Dec 7

Many people thinks they know how to sing but ,in reality, most of them need singing help. You can judge by listening to any Karaoke contest.  You will know immediately that some contestants don’t really know how to sing correctly. If you happen to be one of them, this singing tips might be able to help you.

1. Learn to control your breath
You may not know that the right breathing can affect quality of your voice.  Imagine that your body is like one big musical instrument. Air flowing from your lung to your mouth will produce the sound for this instrument.  You can play your instrument beautifully through your breathing.

You can practice breathing by do following exercise each day. Start by laying down your body on flat surface. Breath air into your lung until you feel that the lung touches the chest then release the air. Do it until you can do this breathing naturally when singing

2. Know your voice
Even we have same system of breathing. We are all different. Our bone structure or sex can make our voice different from others. You should learn which song is right for you. Most male will have tenor voice and most female can sing notes in a higher level because they have soprano voice.

3. Relax
This might be the most important singing help that I can offer. Singing is just like anything in life. The most perfect form usually comes naturally. The more you force your body to sing in the song your don’t like or the notes you are not accustomed to, the worse singing you will have.

Try to be relax. Release your shoulder and muscle to natural pose. You will be able to breath better and produce more powerful voice from your diaphragm.

4. Practice
Singing is like muscle building. If you don’t do it often enough, your performance will be come worsen everyday. Try to singing as much as you can. You can set some free time each day for singing with yourself or you can do it in your free time.

If you think about it, you have a lot of free time in your life. You can sing when you are waiting for your bus or cooking at your home. Make sure that you enjoy every moment of singing. After all, singing should be fun.

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Jan 10

 If you don’t have time and money for private singing course, you might want to try voice lessons online. The Internet has changed many thing in life including music learning. Now you can participate in online voice lessons by just watching online voice lessons instantly. 

In the past, we have to separate time between work and play. You cannot mix it together. The Internet has changed many things in our life including how we work and play. Now everything is mixed up in the big pot online society. If you know the right way to find, you can find almost anything on the Internet.

This plethora of information are not limited to only business side of your life. If you love to sing, Internet can bring you many valuable lessons to improve your singing skill. 

One common way to learn singing is to study with private voice coach. The price of these courses can be quite high especially if you consider to sing just for your pleasure. The Internet comes with the biggest change in media industries. Now, almost every information is free for everyone to enjoy.

You can find many good singing lessons from video websites such as YouTube and MetaCafe. Some of the guru in singing technique start to providing voice lessons online for free. They think that giving free lessons is the best option for them to spread awareness of their brand.

The bottom line is if you are looking hard enough you might be able to start getting free voice lessons on the Internet. Sometimes, you don’t have to pay for anything except your broadband fee.

Apart of video course on the Internet, there are a lot of learning material on the Internet to strengthen your singing skill. One of the best material are software that can help you practice singing at home.

Previously, you can find these singing software from only in big record company because it is too costly for individual to paid for it. But thanks to the Internet again, now we have a huge list of small software publisher that produce many high quality software to practice singing.

One of them, that I have used previously in the past is the software called Singorama. It is very good for people who start singing because it gives the reason why it is important to follow certain technique. It is just like having your private voice teacher at your disposal. 

Voice lessons online have come a long way. I cannot really imagine what would happen in voice teachers if they are not adapted to these new change.

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Jan 4

If you are rich and want to get the best singing help you can, you might interested in the course offered by Seth Riggs. Mr. Riggs is one of the most well-know voice trainer in music industries. He has helped many famous singers such as the late Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. He is also credited as vocal coach in Mr. Jackson’s last film (This is it).

He claims that his singing help service has help singers to get more than 120 Grammy awards. This is partly true. Stevie Wonder admitted on the stage that Seth Riggs is one of reason for his singing success. But Babara Streisand  who also receive the Grammy award visit Mr. Riggs one time and never return back to his class.

Most classical voice training used technique called Belt. This belt method will let your yell from your chest.  It use outer larynx muscle to produce the voice. 

Belter can produce powerful voice but it comes with the cost. The singer should not practice this technique too often because it can damage their voice. This might work with singer on the last century when they have only 1 show a week.

What about current superstar singer which have to sing everyday? Some needs to perform more than ten shows in a day. This belting technique could hurt their throat enormously.f

Seth Riggs come from show business background. So he understand how extensive of voice famous singer need to sing each day. He had introduced a singing help called speech level singing to his students. 

This singing technique is not new. He extends his work from Italian voice technique from seventeenth century. 

Speech level singing (SLS) avoid using outer muscle of voice box which can hurt your throat. It focus on the inner one which is more natural to singing and at the same time does not hurt your throat.

Because voice of superstar singer can cause a lot. It might be the most important property for their singing career. Seth Rigg’s method might be the most suitable singing help for this circumstance.

Due to his knowledge in vocal technique, he is also an advisor to physician specialize in voice disease. Someone might have nymph in their larynx and cannot talk easily. This SLS singing help might be able to help them.

He also teaches various class on singing techniques all around the world including in famous university such as Stanford University and UCLA

Like anything in life some method might work for one group but fail miserably on others. The same with Seth Riggs and his singing help. Whatever vocal technique you choose make sure that it really works for you.

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Dec 29

I think I agree with this concept. Feeling is an important concept
that makes singing more of an art.

via Free Singing Tips by singerii on 6/4/09


I started this blog speaking mostly on vocal technique, which I do think is paramount in creating a great singing voice. However, the BIGGEST, most important factor of improving your singing voice has nothing to do with vocal technique at all. It has to do with connecting with your audience. So, how do we do that? First, we have to understand the following phrase:

“Music is Emotion You Can Hear”

Each song you sing has a dominate emotion, and some songs touch on several emotions. It’s these emotions that make the piece the wonderful work that it is. Without that emotion tied to it, the song quickly becomes boring and fades out of our minds. This is why certain songs really touch you, even though you may not know why. This is why certain singers, though they may lack real talent (or even the ability to hit all their notes accurately) can still get a great response from the audience. People can feel what they’re singing, and that’s what counts most!

All that being said, right now you’re probably thinking, “So Ken, how can I make this happen?!?”

To Improve Your Singing Voice, You Must Connect with the Song, then Connect with Your Audience.

Many singers focus their practice time on learning the right words, accurately singing the melody, and making sure that they can nail that high note. These are all important things, but the reality is that doing this is only the first, most basic step of preparing a song.

To really have a kick butt performance, you’ve got to be able to sing with genuine emotion, sharing with others just how you feel, causing them to feel it too.

Have you ever noticed the person with the most dominate emotion in a room can bring everyone up or down with them? This is true of singers too, and let me tell you, that mic in your hand automatically makes you the dominate person in the room.

So think about it… what emotion are you contagiously sharing with others? Is it fear and discomfort? Is is excitement? Sadness? Passion? Joy? All you have to do is check in with your own feelings at the time and odds are this is how you’re making others feel. If you don’t believe me, do some study in psychology. You’ll find this can be scientifically backed up.

So what can we do to help this? First off, you have to get personally involved in the message of your song. Each song tells a story, and that story makes people feel a certain way. You may not be able to relate with the exact story of the song, but odds are you can connect with the emotion through some other experience in your life, so use it! Genuinely feeling the emotion of a piece will automatically help you express it better, helping you keep your  audience focused on you. 

Now, to take that even one step further, if the main emotion of your piece is sadness but you’ve got a smile on your face, your shoulders are confidently back and you’re bouncing around like Tigger, this is probably not going to be overly convincing to your audience because lets face it, in their eyes, you’re living a lie. The opposite is true as well (ie – the song is happy, but you look scared out of your mind).

So the way you present yourself has a tremendous effect on how others view your performance. This part is really hard for people at first because singing in front of a crowd can be really nerve racking, but I promise if you keep at it, refusing to give up, you’ll master it!

Long story short, in order to best improve your singing voice, you’ve got to make the emotions of your song come to life! This emotion should be made obvious through the words you say, how you say them and your body language. Master this art and every audience you get in front of will be putty in your hands.

I’m Ken Taylor, and I hope this singing tip helps you take your voice and performance to the next level!

Happy Singing!

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Dec 28

 If you are singers, one thing that you should find as much as possible
is good singing help or advice from expert singers. Unfortunately,not
all of these singing voice lessons require no payment. Some can be too
costly for new beginners like you. In any bad circumstances, there are
good news hidden inside. Yes, there are fine voice lessons that you can
listen for free. All you need to do is to go to the right people.

I am mentioning to your local place that you visit them every week
since you were born. You might know about this location already. The
local location where singing help require no money is your local choir.
Each week, each member of the local chorus will join together to make
that beautiful gospel. The quality of sound are surprisingly good.
Consider that this is a volunteered singing, I am surprised.

The reason that your local church is such a good place to begin is that
it is extremely near to your place. You have no reason to pass this
singing lessons because you must visit the church every week anyway.
The advices you will get from members of the choirs are priceless
resources. because most of the members are professional singers. They
should know what they are giving to you.

Practice is one of the most important activity you should do if you are
serious about your singing. By joining the local chorus, you will be
required to sing and practice every week. In some key ceremonies such
as Thanks Giving, you will be required to perform so often in one week.
The latest singing tricks such as speech level singing should help you
from this the busiest schedule in each year.

After a while, you will learn that these free singing voice lessons you
get from the choir are not enough. You will certainly look for newer
and advanced singing help from expert vocal teachers. There are many of
these trainers nowadays. So which teachers you should select? My
suggestion is you should not decide too quickly. Instead, you should
select the ones that offer free trial sessions. because fee for each
voice coach can be quite expensive. Hence, it is a good way to start
with the trial lessons first before make your decision. One added bonus
is you will have a chance to see various voice styles for free.

One idea to save money from voice lessons is to set up a group. You can
recruit people around you such as your relatives who also like to have
singing help as much as you. If the group is big enough, you can ask
for discount from your voice coach. Meanwhile, you can set specific
time that is right for your group as well.

The last resource that I highly recommend you to look for singing help
is the Internet. There are a lot of free voice guide online on the
Internet. Some video lessons can be really good for your singing
practice because you can follow the lessons visually.

Before getting good grasp in singing, ones need to know how to start
their first steps first. The same can be applied in singing. When you
feel that you are ready for the fundamentals, you can pay for paid
singing course. But first, you should begin with the free lessons first.

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Dec 17

 New singing methodologies are introduced everyday. Speech level singing is the latest singing technique that is popular among famous singers such as Beyonce and J-Lo.

One big advantage of this methodology over traditional one such as belting is safety of your throat. When you are practice belting, your voice will come solely from your chest. It’s like yelling so if you do this belting too often, you can hurt your throat which ,in turn, can hurt your voice.

Many professional singers try to avoid this yelling technique now.

Speech level singing does not create voice from only your chest. This technique will mix the voice from both of your head and chest. That’s why it’s called the mixed voice. When the voice go to you upper part, it will then be split into you mouth and head.

Have you ever wondered why you always have sore throat every time you sing powerful song. Why Michael Jackson can sing on so many concerts in one night without hurting his voice?

The fact lies in how MJ control his voice box inside his throat which is the key of speech level singing. There are two kinds of muscles in your voice box. The first one is outer and another one is inner muscle.

Most beginners like us will start to sing with their outer voice box muscle. The problem is the more we control their voice with the outer muscle, the tense of throat we will have. Eventually we will have sore throat. In the worst scenario, we won’t be able to sing again.

Learn to control your voice from outer larynx can eliminate this tense. In fact, if you do it correctly you will sing like when you do your ordinary activity like talking. Nature provides us better way of singing with this inner muscle. 

One added bonus of singing with your inner voice box is that it automatically force you to practice breathing. Because the key of this style of singing is to let you sing in your natural position as much as possible. You should be able to sing comfortably while you are breathing.

This breathing practice that you work on will give you enormous power later on. You will be able to sing with more power and long vocal range. So breathing is something that you should practice everyday. 

It might takes time for new singer to get used to this speech level singing. But if you think about the pain you won’t have in sore and the power of singing you will get, I this singing technique is worth a closer look.

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Dec 17

 

Inspired story from Hayley William

http://www.singinglikepro.com/celebrity-singing/hayley-william-singing-success-success-story

Dec 16

Singing voice lessons are just professional term for singing course. For any gifted singer ,who might have been on stage a few times, might wonder what kind of lessons is this and why they need them. If they are really serious and go to professional singing contest, they will discover one cold but truth fact.

Most of them will not even pass the first round of the contest.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that they can’t sing. The problem is that they don’t know enough about singing. There are various essential skills and techniques that all singers should learn such as singing vocabulary, tone, range of voice and so on.

Now come to the hard part of acquiring singing voice lessons. Most people who teach singing for living can charge their hour fee tremendously. It’s not surprise because they target professional singer who get paid a lot per show. But if you are really new to singing, I recommend you to stay away for any paid course first.

For beginner, I highly recommend you to join your local church choir. You will practice your voice every sunday. Since you will sing with a lot of people, people in the choir can pinpoint immediately which vocal range you are. Think of this as free voice coaching. For extra bonus, you will strengthen your relationship as well. 

After you feel confidence enough in your singing, you might interested to paid for singing voice lessons. Now, I don’t want you to just hop to any voice training class. You should make a smart move by choosing the one that let you try their lesson first. Not all voice teacher will give you this privilege though. Anyway, for the ones that provide this free lessons, try to see if you like their teaching style or not

One one to keep singing fee at minimum is to join the group of class. You can save a lot of money. But if you have money and really serious about this, you can attend one-on-one session.

The last resource to find singing voice lessons is on the Internet. There are huge number of singing course online. Some of them even give the software that can record your voice and suggest how to improve it. One way to find the right course for you is to read review of the course on the Internet or ask your voice training teachers which product they recommend.

 

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