Ways to improve your singing voice?

Question

What are some good ways to improve your singing voice?
also do you think the brett manning program is a good way to go about improving your voice?

yeah i know get a teacher. i have one. but if my dad doesn't find a job soon im loosing them.

Answer 1

i can't say anything about anyone's teaching tapes or what not but i know that the best way to improve is to have someone teach you. regardless of the style you are trying to sing, if you sing classical style it will help everything else.

the things that people see as impressive are actually easy if you are classically trained. that's a little bit of a secret. what people don't realize is it's much more difficult to stay singing on a single pitch than it is to do all that freestyle stuff that impresses people.

for expanding your range, you might be surprised to know that singing with good technique in the middle of your vocal range is the best way to expand.

join a vocal ensemble if you can, also this helps.

who to sing: (my personal suggestions)
franz schubert
robert schumann
johannes brahms
w.a. mozart
and anybody with the last name Bach

Answer 2

Singing is something that everybody can learn and improve. Of course, some are more naturally skilled than others, but even a poor voice can be overcome by dedication, practice, and more practice. Even if you're content to sing in the shower, there are some things you can do to improve your voice. This is probably the best online course to improve your singing skills https://tr.im/0bdt8
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Answer 3

warming up and vocalizing are the best ways of starting out.
Any athlete needs a warm-up period to make sure his body ( ours is our instrument) is ready to go. Vocal exercises "scales" are helpful, because they teach us how to manage all the interesting places in our mouths and throat which are responsible for turning the raw sound generated by our vocal cords into something that we like to listen to. Without becoming acquainted (knowledgeable) about what we do and why, we tend to abuse what we have.
As far as the program you mentioned,
I don't know it, so I can't offer you an opinion. I will say that I'm old-fashioned enough to want the one-on-one attention of a real live voice teacher, and not someone's pre-ordained approach, where one size is supposed to fit all.
Best wishes
and keep on singing

Answer 4

if you can't be arsed to go find a singing teacher, go get a sound recording device and record yourself singing. try and listen to your voice subjectively so you're listening to it as you would do somebody elses' singing and then try and improve the bits that don't sound so great.

Answer 5

at school, prior to practicing in choir, we have what we call vocalization, wherein u slowly vocalize increasing the note as u go and i think u can do it by yourself, then keep singing high note songs

Answer 6

Simply humming helps a lot, it gets the vocal cords good and warm.

Answer 7

I once had a indian classical singer friend - she swallows butter (yes butter) with water as a first thing everyday morning. apparently they think it smooths the sound tract.