If I practiced enough or got the right type of training, would I technically be able to sing well like some of our greatest singers? Is there an anatomical difference in their vocals cords that differentiates singers from people who cant sing?
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Personal anecdote, but during college I had a friend who was studying to be a vocal coach. I had no intention of learning to sing, but he’d often use me and other friends to practice his presentations and such. Just for fun I started doing some of the simpler things he taught us when I was singing along to songs in the car, and they just became habit. I used to have no ability to sing whatsoever, but around a year or so later I had people around me making comments “Wow, I didn’t know you could sing,” and I was like “I didn’t know either!”
I’m not a vocal coach, so my ability to describe this will be sub-par, but some tips I remember from him anyone can do are:
* Focus less on copying the singer’s voice, and find your own. You’ll know it when you feel it
* Picture the notes in your head like guitar hero notes, and practice switching from one note to another quickly, and holding it solid. Notes shouldn’t “ramp up,” or “wobble.” If you miss and get it wrong, hold it anyways until the next chorus or whatever and try again. Training your voice to not constantly adjust and correct itself isn’t hard to do, but it makes a massive difference.
* If you’re into rock, screaming shouldn’t strain your voice at all. You should be able to talk normally immediately afterwards like you weren’t screaming at all. There are many different screaming techniques, but a common one is a vocal fry technique. Make that low popping sound with your voice (that low bubbling, frog like sound) and work on ramping that up and mixing it with your singing voice. Learning to scream right will both sound better and not destroy your vocal cords. NOTE: a lot of singers don’t ever learn to scream right (*cough cough*, Bert McCracken) and so are impossible to imitate. It’s also the reason they stop being able to scream after the first few albums.
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