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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Singing with more power Complete Guide

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Perhaps you have had the experience of singing with a group of people and finding there is someone who's voice seems to boom out twice as loud as everybody else's. How is it that some people seem to have a voice with enough power to wake the dead and yet others can barely be heard singing in their own bathroom? Well in this article Singing with more power we will learn about it.

It's true that some people are born with naturally louder singing voices than others. Somehow the unique structure of their throat ,vocal chords,chest and head is able to produce a larger volume of sound than is normal. The main thing to keep in mind here is that being able to sing loudly is not necessarily all that musical by itself. Musically satisfying singing is a combination of many things to do with the range of tone you produce,the character in your voice, the emotion you can convey and the empathy you display towards the lyric and music.

No matter what type of voice you have there is plenty of potential for you to build a strong dynamic voice. Improving your technique will increase your singing power in many ways.

Ways to improve your vocal power

You need to control your breathing from your diaphragm. A breathy voice is a weak voice. When taking a breath to sing exert a little pressure from the main breathing muscles - the diaphragm and upper and lower abdominal muscles. Do this to hold back the air from rushing out as you sing. Also, make sure you don't lose your breath on the soft unfocused sounds like when whispering. Focus instead on the hard vowel sounds in every word , just as you do when you speak.

To create a louder more resonant voice you need to open up the back of your throat when you sing. Some refer to this as an inner smile, or a half yawn. Either way you should get used to the sensation of raising your soft pallet when you sing which also makes it easier to pass more freely from the lower tones to the higher tones without hearing your register break.

Drop your jaw.Your mouth is your sound hole. Practice singing in front of the mirror untill you get out of the habit of locking your jaw and muffling your voice when you sing.

Project your voice forward off the back of your throat when you sing. Don't try to grab at the sound with your throat muscles , this inhibits your voice and can damage your vocal chords. These technigues are well tried and tested from the opera house to the popular stage. Use them and you will not fail to create a powerful singing voice.

Singing lessons can greatly assist in the deveopment of a strong,powerful voice. I created Explore Your Voice to provide everyone with the opportunity to find their own unique voice. I believe singing lessons should be fun as well as a great learning experience. 


Warm-up Exercises


Just as athletes need to do warm-up exercises before a race or a game, singers need to prepare their voices before a rehearsal or performance. Vocal warm-up exercises get the air flowing and relax your muscles to get ready for the more strenuous activity to come. It’s perhaps the most effective way to prevent vocal fatigue and overuse damage.


It may seem counterintuitive–more exercises to prevent overuse injury? Yes. Your vocal folds are controlled by tiny muscles, and when they’re warmed-up they are more flexible, easier to use, and less susceptible to injury.


Before starting your singing warm-up exercises, do some whole-body stretching and relaxation. Start with the “rag doll” exercise. From a standing position, bend forward at your hips, allowing your head and arms to dangle freely. Shake them a bit, then just let them dangle for another minute or so.


Follow that with a stretching exercise for proper posture alignment. Stand with your feet flat on the floor, about hip-width apart, and your arms at your sides. Bring your arms rapidly upward and across your body in a circular motion until they are over your head. Rising onto your tiptoes, take in a good, deep breath as you move your arms up.

As you slowly exhale, bring your arms back down to your sides and come back down to flat feet. Try to keep your chest up and shoulders back, as they were at the top of the stretch, after bringing your arms down. You are now ready to begin singing.

The first warm-up exercise uses a technique that goes by many names: buzz, bubble lips, lip roll, or lip trill. Exhale through puckered lips to create a vibration, sounding a bit like a motorboat or a “raspberry”.

You will do the buzz slide between three tones: the base tone, up a fourth, and back to the base (do-fa-do): in the key of C major, it would be C,F,C. Repeat, moving up a half step each time (C#, F#, C#, then D,G,D, then Eb, Ab, Eb, etc.). You can also do this on the syllable “ee” or “oo”, but the buzz forces you to use good breath support.

The next warm-up exercise is the fifth-slide. Start on the fifth tone with the syllable “wee” and slide down to the base (so-do): in C major again, it would be G, C. Repeat on the same tones with “zoo”, then move up a half-step and repeat, “wee” and “zoo” on  Ab and Db. Continue moving up by half-steps.

Next is the five-tone descending scale. Starting on the fifth tone, descend stepwise to the base: so, fa, mi, re, do. First do the syllable “na”, then “nay”, “noh”, and “noo”. Move up a half-step and repeat the scale on each syllable.

The fourth warm-up exercise is a descending 8-tone scale (do, ti, la, so, fa, mi, re, do) on the syllable “noo”. Again, move up a half-step with each repeat. You can also try other vowel sounds, such as “nah”, “nay”, “nee”, or “noh”, or use “m” instead of “n” as the initial consonant. Try to feel your mask, or upper resonance, as you do this.

Follow that with a descending arpeggio: do, so, mi, do, on the syllable “nah”. Repeat on “nay”, “nee”, “noh”, and “noo”, then move up by half steps and repeat on each syllable again.

The final warm-up exercise is the octave slide. Use the buzz and start on the base note; slide up an octave and back down to the base: do, do, do. Repeat on “oo”. Move up a half-step, do the buzz, and then “oo”. Continue moving up by half-steps.


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