Singers Ebook
The Best of Pro Voice Tips for Singers is a 57 page ebook with 75 great tips for making your singing voice sound and feel great, and helping you understand the whole vocal process.
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Read these excerpts from Pro Voice Tips:
Tip # 2 Your Voice is a Car
Imagine your voice is a car. (I know that’s a stretch but bear with me a minute.) If you speed with your car you reduce the efficiency of your fuel. You literally throw fuel away.
The fuel for your voice is your breath. And speeding through life, running full out, being stressed and busy, will increase the likelihood that your breath is shallow and therefore not efficiently supporting your voice.
Take a moment right now and fill the tank.
- Breathe deeply and consciously feel the breath as it moves in and out of your body.
- Inhale 1 2 3 4. Exhale 1 2 3 4.
- Do that several times. Feel how it grounds you here and now. Repeat this anytime to calm stressful situations.
- Try it with your eyes closed.
Breath is life.
Tip # 66 Vocal Pitch
What’s really going on when someone has pitch problems? Being in tune is a matter of balance in the voice. If you can hear that you are out of tune when you play back a recording of yourself singing, then it’s not a lack of ability in hearing the notes.
It’s the way your vocal folds are coming together. There’s something out of balance and it’s affecting your pitch. Think of it as Yin and Yang.
Not enough Yang (grounding) and you will go sharp. Not enough Yin (freedom and flexibility) you will go flat.
Experiencing that balance can sometimes be completely natural and effortless. Sometimes you will need the help of a good voice teacher to find the feeling of balance that you need.
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There’s that word feeling again, I must say that when my voice teacher asks me what does that feel like, it’s extremely difficult to decribe it because I always ask her “what am I supposed to be feeling?” in other words give me an association and then I could understand what is being asked. Everybody learns differently and I’m not all that kinesthetic so it’s hard for me to describe the physical happenings when singing. But, deep breathing for some reason I can attune to better and allows me to since freedom after practising breathing which many teachers do not focus on. So, I try to focus on my breathing to strengthen more my foundation. I love the calm feeling of breathing exercises.
Martha, for someone who is an auditory or visual learner, sometimes it helps to find an image or a word for the sound and then relate it to the feeling. For example, one person I coached drew her voice as a yappy little dog before we started working and then afterwards as a tall elegant woman. Other people have used a tube, a tree and a bicycle to describe what they were feeling. There really is no right or wrong answer to the question. The answer is really just a way to anchor the sound for you as an individual. Does that help?
Okay, I’m late responding oh soooooo very late but yes, it does help and thanks I am more auditory or visual. I always and I guess my teacher thinks I can’t feel either. Well maybe not but I will practice this concept and see how it will work. I like this idea. What I really find is that teachers teach their standard of teaching and are not being creative with the student at hand. They don’t consider the student in front of them and their needs, I’not bashing teachers because they are important, it’s just that I don’t think some are all that versed in human learning dynamics.