Teach Yourself to Sing in 10 Easy Steps

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Find Your Range in 6 Seconds (Free App): http://rangefinder.ramseyvoice.com/ Master Your Voice Complete Singing Course: ramseyvoice.com/special-offer Introduction: 0:00 Tall posture: 2:19 Breathing: 3:41 5 tone count for males: 7:29 5 tone count for females: 8:09 5 tone Gug for males: 11:41 5 tone Gug for females: 12:00 1.5 octave ooh vowel for males: 13:52 1.5 octave ooh vowel for females: 14:11 1.5 octave Gee for males: 15:49 1.5 octave Gee for females: 16:18 Octave repeat "Nae" for males: 17:49 Octave repeat "Nae" for females: 18:15 "ee" vowel vibrato for males 19:29 "ee" vowel vibrato for females 9:58 Singing songs (replace exercises with words): 20:26 Have you always wanted to teach yourself to sing but had no idea where to start? I mean let's face it, private lessons are expensive! And the truth is that many singing students are learning to sing online now. In fact, I've had many students who taught themselves how to sing. So, I wanted to make this video so that you can learn to teach yourself to sing in 10 easy steps. In my years of teaching students, I've taught a lot of students who have started by learning to sing on their own. This is a great approach, since it's more affordable and you can teach yourself on your own schedule. However, there are some singing techniques that make learning to sing much easier and faster. In this video today, I'm going to show you how you can teach yourself to sing in 10 easy steps. The first step in teaching yourself how to sing is to use tall posture. Bring your feet to shoulder-width apart. You'll notice that your hips are also shoulder-width apart so that you have a straight line between your feet, hips and your shoulders. This is the tall posture. In the second step, you need to learn proper breath control. In this case, breathing from the diaphragm is the best breathing for singing. Breathing from the diaphragm simply means that as you inhale, your diaphragm contracts, which expands your belly. My favorite exercise for improving your breath control is to Farinelli breathing exercise. In this exercise, you're going to inhale for a four-count, hold for a 4 count, and then exhale for a four-count. This is a fantastic exercise for improving your breath control. The third step in teaching yourself to sing, you need to learn to sing on pitch. Unfortunately this is probably the hardest thing to do when you're learning on your own, so you're going to really have to record yourself and listen for where you get off pitch. In this exercise, I'm going to give you a very simple scale so that you can learn to sing more in tune. We'll sing the five tone count, where you sing a 5-tone major arpeggio, but you replace each note of the scale with the words 1 2 3 4 and 5. As you're doing this exercise, make sure that you record yourself so that you can tell where you're getting off. The next step in teaching yourself how to sing is learning how to project your singing voice. Projecting correctly just means that you're able to sing at a volume where you could be heard in the back of the theater, without straining your voice and without whispering. One of the easiest ways to learn to project is to start a by speaking the words first, then applying that same speech level sound to your singing voice. The next step in teaching yourself to sing it is to sing in chest voice. Chest voice is the name for the range of notes at the bottom of your voice. In this exercise, you'll sing a five-tone gug as in the word gutter where you replace each note of the scale with the word gug. You’ll notice that this gug gives you a lot of chest voice. The next step in teaching yourself to sing is learning to sing in head voice. Head voice is the name of the range at the top part of your voice. In order to find your head voice, you're going to sing a 1.5 octave scale on the word “ooh”, like oops. The next step in teaching yourself how to sing is to sing in mixed voice. Mixed voice is the combination or blend of the chest voice and head voice together. There are lots of great exercises to help you do this, but one of my favorites is the 1.5 octave “Gee”, where you replace each note of the scale with the word “Gee” as in geese. The next step in teaching yourself to sing is to learn how to belt. Learning to Belt means singing with a strong volume on the high notes in your voice, without straining. In this exercise I'm going to give you an octave repeat bratty “Nae” as in nasty. The final step in teaching yourself to sing is to learn how to sing songs. Unfortunately songs are very difficult to sing because the vowels, consonants, Dynamics, and Melody are always changing. So when you're first learning how to sing, it can be great to sing songs on a friendly vocal exercise. So if the exercise “Gee” was working well for you, and then sing The Melody of the song on the word “Gee” and then go back to the lyrics. You'll be amazed at how much easier it is to sing.