Follow these 7 steps BEFORE you pick a song...

Choosing a song that actually fits your voice is one of the most important skills you can have as a singer

Not only can you use this info to help you pick out cover songs that fit your voice, or maybe help you if you’re in a karaoke crisis

But it can even help you WRITE songs that better fit your voice

If you’re a songwriter then you’ll know that it totally sucks to write a song that sounds amazing, but then you have to record it just to realize that you can’t sing some of the notes

My very first step in choosing a song that fits your voice is probably the most controversial, but here goes:

1. Choose a song that matches your gender
2. Choose a song in your style
3. Find your vocal range
4. Find your tessitura--know where your voice sounds good
5. Find the range of the song
6. Look at the music for any trouble spots
7. Choose a song you’re passionate about

[AgongaguaTV]

but as a bass i still want to sing "let it go"

[BrokenAnguissette]

I have a hard time with not song shopping outside your gender, but I think that has more to do with my range being on the low end for female presenting vocalists. Most of the time E3 is comfortably in my bottom end, and I'm way more comfortable singing on the lower end of my register. So, it's VASTLY easier for me to find male presenting vocalists in that range 😅

[setapartforHim]

I usually just change the key to make it fit to me

[DaleBaker-nzfh]

Wow Thanks! Brilliant I am listening very closely, I thought at 61 I am to old to learn to sing, but with your videos, I believe I actually can.

[Necela-auspinas]

I’m 52 yrs old since I love singing, thank you for sharing and teaching us your techniques.

[patypus]

You can sing any song in the original music even, but you gotta find your melodies and key within that original music that fit. I wouldn't go too high or higher than my comfortable range when I sing Mariah -- wouldn't go crazy in the latter fourth and fifth octave that's for sure. My tessitura is mostly in the third octave. I sing some male songs just fine as long as I avoid imitating the low notes (usually few) that I cannot afford to reach. I can sing "I Write Sins..." comfortably without hurting, but the lower notes aren't going to be as resonant as a male could sing.

[ralphtkane]

I'm 76 and I just started singing 8 months ago. So far, the only song I found that fits my voice is "The Ballad of Ira Hayes". Is there hope?

[dorcasuwineza]

Thanks for the 7 steps.they are really helpful to me especially the last one" passion".

[Neecee]

Started singing again after years of stopping after a tonsillectomy. Practicing with Savage Garden I knew I loved you!

[irinaxnyz]

Anyways thank you so much for all of your videos, I find them really helpful and I really appreciate all your work. cheers

[lisajones]

Wonderful video thank-you, even though I am a woman I really want to sing Bridge Over Troubled Water because I aim to be the person noted in that song. Have to learn some things still to sing well but I want to and do learn from what you teach us.

[mikkicarr]

I like to sing some songs by male artists, but I usually just raise them an octave since I don't have a good low range. Then its fun to sing along to the original to hear the difference, or with a guy singing it the "regular" way.

[catgor]

Thx for the contents! I found key and pitch can easily be changed but switching colour is really hard. Cannot hit some songs in the same way as the original, even pitch is right the feel just doesn't seem right.

[amalywhite]

Very helpful tutorial I've learned a lot today thank you so much😊❤️

[xxMyztikxx]

I cant find any other way to write to you lol. I came to you bc I fell in love with piano. I just started lessons from an amazing teacher online. And I got so excited I wanted to learn a song that touched my Dad in church when he accepted Christ. It's called Run to the Father. His birthday is literally weeks away in April. So I dont know if I will get the song perfectly by then haha probably not. BUT! latley I've been singing the song more and more. And thought, hey even tho I dont have a voice, maybe I can sing while I play. That's hard to do on it's own. But singing GOOD and playing piano? Even harder oi.... well I started youtubing voice exercise videos and came across alot of yours. It's been maybe 4 days since I started some and I FEEL better when I sing. Again I dont have a good voice, I have a deviated septum, I am always nasally when I speak, always congested and inflamed in my sinuses and I always have flem ( tmi) in my throat and always have to cough an sneeze ( trust me I wont know how I really can sound and I'll never sing my true best unless I get surgery which I cant afford) but I still feel better with some of your videos. Suprised me. Everytime I think it will sound better bc i feel better lol it still isnt sounding how i am hearing it sound in the shower haha. Sounds better to me in the shower. It is however getting better than it was. I wish I could get singing lessons but atm since I spent so much on the piano bundle lol... I'll have to do youtube. Curious if you have any suggestions since it's only weeks away lol. Noone can learn to sing in weeks I know. But anything helps! So figured I'd ask. ><

[boresamusic]

Woow your tutorial is very helpful.
I think I've learnt a lot.
Thank you.

[meissoun]

I‘m a woman, but I found out that songs by Culture Club are very comfortable to sing for me. Am I a tenor like Boy George? 😁

[Austin_schurer]

The song I picked is lucky people by waterparks and honestly any song by them or panic at the disco or 21 pilots

[Venus.actor.singer]

This answers my big question. Which songs for me. Thank you. God blesd you

[TheLittlebyakuya]

I (f, 29) love to sing 'Heute hier, morgen dort' from Hannes Wader and i think it sounds ok