tavasti wrote:My personal point of view:
1) my voice, It's not that good. Try to make nice song when vocalist sounds like bull kicked to b*lls.
I think that this is the main reason most players don't sing, they think their voice sucks. But you have to practice to get better, just like you did on whatever instrument you play. The first stages usually sound pretty bad, but if you practice you improve. Singing takes practice too.
There's your voice, and there's singing. Many singers don't have "good" voices but they sing just fine, and a "good" voice doesn't necessarily equate to a good singer.
2) Lyrics: I don't want to make song of meaningless rubbish. On the other hand, don't want to give out too much of personal things. Then what's left?
I tell my students to get a local newspaper and write songs about people and events they read about there. E.g., take a person's obituary and create a song about their life, real or imagined. Ditto for an event or other news item, you don't have to be accurate, just be creative.
Writing lyrics, just like playing and singing, improves with practice. Initial efforts are rarely impressive, skill in any endeavor takes time to acquire.
3) Actual singing some melody, I think I can quite decently sing along on someone else singing, but when creating that melody by myself, harder. Can't create melody for vocals on the fly, like I create rifss/melody for guitar.
Music critics sometimes refer to the "melodic gift" of certain composers. It does seem that some writers are better at melodies than others. Nevertheless, you can get better at writing melodies, again by simply practicing writing them, a *lot* of them.
And how to solve these?
1) Stay on punk / something like that where sounding bad is ok
Fine, if the genre fulfills your expectations as a musician.
2) ???
See above.
3) Create vocal melody with synth, maybe then with vocoder / autotuner for experimenting, then sing along with it. Not tested will it work for me, hopefully have time to experiment with it following few months.
That's as good approach as any. Keep it up, try other things if you need a break, but keep at it. I can't say for sure that practice will get you there, but I can say for sure that *not* practicing will definitely not get you there. Find a method you enjoy, stick to it, improvement will come.
HTH,
dp