Do you know loving the sound of your own voice definitely will improve the quality of your voice overnight?
Liking your voice is one of the most essential points to work on but it is many times the last thing on an energized brand new singer's "to do" list mainly because they are just stressed out by all the options they ponder to begin with. Even though this appears very simple to process, it positively is not as easy to execute particularly when a newbie singer is more than likely being incredibly critical of just about every note that comes out of their mouth. Despite its simplicity, listening and liking your own voice is really important to monitor because:
* The fundamental challenge is keeping quiet the judge in your own mind monitoring every note, thus restricting the quality of your voice which the audience can hear because it is projected during your performance this way.
* Consistently analyzing your voice essentially takes you away from the pure essence and beauty of your voice because you've lost being in that moment with the song, which in the end is the same thing as being an observer of yourself in another Universe!
* Focusing with great care on the sound of your voice will make you tense up your body which directly leads to tightness in your vocal cords, effectively killing the singing notes and your performance.
Actually the key cause of stage fright and performance anxiety is this fact of being too stressed and tense.
First thing one must do is to really connect and feel the story of the song before one can really enjoy singing. Concentrating on the story behind a song and attaching emotions that mean something to you as an alternative to concentrating on your shortcomings (which may be real or imagined), will help you and your singing enormously. Without regard to the variety of song you are singing, if you are feeling good, it is difficult to tense up. Achieving balance in your voice is a key thing to keep working on in your singing for your overall conditioning of your voice, mentally, physically and most of all emotionally.
On my own website I go over how critical a relaxed diaphragm is key to proper singing technique and will reveal the concept briefly here. Imagine the feeling of when or why you smile as you take a deep breath in, thus fully relaxing your body and your diaphragm (a muscle along the base of your rib cage) that allows you to harness the core energy you are creating now. Employing this same exercise and applying it to liking your own voice can lead to success just as it will also work on your overall singing as well. Singers have to get out of their analytical mind and more into their bodies, meaning to be focused on the present. So whenever you are focused on your daily singing exercises, remember this exercise we just tried and start to program "feeling good" as you take a breath, which we will now all call the "smiling diaphragm".
Seeing that your diaphragm is smiling, you have to admit that it is very hard to tense up when you are feeling this happy and good! Learning to re-program you subconscious this way and changing the path of how things were done, to a new and hopefully better way is the way to go. As you get accustomed to relaxing your diaphragm by incorporating the exercise of breathing deeply and smiling, you need to get comfortable with really enjoying your voice as you will definitely get better at using your breath to sing. Appreciate this very moment and every second you have, but largely focus on this extraordinary new feeling of singing you will have. The voice is a muscle, if you're doing it properly, then you should really be developing your vocal strength and control the more you keep doing so. At some point through this regular training, your voice will surely sound better and better the more you keep doing it. The worst thing you can do is to evaluate that practice, as you would merely be working against your vocal development.
Liking your voice is one of the most essential points to work on but it is many times the last thing on an energized brand new singer's "to do" list mainly because they are just stressed out by all the options they ponder to begin with. Even though this appears very simple to process, it positively is not as easy to execute particularly when a newbie singer is more than likely being incredibly critical of just about every note that comes out of their mouth. Despite its simplicity, listening and liking your own voice is really important to monitor because:
* The fundamental challenge is keeping quiet the judge in your own mind monitoring every note, thus restricting the quality of your voice which the audience can hear because it is projected during your performance this way.
* Consistently analyzing your voice essentially takes you away from the pure essence and beauty of your voice because you've lost being in that moment with the song, which in the end is the same thing as being an observer of yourself in another Universe!
* Focusing with great care on the sound of your voice will make you tense up your body which directly leads to tightness in your vocal cords, effectively killing the singing notes and your performance.
Actually the key cause of stage fright and performance anxiety is this fact of being too stressed and tense.
First thing one must do is to really connect and feel the story of the song before one can really enjoy singing. Concentrating on the story behind a song and attaching emotions that mean something to you as an alternative to concentrating on your shortcomings (which may be real or imagined), will help you and your singing enormously. Without regard to the variety of song you are singing, if you are feeling good, it is difficult to tense up. Achieving balance in your voice is a key thing to keep working on in your singing for your overall conditioning of your voice, mentally, physically and most of all emotionally.
On my own website I go over how critical a relaxed diaphragm is key to proper singing technique and will reveal the concept briefly here. Imagine the feeling of when or why you smile as you take a deep breath in, thus fully relaxing your body and your diaphragm (a muscle along the base of your rib cage) that allows you to harness the core energy you are creating now. Employing this same exercise and applying it to liking your own voice can lead to success just as it will also work on your overall singing as well. Singers have to get out of their analytical mind and more into their bodies, meaning to be focused on the present. So whenever you are focused on your daily singing exercises, remember this exercise we just tried and start to program "feeling good" as you take a breath, which we will now all call the "smiling diaphragm".
Seeing that your diaphragm is smiling, you have to admit that it is very hard to tense up when you are feeling this happy and good! Learning to re-program you subconscious this way and changing the path of how things were done, to a new and hopefully better way is the way to go. As you get accustomed to relaxing your diaphragm by incorporating the exercise of breathing deeply and smiling, you need to get comfortable with really enjoying your voice as you will definitely get better at using your breath to sing. Appreciate this very moment and every second you have, but largely focus on this extraordinary new feeling of singing you will have. The voice is a muscle, if you're doing it properly, then you should really be developing your vocal strength and control the more you keep doing so. At some point through this regular training, your voice will surely sound better and better the more you keep doing it. The worst thing you can do is to evaluate that practice, as you would merely be working against your vocal development.
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