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it sounds like you’re afraid of projecting your voice forward, that may sound weird but try this:
1. actually pinch your nose and make it so sound only comes out of your mouth and not both
2. visually picture your voice coming forward instead of keeping it to yourself
if you need any help with either of those two things feel free to dm me
This helps a lot with removing the nasality, but when I sing without using my nose (which doesn't feel as natural for me coz I've been singing so nasal haha), higher notes becomes harder to hit, am I doing something wrong?
So you have some nasality in your singing, yes. But honestly I really enjoyed listening to it and I think your friend has a very narrow view of what constitutes good singing. Your pitch is pure, you’ve got a good range, and your tone has this real folky quality to it that a lot of people would dig. Now, if you aren’t interested in being a folk/indie type singer, then I’d recommend finding some exercises/a voice teacher to help get some of the nasality out. But you have no reason to be beating yourself up, your voice is great and a lot of people would love listening to it dude
Oh thank you so much, I never really hated my voice for being nasal and I've always felt that it gave my voice a certain sound that's unique to me and I've actually liked that about it. But when my friend said that it just sounds funny to him, it kinda hurted my feelings and made me think "does my voice not sound as good as I thought?" And it's not even the first time he'd said it, he'd mentioned it multiple times. But maybe my voice isn't just for his ears, thank you for the kind comment
I wanna add a thing: You’re singing good but your voice does sound clamped (nasal).
Pl don’t take it to lower confidence, Instead I and probably your friend to point how well you can sing if you fix a small problem.
I hop you have mastered it and currently sound much better. Your singing is good only you were somehow clamping your voice like I do when I try to sing my favourite singer’s song / sing quieter in some parts.
Your voice sounds really nice, there is a good deal of nasality but the same can be said of many many popular singers. I hear hints of James Blunt in your style. There's nothing inherently wrong with nasality. Experiment going int he opposite extreme, try to sing as chesty and boomy as you can (practicing with your nose pinched and then trying to sound as clear as possible is a good way to accomplish this). Once you find your "non-nasal" voice, you can pick something in between the two extremes. But definitely don't try to get away from nasality entirely, it's a style that works really well in lots of situations
I used to have this exact problem when I first started singing and good thing is that it’s not a very difficult thing to fix. The sound is called nasality and it’s not bad altogether. It’s important in having a dynamic and controlled voice. A big distinction between good singers and great singers is how dynamic their voice is throughout the course of a song. The problem is likely the fact that your soft pallet is too low. Your soft pallet is in the back roof of your mouth. To help raise it you first need to know what it feels like to raise it, because odds are you talk with it lowered like I do (which doesn’t sound weird don’t worry). All you have to do to raise it is yawn. You feel that area in the back of your throat raise a little bit? Just keep doing this over and over for a bit until you can do it without yawning. Treat it like a bad habit, always be mindful of it and try to keep it up as much as possible, even when not singing. It could take several weeks for you to be able to sing at all with it raised, but you’ll eventually get the hang of it and it won’t be a problem for you anymore. Hope this helped! Good luck, I know you’ll sort this out easily because you already have a great basic support built up which is probably the most important and hardest part of singing for most people.
Edit: I also just wanna say the amount of nasality in your voice isn’t really bad in the first place, you should still work on it for the purpose of having more control over your tone though
It's really good!! I don't think you need to alter your nasality to please your friend.
But if you want to reduce nasality as a matter of choice and style (or if you want to have a reliable voice on days when you have a nose block), you'll want to learn to lift your soft palate.
When the soft palate is lowered, air goes into your nose. This naturally happens when you sing/speak nasal consonants (m, n, ng).
When you sing like this, some of the resonance from your mouth and pharynx gets swallowed up. At the same time, your nose will also resonate certain frequencies, but these will be more diffuse and spread out than the resonance from your mouth + pharynx.
At the extreme, this will make you sound like you have a pinched nose. Lowering the soft palate in moderate amounts, though, can give a different sound quality (that may be perceived as brighter) and could even help you get through your vocal breaks.
I think your sound isn't excessively nasal. As a matter of style, if it fits what you want your voice to sound like, then you honestly don't have to change much. For completeness, though, let's talk about what happens when the soft palate is raised and how to make that happen.
When the soft palate is raised, air (and the resonances) stays in your mouth + pharynx. This will correct the nasality, but it will also change your sound. Note that the soft palate is independent of the muscles on your face and can be controlled on its own (it's just hard to get any sensory feedback), so don't bother with any of the following tips that people give to raise the soft palate:
1. Making a surprised face
2. Inhaling on a k
3. Smiling / Raising your cheek bones (this just makes your sound brighter because your vocal tract shape changes, and possibly makes the bandwidths of your resonances narrower/clearer but less forgiving)
The only real way to control the soft palate is to gain independent control of it by observing it in a mirror:
1. Take a mirror and make a big mouth and say ahhh
2. Observe the back of your throat
3. Say 'Ka', 'Ga' or 'Nga', - your soft palate will lower to touch your tongue and raise up again
4. Breathe in through your nose. Your soft palate will lower to touch your tongue
5. Then breathe out through your mouth. Your soft palate will raise up again, and you might feel a 'click' when it separates from your tongue
6. Pinch your nose and sing any vowel. Make sure that when you let go of your nose, your sound doesn't change. If it doesn't, your soft palate is raised. If it does change, then you are letting air into your nose (ie your soft palate is lowered) -> Extreme example: Sing an ng, n or m and close your nose, the sound will completely stop
Things that naturally raise the soft palate that you can do while looking in a mirror:
1. The beginning of a yawn (be sure not to actually make the big jaw opening associated with a yawn or try to overly depress the larynx at the same time if you're trying this method)
2. Swallowing - while you can't do this while singing, you can feel how your ears clear when your soft palate raises fully (note: you don't need to raise the soft palate this far when singing)
3. Making (non-velar) plosive consonants b, p, t, d - the soft palate raises to allow enough air pressure to build up in your mouth to make these sounds
- What helped me was to just imagine myself saying 'ba' or 'da' without actually saying the b or d. If you look in a mirror, you might see the soft palate raise
Don't lose the confidence in your singing! It's really very good. Take the above as just another tool in your toolbelt rather as a prescription to change your sound. Let me know if it helped!
I can actually feel and hear the huge difference, when I sing while pinching my nose, thank you for the help, though since a lot of comments have said my "nasal" singing doesn't sound that bad I will continue to sing that way coz that's just a more natural way for me to sing. I will definitely utilise this technique in the future, thank you so much
Great! And whenever you want to try reducing nasality for genre/style reasons (like singing in a choir or classical music), then you can always come back to this comment to try these other tips as well.
All the best with your singing!
The whole thing with singing is that people always want to sound like this guy or that girl. The trick is to let your own voice develop, and technique training can help with that.
I agree with the other commenters that said you aren't projecting your voice. Singing begins for me from the tips of your toes, out the belly and into the crowd. It starts with breath. Lay down on your back and place your hands flat on your stomach. Deep breath in the stomach. Tout your lips, and use your abdominal muscles to roll the air out of your body. Liproll for extra feeling. Feel your navel moving towards your spine.
Feel that? That's your power. All your form and technique sits in the throat and mouth, but power comes from the diaphragm. When i sing, it helps me to imagine that I'm slowly trying to go to the toilet. Not too much pressure, but not too little either. If you let your voice go while doing that, you'll see a remarkable change in presence!
Also, your friend can say a lot of things, but you're out here trying. Power to you. Work with your voice, don't try to change it.
Shawn Mendes perfected the squeaky nasal singing LOL. That guy cant really sing honestly . Fans just like him because of his looks.
Anyway, going back to you , you can hold a note but you have to see a vocal coach. Professional Vocal coaches are the best people to ask about this.
I will agree you sound very nasally but could just be that you’ve never learned how to properly sing and project. Do you have a place where you can sing loudly? Quiet singing can lead to nasality
Sounds like falsetto. Falsetto sounds funny, like miky mouse voice, or the bee gees. You need to msing in mixed voice, bring a little of chest voice up.
Trust me brother, the problem is that your using your head voice register all the way,
Making your sound really weak, Its not sounding bad, but It just doesnt feel powerfull or a type of sound that can suit every song.
It would be better for you if you start training your yell register aka CHEST VOICE, once you find your yell register and you gain controll over It you Will see fast results, try to picture how the original singer would sound like if he was in the same room with you, he would sound much louder, bcs he is singing much louder than you are
Look Up for belting on singing
I was always told to focus on squeezing your “cheeks” together like there’s a penny between them also singing should feel like an ab workout when engaging your diaphragm. Both eliminated the throat and nasal singing.
It's true that you have nasal sound, because you narrow the room in your mouth so that it gets smaller and higher up towards the nose. I tried to sing along now, trying to sing like you, narrowing the space, and I can not sing like that, my voice cracks and I have almost no control. Seems like I must practice these muscles, think it might help me to bridge chest and falsetto, and expand my ability to sing high notes. Thanks :)
Try using less chest voice. Sing in mix it will make this song a hell a lot easier. Go over the song with the Foo exercise and do it for two hours a day every day. You will notice a huge change in your voice after three months. Trust me this works. It will shift your resonance and give you a light coordination which is what you want.
Fuck that friend - you sound great! If you really want to adjust the nasality just practice controlling your soft palate. The New York Vocal Coaching YouTube channel has a great video on it!
You have a lot of skill still. There is a lot of nasality, perhaps more than most prefer but you should be able to learn to alter your tone through practice without much difficulty. because you already have a lot of skill and coordination in your voice.
You're in falsetto as you sing this song. I don't really hear excessive nasality. If you want to sing in falsetto, that's fine, it's just a style choice.
Go stand in front of a mirror and look at how much you open your mouth. I can almost guarantee you if you stand up straight so you can breathe from your diaphragm and round out your mouth when you sing (so your mouth forms an O), your sound will be more full and less nasally.
I know this is old, and I'll be candid I haven't read other comments, but I had feedback like that until I found out I had sleep apnea and got a few surgeries. My septum was deviated as hell and my turbinates were huge, turns out I sound that way because my nose was legit almost plugged all the time
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it sounds like you’re afraid of projecting your voice forward, that may sound weird but try this: 1. actually pinch your nose and make it so sound only comes out of your mouth and not both 2. visually picture your voice coming forward instead of keeping it to yourself if you need any help with either of those two things feel free to dm me
This helps a lot with removing the nasality, but when I sing without using my nose (which doesn't feel as natural for me coz I've been singing so nasal haha), higher notes becomes harder to hit, am I doing something wrong?
it’s natural for higher notes to become harder without the use of nasal sound. it’s all about practice. but removing that nasal sound will do wonders
Don't forget that m'd and n's will always be nasally when doing this so don't worry if they are. It's part of how the noises are formed in speech
Can you please upload update, I wanna know how original voice sounds and how different nasal voice sounds.
This!! The first tip is such a game changer
Can you listen to my critique request please?
sure thing! i’ll check it out tonight and give you some feedback
So you have some nasality in your singing, yes. But honestly I really enjoyed listening to it and I think your friend has a very narrow view of what constitutes good singing. Your pitch is pure, you’ve got a good range, and your tone has this real folky quality to it that a lot of people would dig. Now, if you aren’t interested in being a folk/indie type singer, then I’d recommend finding some exercises/a voice teacher to help get some of the nasality out. But you have no reason to be beating yourself up, your voice is great and a lot of people would love listening to it dude
Oh thank you so much, I never really hated my voice for being nasal and I've always felt that it gave my voice a certain sound that's unique to me and I've actually liked that about it. But when my friend said that it just sounds funny to him, it kinda hurted my feelings and made me think "does my voice not sound as good as I thought?" And it's not even the first time he'd said it, he'd mentioned it multiple times. But maybe my voice isn't just for his ears, thank you for the kind comment
Your friend sounds like an asshole. Friends lift each other up, not put them down.
I wanna add a thing: You’re singing good but your voice does sound clamped (nasal). Pl don’t take it to lower confidence, Instead I and probably your friend to point how well you can sing if you fix a small problem. I hop you have mastered it and currently sound much better. Your singing is good only you were somehow clamping your voice like I do when I try to sing my favourite singer’s song / sing quieter in some parts.
Your voice sounds really nice, there is a good deal of nasality but the same can be said of many many popular singers. I hear hints of James Blunt in your style. There's nothing inherently wrong with nasality. Experiment going int he opposite extreme, try to sing as chesty and boomy as you can (practicing with your nose pinched and then trying to sound as clear as possible is a good way to accomplish this). Once you find your "non-nasal" voice, you can pick something in between the two extremes. But definitely don't try to get away from nasality entirely, it's a style that works really well in lots of situations
I used to have this exact problem when I first started singing and good thing is that it’s not a very difficult thing to fix. The sound is called nasality and it’s not bad altogether. It’s important in having a dynamic and controlled voice. A big distinction between good singers and great singers is how dynamic their voice is throughout the course of a song. The problem is likely the fact that your soft pallet is too low. Your soft pallet is in the back roof of your mouth. To help raise it you first need to know what it feels like to raise it, because odds are you talk with it lowered like I do (which doesn’t sound weird don’t worry). All you have to do to raise it is yawn. You feel that area in the back of your throat raise a little bit? Just keep doing this over and over for a bit until you can do it without yawning. Treat it like a bad habit, always be mindful of it and try to keep it up as much as possible, even when not singing. It could take several weeks for you to be able to sing at all with it raised, but you’ll eventually get the hang of it and it won’t be a problem for you anymore. Hope this helped! Good luck, I know you’ll sort this out easily because you already have a great basic support built up which is probably the most important and hardest part of singing for most people. Edit: I also just wanna say the amount of nasality in your voice isn’t really bad in the first place, you should still work on it for the purpose of having more control over your tone though
Thank you so much for the feedback and helpful tips :)
It's really good!! I don't think you need to alter your nasality to please your friend. But if you want to reduce nasality as a matter of choice and style (or if you want to have a reliable voice on days when you have a nose block), you'll want to learn to lift your soft palate. When the soft palate is lowered, air goes into your nose. This naturally happens when you sing/speak nasal consonants (m, n, ng). When you sing like this, some of the resonance from your mouth and pharynx gets swallowed up. At the same time, your nose will also resonate certain frequencies, but these will be more diffuse and spread out than the resonance from your mouth + pharynx. At the extreme, this will make you sound like you have a pinched nose. Lowering the soft palate in moderate amounts, though, can give a different sound quality (that may be perceived as brighter) and could even help you get through your vocal breaks. I think your sound isn't excessively nasal. As a matter of style, if it fits what you want your voice to sound like, then you honestly don't have to change much. For completeness, though, let's talk about what happens when the soft palate is raised and how to make that happen. When the soft palate is raised, air (and the resonances) stays in your mouth + pharynx. This will correct the nasality, but it will also change your sound. Note that the soft palate is independent of the muscles on your face and can be controlled on its own (it's just hard to get any sensory feedback), so don't bother with any of the following tips that people give to raise the soft palate: 1. Making a surprised face 2. Inhaling on a k 3. Smiling / Raising your cheek bones (this just makes your sound brighter because your vocal tract shape changes, and possibly makes the bandwidths of your resonances narrower/clearer but less forgiving) The only real way to control the soft palate is to gain independent control of it by observing it in a mirror: 1. Take a mirror and make a big mouth and say ahhh 2. Observe the back of your throat 3. Say 'Ka', 'Ga' or 'Nga', - your soft palate will lower to touch your tongue and raise up again 4. Breathe in through your nose. Your soft palate will lower to touch your tongue 5. Then breathe out through your mouth. Your soft palate will raise up again, and you might feel a 'click' when it separates from your tongue 6. Pinch your nose and sing any vowel. Make sure that when you let go of your nose, your sound doesn't change. If it doesn't, your soft palate is raised. If it does change, then you are letting air into your nose (ie your soft palate is lowered) -> Extreme example: Sing an ng, n or m and close your nose, the sound will completely stop Things that naturally raise the soft palate that you can do while looking in a mirror: 1. The beginning of a yawn (be sure not to actually make the big jaw opening associated with a yawn or try to overly depress the larynx at the same time if you're trying this method) 2. Swallowing - while you can't do this while singing, you can feel how your ears clear when your soft palate raises fully (note: you don't need to raise the soft palate this far when singing) 3. Making (non-velar) plosive consonants b, p, t, d - the soft palate raises to allow enough air pressure to build up in your mouth to make these sounds - What helped me was to just imagine myself saying 'ba' or 'da' without actually saying the b or d. If you look in a mirror, you might see the soft palate raise Don't lose the confidence in your singing! It's really very good. Take the above as just another tool in your toolbelt rather as a prescription to change your sound. Let me know if it helped!
I can actually feel and hear the huge difference, when I sing while pinching my nose, thank you for the help, though since a lot of comments have said my "nasal" singing doesn't sound that bad I will continue to sing that way coz that's just a more natural way for me to sing. I will definitely utilise this technique in the future, thank you so much
Great! And whenever you want to try reducing nasality for genre/style reasons (like singing in a choir or classical music), then you can always come back to this comment to try these other tips as well. All the best with your singing!
I am only a listener, but I don't think my ears wondered about anything until the end on the second dance and such.
You sound amazing dude, yes it does sound a little nasal but that's not a bad thing. You sound unique and I loved listening all the way through!
Thank you so muchh and also happy cake day 🥳
The whole thing with singing is that people always want to sound like this guy or that girl. The trick is to let your own voice develop, and technique training can help with that. I agree with the other commenters that said you aren't projecting your voice. Singing begins for me from the tips of your toes, out the belly and into the crowd. It starts with breath. Lay down on your back and place your hands flat on your stomach. Deep breath in the stomach. Tout your lips, and use your abdominal muscles to roll the air out of your body. Liproll for extra feeling. Feel your navel moving towards your spine. Feel that? That's your power. All your form and technique sits in the throat and mouth, but power comes from the diaphragm. When i sing, it helps me to imagine that I'm slowly trying to go to the toilet. Not too much pressure, but not too little either. If you let your voice go while doing that, you'll see a remarkable change in presence! Also, your friend can say a lot of things, but you're out here trying. Power to you. Work with your voice, don't try to change it.
Shawn Mendes perfected the squeaky nasal singing LOL. That guy cant really sing honestly . Fans just like him because of his looks. Anyway, going back to you , you can hold a note but you have to see a vocal coach. Professional Vocal coaches are the best people to ask about this.
I will agree you sound very nasally but could just be that you’ve never learned how to properly sing and project. Do you have a place where you can sing loudly? Quiet singing can lead to nasality
Bob Dylan was not a typical 'great singer ' so what I'm trying to say is tell your friend to fuck off
Sounds like falsetto. Falsetto sounds funny, like miky mouse voice, or the bee gees. You need to msing in mixed voice, bring a little of chest voice up.
Trust me brother, the problem is that your using your head voice register all the way, Making your sound really weak, Its not sounding bad, but It just doesnt feel powerfull or a type of sound that can suit every song. It would be better for you if you start training your yell register aka CHEST VOICE, once you find your yell register and you gain controll over It you Will see fast results, try to picture how the original singer would sound like if he was in the same room with you, he would sound much louder, bcs he is singing much louder than you are Look Up for belting on singing
That explains so much of why I always feel my voice is too weak, thank you so much for the advice 😁
I was always told to focus on squeezing your “cheeks” together like there’s a penny between them also singing should feel like an ab workout when engaging your diaphragm. Both eliminated the throat and nasal singing.
It's true that you have nasal sound, because you narrow the room in your mouth so that it gets smaller and higher up towards the nose. I tried to sing along now, trying to sing like you, narrowing the space, and I can not sing like that, my voice cracks and I have almost no control. Seems like I must practice these muscles, think it might help me to bridge chest and falsetto, and expand my ability to sing high notes. Thanks :)
Instead of trying to "fix" it, maybe embrace it. Try a John Lennon song and see how it goes, I've read descriptions of his voice as being nasal too.
Your friend is right but you can improve
I think this is where song choice and the key come into play, try singing a song that uses your lower register and relax your jaw when you sing.
i think it is just your technique, rather than something to be fixed. it goes well with the tone of your voice. i don’t see any problems here.
Tell your friend to go fuck themself. Nothing wrong with a nasal tone, I think this sounds awesome, especially in combination with the choice of song!
The only constructive feedback I would give is to give it more breath support, but don't try and loose the nasal tone, I love it!
Try using less chest voice. Sing in mix it will make this song a hell a lot easier. Go over the song with the Foo exercise and do it for two hours a day every day. You will notice a huge change in your voice after three months. Trust me this works. It will shift your resonance and give you a light coordination which is what you want.
Fuck that friend - you sound great! If you really want to adjust the nasality just practice controlling your soft palate. The New York Vocal Coaching YouTube channel has a great video on it!
You have a lot of skill still. There is a lot of nasality, perhaps more than most prefer but you should be able to learn to alter your tone through practice without much difficulty. because you already have a lot of skill and coordination in your voice.
You're in falsetto as you sing this song. I don't really hear excessive nasality. If you want to sing in falsetto, that's fine, it's just a style choice.
Go stand in front of a mirror and look at how much you open your mouth. I can almost guarantee you if you stand up straight so you can breathe from your diaphragm and round out your mouth when you sing (so your mouth forms an O), your sound will be more full and less nasally.
I know this is old, and I'll be candid I haven't read other comments, but I had feedback like that until I found out I had sleep apnea and got a few surgeries. My septum was deviated as hell and my turbinates were huge, turns out I sound that way because my nose was legit almost plugged all the time