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

[Antipolitik]

Hi,

lots of people use Melodyne and Antares in the studio. They come in rack versions as well so getting the same pitch
control live isn't too difficult. You can check out this gear: http://www.voicetonepedals.com/correct.html

Personally I mix my guitar practice with singing practice. I sang really really bad at start but slowly I'm getting a better pitch control. A good way too train for me is to use Antares Autotune on my vocal track. I loop a verse riff I play with my guitar and then I just go "aaaaaaaaah" "ooooooooh" and so on and look at the Antares pitch detector. It's actually a very nice feature and helps me a lot in getting better pitch control. I'm like 5% talanted when it comes to singing and 95% is pure hard work You can also sing the whole verse and when done run in thru Melodyne and look at the pitch detection and see where you are complete out of tune, RESING THAT PART... it's easy to fix it with Melodyne but it will sound MUCH better if you nail it yourself and then maybe use Melodyne to "finetune". Remember, sometimes it sounds sterile if you use too much of pitch control. An amount of 75-85% pitch correction should be ok. Try different values.

Anyway, keep trying all of you!

Jonas

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