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

[RobM]

Well I wanted to know you 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?

IMHO I think the really great voices are natural and then trained to be what they are, Singers like Bruce Davidson, Paul Rogers, Freddie Mercury, Elton john are all natural and then honed to perfection. I think singers like Ozzie, David Lee Roth, James Hetfield are more perfected sounds than they are naturally gifted. They all sound good for what they do but you wouldn't expect Hetfield to sing good bye yellow brick road, just as much as you wouldn't expect Elton John to sing Enter Sandman. One side is more about the lyrics with the music playing with it and the other is more about the music with the lyrics with it.

I didn't really edxplain that using the correct terms, but I think you get the idea?

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