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Singing Techniques – Sneaky Singing Tricks
Article by Gen Wright
As a singer, you are certainly doing all you can to improve your performance..right? You’re studying with a good teacher, working your daily exercises and practicing all your songs. Right? Probably not, but you’re trying, right? But things aren’t perfect yet and you still have some work to to to become the singer of your dreams. Fortunatally there are some tricks for you to fool people into believing that you are a totally trained singer. Lets reveal some of those.
“Tricks are only tricks when they are discovered.” I don’t know who said that, but I just did, and it makes sense. How about “what they don’t know won’t hurt them” (I know that’s not my quote.)
So how does all this apply to your singing?
* So you have terrible breath control. How do you disguise that? By planning ahead. Sing through the song, giving yourself plenty of places to take small breaths. Mark and practice taking your breaths in these places, even if they occur in the middle of a word. Then practice doing this so smoothly that you fool the listener into not hearing you take those breaths.
* So you can’t hit that high note. Practice singing another note instead. You can always say it was the way you “creatively’ felt. it. Honestly, pop music is made to be re-interpreted. So do it.
* So you hit a wrong note. Turn it into a right note with a few twists. Think like a jazz musician…ad lib. You may surprise yourself.
* So you forget the lyrics. Go back to a part you do know. How many people out there actually know all the lyrics to that song? Very few.
* So you pass out with fear. You’re on your own.
(2) Words That Work For You
I’ve written a lot about musical phrasing, and how to sing the lyrics so they make sense emotionally, the way they do when we speak them. Actors are very familiar with words which express their meaning just by their sound. Let’s examine some of these.
Poets and songwriters use self-expressive words often and effectively. For the singer or actor, the trick is to train yourself to recognize those special words quickly and easily, and then to speak or sing them almost reflexively, letting their emotion, color and power come through.
Let’s suppose you are singing these lyrics: “My beautiful love, as we lie together now I feel as if I were rising up to heaven, softly and gently, but within the quietness there is thunder.” (I realize that probably sounds like a scene from a porn movie, but….
Look carefully and the expressive words will pop out: “beautiful,” “love,” rising.” “heaven,” “softly,” “gently”, “quietness”
Speak each of these words several times. Take your time, and you will hear them express themselves by their sounds. Listen to what part of the word is the most expressive. For instance, the word “beautiful” expresses itself beautifully when we gently stress the “beaut” section. Maybe we stretch that part out a little, making the feeling more beautiful.
The word “softly” really does express softness. Gentleness. While the word “thunder” actually thunders out of the softness. Its sound actually expresses it’s meaning, and gives you some powerful clues on how to say or sing it.
Try writing down the lyrics to a favorite song. Then list the expressive words. Practice saying or singing them using the technique I described above.
Become more and more aware of the special words and your singing will improve more and more.
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