Hi.
I'm Aaron from HowtoSing.com and I want to talk to you about singing techniques.
When I think of singing techniques, this first one may be the most boring one but it's the
most important one and it has to do with your breathing system.
If you don't have a good breath management system, you will just never become a good
singer.
That is just the flat out truth.
Breathing I remember one of my vocal teachers said the three top most important things about
singing, breath, breath, breath or it was air, air, air.
Anyway the idea was you got to get that part down.
So I'm just going to give you an idea of getting that part down.
Some people call it singing from the diaphragm, breath management technique, all that stuff.
So let me just talk a little bit about that then I will talk a little bit about agility
as another singing technique and then actually give you an agility exercise.
That will be good for helping with your breath management and also with the agility of your
voice.
I will talk about that in a minute.
So as far as your breath management system goes, a lot of stuff will fall into place
if you have proper posture.
So without going into detail on that huge breath management system and all the different
camps and what people say and all that, if you have proper posture and proper posture
is basically how I'm standing now, it's like a nice not a high chest but it's not the slouchy
when you're slouched, you can't get the air you need in your stomach and it messes up
your breath management system.
So basically you just see how my arms are down by my side.
They're loose and no tension.
You don't want tension in your neck and in your jaw.
You want pretty much to be aligned.
Your head, neck and torso pretty much aligned and pretty much just stand and relax.
This will give your midsection enough room to be able to breathe and breathe with the
use of your diaphragm.
When you breathe in, you want to make sure not to be like raising your chest and dropping
your chest.
That is the main thing.
Two main things the posture and not to raise your chest when you inhale and lower it when
you exhale.
You basically want to keep a nice high chest the whole time while you're singing.
What this will do is it will allow for when you breathe in, you breathe in about here.
So lower ribs.
You're feeling the expansion for the breath and your stomach and when you do that, what
happens is the diaphragm, your diaphragm lowers and basically pushes your it's kind of gross.
It pushes your intestines out of the way to the sides and to the front and so you have
room for your lungs to be able to expand and to get a nice breath to be able to breathe.
OK.
So that's it.
I won't go into too much more detail about that but your posture and keeping your chest
high and not raising and lowering your chest are the main things.
Vocal agility, another kind of singing technique.
Agility is the ability no way.
Agility is the ability to kind of bounce from note to note and land on the right note immediately
and not have to like slide up to it or land on the pitch below.
So, agility would be one good example when you do like a vocal run, a vocal trough, like
[vocalizes].
Something like that, you need agility.
You even just go [vocalizes] bouncing around vocally and just to be able to land on that
note that you want.
So that brings us to our exercise here to work on your vocal agility.
You need vocal agility to be able to sing well.
Anything that is moderate to complex to complex will have some type of thing where you will
need vocal agility so this would be a good one.
This one, it goes [demonstrates singing exercise].
OK?
You want to do that with me?
Let's try that one a couple of times together [demonstrates singing exercise].
You want to make sure when you sing, that there's what's called a vocal cord closure
immediately as you're singing.
You're not going [sings].
It's like [demonstrates singing exercise].
An immediate sound comes out [demonstrates singing exercise].
So let's sing one more time together and then we will be done here [demonstrates singing
exercise].
OK.
So hopefully that's helpful.
Like I said, I'm at HowtoSing.com.
Just visit me at HowtoSing.com or click the link below.
That will take you there.
I've got a lot of other just tips and tricks, a lot of information, good articles that you
need.
I actually just put up a video called I can't remember what it's called but it's basically
how to sing high notes and how to sing high notes without strain.
So I hope this was helpful for you and come check me out and I will see you over there.