How to Improve Your Singing by Using Correct Posture

It's hard to believe that something as simple as your posture can so deeply affect the quality of your voice. But the truth is the way you stand (or sit) while you sing plays a huge part in whether you make your audience beg for more - or beg you to stop.

Right now, pay particular attention to your shoulders. How do they feel? Are they slumped, rigid, or relaxed?

Avoid These Mistakes with Your Posture

Make sure they are not slumped. Otherwise, you won't be able to get a deep enough breath to support your voice. Without that all important support, you voice sounds weak and out of tune. Even worse, the lack of support means you'll push too hard from your throat and cause you to sound tired and hoarse.

It's just as important that you avoid the rigid military pose that makes you tense everywhere from your shoulders up. Chin up! Chest out! Shoulders high! All of this is fine in gym class or if you're in bootcamp, but when it comes to singing you will sound forced and shrill.

How to get the Ideal Singing Posture

To get proper posture, stand up straight against the wall and take a deep breath in. As you let that air out, make sure your shoulders stay lifted. Once you've achieved a "lifted" position, hold it, and work on getting more and more relaxed. You can try doing shoulder rolls, massages, and deep breathing to release as much of your tension as you can.

Keep creating mental pictures of yourself standing tall, confident, relaxed, and it will happen. Remember, the more vibrant and relaxed your posture, the stronger, warmer and more magical your voice will sound.

You must have proper posture and a strong support system working together if you really want to achieve a voice worthy of stardom. You can not have one without the other, so it is well worth your effort to master them both. Combine both techniques effectively and you'll soon notice spectacular results.

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Jane Thomson graduated from the Classical Music program at Mohawk College with Honors in 1999. Since then, she has spent years studying singing techniques and passing them on to her private students to help them uncover their vocal potential. Visit http://www.powerfulsinging.com/ for more ideas on how to improve your singing.

Online Singing Advice, Performance Techniques - Overcoming Shyness When You Sing Or Speak Publicly

There are several causes of singing or speaking with a weak, uninteresting voice. In this article we're going to examine the first of these...shyness.

It's difficult to change the way you basically are (shy) just because you are singing a song or giving a speech. But, did you know that many of our greatest singers, comedians, speakers and actors suffer from extreme shyness, and yet are able to go on stage and become someone who is able to inspire others with their outreaching personalities and ability to communicate?

Tom Hanks, Lucille Ball, Bob Dylan, Carry Underwood, Cher, David Letterman, Diane Schurr, Elvis Presley, George Harrison, Ella Fitzgerald, Jim Carrey, Harrison Ford, Johnny Carson and many many others have publicly admitted being extremely shy. Most of them remain(ed) shy in their day to day lives, and yet were able to reach fame and fortune by replacing their shy persona with outgoing, powerful persona when they got on stage.

If you are shy your singing and speaking will probably be shy. There are terrific books, videos, seminars and classes which can help you with this problem. Go on the web, visit a bookstore find a good therapist. But first you must admit and accept your shyness. If you shrug it off and say "oh that's just the way I am" you'll never become a singer or public speaker. You don't have to change the way you are, but you do need to learn how to put it aside when you are performing.

A useful tip is to "play" a character when singing a song. Like an actor, become the person who wrote the song. What are they feeling? Whom are they speaking to? What motivates the song or speech? Go there and you can leave your shy self behind for those minutes you are singing the song or speaking the speech.

Oh, and don't forget that one of the main reasons we are shy about singing or public speaking is that we are insecure in our abilities. Find a good teacher and learn to be excellent at whatever you want to do.