Natural Ability Or Training Options

[Owen]

Well I wanted to know your opinion on what make's a good voice, is it the time and effort put into training your voice and honing it to perfection or are some people more naturally gifted with good voices?

I realise that guitar is more something you can train to perfection - like Kris says no natural talent required, but vocally you only have what you are given originally.

So basically, do you think great singers are born with a natural ability or work towards good voices? Or perhaps a bit of both?

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This post has been edited by Owen: Nov 7 2007, 06:35 AM

[AudunESP]

Guys...

I think that I'm a perfect example. I represent the people who doesn't born with a natural talent. I sing since I have memory and my ears was training so much, and that's help me a lot.... Then I studied vocal technique and help me more.
I believe in both things... people who born with a natural talent exist, and you can recognize them easily(like Freddy Mercury, Jannis Joplin or Bono ). In the other hand you have "my part"... and curiously I believe that we are a majority. I can give you a lot of examples: Dave Grohl, Joe Ramone, Madonna, Scott Weiland, David Matthews, Robert Smith, etc, etc. All these people were developed their voices with the time. Then we have an important point, and it is that many good singers don't sing their own style, so that make we think that their voices are not good, but this is not real.

So!.. to have a good voice includes a combination of things... Attitude, Perseverance, Passion, and in many cases a natural talent.

Thanks god for the diversity of singers or styles, don't you think?

I can't tell you how much you encouraged me Now i really have a hope of beeing a great singer. I love to sing, and i sing nearly every day. But my voice is so, hard, without softness if you know what i mean, so should i just go on singing songs that fits that kind of voice or is it hope for me to sing soft one day?
A really helpfull friend of mine said iris by goo goo dolls really do fit my voice though:)

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This post has been edited by AudunESP: Nov 11 2007, 05:23 AM

[Luciana Segovia]

I can't tell you how much you encouraged me Now i really have a hope of beeing a great singer. I love to sing, and i sing nearly every day. But my voice is so, hard, without softness if you know what i mean, so should i just go on singing songs that fits that kind of voice or is it hope for me to sing soft one day?
A really helpfull friend of mine said iris by goo goo dolls really do fit my voice though:)

I've been reading all my personal board and I found that i don't answered this..(sorry)...

With practice, and patience you can give to your voice different sound. If you thing that your voice is too hard. try to sing soft!. think in softly and sing softly.. Use your imagination... try to imagine that you are singing to the ear to the person that you love, at night... I'm sure that you can't growl.


When you are study vocal technique it's very important the imagination. the voice can reproduce that things.. extra sensations. Use that plus!

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