PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

If you want to improve your vocal technique, you must practice every day. For those of you who remember singing in school choir (maybe you are still in school choir), remember those vocal exercises that your music teacher would use to "wake up" your voice? You need to remember those exercises. Find a piano app on your phone or iPad and play a note on it as a starting point. The best situation would be if you have a piano or keyboard at home. But if you don't, the phone app works, too. Sing up and down the scale three to five notes at a time. Keep going higher and lower as you sing. It is hard to describe this, so just search YouTube for some vocal exercises and you will know what I am talking about. Maybe I will do a video of a couple of exercises for you so you can follow them. Yes, I will do this for you and play them on the piano. Most people can sing from one octave (which is 8 notes) to 1-1/2 octaves (12 notes). Your goal is to get to 3 octaves (24 notes). This will take awhile and lots of practice. Exercising will also help your pitch placement which is so important.   Look for my exercise video coming soon.

MY YOUTUBE CONNECTION

I have been singing since I was 5 years of age, majored in music in college, 20 years of experience as a choir director and have been teaching voice for 10 years. If you would like to view my YouTube Channel, just click on some of my students' videos in the upper right hand corner of this blog. There you will find several videos of my singing and also videos of my students' singing.   I will be posting more of my students on my YouTube channel frequently. I have an IPad and it has been a wonderful tool in my music. In posts to come, I will be suggesting ways that you can use it when you sing.