.

Conclusion

There are many ways in which you can get to examine whether you are a good singer or not. These methods of knowing are both from your efforts and the help of other people. A combination of your effort and the assessment of others, such as your voice teacher, couple with their recommendation, will relatively give you the ground to rate your voice.

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1 thought on “How To Know If You Can Sing?”

  1. These are amazing and relevant information. As a vocal coach myself, I really find them very useful.

    Thank you so much for sharing. I celebrate you

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