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Singing
What and where are some tips to becoming a better singer? I want to be better for the 8th grade advanced chorus and school starts soon. Please help me
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Ahh! DO NOT SUCK IN YOUR STOMACH OR STICK OUT YOUR CHEST!!
You should always have good posture. Attain this by bending over to touch your toes and rolling yourself up and your shoulders back.
Practice sightreading. If you don't know what that is, it's reading music that you've never seen before and singing it. It helps to make you sing on pitch.
Also, I suggest learning a little about music theory so that you always know what is going on in the peice. Is there a crescendo? Mezzo di voce? A ritardando at the end? What is the tempo? If you can't answer these questions, a brush-up on music theory is in order.
Here is a great website for music theory: [Link](Mouse over link to see full location) .
Get a straw. Sit up straight, and have your feet on the floor-one slightly in front of the other. Try to do this in front of a mirror. Place the sraw in your mouth, and breathe in through the straw. Your back should widen as you breathe in, but your chest should not rise very much at all.
Say "sqeelo" (skweeloh) with an italian accent on one note and then move up and up until you hit the top of your range.
Sing, " Bumble bee-ee bumble bee-ee bumble bee-ee bumble-bee." Play this on the piano, starting on middle C, and play CE DF EG FA GB AC BD C. Play the notes similar to that pattern coming back down the scale.
Go to the higher part of your range and sing, " Ee-ooh-ee-ooh-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee," legato, full voice.
Here is a website full of tips and tricks. [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
I highly recommend the book Singing for Dummies available at Borders and at Barnes and Noble. It comes with a CD that is really great with warm-ups, which are always good to practice.
I hope I helped, and if you have more specific questions, plese feel free to ask!
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Well i was always told that when you sing to suck in your belly bc it gives your vocal cords a better sound and kinda stick you chest out a little. thats what my teacher told me.
hope i helped.
-lindsay
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Try not to sing so early in the morning especially if your voice isn't warmed up from talking and exercises. Don't drink as much cold water it will strain your vocal chords when you try to sing-drink room temperature. Hands should be at your side and shoulders shouldn't be stiff, so definetly stretch before. Open your mouth wider when singing-on those vowels it really helps. If you scream a lot try not to because that will make you damage your voice.
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Practice. As soon as you start singing with a group again your voice will start to sound better. I don't know if that makes sense. But the best advice i can give you is practice practice practice. Sing in the shower, sing while your driving (or being driven around), sing before you go to bed.
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