HELP me WITH my SINGING please?

Question

I would really appreciate it if someone could help me with my sing, i need some excellent warm-ups, techinques, and tips on how to sound better when i sing, please help and be specific like actually write down how to sound better, the techinques and warm-ups, please this is important to me, i really need help....

Answer 1

Here's a technique for warming up. See the source below for more tips.

The mission of a warm up is to turn you from non-vocal status into a smokin' singing machine. To arrive at maximum potential, you've got to allow enough time to deal with stubborn tensions and coordination issues. A good way to begin warming up is with a hum. Keep your lips together but let your jaw hang down so your teeth are separated. At a very low volume, let your voice find the pitch that requires the least amount of energy to produce. The hum should tickle your lips. Sustain this note for as long as comfortable and repeat with long slow relaxed breaths in between. Test other notes in the neighborhood and see if they can be hummed as easily. Don't test the range just yet; the goal is to make the voice feel good first.

Next, change the single note hum into a three note melody. Start on your original easy pitch and let the voice rise up three notes and then come back down three notes. Use this simple melody to become aware of any behavior issues. Are you humming the high note as easily as the others? The littlest inconsistency is worth correcting; it will only become a bigger problem when singing. Keep repeating the melody until all three notes feel exactly the same. Once this is achieved raise the starting note of the melody and explore your range. Remember: K.I.S.S. Don't complicate the process by doing to do too much too soon. Let the voice come to you.

When humming feels slippery, it's time to move on. With the word "me," sing a five note scale (1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1) placing the "M" on steps 1, 3, 5, 3 and 1 (ME-EE-ME-EE-ME-EE-ME-EE-ME). This should sound smooth; not choppy. Singing this way allows the vocal folds to assume a little more load while still retaining the advantages of a hum. Watch that your air does not dump out while making the EE. Always let the voice crack and blank out on high notes rather then push them. Let the registers change reflexively, never adjust your face or increase the volume to avoid head voice or falsetto. Give things time to coordinate. Hang around awkward areas with a focus on keeping your behavior simple. Switching the EE vowel to an AH (MA-AH-MA-AH-MA-AH-MA-AH-MA) will increase the work load at the folds even more, but wait until the EE is responding well before doing this.

A good indicator that you are warmed up is an independent tongue and jaw. To encourage this, let your jaw hang open and place your index finger on your chin. Using the same five note scale above, alternate between AH and EE vowels without moving the chin (AH-EE-AH-EE-AH-EE-AH-EE-AH). Your finger is there to remind you to let the tongue do the moving - not the jaw. Just the rear portion of the tongue needs to rise to pronounce an EE; you don't need to spread your mouth or smile. When this action becomes easy you should increase the speed. Make sure you don't drive harder - singing fast does not require fast air. Only after you are able to access your entire range without pushing should you explore singing louder. Gradually increase the volume of these scales until you reach what you'll need on stage. Watch for volume-based tensions creeping in. Slowly roll your shoulders and move your head around while vocalizing to make sure you don't get locked up.

If you would like to hear what these exercises sound like, there is a download available of this routine at http://www.getsigned.com/page/GMM/PROD/BAXWARMP3. The advantage of warming up with this audio guide is not to imitate me but to help stay focused on the simple goals. There is only one question to answer when warming up. Is the sound you're making easy to produce? That's it. If the answer is yes you get to move on. Try something a little more challenging. If the answer is no you should address whatever is making things difficult. It's important to begin this process around mid-day; even if you're at work. You can't spend an hour or two on your voice if you're due on stage in ten minutes. There's no need to worry about over-warming if you stay focused on flexibility. So, if you're into making resolutions make this the year you adopt a new approach to singing. The more time you spend gently preparing the longer you'll be able to sing afterwards. You'll never burn out if you remember my little twist on K.I.S.S: When warming up the voice, "Keep It Slow & Simple".

Answer 2

Hi.... I'm 17 and actually a band geek but I also took some choir as well. Not to mention, singing and playing a wind instrument are very similar.
1. Breathing. When singing, breathe from your diaphragm... not your chest! This is how to get the correct sound and not to airy or falsetto tone.
2. Posture. Singing is wonderful for a developing child, but i'm not sure if you are a child or not so yeah... basically make sure to keep your chin up while singing and stand straight and not slouch. Music teachers get fussy about that... believe me!
3. Pitch and ear techniques. For a good, simple warm up... work on your pitch and ability to hear and match for say. For example, if you have access to an instrument such as a piano (keyboard) or even guitar, hit one note and try to make your voice match it as perfectly as possible. This will help you sing with others... matching with others and music is the key. You may look into understanding intverals (how far one note is from another) and being able to sing those alone.
4. Do scales. A great warm up which is easy is a scale. Start with one note and keep going up until you hit 8 notes away from where you started. Be sure this is in a one note interval. For example, if you know the first three notes of yankee doodle just keep going up five notes after and you've got it.
5. Pronounciation. Make sure you pronounce things clearly. A lot of the time if someone asks you what you are doing it comes out, "Whatcha doin?" or something like that. it's "What are you doinG" (emphasis on the G, people like to forget that)
6. Breathing. When holding a note for a long amount of time (four or five measures) it's tempted to gasp for air seeing that you've been deprived for a couple seconds but DON"T! Breathe in slowly this way you don't get light headed and lose sound.
7. Take care of your voice. Drink water, not soda. You may feel adventurous and add a drop of honey and or lemon in some weak heated tea as well. Also, if you've been singing for more than an hour, don't talk for a little while. For example, if you've been singing for an hour and you pick up the phone to call a relative in Asia (hypothetically) you probably shouldn't. Your voice is produced by a muscle and needs to take a break every once and a while.
Hope I helped.

Answer 3

there are a lot. Seeking a vocal coach would really help so that they can show you. Breathing is very important you need to know how to breath correctly while singing. You use your diaphram to sing better. First breath thorough your nose make sure that you are sitting straight up or standing if you are correctly using your diaphram your stomach which push out and when you inhale it will come in. One warm-up I find helpful is to put my lips together and blow air making them buzz. start with your lowest range pick a note start there and work your way up. Never ever start with a higher range. There are lot more you can do with a piano but I'm not exactly sure what cords you use. I think seeing a vocal coach will help you extremely.

Answer 4

this is all good advice, but I think you need to go and have your own voice lessons with a real live teacher.
All the on-line help in the world does not replace the one-on-one attention that you receive there. Knowing the theory is good, but singing is, in its own way, a minor sport, and needs to be trained. No one learns how to slam dunk from the armchair!
Your local church or school choir leader may be able to give you references, or the people that sing in those groups who also take lessons may know who might fit your personality and pocketbook.
Be picky when you choose a teacher. Don't go for someone who offers you instant success. Don't go for someone simply because they charge the most.
Don't go for someone who isn't flexible in the methodology to listen to who you are and what you need. Do find someone that other students enjoy going back to. Do find someone who is interested as you the person, and not just you the money source. Do find someone who loves singing for its own sake.
Best wishes and keep on singing

Answer 5

From my years of vocal training, the things I remember the most about warming up were the scales... just singing scales up and down the keyboard to weird sounds like "ba ba ba" or "ta ta ta" or "tee tee tee"... it sounds funny but those sounds actually help open up your airway and give you a more full sound and not such a breathy one. Also, try stretching your range this way... starting very low and going as high as you can... to see what your range of octaves is... Always remember to sing from your diaphram (or stomach) not through your nose... I think that is a common mistake that many new singers make. Happy singing!

Answer 6

The BEST advice I have for you is to learn how to BREATHE properly in order to sing. I can't stress the importance of this enough. I have no idea what level you are at in your singing, but no matter what breathing is absolutely essential for a good singing foundation. Most people breathe really high so that their shoulders move upwards when they take a breath in. But the healthiest most effective way of breathing is deeply to the bottom of your lungs. This allows your body to use the air with the most efficiency and productivitiy so that you are SUPPORTING your sound with your air and NOT your jaw, tongue, or neck muscles. By singing incorrectly, you will greatly shorten the life of your vocal chords as they are a body part as any other that can get damaged and deteriorate from mis-use. For instance, do the following to understand your body and breathing better:

- Lay on your back with your knees bent and head supported with a small pillow. Place a heavy book right below your belly button. Take a deep slow breath in focusing on the weight of the book. This is the place you should feel fill up when you inhale. Exhale on a slow ssssssss. In doing so you are learning how to breathe most productively and efficiently.

- Continue laying on the ground, but put your legs flat. Take a LOW deep breath in and then exhale slowly on sssss while bringing your knees slowly to your chest. Can you feel those muscles below your belly button working? These are the correct muscles you need to use in order to sing properly.

You can undo any shaking in the jaw, tongue tension, popping veins in the neck, etc. by breathing deeply and then using this air to put your sound in your MASK. The MASK consists of all of those really great empty spaces where you get sinus infections! Your face is very hollow behind your cheek bones, eye sockets and forehead. You have your own personal stage to sing on!! This means when you breathe in and then exhale using the lower abdominal muscles to support your sound you can use those spaces to RESONATE your sound without over exerting all of the wrong muscles that will put very uncomfortable and detrimental stress on your tiny vocal cords. I hope this helps as a start... please feel free to contact me for any other info and warm-ups. I love talking about singing!! :o)

Answer 7

YOU NEED A GOOD TEACHER IF YOU ARE EVEN REMOTELY SERIOUS ABOUT SINGING!!

no one can(or should) tell you what to do with your voice without actually hearing you( the type of voice you have, your weaknesses and strengths, etc...), if you really are serious about singing and don't want to make damaging mistakes, look for someone in your area to teach you the proper methods. trying to learn it on Yahoo Answers is really quite foolish.

Report me, but I have to do this...
tasop: Give me a break already!!!
Endr: Stick with whatever you like, just don't pretend you know anything about music or singing, Pleeeease!!

Answer 8

Hot honey lemon tea clears up you throat making your voice much stronger , also always sing from you stomache, don't just blurt out the song.

Answer 9

Send me a sound clip of you singing, and I will gladly listen to it and tell you what I think you need to do.