Before reading on, I must warn you that you will NEED a real certified SLS teacher to teach you vocal technique. He/She will design a vocal exercise for you. It will be safe and successful. There's no such thing as a shortcut. It will be tremendously dangerous and difficult to do it alone and this is solely a general little tip and not SLS technique teaching in public and cannot guarantee an outcome in self-training. Me and Octave 28 will NOT take any responsibility.
This is such a long story, an epic!! but it will just guide you through the day when you absolutely can't be having a session with a certified vocal teacher.
I call it... a little cheat...
Do you know where your larynx is?? Touch your adam's apple and feel it moving while you're swallowing and feel it stays rather still while speaking. That's kinda where your larynx is!
Now! Feel your larynx while you sing! I think it probably moves up more or less and in the same time Gosh! What a coincident! your voice seems to crack, or flat, or disappears!!
Theoretically and practically, if you can get your larynx to stay still as your speaking voice (and a balanced of vocal cord adduction), then you will have an easier time singing! True though!!
Try yawning with sound! ( well...you might as well yawn ,now, anyway) That's when your larynx goes down deeper. That's what you need to do to keep it still in order to extend your range. Well...one of the factors ...and important one, too...
Since you're not here with me face to face otherwise I will just lead you to it via an "especially for you" vocal exercise... Anyway...
K folks! what you feel during yawning , is exactly, what you need to feel when you stabilize your larynx. Now sing with the same feeling like that! So you need to really be observant with yourself i.e how your tongue, throat, vocal cord area, etc feel. If you ever find yourself lost, imitate yawning again like "HUH" . Then put the particular consonant you're singing into it together such as a consonant B + Huh (if you're singing book) ,etc. You can try with any consonant. Anything really...
Feel good right? Easier and all!
This will just give you an example of how to survive through that word. Again! This will not fix any of your real problem. You NEED a REAL coach to guide you, to trick you into having a new habit. This is all about changing your old vocal habit which did you harm.
Putting a consonant in front of HUH is not enough to sing "book" I hear ya. They are completely different vowels. I will talk about vowels later!
Cheers
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
How Not To Sing Off Key
... Hey!!! What was that??? Normally I can do this.... guess I freaked out!!!
So this ever happened to you?? When your vocal coach put his/her finger on the piano and you just can't make the right sound. Like you can hear it well but ,somehow, you just can't sing the right key.
This situation was caused by many reasons. Sometimes, it's caused by placing your larynx in the wrong position. Sometimes, it's caused by mistakes in vibration of the vocal cords. Sometimes, it's caused by plain old nervousness. In this post, I am going to write about your nervousness.
Some will just tell you that you are tone deaf and that would put you down the whole week. I've never come across anybody who's actually tone deaf. I've heard that a true tone deaf person speaks in monotone. So if you're not speaking like that, you're fine.
When you sing out of tune even when it's just one note that your teacher played on the piano, even when it's just plain old low pitch that you can normally do when you're alone, this might be because you didn't listen well enough to the sound. You chose the note that you felt most comfortable with at the time just to sing it. May be you didn't even hear anything at all except for your own voice.
The trick is to really listen.... really really listen. Then take your time to hear the note played to your ears. Then you can try just ...humming... feel if it sounds like your voice and the note played belong to each other. If it sounds right, you just sing it. Don't change the key! Step out of your comfort zone. That's it!!! Then you can do it. It might be tiring. From now on your job is to try to recognize that feeling when you "hear" the note played and sing the right tune. No matter how nervous you are, you need to step into that zone of listening. The right easy tune will come when you focus on your hearing and not choosing just whatever tune that comes to your head.
Now there is another scenario when you sing in a song and you slightly sing out of tune when the tune tends to go up and down a lot. That's another story. You will just need to memorize it. This, we will be talking about in the future.This and the scenario when you can't seem to reach that note no matter how well you can hear it or you sing flat on the high notes and you don't even realize it until someone tells you about it.
Until next time.
So this ever happened to you?? When your vocal coach put his/her finger on the piano and you just can't make the right sound. Like you can hear it well but ,somehow, you just can't sing the right key.
This situation was caused by many reasons. Sometimes, it's caused by placing your larynx in the wrong position. Sometimes, it's caused by mistakes in vibration of the vocal cords. Sometimes, it's caused by plain old nervousness. In this post, I am going to write about your nervousness.
Some will just tell you that you are tone deaf and that would put you down the whole week. I've never come across anybody who's actually tone deaf. I've heard that a true tone deaf person speaks in monotone. So if you're not speaking like that, you're fine.
When you sing out of tune even when it's just one note that your teacher played on the piano, even when it's just plain old low pitch that you can normally do when you're alone, this might be because you didn't listen well enough to the sound. You chose the note that you felt most comfortable with at the time just to sing it. May be you didn't even hear anything at all except for your own voice.
The trick is to really listen.... really really listen. Then take your time to hear the note played to your ears. Then you can try just ...humming... feel if it sounds like your voice and the note played belong to each other. If it sounds right, you just sing it. Don't change the key! Step out of your comfort zone. That's it!!! Then you can do it. It might be tiring. From now on your job is to try to recognize that feeling when you "hear" the note played and sing the right tune. No matter how nervous you are, you need to step into that zone of listening. The right easy tune will come when you focus on your hearing and not choosing just whatever tune that comes to your head.
Now there is another scenario when you sing in a song and you slightly sing out of tune when the tune tends to go up and down a lot. That's another story. You will just need to memorize it. This, we will be talking about in the future.This and the scenario when you can't seem to reach that note no matter how well you can hear it or you sing flat on the high notes and you don't even realize it until someone tells you about it.
Until next time.
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