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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How to Sing Properly, Without Pressure and Tension

People’s reactions will tell you if you sing no pressure and no tension because they are you measure of your success. If you fans satisfy your performance level then you are professional.

How can you get high quality voice and get excellent results if you have no constant practice? Follow the simple tips and do it with full of love.

Rehearsal

Do the entire basic vocal warm up exercises and spend 1 hour before you perform.
You can not sing properly if you miss to rehearse before performing. You use all your muscles to sing. Your voice is your instrument and those muscles are part of it. You must have regular body warm ups to make it as always in good condition.

Meditation

This technique is one way to release your stress. Problems and hatred will reduce and or kill your energy. So, take a deep breathe then close your eyes and imagine the things that you did to make people happy. And imagine yourself what will happen in your future career. Make your own success imagine that you are already successful.

Meditation helps your creativity develops. This will also helps you to be more unique person. And if you do this exercise in regular basis you will slowly know yourself well.

Choose a room or a place and sit alone in 5-10 minutes or more. And be sure no one will bother you. Close your eyes and imagine the wonderful moments of your life. Talk to yourself by asking questions, will help know better of who you really are.

Especially your weaknesses and strength is the most important to discover and accept it. Because of acceptance, when you encounter critical issues regarding your performance, you are happy to hear it and willing to change for good.

This technique is excellent to do before you perform in any events. To make your body relax you can sing well and give the meaning of the songs easily.

Smile

Show a big smile to the fans, have an eye to eye contact! If you smile, your mouth is in the relax position, when some one is asking you a question you are always ready to answer slowly but surely.

Don't show to everybody that you are tense or feel nervous by showing a sad face. Breast out and stomach in it indicates that you are confident and by showing your body language you let them know that you are prepared for the battle and willing to do everything no matter what happen.

In your big smile, you show their satisfaction of your performance. Your smile symbolize to your fans that you are ready to forget their problems.

Don’t think too much

Oh you are conscious of your outfit! Remember, your fans are waiting to hear your voice not the dress you wear. And also there are times, that you sing in pronto or actual but you don’t have warm up. To forget the worries is simply taking a deep breathe and smile.

If you are focusing negative views, your performance is affected. You are there to sing with all your heart use the power of positive thinking! Do it and expect the best! Accept whatever happen and always end your day joyful.

On the other hand, over excitement can cause stress and you energy level will be reduce. Keep calm is what matters most.

Be natural

Show your originality by using your own techniques and styles in singing. Be sure that is 100% original. Don’t act like any one. Be yourself is necessary. People will love you how you entertain them. Be sure to be a good person. Aim to make your fans be happy. Good luck!


Last updated: April 16, 2012

Sunday, September 7, 2008

What Are Basic Vocal Warm-Up Exercises

Before going to be an expert, you must start with the basic. It is always an advice to have warm-up exercise before singing. It is like when you wake up in the morning you warm-up your body to prepare for the work.

Here are the basic tips of vocalize your voice;

Inhale and Exhale

Wherever you are you need air for the reason of staying alive. And this will help to release stress. It is important to know how to inhale and exhale properly so that it stabilize the air going in and out and it is easy to breathe when singing.

To inhale is to breathe the air, it is better to breathe through your mouth because there is more air to go inside. Practice using inhaling through your nose, it is also important. To implement a proper inhale exhale, start to inhale slowly while your chest to your back will expand and then exhale the air slowly until you will feel light. Repeat this exercise many times at least 10 times.

Shaking hands

After Inhale exhale, shake your hands Down and Up 10 counts each. This exercise will always refresh your muscle from previous exercise. And also it release from nervous or tension.

 Brrr while using do-re-mi-fa-sol scales sound

This exercise will help relax and warm-up your lower and upper lips. You know the note sounds do-re-mi-fa-sol then sol-fa-mi-re-do just sing the sound of the sol-fa syllables but your word use must be brrrrrrr.


A E I O U
Basic vowel sounds are very important, there are lots of vowel sounds but these five are always use. Form any words that start with A-E-I-O-U and then sing it with so-fa syllables. Like for instance, MAMA.

 Look at the image and play it with your keyboard and then sing using the lyrics mah mah. After the C major key make another scale D major it has two sharps fa and do and then make another key E major and so on.




 Play this image in your keyboard and sing with the lyrics a-e-i-o-u. Sing the A scales without cutting of breathe, and then breathe before singing the E scales and so on.
This exercise helps your pronunciations very clear and it helps your mouth open properly.

Do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ci-do

While familiarizing the note sounds you also do vocal warm-up. It is better to memorize the sound of sol-fa syllables because it improves your pitch. It is important to sing perfect pitch because it is a requirement to be professional singer.
Pitch is important than vibrato.

Smile

Sometimes you forgot to smile when you are in the middle of nervous and cramming. There are times, you sing on the spot and keep in mind to smile. Especially when you sing high notes because when you smile your mouth open naturally.