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:
* What exactly is perhaps most difficult to control is the voice in your head judging every note that the audience can practically hear which is projected while you are singing, thus diminishing your vocal performance.
* 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!
* You are going to tense up your body when you are paying too much attention to your voice, which of course leads to tightness in your vocal cords that will kill the notes and your singing 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 just how critical a relaxed diaphragm is key to proper singing technique and will reveal the concept briefly here. Picture the feeling of smiling as you breathe deeply in, utterly relaxing your diaphragm and body so we can harness the core energy we are producing. These same rules applied to liking your own voice will result in incredible results as it will effectively improve your overall singing as well. We need to get out of the mind and into the body, meaning, stay in the present. And whenever you are busy practicing, learn to think about programming 'feeling good' whenever you breathe in, which you will now call the "smiling" diaphragm.
Now that your diaphragm is smiling, you have to admit it is very hard to tense up when you are feeling this happy and good! Re-programming your subconscious to vary the path of how it used to do it, to a new and much better way always increases results. As you become accustomed to relaxing your diaphragm by incorporating the exercise of breathing deeply and smiling, you need to get used to really enjoying your voice as you will certainly get better at using your breath to sing. Delight in this very moment and every second you have, but primarily focus on this extraordinary new feeling of singing you will have. Your singing voice is a muscle and as with any muscle, if you continue to exercise you will get more vocal strength and ultimately fine control the more you do it. Eventually through this regular training, your voice is only going to sound better and better the more you keep getting this done. Judging your practice sessions is the worst thing you can do as this would only slow down your vocal development so please don't do this and simply enjoy your voice since I know I most certainly will if you always keep smiling.
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:
* What exactly is perhaps most difficult to control is the voice in your head judging every note that the audience can practically hear which is projected while you are singing, thus diminishing your vocal performance.
* 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!
* You are going to tense up your body when you are paying too much attention to your voice, which of course leads to tightness in your vocal cords that will kill the notes and your singing 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 just how critical a relaxed diaphragm is key to proper singing technique and will reveal the concept briefly here. Picture the feeling of smiling as you breathe deeply in, utterly relaxing your diaphragm and body so we can harness the core energy we are producing. These same rules applied to liking your own voice will result in incredible results as it will effectively improve your overall singing as well. We need to get out of the mind and into the body, meaning, stay in the present. And whenever you are busy practicing, learn to think about programming 'feeling good' whenever you breathe in, which you will now call the "smiling" diaphragm.
Now that your diaphragm is smiling, you have to admit it is very hard to tense up when you are feeling this happy and good! Re-programming your subconscious to vary the path of how it used to do it, to a new and much better way always increases results. As you become accustomed to relaxing your diaphragm by incorporating the exercise of breathing deeply and smiling, you need to get used to really enjoying your voice as you will certainly get better at using your breath to sing. Delight in this very moment and every second you have, but primarily focus on this extraordinary new feeling of singing you will have. Your singing voice is a muscle and as with any muscle, if you continue to exercise you will get more vocal strength and ultimately fine control the more you do it. Eventually through this regular training, your voice is only going to sound better and better the more you keep getting this done. Judging your practice sessions is the worst thing you can do as this would only slow down your vocal development so please don't do this and simply enjoy your voice since I know I most certainly will if you always keep smiling.
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