Singing Tips

Voice & Vocal Damage: Singing Tips : Mixed or Middle Voice: Singing Tips

Learn about the mixed or middle voice & get singing tips & vocal training in this singing lesson on video.

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Singing Lessons & Voice Training : High Notes & Volume: Voice Lessons

Learn singing tips on hitting high notes & performing with proper vocal technique in this singing lesson on video.

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Throat Singing Tutorial

Here is a tutorial for the type of low-fundamental throat singing I did in my previous “harmonic/throat singing…” video. I hope at least a few people find it helpful. Enjoy

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Vocal Exercises to Improve your Singing Ability : Vowel Placement in Vocal Exercises

Learn techniques on how to master vowel placement in vocal exercises in this free how-to video on exercising the vocal chords.

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vocal exercises anyone?

can anyone suggests some vocal exercises for someone that wants to improve their vocal range and make their voice more powerful?

I use these:
http://www.cyberbass.com/Content/vocal_warmups.htm

Voice Training Exercises

Quality Concepts

BC 1. Resonance is one of the primary goals of every known system of voice training.

2. There should be one resonance quality throughout the voice.

EM  1. Emotion controls the voice quality.

2. Vocal color varies with mood and expression.

3. Variations of resonance and quality  are in direct ratio to the emotional complex of the singer.

4.    The right expressional use of the voice is a factor in determining and maintaining resonance.

IN  1. The right expressional use of the voice is the greatest factor in determining and maintaining its quality and resonance.

2. To supply deficiencies in the tone color, arouse a genuine feeling in the singer’s voice.

NA 1. The natural law is: noninterference with the action of the vocal cords and full use of the resonance space.

2.    Resonances will always occur naturally when muscular interferences are removed.

3.    Leave the resonators alone.

PSY  1. The governor of tone quality is the mind and imagination of the singer.

2.    Think a resonant tone and you will have it.

3.    The great singer colors his voice psychologically and not by conscious control.

RE   1. Voice is resonance and nothing more.

2.    All sound and quality is produced by the resonators.

3.    Broadly speaking, the whole body is the sounding board of the voice.

SP   1. A resonant speaking voice is the secret.

2.    If you have a resonant speaking voice, you will have a resonant singing voice.

3.    The mouth remains always the “center of effort,” the center of action, the core of the voice, the real pronouncing organ, and the actual former of the voice, but dependent upon its assisting resonators, the chest and the head.

CO-OR 1. Resonance quality:   the end product of a co-ordination of the pro­cesses of respiration and phonation.

2. Resonance is affected by different adjustments of the resonators, -nose, mouth and pharynx - and by different positions of the ar-ticulators - tongue and lips.

EF    1. The pharynx, generally speaking, is the primary resonator.

2.    Favorable vocal resonance   results from correct voluntary adjustments of the mouth and the lips.

3.    When the tone is really pharyngeally resonated, the only tension or control which holds the position or shaping of the cavity pertains to the muscles of the tongue hyoid bone (i.e. , the geno-hyo-glossus muscles) .   The pharyngeal resonance cavity is relatively high - it is not down the throat or neck.

4.    The pupil should be instructed in the best methods of controlling the positions of the throat, tongue, cheeks, and lips that will produce optimum resonance conditions during phonation.

SC 1. The study of resonation in the human voice is the study of tech­niques by which the normal reflex actions of the body, (bearing on the muscle action of the larynx, pharynx, naso-pharynx, soft palate, jaw, tongue, and lips) will allow the tone vibrations pro­duced by the vocal lips to seek all available resonance in the human body with the least possible interference.

2.    Resonance is the final determinator of quality in the voice.

3.    Good  singers voices possess prominent low overtones at 500 cycles and prominent high overtones at 2900 cycles.

4.    What is commonly called “getting resonance in the voice” is really getting “2800,” a matter of proper vibration as much as of proper resonance.

5.  The pharynx is the main place of resonance.

PHP  1. Humming gives the best sensation for placement.

2.   All front vowels will give you a more resonant tone, if placed correctly.

3.   Nasal resonance - an illusion of head resonance - is due to bone conduction of sound.

PPA 1. The resonance of the normal voice quality uses the pharynx as the primary resonator, amplified or modified by mouth resonance and the natural hum in nasal resonance.

2.    Resonance changes must be tuned to fit register changes.

3.    Changes in resonance placement must follow the direction of vocal cord vibration or adjustment.

4.    Establish nasal-pharyngeal resonance within the range of the con­versational voice.

5.    A pharyngeal control of the vowel sounds, balanced by lip action when necessary, with a clear and accurate articulation of the consonants,  supported by a pressure flow of the breath, in a basic
nasal-pharyngeal resonance.

REG  1. The different registers require different resonant placements.

2. The fundamental and overtones generated at the larynx require resonation of vowel bands of frequencies.

RES  1. Breath is the prerequisite for resonance.

2. One cannot have a resonant tone without the proper breath support.

any good books on how to start my own private singing lessons studio? any tips, legal stuff, etc you can tell?

i am 17 and i want to go to college and double major in music ed and vocal performance, and then be a music teacher for a while, and eventually have my own private studio for singing lessons and vocal instruction.

do you have any tips or tricks or vital information that would be of importance and value to me? do you know of any books that will help me start my own business like that?

thank you very much for your help and time.

Ouch!!!
Unless you can set up an acadamy and have some really great props, (Theatrical or album credits) Teaching music in a non institutional setting is not going to be an easy way to pay the bills.

Most people who go that route have a multi pronged approch. 1. Professional engagements,2. Studio work AND 3. Teaching.

Your best bet as a buissiness modle would be to look at places like Dance studios, Karate dojos and Yoga clubs. Places where the student is enrolled in a structured program
and where you can electivly teach multiple students AND do one on one work as a private instructor.

I can't say any best book beyond the usual small buissiness start up guides and Government SBA (Small Buissiness resources.)

In this kind of endevor it's you doing something because that's what you were ment to do. Combine your love of the art with a FIRM grounding in buissiness practices and methods and you should be able to get by, (plus a little more.) Unless you've got a lucky charm or a knack for buissiness in general a vocal studio is not going to be the gateway to riches…
Good Luck

Resources

IDG Small Buissiness for dummies
The Idiots guide to starting a small Buissiness
U.S. Govt.
www.sba.gov The government will go out of their way to help you.
SCORE
www.score.org (People who have been exeutives helping new owners and start up companies.)

In addition there are usually state and city offices to help individuals set the wheels in motion.

does anyone know bad singers become good by taking voice lessons?

I'm doing a research paper and my thesis is "everyone can be made into good singers." Right now I'm looking for some examples of people who were bad, but after taking lessons and training become good. I'm also looking for articles to prove my thesis. Please help me with suggestions and where I can find articles or books that related to my thesis. I got many books on "vocal training" too.

"everyone can be made into A good singer"
Subject verb agreement
everyone - singular
singers - plural

Singing Success any good? Vocal exercises….?

and I was wondering were I can find free mp3 vocal exercises to warm up, I really need them, and were can I find a classical piano vocal warm up ..all of them to take on my mp3 because I’m always on the go..please someone help me out with this, thank you…the person who answers better and helps me out gets best answer!

http://www.youtube.com/user/EricArceneaux

This guy on YouTube has a variety of vocal warm ups that you can find some way to pu ton your iPod, I’m sure.

Good luck!

Im trying to take singing lessons to get a record deal. What do record compainies look for in a demo?

This is my dream. To be an R&B singer. I want Chris Brown and whoever to have some serious competition, and i want to be a big success.

Oh dear. The record industry is nearly impossible to get into and record companies will NEVER hear your demo if you send it to them. This is a business of connections and knowing the right people. You really need an agent (hard to get) and a list of other assets. Your chances are slim and the idea you want to be a "big success" is laughable, as most people never attain that in the recording industry. Are you interested in singing or just being a big success? You have miles and miles to go down a road that I suspect will not lead youwhere you want to go. Good luck!