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Hi there. Aaron here from Superior Singing
Method and in this video, I want to talk about
how to sing good.
OK. How to sing good. The ironic thing about
the statement how to sing good is it is bad
grammar. So let me just get that out of the
way first. How to sing well, yeah, that's
better grammar. So this is not a grammar lesson.
This is actually a singing lesson so let's
jump into that.
How to sing well, how to sing good. First
of all, at the end of this, I want to give
you a good vocal exercise that will help you
to be able to sing well and it's one of my
favorite ones. It's a good warm-up exercise
that will kind of get you going in the morning
as well. It's the only one you do. It's a
good one to start with. So how do you sing
well? What are the different things that it
takes to learn how to do that?
First of all, understanding the voice. There
are two probably yeah, three main things I
think. It's like understanding the voice,
learning proper technique and doing vocal
exercise. So last one I'm going to give you
is that vocal exercise. So understanding the
voice, what does that mean?
Things like nasality. A lot of people when
they sing, they sing and it just sounds kind
of like this. It sounds nasally and nasally
doesn't come across. It doesn't sound very
good and nobody really wants to hear a nasally
singer.
So understanding the voices, understanding
how to for example, it would be how to get
rid of the nasality in your voice and it could
be a lot of things but mostly it's probably
the soft palate and I won't go too much into
it now. But soft palate is just beyond the
hard palate which is the roof of your mouth.
Soft is set behind there and usually nasally
means soft palate is down too low.
So understanding the voice, understanding
that the voice is a delicate instrument, understanding
that when you yell and you're like trying
to belt a note, like that, that puts a lot
of strain on your voice and doesn't sound
good with tone but it also can hurt your voice.
So just understanding those there is a lot
of things to understand about the voice. These
are just a couple of examples.
The second thing is learning proper technique.
Proper technique is things like learning how
to breathe from your diaphragm. Breathing
from your diaphragm is taking a just to give
you a little, tiny glimpse of what it is,
it's basically having proper posture, taking
that complete breath and allowing your diaphragm
to descend, creating space for your lungs
to be able to expand and your stomach cavity
and as you sing, the tendency is to let your
chest kind of collapse, to fall like that.
But instead of doing that, keeping your chest
nice and high, like kind of just like I am
now, not super high.
Those are some of the basics of learning how
to diaphragm breathe. So that's learning the
proper techniques and there are a lot of techniques
of learning how to sing but that was just
one example.
So it's understanding the voice, learning
proper technique and then doing vocal warm-ups.
Vocal warm-ups are important because your
voice is made of muscle and cartilage and
you need to build up those muscles to be able
to manipulate the notes the way you want to
and to be able to sing all the things you
need to sing and know what your voice is going
to do when. You need to strengthen those muscles
so that they respond the way that you want
them to respond when you're singing, right?
Right.
So let's get to the voice exercise. This is
a good one. It's one of my favorites as like
a morning exercise. It's going to be Zs, Zs,
We're going to do Zs on just basically five
notes descending. So it's going to be [vocal
exercise]. I started a little low. I will
start a little higher. [vocal exercise] Do
that with me. [vocal exercise] And then you
can raise it up. [vocal exercise] Then you
can do it higher, and higher and higher.
So this is a really great exercise. You can
keep going up and back down and get that lower
register and the higher register in your voice.
This is a good warm-up but it also kind of
just gets your voice ready to go for more
strenuous singing, more strenuous type of
vocal exercises.
So that's your little mini lesson. That's
kind of the how to sing good lesson and I
just want to encourage you to pursue your
dreams. Pursue your dreams of singing. You
can do it. You don't have to be born with
lots of talent. Anyone can learn how to sing
and I'm guessing that you want to be a singer
or you wouldn't be watching this video and
go for it. Really go for it.
No matter what people have told you, no matter
what you're telling yourself, no matter the
negative thoughts you may have, to go for
singing. I've seen so, so, so many of my students
think that they can't sing and then learn
how to sing and learn how to sing well. So
I'm convinced that it's possible.
So that's that. If you don't mind subscribing
to the channel, I would be grateful if you
would do that and liking it. I would also
be very grateful. Also leave me a comment
and anything you want me to teach or you just
want to anything you want to say, I would
love to hear from you. I always read those
comments and I've got a link below. To my
systematic program, it's an eight-week systematic
program called Superior Singing Method and
that's for beginner singers, intermediate
and advanced singers alike. It's eight-week
systematic step by step. You learn the right
things at the right time and at the end of
those two months, you come out on the other
end a much, much better singer, many steps
beyond where you started. Anyway, I hope this
video was helpful to you.