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After I posted my reply... I read Elvis's comments and he hears the same thing I hear... If your just whispering and "hiding" from actually committing to it, we don't have anything to work with. You need to remove the fear and stop "singing in the car"... if you want to be a singer, you need to start doing the things that real singers do... and that includes training. The best way to describe what Elvis and I are hearing here is... this is like saying, "Hey... watch me do a cart wheel! What do you think?"... in front of people that are doing gymnastic, mat/tumbling routines and balance beam routines. This is a cartwheel in the park. You need to get into a real gym, and learn and execute the real thing. Okay, I'll just wait til I'm home alone again and yell the same song at a more...antisocial volume, and upload it again.

Thanks for the positive feedback! I might have a look at another few songs and add them here, I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet when it comes to a vocal coach if it really is so important to learning. Thanks again, the comments from both of you have been a massive encouragement.

So....just sing louder? Even at the detriment of the quality of the sound?

Is there no way to at least get started in learning not to sing like I talk? I'm terrified of getting a vocal coach, social anxiety (don't ask).

Okay, thanks for the encouraging feedback. What is meant by 'singing like you talk'? It just seems natural to sing like that, my only other options would be a consistently lower, rather atonal chest voice or right at the peak of my upper register which I only reach by breaking my voice.

Don't know if this is allowed here but....bump. (please forgive me if it's not)

Forgive my density, the links are embedded properly now -.-

So, as the title implies, I have just started singing, I don't know nearly as much about how the voice works as many here do, so here's the result of me spontaneously singing a song that I'm fairly familiar due to it being the first one on my spotify playlist (I'm lazy like that). Anyway, this is what the original song sounds like, I've tried to copy the singer's breathing pattern and such to keep in time, which is also what the long periods of silence and humming are. And here's my rendition, bear in mind that it's my first time recording myself so please be constructive EDIT: Oops, forgot the soundcloud link - Just listened to it, god my voice is so shaky :/