singing

[dookie418]

okay i know this is a GUITAR forum but i this is related to the guitar so lay off :D anyways i am trying to sing for the first time while playing my acoustic guitar.. yeah it's difficult but i can still spit out basic chord progressions .. and well my singing is a little scary now so i was wondering what at all i can do for singing. maybe warm ups, how to use my diaghram etc. etc..... i really dont have the money right now to get lessons so if anybody has anything and i mean anything at all related to this please reply. thanks everybody.

[smfulla]

well, try something like this out. If you're not sure on wthe melody of the singing, work it out on the guitar, then try and match what you're playing on the guitar to your singing, so you can actually sing in key to the song. Just an idea

[eische]

singing......aha......hmm, I'm not professional, but I cought up some useful techniques, so......

If you have something in your throat and you feel like clearing it, always cough.
Strech your upper body and take some deep breaths before starting.
Try to sing standing up, at least for the warming-up part and use your guitar (if possible) to »tune yourself« beforehand.
Control your breath. Make yourself conscious of where the air goes. Try to inhale deeply into your stomach and then hold it there by muscletension (same technique as for wind-instrument-players). Make the exhale with the singing as controlled as you can.

Always start with humming, never sing directly out. Humming will slowly warm up your voice with low effort. Also you can watch out for your resonance-boughs, that is: If you hum and you do everything corrcetly then your upper lip has to tremble (it sometimes itches a bit). If you put your fingers »Spock«-like at the side of your nostrils it has to vibrate.
First hum single notes and try to give them increasing power on the same breath and then reduce the loudness again - make sure it is always the same note.
Then try to do some combinations like three or four tone scales and triads always once up and down on the same breath.
To relax your vocal chords drum gently with both of your fists (not both at the same time) against your breast while humming.

For the first open (mouthed) notes try to sing them while you spine is pressed against a wall. It will give you a bit more stability in holding a note and you will feel the sound vibrate through your body better. That way you're able to sense the flow of the breath and the possible fractions within the note. Choose a clear vocal for it and change that (ahs, ehs, ohs).
Repeat the singing patterns you used while humming (one note, then combinations).
Warming-up should at least take 15 minutes.
After that start with simple songs (from a singing point of view) and mark your breath-taking inside the lyrics or notes that you follow, else try to remeber them.


ok????, hope you become the next Pavarotti with that....good luck

[dookie418]

thanks a lot!!! i appreciate it very much

[Krieselman13]

Get "A Neew Voice, How To Sing And Speak Porparly", its a good book actually. Its endorsed by Harry Belafonte, so you have to know that its good.