This article is written for girls who want to learn how to sing better. This will help you regardless of whatever singing style you prefer singing in - pop, rock, RnB. Should you be interested in how to sing better for guys, click HERE. BREATHING: Breathing during singing is very much different from normal breathing. Normal breathing starts from the chest and is very effortless. However when singing, you need to start your breathe from your diaphragm, the place right below the ribs. You should be able to fill your stomach with much more breathe than normal. This breathe is what gives your voice support and the power you need to reach and hold your notes. Another way of training diaphragmatic breathing is to practice hissing out breaths. Breathe in for 8 counts and feel your abdomen expanding, and hissout 8 short hisses and 1 long hiss. You should feel your abdominal muscles pushing out with each hiss. This trains your breath management skills as well as you need to sustain through all the hisses. Once you get comfortable, begin adding in more counts of hisses to gain more stamina and endurance in holding longer notes when singing. You must be careful not to use up too much air to prevent your voice from being airy - more air expelled instead of your voice. This is a result of lack of diaphragmatic control. Having good breath management contributes to having good 'support', which is the ability to produce notes with good tone. A supported voice is sounds full and not breathy. STRENGTHEN YOUR MIXED VOICE: Most girls switch to their head voice somewhere from A4 - C5. What you need to focus on is to prevent yourself from switching to your head voice along these notes although it is more comfortable to do. To belt or sing high notes, you will need to focus on strengthening your mixed voice - a mix between the chest and head voices. Although some people believe that only some people are born with the ability to sing high notes, this is not true. With proper technique and exercises, we are all able to access the mixed register which makes singing high notes EFFORTLESSLY. Here are some exercises to identify and strengthen your mixed voice. Do note that your mixed voice may sound strange and uncomfortable at first. You will feel like your voice having both qualities of the head and chest register, which it resonates both in the nasal cavity and in the head as well. Your vocal chords are also getting used to mixing between your chest and head voice and it is likely to find your mixed voice airy for certain notes. It will get stronger with more practice. Like more of such tips or looking for a online vocal coach? Check out my review of the online singing programme that I'm using right now
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This article is written for guys who want to learn how to sing better - a general guide applicable regardless of whether you're looking to sing pop, rock or even the blues. Should you be interested in how to sing better for girls, click HERE. FIX YOUR POSTURE: Many singers fail to realize how much their postures affect the sound they produce. A hunched shoulder or raised neck encourages strain in the voice and loss of control of support. Generally, you want to keep your entire body relaxed while keeping your body aligned. Head: Keep your head parallel to the floor, avoid pushing upwards up when singing high notes or pulling downwards when singing low notes. Shoulders: Keep your shoulders relaxed but not hunched. Shoulders and rib cage should not rise when breathing as it prevents optimal usage of the diaphragm when singing. Hands: Keep your hands loose and at the sides of your body. One common mistake singers make is clenching of the fists which translates into tension in the voice. Back: Back should be in a normal standing position, not hunched over or hunched back. Doing so will make it hard and tiring to sing. Abdomen: Your abdomen will expand as you breathe with your diaphragm, hence you should keep it relaxed. Knees: Keep your knees unlocked and slightly bent. Locked knees will inhibit your back from expansion during breathing. Toes: Keep your feet shoulder width apart and your toes pointed at a 45 degree angle. One feet should be placed slightly forward then the other as it helps to keep your weight forward. DEVELOP YOUR MIXED VOICE: The number one problem guys have when singing is high notes. Most of your high notes which you seem to have reached effortless when you were young are no longer reachable due to puberty(ARGH!). The only solution to this is to train your mixed voice. Our voice is separated by 3 registers - the lower chest voice, the mixed voice, and the head voice. Our chest voice is what you use to sing your lower notes and sounds similar to our speaking voice. Our head voice or better known as "falsetto" is characterised by airy, feminine and weak voice we use to fake our high notes. The mixed voice is essentially a mix between this chest voice and head voice. To develop a mixed voice, one has to first find the mixed voice, then gradually strengthen it. A simple exercise to develop the mixed voice is to sing to "GUG" in arpeggios. Do note that your mixed voice may sound strange and uncomfortable at first. This is natural as your vocal chords are getting used to mixing between your chest and head voice. It will get stronger with more practice. NEUTRALIZE THE LARYNX: Lots of guys are guilty of raising their larynx when singing high notes and dropping it when singing low notes. The larynx is basically the voice box, the organ which houses our vocal chords. When we move our larynx, our neck muscles tense up and produces unnecessary strain on vocal chords. This results in a strained and thin tone produced in our singing. To prevent this, we need to keep our larynx in a neutral position when singing. Like more of such tips or looking for a online vocal coach? Check out my review of the online singing programme that I'm using right now. |
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