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Any hints for learning to sing?

  • 22-04-2007 7:59pm
    #1
    plasterboard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    Have been a guitar player for a good while, and I know what notes are SUPPOSED to sound like, but I just can't seem to sing. Is it one of those things that if you keep practicing (on your own) will gradually come to you? Failing that, anywhere good to go to learn?
    I just want a couple of good octaves and enough voice projection for a pub-sized group. Not opera.


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  • #2
    filament
    Closed Accounts Posts: 263 ✭✭filament


    heres some tips for ya man:

    Firstly anyone can be a great singer, it's not one of those things you have to be blessed with though it does help

    Secondly, it can be hard for somepeople to seperate speech and singing, an easy solution is to bring the melody up an octave forcing you to sing it. For the lower stuff, what seperates speech and singing is lenght and tone. elongate all the vowels and try to fill them with lots of tone, imagine the sound is a big ball sitting in your mouth and imagine it getting bigger and rounder, opening your mouth wider and raising your soft palate helps to create a bigger cavity for tone to grow, to raise your palate just imagine a beam coming from your throat and pushing through it and up into your head

    most importantly keep everything in your head and focus on what sound you want to make in your mmind, this above all else will help you achive the sound yopu want

    any questions just pm me


  • #3
    lu22*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭lu22*


    plasterboard wrote:
    Have been a guitar player for a good while, and I know what notes are SUPPOSED to sound like, but I just can't seem to sing. Is it one of those things that if you keep practicing (on your own) will gradually come to you? Failing that, anywhere good to go to learn?
    I just want a couple of good octaves and enough voice projection for a pub-sized group. Not opera.


    hey
    Dont know where your based but waltons new school of music on georges st is brill. i went for 2 hours (half hour a week) and i learned so much!


  • #4
    tolcreator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭tolcreator


    I used to be a terrible singer, now I get complimented on it. My secret: Sing a lot! I sing in the car, I sing in the shower. Also try taping yourself and listening back. If you have a guitar, and have a guitar tuner... try singing specific notes into it and see if you're in tune!


  • #5
    plasterboard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭plasterboard


    Thanks! appreciated.


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