Five quick steps to become a great singer
83Most people think that you are born to sing and if your not "born" with it, you won't become a good singer.
This is NOT TRUE. Let me show you how to start exercising your voice in 5 simple steps of becoming a great singer.
Great vocal warmups so that you don't hurt your voice
1. Don't hurt your voice
A common mistake for those of us who haven't had a teacher when learning to sing, is that you don't get the technique right. The big difference between your voice and other instruments is that you can end up hurting your voice big time if you do it all wrong. You can think of it as in body building. Lets say a body builder wouldn't warm up before lifting a lot of heavy weights. That doesn't seem too smart. Now it's the same with your voice!
It's important for you to know that SINGING SHOULD NEVER HURT! Take this with you and you're half way there. If you try sing a song and it hurts, you're doing something wrong. Don't continue at this point because it will hurt your throat and vocal cords. Stop instead and examine what it can be that you're doing wrong. Just by knowing this you can save yourself from a lot of troubles.
2. How to use your support
Finding your support
Put you hands against the side of your body just underneath your ribs. Try coughing or singing an sss-sound. Feel how the muscles move your hands out. There you have your support which should be used in all singing. The difficuties with using your support is that it should be a constant resistance and not something you turn on or off. To understand this we have to understand why we need our support in the first place.
How does it work?
When you make a sound or sing a tone air comes up and your vocal cords vibrate. What your support do is that it stops the airflow so that all air won't come up at once. That's why it should be a resistance and almost constant. If you want to sing a beutiful tone you wouldn't want it to be very airy and end almost instantly?
The support also will also help you with:
- Pitch control
- Nice ending on all tones
- Tone improvement
- Relaxation
- Volume
I suggest working with your support by having your hands to your side every time you start singing for at least 5-10 minutes to see that you're actually using it.
3. You should practise your voice like an instrument
What do I mean by this statement?
I mean that too many people believes that singing is so different to other instruments such as guitar or drums. But it really isn't! Imagine someone telling you that he was born to play drums and haven't trained anything. It doesn't work that way and don't believe anybody trying to convince you that either. "Talented" people are often those who think it's fun to practise.
To become a great singer you have to train your voice. This can be done in a millions of ways and I won't tell you everything here. The point is that starting to see your voice as a real instrument will give you wisdom.
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Free ear training sites
- Ricci Adams\' Musictheory.net
- Good Ear - Online Ear Training Site
This free ear training site helps you to develop good ears. Exercises: Intervals, Scales, Chords,... - Musical Mind: Online Ear Training
Free online ear training exercises. Aural practice for dictation, solfege, and intervals. - Learn2hear - Online Ear Training - intervals, scales, triads and tetrads
Online ear training - freeware - learn to distinguish between intervals, scales, triads and tetrads. It is a student project and is completely free
4. Improve your pitch and ear
This can not be forgotten or ignored. Many people don't train their ears because it might seem boring or hard. Ear training can be fun if you want it to be. The best singers in the world have great ears and that's why they can sing so beutifully. Ear training is all about listening and analysing and I suggest you to do some ear training exercises everyday for 10 minutes or so and you will improve everything in both your singing and your ear. Trust me on this one. There are lots of great and free ear training sites too so don't excuse yourself by saying that your don't know how to do it.
5. Learn the basics of guitar or piano
This is not something absolutly critical to become a good singer but it will help you in many many ways.
Both guitar and piano are instruments with great chord advantages and therefor they are perfect for singing. The advantages you will have by learning the basics of any of this two instruments are:
- You will begin to understand how music theory works
- You can play and sing a song just by yourself
- It will be much easier to compose
The list goes on.
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I am just 10 years. thankyou it helped alot. i got A+!!!!
singing is what i cannot do with out. i feel things like happiness,joy,fun,great when ever am singing.
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i am a very good singer aleady and now i am a really good singer
Iam only 12, but i love to sing. i do it ALL the time(car, shower, even school!) this practicing stuff sounds fun. cant wait to try!!!
this is great steps
Learning proper warm up exercises are great for getting your voice ready for long practices. If you want to sing practice. And your right it shouldn't hurt. Great informations. Thanks!
these tips are very useful i have been singing ever since i started to talk when i was a baby and everyone says i am an awesome singer i am a worship leader at my church. SINGING IS MY PASSION
these tips are very useful i have been singing ever since i started to talk when i was a baby and everyone says i am an awesome singer i am a worship leader at my church. SINGING IS MY PASSION
I can't wait to start singing! I will be using an ear training site for sure everyday!!!
Oh my god this works so well. You helped me with my dream, and now I'm about to perform in the next star!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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God hae been so good to me. by his grace, hav been able to sing lovely today. its works. Tnx.
i am only 11 but i hope to become a great singer becuase my frinds say i sing good and say i should become a singer cant wait to try the steps they sound great;)
thanks ill use the tips i want every one my voice
Thank you so much, now I can really believe in myself!!!
thankyou my voice is much better now.
U ve said it all.
it is alittle good the best thing is that if it had like teacher or someone reading it to u.
hi, this was really good advice, this has really
improved my tone, pitch and volume, when i'm older i want to be a pop star so this has really helped me,
THANKYOU!
Am a young man of 20,i love singing but i don't know how to use pitch.please, what shall i do?here is my e-mail:davidjacob2010@yahoo.com
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i want to be the best singer ever in the whole world.
i play some piano im realy great i have some instroments they are violine piano gitar drums and base and all others but it will take to long oh year french horn ok and im a singer my name is MEGAN NICOLE u can go see me on youtube go to when u on youtube tipe in megan nicole beautiful ok by then come back and say if u like my singing ok byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
thanks this has helped me alot and now I'm going to try out your tips I belive I will become an even better singer and I'm only 12 again thanx and you mad me belive even more of my dream of being a pop star/singer.
I'm great on piano and I even wrote alot of songs.
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The steps helped me so much! Thanj you
Wow.thanx its so great
Very, very, helpful! I want to take over for Katy Perry when I grow up!!!
Nicole you shred I thought you'd be shit boy was I wrong
hi my name is aixa i;m 13 years old thanx for the tip i think this will work im trying my best to be an singer but nobody don;t think i could be 1 but i will try.mood = happy a little
Thank You Ever so much
Please this has been great for me in many ways but I have a problem of always changing the set of my voice when singing.I mean the way Beyonce does hers.Please send-in a mail to me on how I can do this.
Thanks
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Ya... That's true... I had learnt guitar and now, I have really gained knowledge about music... and your support tecnique is really working!! Thank you very much!!
Thank you very much for this steps it has helped me now i can compose songs
thanks for these. i am just 12 and just want to became a good pop singer and i think these tips will help me
thanx! am going to take a practise!!!!
Wow um not trying to sound rude but i think theres way more things to do to become a great singer..
Oh sorry i meant not trying to sound rude
Thanks nicki minaj is my role model and i am really good at singing and this helped me improve alot(:
I wanna be a singer... I shud really take up my piano eh? ... thx for the tips ? appreciated mucchh
I love singing but my brother says I sound like a dead goat, so I looked up how to be a good singer and it came up with this, so i desided to use it and it made me worse! Now my brother will probably say that I sound like a dead hiina (I don't know how to spell the word so what, spell it out), I can NOT believe it, I must be dreaming (somebody pinch me pleaseeeeeeeeee)! What will I do :(. This is the worst day EVER write some new advice this website is just a bunch of lies! I'm only ten why torchor me now, cant you wait till I'm twenty or something! your website is stupid, stupid, stupid and I'm NEVER coming back I repeat NEVER coming back until you fix all the mistakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That will be it (for now)
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I'm 12 and all of my friends say I'm a good singer. Only I sounded a bit dodgy when I sang in a high pitched tone. This really helped with that problem, Thx. When I become famouse 4 my singing, I'll give u all the credit. :) Thx
Thx this helped quite a bit because I used to be horrible but now I'm not that bad
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I have a very airy voice and when I tried to stop tht today it hurt and I got cross. So I looked up this website and saw this. U drescribe what I'm like so ty! :) I'm only 13 and have low confidence levels.
Sing any ways if you love singing. Didn't matter what you think you can be do it because you want toosound and impact r two different things.
I am 13 and love to sing. yet, my big problem is that; I don't usually let people here me sing. it's like, I don't like how I sing and I am expecting a better voice than mine. but, this helped..
i cant sing wroth of things what some tips
thank u so much it help me a lot
Nancy 2 years ago
I am just a little girl trying to improve my tone. This helped me quite a bit.