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  1. Continued thanks for all of the comments in this thread. I'm taking it all in and it's been very helpful. MDEW, to answer your question, the highest note I can sing with my true/chest voice is an F4. Beyond that it's just air or falsetto. What is this configuration you speak of? Thanks, Dan
  2. Let me add one more idea to the conversation. In my class, I've encountered about 25 other singers. A few have amazing voices and great technique. Many have not-so-great voices and struggle with technique. Some have beautiful voices and have no idea what they're doing - poor technique, tone-deaf, too shy to let their voices out fully, etc. I watch them try to sing and I think to myself, "Gah! If only I could borrow your voice! I'd tear that shit up!" Surely, there is some legitimacy to this line of thinking. Would you guys agree that some people just aren't born to be singers?
  3. Thanks everyone for the helpful responses. That Ronnie James Dio reference was a great example. And thank you Adolph for sharing your story with me. I should note that I do have problems with my cervical spine. I was born with several fusions between some of my vertebrae, including a partial fusion between my top vertebra and my skull. I wonder if this limits my ability as a singer, although the doctor I see regularly for treatments for neck pain assures me that physiologically those issues shouldn't be impacting my singing (he understands the human body and its function better than probably 99.9% of the doctors in the world, although he is not a trained singer). I'm currently taking a singing class for the first time. I'm 28 years old. I've wanted to be a singer my whole life and always assumed I wasn't born with the chops to really be the kind of singer I idolize. I still suspect this is the case. In all my years of attempting to sing (15+), I haven't been able to improve my range at all on my own. In two months of classes and practicing proper breath technique and opening of the throat and posture and all of that, I feel like I've slightly improved my technique as a singer, but my range doesn't feel like it's going anywhere. Sure, I can support the top of my range better now with proper technique, but it's still the top of my range, and I can't sustain it for very long. Some days I feel like despite learning some technique, my singing voice is still fundamentally the same as it's always been. Can anyone explain physiologically what creates the limits of one's range?
  4. Hi Everyone, I'm not a particularly good singer. I have a fairly prominent Adam's apple. One of the challenges I have as a singer is that I have a fairly small and low range. The tonal quality of my voice also sounds a bit like my vocal cords are being squeezed as opposed to being open. I've been playing around with something lately. If I pull the skin on my neck away from my Adam's apple, I'm able to sing more easily, higher, and with better tone. My theory is that, because I have a large, protruding, Adam's apple, it can't help but be somewhat restricted by the normal tension of my skin. So I'm wondering, is this a known thing for singers? Maybe my voice would be less constricted if my Adam's apple were smaller. Could a Chondrolaryngoplasty (tracheal shave) potentially reduce this problem for me and help me to open up my voice? Thanks.
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