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can one learn to sing? any vocalists out there help me out.

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Music_of_Roots:
The thing I found that makes your voice sound the best and get rid of that horrible yucky flemmy sound is to kind of sing with your sinuses.  Yeah, that sounds weird, like you cant sing out your nose, if you could I would be impressed but the thing to try is to start singing in one octave through your windpipe and then literally try to bring it up till it feels like you are singing through your sinuses.  You know you are doing it right when you start to feel that kind of scratchy feel go away.  The warm up I like to do best is to roll me tongue, like that rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr sounds like an engine and you just sing octaves while rolling your tongue.  Final thing is sing with good posture.  If your windpipe is open you will get a better sound.  Tilt your head up and for goodness sake open your mouth.  How can you expect to sing if your mouth isn't open?

Borondir:
Having sung classical stuff most of my life, I'd mainly just second what people have said about breathing and warming up.  If you don't warm up properly you can do real damage to your voice quickly.  

When you breath, don't lift your chest, but drop you diaphragm instead. Lifting your chest tightens you up and means you don't get proper resonation.
And yeah, try to avoid straining and singing with your throat and jaws tight, instead sing from your diaphragm.  

It's definitely possible to make huge improvements if you have at least basic ability to stay on pitch. Range comes gradually, don't try to force it. My true voice ( not falsetto) has extended about two steps just from singing an hour and a half each day in chorale this fall. And if you can't sing something, don't. I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not a high tenor.

Patrick:
Here's a way you can really fuck up your voice: Be Robert Plant.

Nah, seriously though. He fucked his voice with a steel wire brush the way he sang from '69 to '73. Like, you listen to "How Many More Times" and just you TRY to tell me that it was good for his voice. Basically, be sensible.

Have a good listen to Freddy Mercury in Queen, and you'll realize that what everybody's telling you about "drop your diaphragm" and "open your mouth" bit is as true as Hilary Duff is stupid/hot (synonyms?).

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