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idontunderstand:
I have more or less perfect pitch when it comes to pure hearing, but I can't hit the right notes. Very limited voice span, I guess. Also it's probably nervousness. My parents swear I could whistle perfectly on pitch (or should that be in pitch?) when I was a toddler, but I seemed to lose it as I grew older.

Barmymoo:
If you can hear a note and know what it is, then with singing lessons you'd be able to sing them. Unless there's something wrong with your voice physiologically - there was with mine for a while, I had speech therapy for it.

idontunderstand:
You know, I'd love to, but I hate singing scales. And I don't like the sound of my voice. I have this nasal, squeaky 13-year old boy voice. I realize that vocal training may change that but...

to be honest, I dislike how "trained" singers sound too. That "big" operatic voice with "rich vibrato" and stuff. Can't stand it. I like a natural singer who just... sings, without being pretentious.

Redball:
I enjoy big operatic voices doing opera, but when an opera singer applies that voice to some other genre, it doesn't usually fit. An exception for me is an opera singer singing a collection of songs with orchestra, such as a baritone singing Aaron Copland's American songs.  Opera singers have excellent control of vibrato. It's often a problem in, say, church choirs, and sometimes in my a cappella group. My group had roots in a madrigal tradition, and no vibrato seems to work better there.
And I never had voice training, and never "learned" how to sing with vibrato.

Barmymoo:
I haven't sung a scale in my life, and I don't sound anything like an opera singer. I sound like myself, except with fancier vowels (by-product of living in the south more than anything else) and a three octave range. A good singing teacher teaches you how to produce the sound you want, not how to be Pavarotti.

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