!!!####I NEED HELP WITH My VOCALS#####!!!!!?

Question

i practice everyday, but i don't seem to be getting better, i drink plenty of water, but i still need help, what are some tips you have for me, breathing, scales, how to hold a note!! ps, i can't afford a voice coach. please someone help!!!!

Answer 1

What you want to do is use as little breath as possible when singing - don't waste your air. If you keep your shoulders down when you breathe in and try to swell your rib cage with breath, then practice letting it out slowly. Next do the same thing with the vowel sound "Eeee" and hold it as long as you can. Practice each vowel sound individually and do all your scales with each vowel sound. Then try mixing them up in your scales, like EEEOOOAHAH. What you want to do is get all your vowels in the same place of resonance that sounds good and gives a pleasant "color" to your tone, that doesn't change with every different vowel sound. To hold a note, try to sing with a nasally sort of sound - it won't come out sounding nasally, but it will use less breath than if you push with your throat.

Answer 2

when you sing, don't sing through your nose. If you've heard people sing and they sound like they have a cold or something it's either because they do or they're singing with a "head voice". Do not do this unless you're supposed to.

Don't drink soda, coffee, or milk. Milk makes a coating in your throat and doesn't help your singing and caffeine is just not good. Stick with water or juice.

Take deep breaths that come from your diaphram rather than just your lungs. Make sure that your shoulders don't move when you inhale; you want your chest to move instead.While you sing you may find it helpful to kinda push on your diaphram. To control your breathing, take deep breaths in for 2 counts, then out 2. or In 4, out 2. In 8, out 4. In 1 out 8. etc....just mix up the numbers)

For scales just do scales on a piano and try to hit the note you play.

Good luck!

Answer 3

How is your breath support? Are you using your diaphram or are you singing from your throat? Save up the $15 or $20 it usually cost for 1/2 hour of a vocal coaches time and get some advice based on your voice. It is nearly impossible to give you any advice unless I can hear you do it to see where you need improvement.

Answer 4

It's hard to get better without a voice teacher. Mine's cheap---only thirty dolla a month. Just ask around and see if you can find a cheap one. If not, join a local choir or something.
If all else fails, you can always do research on singing at the library.
Or listen to your favorite singers and incorporate all your favorite things about their voices into your voice.
Some technical things I learned from my voice teacher:
-Raise the soft pallet. That's like when you yawn. Your hard pallet is the roof of your mouth. Your soft pallet is the soft part behind that, that if you touch you gag.
-Support with your diaphragm. Flex your abs, and take deep breaths. That takes practice as well. Breathe so you can see your stomach move out, and not your shoulders move up.

Most everything in singing relies on how well you're supporting your voice and how you're breathing.

Answer 5

You must be able to hear it before you can sing it. Try listening to different styles of singing and then emulating the artists as closely as possible. Also, holding pitch can be learned by using an inexpensive chromatic tuner with a built in microphone (about $25) like those used to tune acoustic instruments. Watch the indicator as you rehearse holding various notes. You might be surprised at how easily it is for the voice to go off pitch but will have a visual indicator to help you know when it is happening.

WK

Answer 6

In addition to all the good advice here....
Open up the back of your throat when you sing, and use your mouth as a vocal resonance chamber. To get an idea of how this feels...yawn....feel how the top part of the back of your throat lifts up? Try physically to lift that part of the throat when you sing...with practise you'll begin to feel the vibrations of your voice and will gain much better control of your sound.

The other thing is...make sure to enunciate...don't clip consonants of the end of words...especially after long notes. This will improve your clarity and tempo and will give an overall 'polished' feeling to your performance. Good luck.

Answer 7

To make the most of your air, breathe deeply into your pelvic area, and sing as if you're trying to not use any air, hold back your air. Of course that's impossible, but if you sing with that feeling, your breath will last so much longer. In short, this is just a way to make sure you don't waste any of your air and harness it by engaging your abs.

Answer 8

a great way to open up your vocals for hitting clear notes is to do the warm ups, you can download warm ups from limewire or one of those services just type in:

vocal warm-ups

AAH EEE AAH EEE AHH EEE AAH EEE AAAAAHHHH

works great!

drink plenty of herbal teas and stay away from dairy foods because it causes flem in the throat and keeps you from hitting the notes.

Answer 9

Hot tea!

Answer 10

sing opera!