Sing Along Song

Many people can sing karaoke and with a little bit of vocal ability do a pretty good imitation of their favorite singer.

Karaoke singers usually fail miserably at being in live bands and even worse at original material.

This is because most karaoke singers vocal production is based on an imitation of their favorite singer. 

They often haven’t learned to sing in key with music without their favorite singers original vocal for a mental reference.  They are simply singing from memory, after singing along to a CD over and over, singing along to the original artist. They also haven’t learned to shape their vocal tone based or real vocal techniques, instead they base them on, “I do this and I sound like my favorite singer.”

To transition from just being a karaoke imitation to really being a singer, the karaoke singer needs to learn to vocalize to plain scales.   At first the karaoke singer should just hum the scales and feel the resonant inflections.  This will start to teach them to make pitch without thinking of an imitation.  

If you can hum a pitch you should be able to sing it.   After humming the scale or pitch, the singer should experiment with opening their mouth into a sung tone.  Sing as if humming with the mouth open. This will be the most natural and pure voice of the singer, with no fake imitations of a another’s singers vocal tone.

From the there the singer should sing something of their own creation without music and experiment with what they can do with their voice without trying to sound like their favorite singer.

To really learn to sing and not just imitate the singer should learn professional vocal techniques.   To learn professional vocal techniques go to www.vocalrelease.com    They offer a course that contains the most clear, concise singing instruction you can get.

One of the easiest things you can do to make your singing easier is to simply drink a lot of water ever day.  Drinking water while singing may ease your throat but it does not work as well as drinking water all the time, even when you aren’t singing. 

The condition of your throat and vocal cords greatly effect the tone and ease of use of your voice.   If your throat is dry and parched it will be hard to sing.  In extreme cases the voice will have a dry rasp or maybe not even able to be used for singing.

There are two conditions that will really drive this home for you.  If you live somewhere where it occasionally gets very humid and there is a lot of moisture in the air, you will find that this makes singing a lot easier.  Or, you can just go in a steam room.  You’ll notice your throat is very comfortable and your sinuses and chest even open up.

Conversely after a night out on the town and perhaps too many alcoholic beverages you’ll find that your voice is raspy, hard to use, and if you try to sing your singing is severely limited.   The reason is that alcohol directly dries out the membranes in the throat and vocal cords.   Take some rubbing alcohol and put it on your skin for a minute and rub it in.    The same thing is happening to your throats lining.  

This is also a reason not to smoke.  When you smoke, not only are you roasting your vocal folds, your also roasting and drying out the lining of your throat.

So, hydration is much more that lubrication for the voice.  How hydrated you are also effects the quality of your tone.

If you are looking for singing instruction you can use at home I recommend you use www.vocalrelease.com

It is simply the best online vocal instruction you can get.