People say I am a good singer, but I don't think I am?
I have always liked singing and whenever I was home alone, I would sing non-stop. But I never thought I was any good, so I never told anyone I liked to sing. It's because I am extremely embarrassed to sing in front of people because I think I'm bad at singing. About a month ago, my best friend talked me into singing the first line from the Victorious theme song, and so I did, and her face brightened and she was like "That was really good!" , she told me I should pursue music, and I had never told her I even liked singing before then, again, because I keep it secret. Another time, I was with another friend and we were singing along to Mr. Brightside and she said out of no where "You're a good singer" and asked why I didn't join choir, which she has been in since middle school. There was another time in class when I was mumbling a song, don't remember what, and this girl I hardly know was like 'You're good." and I wasn't even trying, I was mumbling under my breath. Still, when I hear myself sing sometimes I think it sounds good, but most of the time I think it sounds way off. When I record myself and play it back, even when I thought I did good, it sounds horrible, at least to me. I feel like I'm basically **** at singing, but every one that has heard me sing says I'm good, and I don't even ask their opinion. Can anyone explain this to me....? I'd like to get into music as I've been playing guitar for four years and piano for six, I'm seventeen and music could be a career choice.
People say i can sing but when i record myself it sounds terrible, explination?
Pretty much every everyone has valid input on this question. I liked the first answer because I am a lead guitarist and have been the lead singer in a pro group. He's right on both counts. As a guitarist who is realistic about not being the best guitarist (I'm good, but there are a lot of guys better) I always can find something off about everything I have ever done or played. Always a couple of notes I was trying to pull off that I didn't, or that run was OK, but I could have been better. I always settle for"that was pretty good" or " Acceptable" when I record projects. It's even worse when listening to myself sing on a recording. I absolutely dislike the sound of my own voice. with singing. This is a very common occurrence. If you do a little looking on old questions here, you can find over 3300 questions asking the exact same thing. Ask anyone you know, and see if they think their voice sounds the same when they hear it recorded (like on phone answering machines or something) I'd bet 85% say that they think their voice sounds funny. However, I had a lot fans come up and tell me how great a solo I played or how much they enjoyed my singing. I even had the original Bass player for the Santana band ask me if I wanted to leave the band I was singing for to join HIS band. Pretty cool, right? So I must be OK at least. But even if you dislike the sound of your voice, you can record it and at least you can tell if you are on key or are pitchy, and as long as you get it to the point where you are singing the song and not messing it up, don't worry about how you "sound" because, you probably will never really "like" it.
Some people say I can sing, some say I can't?
So people in my choir class say I have a good singing voice. My choral teacher said I had a deep rich beautiful voice. But my family and friends close their ears when I sing and they all say I sing bad:( I don't know who to believe. Is it common for a good singer to have people who don't think they can sing well?
Why does my voice sound beautiful when I sing, but when recorded, it sounds horrible?
An element worth noting in all of this is that you may be tuning your voice to what you're hearing, rather than to the acoustic of the room. When you sing, a certain percentage of the sound that you hear in real time is heard through bone, which can distort things. You may need to retrain your singing to ignore the effect of the bone, because it could be throwing you off.There's a cool trick that I love for doing this without having to record yourself all the time. Put your hand on each side up to the tragus of your ear (that little cartilage flap that's right on top of the ear opening) on each side. Put your hand there in the same position as though you were karate chopping, if that makes sense (but, obviously, gently). Then curve your fingers so that they outline the rest of your ear. You should look kind of like you're giving yourself Mickey Mouse ears if you're doing it right. Now try to speak. And try to sing, for that matter. Your voice should sound different but not THAT different. This is a pretty good approximation of what you sound like to people who aren't you. It's also a useful tool for where you should be recording your voice. Walk into a recording studio that you're thinking about using (or a room you're thinking of recording in), and try this out. If you don't feel good about the acoustic, record somewhere else!
People say you sing like an angel. But how do you know that angels sing well?
That's a very good observation! I guess we'll never know until we get to Heaven (if we believe in Jesus)...and then it won't matter cause all we'll be doing is praising God!
Can ugly people sing well?
Thank you. That made me chuckle. Seriously, though, as the music industry push beauty and charisma over actual talent, yes, you will come to believe that ugly people cannot sing. It's too bad no one else seems to get that by asking this question, you were really using sarcasm to comment on the fact that most of the beautiful singers today suck, and wouldn't be able to carry a tune in a bucket with hundreds of thousands of dollars of digital sound equipment that alter their voices to make it sound like they can sing.