Resource Topic: Beginners
In this lesson we are going to look at you finding the genre that suits your voice. I like to work with the authenticity of individual singing voices. Brass instruments have their own individual sounds. There’s no point in trying to make the trombone sound like a trumpet. We are all unique...
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The human voice is made up of tones and textures. The goal to finding what styles your voice can sing in comfortably, is the key at the start of learning to sing. There’s no point in choosing a song that is way above your capability. In the beginning the simpler the better. It is easier to work...
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Great ways to loosen those vocal chords before singing. Warm up the vocal chords and control your breath – L2. Stand feet shoulder width apart. Without your shoulders rising breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. Tummy should expand as you breath in. Breath in through the nose...
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Vocal pitching and key is a very important part of being a singer, because even if you have a beautiful vocal tone, you can sound terrible if you are off key for the song that you are singing. Having the correct pitch when singing is certainly a very basic requirement, and is one of the first few...
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We have a singing student who comes into class and is always too afraid to sing out loud. She has anxiety problems, and she gets very stressed out whenever she is asked to do something, or to show me what she has been practising at home, or even just to sing a simple major scale.
As such, she...
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We had the honour of teaching a group of talented singers and singing teachers. Their voices were suffering after every long day of teaching and coaching at schools, and the worst case was when some of their coaches had hoarse voices for weeks on end, after their busy or intensive teaching stints!...
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How do you sing without any tension in your voice? Now it is true that some styles of singing require less stamina than others and therefore can be accomplished with less strength training. In other words, singing a light pop song requires very little “strength” in the sound, whereas singing...
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There are many ways to help chill out before singing. For example you can stretch down on the floor and put an object on top of your stomach. The goal here is to make the object jump up and down as you breathe in and out. Achieving this means your diaphragm is descending. It is important to do an...
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We get asked this question from singers all of the time – I want to sing higher, or how do I sing lower? This is the gauge of the extent of pitches that a human voice can vocalize. It is used as one of the major elements involved in determining a person’s voice type. Voice types for females...
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If you’re a singer, there’s a big chance you’ve heard and/or practised a scale or two in your time. A random word spoken/shouted/sung along with a colourful succession of notes, over and over, and over and over, and over and over, again. Just in case clarity is needed for the last sentence:...
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Great singers not only know how to sing well, but they are even better listeners than you would think! This is because when we sing, we need to also listen closely to and monitor our singing pitch, making sure that our vocals are in tune with the key of the music or song accompaniment.
Basic...
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Pitch is certainly one of the Basics of Singing, and these pitching tips will help you to correct your pitching through the use of a variety of techniques involving some aural training as well as actual singing! When we sing in pitch, we are usually employing 3 kinds of techniques:
1. Knowing...
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So why should you take a certified music teacher training course? Well for a start, you’ll attract more students when they know your approved to teach with ‘Become A Music Teacher‘. You will...
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Speaking and singing with dry vocal folds often results in vocal problems such as voice breaks, excessive throat clearing (which further irritates your vocal folds), loss of volume control or range, vocal fatigue, and voice loss. A person who doesn’t make a lot of demands on his or her voice might...
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One of the basic musical skills that a singer must have, is the ability to sing musical intervals. So what are musical intervals? Well these intervals are actually derived from the musical scales that most singers, if not all, know about. For example, the major scale, minor scale, pentatonic scale...
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