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Hi my name is chew from malaysia. I am 17 tis year and fell in confident in my singing. Some of my friends said i am quite gud wit singing but some said i dun sound tat well. I also hear my voice from my phone on the recorder. I sound weird and now i starting some singing lesson for about two months and i dun think i am still the same. Will i ever improve if i keep on? and how do they made me better? And wat practice should we do everyday to be better? And is is the phone fault that i sound weird,
Hi! I wrote you a response previous to the one that is now posted. I don't know what happened to it!
Anyway, I shall summarize.
Yes, you will make progress if you follow your teacher's directions, including exercises and other things you might find boring.
If you feel you are not making progress, speak to your teacher (that was why I sent the other post with the link to a site about how to find a music teacher). Your teacher wants you to succeed, and if there are areas in which you do not think you are improving, your teacher will want to address those right away. Be prepared to be specific: "I can't sing higher notes now than when I started," for example.
As to hearing yourself on the telephone or a recorder, you don't hear what you really sound like when you're listening "inside your head" as you speak or sing. When you hear a recording, that's what you sound like to others. Weird, huh?
I hope this response makes it & that you come back and read it! mb
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