Showing posts with label singing 101. Show all posts
Showing posts with label singing 101. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Five Simple Tips To Help Improve Your Singing

Here are 5 simple tips from a brilliant singing coach,known as AussieVocalCoach, to help improve your singing abilities:
1. Deep Breathing
2. Good and Bad Tension
3. Vocal Coordination
4. Relaxed Articulators
5. A Daily Vocal System and Feeback

Check it out Below:


Friday, 7 January 2011

Simple singing Tips

sing like justin bieber
Learn the basic vocal techniques to sing like Justin Bieber

There are certain basic techniques that should be remembered and mastered by anyone who wishes to learn to sing like a professional, and they are presented to you in the video below. These tips are simple, but could lead to a drastic improvement in your singing ability if your technique isn't  right, or your coming from a background of no training.

SIMPLE SINGING TECHNIQUES COVERED IN THE VIDEO:

1. Posture
2. Breathing
3. Lip Drills
4. Body and hand Movements Exercise
5. Head Roll Exercise
6. Vocalization

Thursday, 11 November 2010

How to find out Your Vocal range.






Finding your vocal range:

People often ask "what is my vocal range" or "how can I find out my vocal range", to answer this question sing along to the notes played on the video above . Pay attention to the notes on the screen and write down the lowest and the highest notes you can sing. That will give you your vocal range If you need any help finding your vocal range just comment below telling me your lowest and highest noteand I'll reply as to what your range is.

What vocal type am I:

vocal fachs ranges table
Vocal  fachs

You can use the chart above to find out if you are a

  • Bass
  • Baritone
  • Tenor
  • Alto
  • Mezzo-soprano
  • Soprano

Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Why you shoud Warm Up before you Sing and Warm up techniques

Its incredibly important to warm up your voice before you sing because

  • It will relax your voice 
  • Stop you from putting undue stress on your vocal chords. 
  • Strengthen your singing voice
  • Reduce or removes the cracks and  breaks between registers
  • Make it easier to reach the extremes of your voice


Tips and explanations by vocal coach to the stars Brett manningof why warming your voice up before singing is so important



Below we have a quotation from The essential voice forum giving some advice on the matter;

Firstly, it's as important to gently stretch your vocal muscles by doing vocal warm-up exercises, just as it is important to stretch before any other form of physical exercise. A vocal warm-up will increase blood circulation to the vocal aparatus, thus enabling it to be more supple and flexible and helps to avoid muscle strain. Imagine trying to do the splits without first stretching your legs...

It's also important that you gently warm-up the entire vocal range. For example, if you are planning to sing a song that has many high notes in it and you only 'stretch' the vocal cords to the extent required to sing low notes (ie warming up using only the lower notes in your range), then the area of the voice or vocal cords that are engaged when singing higher notes, will not be warmed or stretched.
It's like stretching your toes and ankles and not your thighs and calf muscles, when you want to do the splits!

If you have been warming up the entire voice before you experience this strain, then perhaps it is a technical issue. Strain can be experienced for a variety of different reasons. A couple of these are:
1) When you are enagaging incorrect muslce groups or...
- you will feel a tightness or aching around your neck and throat
2) when you are not achieving complete cord closure
- you will hear a breathiness to the tone you are producing and will feel tired or 'achy' in your throat area.
3) When you have warmed-up in an agressive manner
- you will notice vocal fatigue and a huskiness to the tone. Your voice may even cut-out on particular notes.

The best way to warm up the voice is gently and progressively. The best exercises to use are ones that involve humming or singing on an NG sound (as in siNG) and focusing on small areas of the vocal range, from lower notes and then moving gradually up through your vocal range. It is also important to sing gently - ease the voice along and sing at a low volume (but be sure you are not singing with breathy tone).

Sunday, 7 November 2010

Singing 101: Explanations of the 4 vocal registers (Fry, Modal, Falsetto, Whistle)

The human singing voice is split into 4 distinct registers.
(1) Vocal Fry (the lowest)
(2) Modal
(3) Falsetto
(4) Whistle (the highest)
Each of these four registers has its own vibratory pattern, its own pitch area (although there is some overlapping), and its own characteristic sound. Below I will provide a short summary of each register with an audio example.

Vocal fry:
The vocal fry register is the lowest vocal register and is produced through a loose glottal closure which will permit air to bubble through with a popping or rattling sound of a very low frequency. The chief use of vocal fry in singing is to obtain pitches of very low frequency which are not available in modal voice. This register is not used that often in singing, and both men and women have been known to do so.


Modal:

The modal voice is the usual register for speaking and singing, and the vast majority of both are done in this register. As pitch rises in this register, the vocal folds are lengthened, tension increases, and their edges become thinner. A well-trained singer or speaker can phonate two octaves or more in the modal register with consistent production, beauty of tone, dynamic variety, and vocal freedom.


Falsetto:

The falsetto register lies above the modal voice register and overlaps the modal register by approximately one octave. The characteristic sound of falsetto is inherently breathy and flute-like with few overtones present. Both men and women can phonate in the falsetto register. The essential difference between the modal and falsetto registers lies in the amount and type of vocal cord involvement. The falsetto voice is also more limited in dynamic variation and tone quality than the modal voice.



Whistle:

The whistle register is the highest register of the human voice. The whistle register is so called because the timbre of the notes that are produced from this register are similar to that of a whistle or the upper notes of a flute, whereas the modal register tends to have a warmer, less shrill timbre. Women of all voice types can use the whistle register. With proper vocal training, it is possible for most women to develop this part of the voice.





Listen to Brett Manning demonstrate all 4 registers, as he hits notes in 6 octaves below.