1 Name: Sejin !PKt//nzxc2 : 2011-10-26 01:59 ID:2duUeb1G [Del]
I've been singing just for fun off and on for probably the better part of a year now. Shortly after I started, I recorded some stuff, for the sake of tracking progress. I noticed it was really, really nasally. Like, I know some singing is kinda nasally depending on the style and/or the person's voice, but mine was just...ugh. Anyways, a couple hours ago I went to record something to see if I'd made any progress. It seemed like I had made a lot of progress in the nasaliness department, but upon listening to the recording, it wasn't any better. I think I thought it was better because I heard it echoing off the inside of my head and that may have reduced my perception of nasaliness. Anyways, rather than just write about it, I made a vid, so you can have some audio (poor you lol), and stuck it on YouTube. With the Dollars Chorus thing, I figure there are quite a few people who can sing well on here, so I'm hoping someone might be able to offer some advice. Thanks! Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCDYfCEKti4
2 Name: baccano : 2012-01-09 05:18 ID:Nck9GmNs [Del]
to answer some of the questions from the video yes it does matter if you warm up or not. i recomend doing at least two sweeps or your full vocal range before practicing with lyrics. you do seem to be breathing heavily out of your nose, try practicing with it plugged to train yourself not to breath out of it quite as much. also when you do sing try to make it come from the throat, yes sounds redundant conciddering, but put some feeling behind it and focus on improving viberato and holding a note in tune. singing against a piano is the easiest way to measure this. last but not least dont try to take huge breaths, hold only the air nessacery for the line(s) you want to get out in the ammount of time you plan on having a solid voice.
3 Name: Dispute !9obbI7GK76 : 2012-01-18 22:32 ID:i872lVdw [Del]
You shouldn't sing through your nose at all, every note should come straight from your vocal cords. Really you "should" sound the same when you sing while having your nose plugged, try practicing singing a song with your nose plugged. You will hear and feel buzzing from your nose when you are singing with your nose and these are the parts you should work on. I realize this is very hard, especially for beginning singers (Especially mmm and nnn sounds for me) but it will become easier with practice.
(also, never breath through your nose while singing.)
To warm up one thing you can do is sing a scale (do re mi....) and move it up and octave until you cannot reach any higher notes(a piano can help with finding the notes), then repeat for lower notes. This is in no way the only way to warm up, research some vocal exercises and find what works for you.
To practice breathing try taking a large breath(when breathing your stomach should expand, not your chest) and fill your lungs until you cannot take in any more air. Then hold a note on that breath until you cannot hold it any longer. After a while you will notice that you can hold notes for a lot longer and sing for longer with a single breath. There is no reason not to take large breaths in between phrases, it's fine if you have extra air at the end of a phrase but you don't want to end up having to breath again in the middle of a song.
Hope that was of some help, i know i repeated a couple of things in the above reply but that is only because i felt they were essential.
4 Name: Enni : 2012-01-19 00:33 ID:ncVrPs6z [Del]
Breathing - using your mouth and supported with your diaphragm. It should be such that your diaphragm will feel very hard through the whole time when you are singing (including when you're changing breath.) One way to practice this is to breath in, hold the breath, get someone to apply pressure using their whole body, and you hiss. You'll notice that the hissing sounds much more focused.
When you want to sing bright and colorful songs, raise your eyebrows high. This will help you to sound brighter.
Try not to sing with your throat, but instead with your diaphragm.
When you are warming up don't sing till you can't reach a note and try to go for the next one. Unless you are training to increase your range(there's a specific way to do it) If you keep straining your throat like that you will lose your voice.
Unless the song requires you to, don't use channel the sound via your nose. You don't want to sound like Donald Duck. Instead, channel your sound to the top of your head. I don't really know how to explain this but it's just something you'll have to figure out yourself.
