Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Practicing singing after giving up smoking.

  • 20-05-2014 10:25am
    #1
    Dave H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭


    Hi, I recently gave up smoking (hopefully this is it for good) and started practicing singing again. For years I could sing no problem as a smoker, death metal growls in my teens, actual singing in my twenties. But in the last few years even one or two bars of a tune would have me in bits, not out of breath but coughing and spluttering. Last week I was singing along to a song on the telly, I'm not ashamed to say it was the Hot Dog Dance from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (my boy loves it) and I held the notes and carried them etc so I've been trying to improve since then.
    Have any of you got any tips on what techniques or anything to work on the voice, breathing, scales etc, it's been a long time since I've worked on singing and to say I'm out of touch would be an understatement.
    And I know a lot of smokers have great voices and great range, I'm not one of those anymore so I'd be ever so grateful if ye didn't rub it in :P
    Cheers.


Comments

  • #2
    Wurly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭Wurly


    Dave H wrote: »
    Hi, I recently gave up smoking (hopefully this is it for good) and started practicing singing again. For years I could sing no problem as a smoker, death metal growls in my teens, actual singing in my twenties. But in the last few years even one or two bars of a tune would have me in bits, not out of breath but coughing and spluttering. Last week I was singing along to a song on the telly, I'm not ashamed to say it was the Hot Dog Dance from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (my boy loves it) and I held the notes and carried them etc so I've been trying to improve since then.
    Have any of you got any tips on what techniques or anything to work on the voice, breathing, scales etc, it's been a long time since I've worked on singing and to say I'm out of touch would be an understatement.
    And I know a lot of smokers have great voices and great range, I'm not one of those anymore so I'd be ever so grateful if ye didn't rub it in :P
    Cheers.

    You will get your range back. Perhaps you just need proper technique? I'd advise going to get a few lessons to see what's working for you and what isn't. From there, you'll get your progress. Well done on giving up smoking too. Fantastic achievement. Best of luck. :)


  • #3
    Dave H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Dave H


    Thanks Wurly.
    I've thought about lessons and I'd say I'll go down that route. When I've been playing guitar lately, I have been moving a capo up the fretboard to try songs out in different, usually higher, keys and the same with piano too, just changing the key aswell. It really feels like I'm exercising the muscles and a lot of the the time it works with little effort.
    Cheers for the advice and the encouraging words, yer a lej so y'are :)


  • #4
    9959
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭9959


    It is a lovely tune, though it really depends on how you sing it - I mean in which octave. The first two notes (hot dog) of the sublime melody are G-G the second two (hot dog) are G-B, if you're singing these notes directly above middle 'C' and holding the melody as you said you were then you're flying, if however you're an octave below that..well...you know...it's no big deal.

    Have you tried singing 'Postman Pat'?!


  • #5
    CaoimheMalone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4 ✭CaoimheMalone


    once you've conquered your breathing the rest will follow suit


  • #6
    Taajsgpm
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 65 ✭✭Taajsgpm


    Dave H wrote: »
    Hi, I recently gave up smoking (hopefully this is it for good) and started practicing singing again. For years I could sing no problem as a smoker, death metal growls in my teens, actual singing in my twenties. But in the last few years even one or two bars of a tune would have me in bits, not out of breath but coughing and spluttering. Last week I was singing along to a song on the telly, I'm not ashamed to say it was the Hot Dog Dance from the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (my boy loves it) and I held the notes and carried them etc so I've been trying to improve since then.
    Have any of you got any tips on what techniques or anything to work on the voice, breathing, scales etc, it's been a long time since I've worked on singing and to say I'm out of touch would be an understatement.
    And I know a lot of smokers have great voices and great range, I'm not one of those anymore so I'd be ever so grateful if ye didn't rub it in :P
    Cheers.

    Im with you dave,. There is a huge difference from me
    , just the breathing even, but I cant hit notes when I smoke alot
    Still no hot dog dance for me lol


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    fayvirtue
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 28 ✭fayvirtue


    I think your breathing has changed. I had the same problem and a friend suggested gargaling with salt water - big improvement ! Great that you quit smoking !


Advertisement