Tips to Become a Better Singer

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is David Kingery and I am a professional vocal coach here in Miami, Florida. In this clip I"m going to give you some tips on how to become a better singer. My first tip is practice, practice, practice. You need to practice all the techniques of how to become a singer to become a very good singer. The first thing is posture. You want to stand very tall and almost feel like you have a string pulling you from the top of your head and your whole body hands off of that. Your chest is slightly out and your shoulders are slightly back. Your hands are either at your side or behind you. A lot of singers feel very uncomfortable with where to put their hands. So if you are uncomfortable put them behind you. So you have this tall nice posture. That is the first essential tip. The second tip to becoming a good singer is having good breathing. Breathing again is essential. Ninety percent of vocal problems when students and singers come to me can be resolved through good breathing. The essence of a good breath is through a yawn. It has an open throat and a lifted palate. Like this, so you want to stand nice and tall and have good breathing. You are constantly breathing as a singer, so as you are breathing in and singing out, you are breathing in, and singing out. The palate is lifted and your throat is open. Those are the first two great tips on how to become a good singer. The final tip I'm going to give you on becoming a better singer is learn all different styles of music. Get yourself a music book that has many different types of styles in it. For example I've picked these three styles. This is a classic art song, it's just a normal Aria art song. You can also then choose a Broadway type song which has a different type of range and it comes from a different type of voice. And then of course an Opera song. That really gets down into the severe and intense technique of singing. Get yourself a music book that has lots of different styles. Learning and singing the different styles certainly is going to help you become a well rounded better singer. Once again this is David Kingery thank you for watching."