How to learn to sing at any age
Educational Program A Life / / December 19, 2019
1. Improve your posture
This is the first thing you must do if you want to learn to sing. When you habitually slouch, that's happening:
- The airways are bent, and the air can not pass through them freely.
- The internal organs are compressed. Lungs suffer in the first place: it is difficult to expand and contract, and they are able to collect much less air than in the free state.
As a result, during the singing you constantly stammer, to capture the missing oxygen. And your voice is not as powerful and deep as it could - he remains silent and deaf.
proper posture - straight spine, shoulders disclosed, expanded chest forward - maximizes lung volume, facilitates the passage of air and gives you the ability to sing more loudlyCorrect Singing Posture.
How to sing standing
- Stand up straight, placing feet shoulder width apart and a little putting one of them in advance.
- Imagine if your spine - a string that goes into the sky.
- Lift the chin, so that its bottom line was parallel to the ground.
- Expand shoulders.
- Put your hand on your stomach to the diaphragm area - it disciplines, without giving the stomach to bulge forward, and further helps control breathing (more on that later).
This posture is as easy as possible and your breath will be filled with light.
How to sing sitting
- Sit on the front half of a chair, do not lean against the backrest.
- Remember: your spine - leaving in the sky string.
- Put both feet parallel to each other, keeping the heels off the floor.
- Expand shoulders.
- Keep the bottom line chin parallel to the floor.
At first, such a posture may not seem too comfortable. But it is extremely important during exercise to sit just so, to accustom the body to the right side. Well acquainted with their own, not the usual cramped stoop voice. It may surprise you.
2. Find a comfortable position
Good posture is important for the strength and sonority voice. And here is comfortable posture - for self-confidence, without which it is difficult to speak before an audience.
Try to combine these two factors, look for a position in which will feel as relaxed and comfortable and which also give freedom to your lungs.
Find a position in which feel like a superstar.
Joao Ribeiro, vocal teacher
3. Learn to breathe properly
Proper, effective breath - the basis of the singing. We need enough air to pull many sounds. And the ability to quickly inhale, so as not to interrupt the vocals and not violate its melody.
How to learn to breathe correctly
Your task - to get to the maximum fill the lungs with air. To develop this skill, you can use the following exercisesBreathing Basics For Singing. They should be repeated every day.
- Imagine that the air that you breathe, very heavy. So, for example, weighs 10 kg. Visualize this weight and let it just fall into your body, below the navel (the feelings, of course). Boom! An important point: when the "10 kg of air" falling, expanding the abdomen rather than the chest. Try to breathe that way - stomach. In this case, will be actively working diaphragm - the muscle that provides the maximum expansion of the lungs. Make 5-10 slow breaths "belly."
- Accelerate breath "belly." Again, imagine if the air is heavy, but let it fall in your body as quickly as possible. Take 10-15 breaths fast and slow breaths.
- Try to fill your lungs with air as if you were a balloon. Breathe with your diaphragm as deep as possible. Feel like expanding the abdomen and lower back. Do 3-4 sets.
How to learn to breathe correctly
Exhale is no less important. He should be even and smooth - this will help you to take and keep the high notes and long musical phrases. To work out the breath, do one of the following exercises (or all together).
- Errands around the house feather. Or, if not at hand, imagine. Now raise feather palm on the level of the mouth, take a deep breath and blow it - so as to be lifted into the air as possible. Next, your task - as long as not to give it to fall. Blow on the pen while you can. At the end of a long exhalation, you should feel the urgent need to immediately breathe.
- Sing any note on relatively high volume. Keep the sound as long as you can. To test the effectiveness of this exercise you will need a stopwatch. Check the time during which you can sing a note. And then watch as every day this time gradually increases.
- Poshipite. Breathe slowly and deeply, hold your breath for 1-2 seconds and start to produce air with a constant in a low hiss, "Sh-sh-sh ...". Listen to the sound and make sure that the tone does not go down and did not get up, and the sound flowed without pauses and hitches. Shipite up until the lungs have enough air.
4. Work on singing technique
vocals can be train - as well as the muscles in the gym. But it is important to do it right.
- Exercise the vocal cords before exercise. For example, the case. To begin Sing any note on the most comfortable for you volume. Then sing in a low tone (low voice). Then - raising (high pitched voice). If you feel that at some point overstrained vocal cords, stop, take a break and then repeat the workout from the beginning.
- Train resonance. It is he who gives the voice of power, sonority, timbre richness. Check resonance can be at two locations: putting the fingers of one hand near the nose wings (near the sinus cavities), or leaning against the palm to the chest, by 10 centimeters above the solar plexus. When you sing, fingers or hand should feel the vibration. What makes it more tangible, the better the response.
- Learn to hit the notes. For this exercise you will need a voice recorder (can be very simple, built-in smart phone). Record it as you sing along with a song you like by your favorite singer. Listening to the record, you will find out the places where your voice sounds too low or high. Adjust the pitch to hit the notes. The more often you are going to be doing this exercise, the more accurate will become singing.
- articulates. It is important that the singing was audible, and his listeners could disassembleBecause very few people like strange purring under his breath. Actively working his lips, pronouncing each word.
5. Sing every day
If you want to pump up muscles, you regularly go to the gym. Singing the same story: to train the vocal, it is advisable to practice on a daily basis.
Train posture, respiration, singing technique at the first opportunity. Sing in the bathroom, behind the wheel, while clearing the house. This will help you become better acquainted with their own voice, to know it in all its forms, and eventually learn to use it.
A good way to not miss a workout - join the amateur choir. Collective singing is often associated only with the church (although, on the other hand, why not? From church choirs there were many world-class singers.) But in fact, the chorus can be part of different organizations.
Perhaps his practice on your work - as part of team building. Or there exists a circle of choral singing in the music school for adults, where your child goes. Or maybe you will join the team of fans of folk songs, which operates near the cultural center.
Style and genre, which runs the chorus, is not so important. Regular exercise will still help you discover your voice. A choir director and colleagues point to possible vocal mistakes and tell us how they can be overcome.
6. Learn from the professionals
The most effective way to learn to sing - to take lessons from a tutor on a vocal. But there is a way to budget - to appeal to learning channels on YouTube.
For example, in this video you can prove that everyone can sing beautifully. Even those who, at first sight, no hearing, no voice.
Here reveal the secrets of learning how to sing from scratch at home.
In this video will offer raspevki and vocal exercises that will make your voice sonorous and impressive.
Educational channels on YouTube - million. Choose to your taste and Suck your vocal every day. It's easier than it seems.
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