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i want to learn how to sing better and it front of people
i love singing and i love songwriting. but i'm not sure that my voice is where i want it to be. there are no vocal coaches where i live but i am taking classes during school. all i want to improve on is volume,control,vibrato and how to stay in tune. so any vocal exircises that could help?
also i want to be able to sing in front of people.
thanks
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I have a huge passion for singing so I'm sorry this is way long. I'll tell you some things my teacher had us do in class, and what's worked for me. :)
Put your hands kinda on your waist but more towards the front. Stand tall with your feet about shoulder width apart, don't slouch. Be comfortable and loose as possible, relax yourself. Don't tilt your head up or down to far. Now, take a breath so that with your hands where I told you to put them, you can feel your stomach go out. If you feel your stomach go out, you're breathing properly from your diaphragm. :)
Obviously with proper posture you don't want to have your hands there, but just so you can learn how it feels to breathe from your gut if you haven't already.
If that's not working, lay down and place your hand on your stomach. Usually when laying down you breathe from there naturally, so you should be able to feel it move, and memorize how those breaths feel. I've gotten to the point myself that I never breathe so that my shoulders move anymore, so I'm sorry if that all isn't very clear.
Practice breathing exercises, something our teacher had us do was take the "superbreath" that I described above. He then told us to act like we're throwing a paper plane, and blow out until we're out of breath, trying to use our air to get it to the other side of the room. I kid you not, practicing proper breathing will help you so, so much. Even if you think you have it down, you can still improve. The more quickly and quietly you can get in a large amount of air, the better you will be. You will have more air to use to increase your volume, and loud, messy breaths than break the flow of the song will be eliminated. :)
Open your mouth wide, as in drop your jaw. You want an open, vertical shape usually, to get the best sound. You gotta have your mouth open or the sound has nowhere to go.
Control is something that comes with just singing, from what I've found. You just have to keep singing and keep singing so you strengthen your voice. It's like a little kid that can't control their feet well when walking 'cause they're not used to it. After years of just walking they get better at it, right?
I'm sorry I can't help you much with vibrato as it's always just came naturally for me. :/ I do know the better your control of your voice overall, the better your vibrato will be, though. At times my voice gets out of hand, and my vibrato is too strong at parts because I can't keep a hold of it. It's getting better with time though.
Staying in tune... Hmm... I would really, really suggest using a piano, even a digital online one, and singing and playing scales at the same time. Make sure you're matching your pitch to the notes you play.
As you get more comfortable, play the first few notes as you go, then stop playing along with yourself as you do the scale until you get to the last note. When you get to the last note, play it as you sing it and see how well you matched it. Are you sharp, are you flat? Just practice practice practice until you aren't sharp or flat. Hear the next note in your head, never guess where it is.
Not everyone has time to learn what the notes on a piano are if they don't know them already though, so if you're like that, sing along to your favorite songs. Sing karaoke. You've gotta be careful with your tempo doing this, but something I do is I'll start singing along with a song I know well. Then, I'll mute it/turn the volume down to 0 and sing for a bit, and when I turn it back up I can check if I've stayed in tune. This works best with those lyrics videos all over YouTube, for me. Record yourself singing something a capella, and see how it sounds. Does your voice drop lower or sneak up? Chances are if you pay close enough attention while actually singing you'll catch it then, too, if you know that you do it. You just gotta train your ear, is what our teacher said.
Singing in front of people is another thing that comes with that dreaded word, practice. I know it sounds like an easy out to say that, but start singing for someone you're close to. I started singing for my mother, first. Then I eventually sang for my friends once or twice. Then my friends and I sang for one another ALL THE TIME. Then I sang in front of lots of people, I just didn't care anymore because I'd gotten used to it with my friends.
The more you do it the more comfortable you'll be until eventually even singing in front of a room full of people won't be QUITE so bad. You have to love your own voice and treat it well so you're always in top form. Just remember that you love to sing, and keep in mind what you've learned during your hard work. Don't let nerves get the best of you so that you forget to breathe support your voice.
I was chronically, painfully shy. I couldn't even talk in front of people. But I got to where I could audition in front of people for a role in a play that they wanted too, with very little nerves. And I was the last to go! How'd I do it? I just remembered this--
You sound like you. You're not expected to sound like someone else. Yes, that girl in the pink sweater may have a sweet, light soprano or a rich, dark contralto, but that's not the only pretty voice out there. Just because your tone is different from someone else doesn't mean you're bad. So don't ever think that. I often get jealous of girls with high, tingly, husky voices. But in the end, my voice is just smooth, low, and gentle. But people still like it. And that's that. I can't change it much, so I have to accept it. :)
I'm really sorry that this is so long, I just poured out all my knowledge and didn't realize I'd gone on so long... Bottom line: Just keep singing.
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Always sing from your diaphragm, that's where you get all your volume and control from. Make sure you have enough air to support your notes, especially the higher ones because if your don't support those then they will go sharp or flat or,even worse, you will sound like a little kid. Open your mouth on vowels, especially e, to get a nice, full, mature sound.Staying on tune takes some practice you mostly have to know where the notes at and play it by ear so train your ear to recognize when something doesn't sound right. The best way to do this if you are learning a new song is to have you (or someone else if you don't know how to play piano) play the notes that you are going to sing on the piano a couple of times and sing through it so you know the notes and how its supposed to sound. Take the piano away and have another person listen to it. If it still sounds out of tune put the piano in until you have the pitches hammered into your brain. Good luck, hope I helped!(:
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