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Thrillho:
The alternative to singing scales is just singing things in different keys that are in your range, which is what I did. I grew my range by singing stuff at the top of my range until eventually my voice was comfortable there, and then once it was comfortable there I could move it higher.

I also learned to fill my lungs when singing.

None of these talents have been retained by me in the last few years as my Soundcloud will attest. I miss when I had a load of range and a load of power. I used to be able to fill a few-hundred-seater room without a mic.

idontunderstand:
May: Hard to find a singing teacher like that 'round this place. But I believe you. I've had choir teachers before and the only thing they taught me was these ridiculous warming-up exercises, which I both dislike and which doesn't seem to do anything for me that just singing a simple tune I know well won't do.

"Opera singer" is a bit strong.. I just mean that, and please don't take offense :-P, that trained singers seem to go for sounding "professional" rather than original, which just bothers me. I don't want to sound like that.

Redball:
I developed an appreciation of opera in the last 20 years, more so in the last four, even to watching the Ring Cycle in local theaters live from the Metropolitan. I take it as it is, a stylized form of acting and singing, sometimes ludicrous if you step outside the acceptance zone, but very affecting when music and acting come together. I've heard moments of Chinese opera, and it's utterly strange. I assume that to Chinese ears, it's also highly stylized, and I try to apply that to understand why the music I like is so hard for so many others to like.
In any case, operatic voices singing in European and American opera work for me. Such voices singing other music usually does not work for me.

Barmymoo:
I don't take offense at all, I feel the same way. When I sing with/for the choir, I do try to blend in and sound like everyone else because that's the nature of a choir, particularly one in the Anglican choral tradition. But when I sing my own stuff, usually folk music, I use the technique I've been taught to sing in my own way, just better - I have more control over the sound, I have better breath control and I can project more. Surely there must be singing teachers somewhere near you? I'm not saying you have to have lessons, by any means, just that if you want to learn how to be more in control of the sound you produce, it's useful to have some tips.

Redball:
I'd like to have learned breath control, perhaps how to introduce a little vibrato at the end of a held note, and to have retained my tenor range, which disappeared after I took a couple of years off singing. But I doubt I have many more years of choral performing. Maybe if I study to pass calculus I'll take voice lessons too.
In any case, I was quite happy not to have a voice that sounded like that of a professional soloist. I don't like the thought of soloing, although I suppose if I had more respect for my solo voice I might have felt differently.

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