
Before we can talk about the 3 Golden Rules of Singing, we need to put fuel in the gas tank so the engine can run properly: I.E learn to take deeper and better sustained breaths.
In this video, we will talk about what is really involved when it comes to "breathing from the diaphragm", including 4 breathing exercises:
1. Long Hiss
2. Pulsed Hiss
3. The Quick Breath
4. Trills.
Learn the technique of the 3 most common practices in contemporary singing. These rules, applicable across many different genres and styles of singing, will help you to immediately improve and strengthen your sound, as well as help you to use your voice in a healthy and sustainable way.
Here are the 3 Golden Rules and accompanying warm ups:
1. Focus the sound in the mask of your face:
-Humming on the letter 'N'
2. Open your mouth length wise:
- Opening up on a 'Ya'
- Massaging the jaw joints
3. Lift your soft pallet:
- Yawning
- Using the head voice
- Gliding on an 'ooo' or 'wooo'
- Singing with your head upside down
Sculpt your vocal tone and build consistency by using the 3 Golden Rules to experiment with you vowel sounds.
1. Primary vowel sounds: Ah Eh Ih Oh Oo
2. Find your strongest and weakest vowels: vowel cycle warm up
3. Vowel Morphing: Morph from your strongest vowel to your weakest while maintaining the feeling of the strongest vowel
4. Reorder your vowel cycle warm up with your strongest vowel in the beginning
Using the 3 Golden Rules and your favorite vowels, learn how to slowly extend your range on both ends.
1. Low Notes:
- Opening up from a hum
- "I Love To Sing"
- Gliding Down
2. High Notes:
- Sirens
- Pinching the nose
- Gliding up and reentering on your note
Use your breath support to control the volume of your voice.
1. Dynamic Vocabulary
-Pianissimo
-Piano
-Mezzo Piano
-Mezzo Forte
-Forte
-Fortissimo
-Crescendo
-Decrescendo
2. Individual dynamics
- Slow air flow for piano
- Fast air flow for forte
3. Crescendo and Decrescendo Warm Up
Learn to enter into your destination note quickly without having slide around to get there.
1. Attack Time
-What is it?
-How to shorten it
2. Staccato Singing
-Step wise scale up
-Lifting before you need to
-Step wise scale down
-Upward leaps
-Glide then leap
Learn how to execute riffs and runs quickly while still maintaining your precision.
1. The Pentatonic Scale
- Major pentatonic solfege
- Minor pentatonic solfege
2. C major Pentatonic Warm Up
-Slowly
-Sped up
3. Reverse warm up
-Slowly
-Sped up
4. Polishing
- Bouncing the rhythm before evening it out
- What notes in the scale to look out for?
- Accenting notes
Learn how to maintain healthy vocal cords and the DO's and DON'T's of vocal health.
1. Warming Down
-Trills
-Humming
2. What NOT to do
-Cold AC after a performance
-Cold water while singing
-Eating Dairy or acid or inflammatory foods before singing
-Clearing your throat
-Coffee
-Screaming
3. What TO DO
-Room temperature water
-Hot Anti-inflammatory Tea (not too hot)
-Food and sleep journal
-Breathing steam
-Slippery Elm Extract
-Gargling
-Vocal Rest (use a white board or text to speech app to communicate at work of school)
4. See an ENT
-Talk to your doctor!
Learn 3 key techniques that pro singers use across genres with customizable warm ups to fit your voice.
Build muscle memory with fun, easy-to-learn tricks and singing hacks.
Understand what is really meant when people say ‘breathe from your diaphragm” and grow your breath support exponentially.
Easily expand your vocal range to sing much higher and lower notes with ease.
Gain comfort and confidence with a stronger chest voice, fuller sounding head voice and falsetto.
Discover your most natural vocal tone and polish your timbre.
Harness your breath to sing louder and softer without strain.
Sharpen your technique for precise entry onto notes.
Increase your agility to nail riffs and runs with fast-paced scale exercises.
Sing mindfully by analyzing what feels good to your vocal cords and what sounds good to your stylistic ear.
Learn the Do’s and Don’ts of vocal health and upkeep, along with tips and tricks for when your voice isn’t feeling so great.
Polish your voice efficiently by using the wisest practice method.
ADDITIONAL TIP! Always practice while listening to yourself through a speaker or through headphones for a more in-depth experience and faster results.
Have fun experimenting with your voice and tailoring your sound to be exactly the way you like it!