Hi. I desperately need to upgrade my singing ability as I really suck at it.
As a guitar beginner I am at the stage where I really enjoy playing and singing and I can do a lot of songs (at my guitar level) and sing along, and it is super fun and revarding, but singing is … bad. Even without the guitar. But I still enjoy it, untill I hear myself on the recording… So I think in the next few weeks or months I will try to put some singing fundations down.
I checked all videos on JG and also applied for Liepe’s free course. But I kind of like the apps and this interactive learning thing… I often say than JG app was a breakthrough for me.
Do you guys have positive experience with Yousician platform (for singing)? Or can you suggest any other? We are talking about real basics here.
I don’t have any direct experience with the yousician singing course, but I did do their keyboard course about six years ago… It was… OK, but not nearly as good as Justin’s courses.
I also recently completed Chris Liepe’s paid “discover your voice” course. I would definitely recommend that over Youscion… perhaps not quite as high-quality as Justin’s courses, but pretty close.
He covers all the fundamentals of breath support, vocal registers, singing through your mask, etc. Things I’ve been aware of for many years, but never got a handle on until I took Chris’s course.
I’ve also taken some in person voice lessons from a teacher, who used conventional techniques. like scales and trying to extend your range. I suspect the yousician course has just put these conventional techniques into an app.
Chris’s approach is quite different… focussing on feeling and experimentation. This worked much better…for me at least.
nothing will be as good as Justin guitar , thats a fact
Yousician is just a good app for beginners , after a while , you move on to something with deeper knowledge in the field you wanna learn
Hi Bostjan, I’ve also been trying - not quite desperately, but almost - to improve my singing. I just want to be able to carry a tune, not to be a “vocalist”. I don’t mind if the best I can do is sound like a female Randy Newman or even Bob Dylan! Like you, I’ve watched all of Justin’s videos. I subscribed to Yousician for a year when it was on sale. I didn’t get very far. I found it tedious, and none of the exercises inspired me. I’m not saying it’s inherently bad! I guess it felt like I was trying to learn a second instrument - voice - as a beginner at the same time and with the same intensity as learning guitar. Which of course is true. It was just too much for me! That said, if your goals are more lofty than mine you might respond differently.
I’ve been having better luck improving my ability to sing the right notes by following Justin’s (free!) Ear Training course. If you’re not familiar with it: when learning intervals, Justin suggests playing the root note, singing the target interval, then playing it on the guitar. Not only does this help me exercise my vocal cords, it also gets me to listen closely to the sound I’m making. I doubt this will ever make me a “singer”, but I’ve been pleased that I’m improving while working on my main pursuit - learning guitar!
Bostjan, after sampling Liepe’s free course I purchased Discover Your Voice. When I did it was quite interactive in that every time I posted a question or shared a recording, Chris replied within 24-48 hours which was helpful and encouraging. That was a few years ago so dfon’t know if he is still so engaged.
The course certainly helped me, difference before and after is chalk and cheese. I shan’t claim to be a great singer or entertainer but way better now than I was.
Quite a few others here have done the same and would attest to the benefits.
Of course you have to stick to it like anything. I spent about a year and was pretty consistent in working at the modules week-by-week, not stop and start.