How to Prepare Voice for Singing?

A professional singer takes the stage with confidence. What makes him stand apart from the crowd?

All it takes is a little bit of technical information about singing and some of its special techniques.

Here we go with some vital tips to prepare your voice for singing lessons: 

1. How to make posture when you practice singing: Adopt “tall posture”. It sounds crazy to talk about posture. But, as a matter of fact, many vocal coaches and singing teachers talk about it on and on for several weeks without doing any singing. It is important because you really get a radical support from neck muscles when you sing.

• Stand erect, but in a relaxing manner.
• Keep your shoulders and knee straight and in line together.

1. How to breathe: Take a diaphragmatic breath. You cannot sound as great as you could be unless you have proper breath support. The way you take a diaphragmatic breath should be to keep a nice tall posture. This technique will improve your singing & voice.

Practice these steps while standing in front of the mirror:

• Inhale in a way that expands your stomach outwards.
• As you exhale, bring your stomach back in.

1. How to feel: Just relax. As you are at a learning stage, make sure that your voice is staying relaxed. It indicates that you are not straining or pushing a lot while singing. Here are some simple tweaks to check your tongue tension:

• Place your thumb underneath your tongue.
• Swallow to check if that muscle is pressing against your thumb.

1. How to get prepared for singing lessons: Start with warm-ups. This is a very crucial singing technique, which only a few singers actually do. Or, we can say that only those do who really want to be so competitive. These two main upsides will help you to regularly warm up your vocals:

• They clear and clean up your vocal cords.
• They supply a little bit more blood flow to the vocal cord area, which is going to, in turn, put more value to stretch and pitch higher note with ease.

1. How to practice: Work on chest-voice. Singing pretty is not the case of singing breathy at all. The chest voice can help you practice singing nicely. You need to sing on the notes. Yes!

This exercise can let you produce chest voice:

• Take a deep speaking breath.
• Sing while counting to 5 tones up and 5 tones down on a simple scale.

1. How to get air support: Lip-Trill can help. A good reason to try lip-trill is to intertwine air support with your voice. Since this technique does not involve vowels and consonant shapes, you face no risk of vocal strain. Even, you can lip trill to master some more vocal techniques, like breathing, larynx positioning and register management.

• Take index and middle fingers of both hands in the middle of the cheeks. Inhale.
• Close your lips together while letting the air blow out through, producing the sound ‘brrr’. All these things should happen together while exhaling from the mouth.

You can get through an audition upon a regular practice of the aforementioned singing tips. The learners and aspirants can follow to make them a habit for singing lessons. These are some simple ways to become a professional singer.