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As long as you are getting something out of the journey then it's worth it.
Yes, definitely. I started singing lessons last summer and it's been amazing. I've always sung, but badly, and got quite frustrated and depressed because of that. After a few lessons I'm not much more able to hold pitch, harmonise and generally be confident in my voice. Like @revsorg says, I'm 34 now but I wish I'd taken lessons years ago.
You might find that, at your age, you can't sing everything, but a good teacher will find your strengths and develop you towards them.
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The advanced stuff of getting vowel shapes correct and injecting personality into your singing. That comes later.
But people suffer from a weird kind of perfectionism when it comes to singing. They see someone like Adele, or Mick Jagger, or Freddie Mercury, or in my case Maynard James Keenan and Thom Yorke, and they don't realise that to get to that point is a series of stepping stones.
Everyone can sing. You just have to put the work in.
So there! I got a book on singing, one with an included CD, that I hope will help me. Hope to start it soon.
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Can't for the life of me play the guitar while singing it though. My life's ambition is to play an acoustic guitar and sing at an open mic. I'm not at that level yet but I actually now think it could happen one day.
As I have a pretty deep voice I am practicing with hurt by johnny cash with just single strums for the verse and 4 strums per chord for the chorus.
The single biggest hurdle for pretty much everyone I know (and I absolutely include myself in this) is all those years of telling yourself "I can't sing". Yes you can. But it's the same as anything else - you have to practice, and you have to learn how to use the instrument.
I think Drew's nailed it - too often we approach singing with a combination of unrealistic expectations ("everyone else can just sing brilliantly", "it's my voice, I should just be able to do this organically", "it should be easy and perfect first off") and total personal negativity ("I'm shit", "I can't sing", "My voice is hideous"). If you combine that with not having a clue what your range is, and therefore trying to sing things that you just physically can't it's easy to get despondent and just not try.
If you want to sing but are struggling, get recommendations for a good local teacher. Don't worry about the fact that you might sound like a frog with asthma who's on 60 a day - you're going to a teacher to learn not to show them how bloody marvelous you are already. If you can do it all, you don't need a teacher.
I could sing as a kid, then just stopped in my teens out of embarrassment, and as an adult was a bit of a disaster. Became thoroughly convinced I couldn't sing, and only had a limited range at an unhelpful pitch. Then circumstances forced me to put a bit of effort in, and I learnt that by practicing actually I could get by, mostly. Then for the last couple of months I've had lessons which have taught me that actually I have a pretty broad range, and whilst I'm naturally a bass I can edge it up into tenor without straining, and without going falsetto (in fact, my falsetto is something I need to work on). I also had fairly good natural breath control, because I could remember stuff an old girlfriend had said (opera singer) years ago but I didn't really know how to use it, and there are loads of other little adjustments, tips and tricks that make things that I thought impossible turn out to be quite easy and comfortable.
None of the above to blow my own trumpet - I genuinely thought I was pretty shit, and with a bit of a whack upside the head here and polish there, it turns out I'm actually quite passable. But I never would have known that, or benefited from the confidence it gave me, if I hadn't gone and got lessons from someone who knows their stuff.
My only* problems now are that my voice isn't really suited to a lot of the stuff I want to sing, and at jams you can't get the buggers to transpose things into singable keys
*OK, there are still a lot more problems than that!