248 How To Improve Your

Singing Voice - How To Train

Your Voice
Living a fit and active lifestyle is a growing trend in the United States. More and more people are
becoming aware of the great and necessary benefits of being active and caring for their bodies through
fitness, exercise, and diet. These benefits include lowering the risk of disease in many ways, as well as
boosting mood and energy. But did you know that living a fit and active lifestyle is also and essential
key to learning how to improve singing?

Professional singers know that as a singer, their body as a whole is their instrument, not just their vocal
chords, or lungs, or diaphragm, but the whole body! Exercise and fitness is the way that professional
singers care for their instrument and insure that their voice is at its highest quality. Let's look at
different ways that fitness, or lack thereof, can impact your singing voice.

1. The Impact of Excess Weight.

There are many medical complications that can arise from carrying excess weight, however, as it
pertains to singers, excess weight can have several affects. Excess weight can alter the ability of a
vocalist to singer with proper breathing technique. This is probably the largest and most important
negative affect of excess weight because breathing is the key to a quality voice in any singer. Power,
Projection, Tone, and Clarity are all results of proper breathing. When a person carries excess weight,
this can have a direct impact on the ability for them to expand and contract their diaphragm and fully
engage their lungs in bringing in and expelling air. Excess weight can be the cause of shallowing
breathing or allowing the breath to enter into the chest cavity- both of which will cause a weak
vocalization with inconsistent pitch and tone.

Excess weight can also prevent some people from fully engaging in proper posture. Maintaining proper
posture is essential to the quality of your singing voice.

In addition, excess weight most often impacts a vocalist's confidence. Confidence is a key component
to being a successful performer regardless of the occupation. Especially in singing, confidence in your
ability to sing the abilities of your vocal register is important in selling the music you are performing.

2. The Impact of Weak Muscle Tone.

Weak muscle tone is often a by-product of a sedentary lifestyle. This can impact a vocalist on many
levels. Weaker muscle tone can lead to poor posture as alluded to above. Weak muscle tone can be
especially detrimental to those vocalists who perform regularly in most active and upbeat venues or
where an instrument may also be played by a vocalist while he or she is singing.

Getting Started!
Beginning in an active lifestyle can be as simple as adding small changes to your current vocal warm-
up ritual. Vocal warm-ups should always begin with some amount of stretching. Warming up your
muscles and stretching can help to open up pathways through your back, neck, and chest cavity. They
can also prepare you to stand tall in proper posture while you sing.

You can learn how to improve singing and begin your fit and active lifestyle with simple stretches
every morning, evening, or before you begin your vocal warm-ups.

One such stretch includes standing with your feet spread apart just past each of your shoulders. Bend
over at the waist reaching your hands out in front of you. Bring your hands slowly down toward to
ground and bend each arm at the elbow- gripping the opposite elbow with each arm. Allow your head
to gently fall toward the ground and rock slowly (and gently) back and fourth- feeling a small stretch in
your lower back and in your hamstrings on either leg.

What can you do to reach for higher notes with effortless strength? Is it possible to sing high notes
without straining your voice?

To learn the killer, advanced strategies to become a better singer in just days, simply watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bapHnvc82zs

Of course having a watertight game plan will help you too. Discover the exact secret techniques used
by a lot of singers all around the world to become pro singers. Visit this site:
http://professionalsingingtips.com You may be surprised just how effective these techniques are.

You and many other people across the world love to sing. Whether you pursue singing as a career or as
a casual hobby, you will definitely want to know how to improve your singing voice. Thus, below are
some simple steps you can perform in order to acquire better singing performance.

Extend Vocal Range

Extending your voice can help give it a new dimension, an added element that will excite anyone who
hears your performance. You can do this by trying to sing various vocal resistors and implementing
muscle coordination. Fasten the vocal chords as you sing higher notes so that some vocal chords may
be freed and allowed to vibrate. This will help you sing higher notes much easier.

Blend Vocal Resonances

This is also a related factor to extended range. Resonation of tone happens in the throat, nasal cavities
and mouth. Every one of these involved cavities can help in producing different frequencies of sounds.
If you want your tone to be beautifully superb, you should learn balancing these resonances. When you
move from low to middle to high areas of your own voice, these resonances will also change. When
you sing low notes, they will resonate in the mouth and throat. Moving higher, you can feel the notes
resonating behind your soft palate (soft area of tissue that divides the nasal cavity and mouth) toward
the nasal cavities. You can feel the notes resonating in your head from the nasal cavity when you sing at
the highest range of your voice.

Familiarize With Your Vocal Registers

Mentioned above are the changes in resonance that your voice undergoes when you shift through
different levels of your tone. Such changes are sometimes referred to as vocal registers. There are three
main vocal register you need to know. First, the chest voice is the tone that you use when you speak.
The chords vibrate throughout its length and you can feel resonance in your mouth and throat. Chest
voice usually sounds rich and thick.

Head voice is the second and it is perceived like the hooting sound of an owl. It is the highest part of
the vocal range you use. The vocal chords become zipped up and the resonation is felt in your
head/nasal cavity. Third is the mixed voice or commercial-sounding voice. It has higher pitch than your
chest voice. Singers and artists typically use this vocal register in their performances. The chords are
zipped up, yet you seem to hear as if the person is singing in his/her chest intonation in a sweeter
quality. There is split resonance with the mixed intonation: half inside the mouth and half also in your
head cavity.

Develop Mixed Intonation

The key to a successful singing career is learning to master mixed singing tone. Mind you, this is quite
difficult to perfect, yet possibly achievable if you train correctly. With this intonation, the head and
chest intonations are bridged together. Once mixed tone is achieved, the head and chest sounds will
likewise improve due to the extra complicated resonance required. You can sing more flexibly and
really sound great.

What can you do to reach for higher notes with effortless strength? Is it possible to sing high notes
without straining your voice?

To learn the killer, advanced strategies to become a better singer in just days, simply watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bapHnvc82zs

Of course having a watertight game plan will help you too. Discover the exact secret techniques used
by a lot of singers all around the world to become pro singers. Visit this site:
http://professionalsingingtips.com You may be surprised just how effective these techniques are.

Improving your singing voice is all about practice. As with everything else in life, practice makes
perfect. Your voice will improve in direct proportion to the amount of time you spend practicing your
vocal warm ups and singing exercises.
When you start out singing, it is unwise to practice more than half an hour per day. Not only will you
gain no benefit from practicing more than half an hour a day, you may cause irreparable damage to
your vocal chords. To start out with, half an hour of practice a day should be sufficient for you to see an
improvement not only in your voice sounding better, but in your singing stamina.
Singing is hard work. Doing the diaphragmatic breathing needed to excel in singing is very tiring at
first, as the muscle of the diaphragm first needs to get used to such intense work. You may experience a
couple of days of slight muscle stiffness in your diaphragm. This is not cause for worry. If you feel any
pain or discomfort in your throat or voice, though, you must stop practicing immediately and get help
from a professional.
In order to ensure that your vocal tone is correct, or to improve your vocal tone if you have already
started singing, it is important to apply the correct singing techniques. A very simple exercise that is
useful in determining where the tone of your voice is controlled is to do the following.
• Put your hand on the part of your throat where your vocal chords are. If you are male and can
 feel your Adam's apple, you are at the right place. For women, try to imagine where the Adam's
apple would be. You can also speak a few words or hum a few notes to locate the vibration.
• Take a mouth full of water (nothing diary or sweet!) and swallow. Feel how the throat moves up
and down as part of the swallowing motion.
• Now, sing a few notes.
• Your throat should NOT be making the same movement it did when swallowing.
Your throat, mouth and jaw area should be completely relaxed while you sing. One good warm-up
exercise to help you achieve this state of relaxation is to go BRRRRRR, rolling the "r" as hard as you
can for as long as you can.
If you are serious about learning to sing, you must also establish your vocal range and voice type.
Though it sounds pretty complicated and intimidating, there is no need to worry. We will provide you
with all the information you need to not only find your vocal range and voice type, but also to increase
your vocal range safely and without damaging your voice.
Learning how to sing better is something that takes time and patience, but if you continue to practice
your voice daily, the results will soon speak for themselves. Remember to record yourself so that you
can measure your progress!
What can you do to reach for higher notes with effortless strength? Is it possible to sing high notes
without straining your voice?

To learn the killer, advanced strategies to become a better singer in just days, simply watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bapHnvc82zs

Of course having a watertight game plan will help you too. Discover the exact secret techniques used
by a lot of singers all around the world to become pro singers. Visit this site:
http://professionalsingingtips.com You may be surprised just how effective these techniques are.

When you have a headache your singing voice has a headache. When your toe hurts it's very hard to
sing well. When you have an argument with someone and it bothers you later your singing voice will
be negatively affected.
Notice I said "singing voice", not just performance. I'm talking about a physical reaction in the vocal
cords to problems you are experiencing.
Consider this: the guitar player is not the guitar, the drummer is not the drum set, the piano player is not
the piano...but...THE SINGER IS THE VOCAL INSTRUMENT. You are not only the "player" of your
vocal cords, your vocal cords are an inseparable part of you. Also, since the voice runs on internal
energy, and your energy is sapped by physical and psychological problems, and breath is stolen by
stress, anxiety and high emotion, it stands to reason that your singing will be affected. Notice how you
become out of breath in high stress situations.
One of the big problems for female singers is the "period". When you are enduring that process your
physical and mental functions go haywire. But you don't need me to point this out. However, you may
not have recognized that the same swelling, discomfort and mental unbalance that affects the rest of
your body and psychology affects your vocal cords and performance.
So, how do we overcome these problems when we sing? We can't. But being armed with the
understanding that our singing voice is being negatively affected will reduce the added stress of not
understanding why our singing isn't up to par.
Know your song so well that you can pull off a good (to the audience) performance regardless of those
problems only you are aware of. Be prepared to sing some of the more difficult note lower or softer.
The trick is to fool the audience into thinking that everything is fine. Become a master at disguising
your problems and mistakes.
NEVER APOLOGIZE OR BRING YOUR PROBLEMS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE
AUDIENCE...NEVER
Keep yourself in good physical and mental shape.
Singers and their voices are all rolled up in one package. They can't be separated like the guitar player
from their guitar. Here are some powerful suggestions to help you through those times when you (and
your voice) are not feeling so well.
What can you do to reach for higher notes with effortless strength? Is it possible to sing high notes
without straining your voice?

To learn the killer, advanced strategies to become a better singer in just days, simply watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bapHnvc82zs

Of course having a watertight game plan will help you too. Discover the exact secret techniques used
by a lot of singers all around the world to become pro singers. Visit this site:
http://professionalsingingtips.com You may be surprised just how effective these techniques are.