Can anyone learn how to sing?

[lorihmatthews]

You might want to also find your range of voice --- if you can't sing really high, can you sing lower notes? That's why people are classified as mezzo-sopranos, sopranos, etc. Not everyone can reach those high notes, and not everyone can reach lower notes. A lot of it is just your physical capabilities.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by _butterflies

I can't sing at all! When I try to sing in a high note, nothing but air comes out, not a sound though! Is it at all possible to be trained how to sing really well? I don't want to sing anywhere, not sure if I'd ever want to in public. I would NOT have trouble in front of an instructor though of course! I just kind of want to learn how-- just to do it for the heck of it, a skill in life to have learned and accomplished. Is it harder work than I think? Could I risk hurting my tonsils or something too? Would a sound that sounds GOOD ever come out of that high note I try to hit? That would be wild to learn how to do that! (I think it would be anyway)

Bottom line...if you can't sing some what decent now, you never will be able to. Yes, you can take lessons and you can get better, but people like Mariah Carey and Patsy Cline have a natural gift that you can't learn. If you can carry a tune, but can't hit certain notes, then yes, you can work out your vocal chords to possibly hit certain notes, but if you can't carry a tune, it's not going to work out for you.