A question for people who can’t sing….

I’m an awful singer - utterly tone deaf.

But in my head, when I sing, I’m an A List pop star!

Im.tone deaf and didnt know until my uncle tested me
My singing voice is horrific

I can't hear the difference. Ds2 who is naturally tone perfect keeps trying to teach me to recognize the notes, but I really can't. I can't tell if someone else who is singing is in tune either, only whether their voice sounds nice to me (and that's not correlated with it being in tune, apparently.

I gave up trying to learn the piano when a tune came up and ds asked 'do you recognize that?' I hadn't a clue. It was a piece I'd been playing for a month. I can't even hear the tune when I'm playing it...

I can’t sing but I played an instrument when I was a kid so I can tell that I am not in tune and that I sound awful but I can’t correct it.

Im totally tone deaf. If you told me to sing a middle C I wouldn't have a clue.
But when I sing along to music I sound perfectly in tune to myself. Unless I record it.

I liked my speaking voice as it sounds "in real time" as it were. My actual voice, as it sounds to others, is horrible.

I also can't hear accents. I mean, I can hear that someone has one but couldn't tell you if it was Irish or Scottish. Or Brummie or Manchester and so on.

The person I hear on any recording of my singing is not me singing! It can't be!
That person looks like me, and I know I was in that place, singing that song, but it can't be me because I sung in tune!

People who cannot sing in tune truly believe they can sing until someone tells them they can't or they hear themselves at a later time.

It's quite embarrassing to be called out for your rubbish singing 🤣🤣🤣

Everybody can sing (in their own way). This is why ear plugs were invented.

As above, I know I’m wrong but can’t make my voice do what I want.

I can't sing and I know it. Sometimes I sound better than others but I wouldn't be able to correct a wrong note. It just comes out as it is.

I did hear a woman sing the other day in the street, she was sorting of busking. She wasn't good but we could tell what songs they were. Speaking to her afterwards she thought she had a good voice.

Um… if you can hear middle C in your head without a reference point then you have perfect pitch. Which isn’t a fair comparison. Most people today wouldn’t have a clue what “middle C” even means. Sadly, thanks to the continuous devaluation of music education in this country.

Interesting that you think people who can't sing aren't musical. Singing isn't like learning an instrument is it? It's not always that people can't hear the note, they just can't reproduce it with their voice. Some people can learn to sing & some can't.
I'd love to be able to sing but have a dreadful voice unfortunately.

Wouldn’t know how to hit any note. Just sing the words of songs and hope for the best. Utterly terrible but can still gain pleasure as long as no one else is in hearing distance😂

Awful singer here. I am not unmusical, I can recognise tunes within a couple of notes, I listen to all kinds of music, I can spot when, for example, something I have never heard before is by an artist I'm familiar with, or when something has been sampled and that kind of thing, I can even make a reasonable stab at saying what key something is in.

But I can't sing. I can and do 'play' music in my head almost constantly, but there doesn't seem to be a connection between my brain and the pitch of my voice if I try to sing it. It comes out as a sort of drone - I can tell it's not right.

So I only ever sing in the car, because we have a noisy little car and the sound of the engine more or less drowns it out when I drone along to Absolute 80s😆

Also, surely Henning is doing it for laughs???

Terrible singer here. I know I am. As a couple of previous posters put it so well, I just can’t make my voice sing the right notes. My 7 year old very sweetly tells me that my singing is perfect because he doesn’t want me to feel bad about it though.

I can sing in tune and copy anything I hear. Sing soprano in choir. I do think it’s like playing an instrument.

I don't know what middle c is. I couldn't imagine it or pick it out of a multiple choice if my life depended on it. I couldn't hear a note and tell you if it's the first note of a bat out of hell, or super trooper. I'd have no idea.

In my head, when I sing, I'm in tune and it sounds exactly like whoever I'm singing along to. If I record myself I can hear that it's not in tune.

I sing 'flat' apparently. Whatever that means. I think it means I'm slightly too low all the time? I can't get up to whatever 'not flat' is, I can sing a higher note, but it's still flat.

I'm a terrible singer. As others have said, I know I'm not hitting the notes but can't correct myself.

My nemesis is Paparazzi by Lady Gaga. There is one note I just CAN NOT GET. I can't even approximate it. It drives me mad.

I love singing though!

I don’t even know what Middle c is or what it means

I bet that’s true of most of us who can’t sing?

When I'm singing along with music, I think I sound ok - not brilliant but not awful. And then the music stops and I hear what I really sound like and it's absolutely abysmal. Flat, wildly off-key and makes Henning sound like Michael Buble 😂.

I do have some hearing loss and regularly get tinnitus so I do wonder if it's connected in some way.

I’m another one who just can’t make the right sound come out. I can hear it but not replicate it. Interestingly it’s only with music - I studied languages at uni, and am pretty good at UK regional accents, so I can control my voice, until it’s anything musical!

I can hear that what I sang is wrong, really wrong, but I cannot make it right, like a disconnect between my ears, brain and larynx

but along the same vein 😁😜 … so I speak 4 languages fluently and do not understand why people find language learning difficult, I can just hear it or read it and reproduce it and it sticks in my brain, so easy… why can’t everyone do it? 😇 😇

i mean people’s brains not all wired the same 🤷‍♀️

Snap @Greeniscalming 😁

Oooh OP - do you have perfect pitch? I’m fascinated by this. So if you see e.g a G written in music you can sing that? Is that awkward if you sing in a choir and they pitch up or down half a tone?

So I am not a terrible singer and am fine if surrounded by other singers. However, when (not if) I am occasionally off pitch I can absolutely hear it.

I can hear that I'm not quite right but I don't have full control over the notes that I am singing.

It is like dancing, I can see what I want to do but my limbs don't fully obey my brain!