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As a singer and a musician who has been taught to sing and taught others to sing, here are my top tips:
Breathe correctly. Think of the air bypassing your lungs and getting pulled down into your abdomen. If your stomach expands when you breathe in, you’re doing it correctly. This helps to support the notes and gives you a nice, full sound.
When learning a song, look at the notes. This seems like a no-brainer, but it’s not something singers always do. I once had a young student who was really struggling with a solo. She also played piano, so I knew she could read music. I told her to think of her voice like a musical instrument, and to read the notes as she sang. The change was almost instantaneous. That one tip helped her tremendously, and she was easily able to hit notes she’d struggled with before.
Hear the next note in your head before you sing it. This one kind of goes along with #2, but it is a little trickier to master. But if you can do it, it really helps. It physiologically primes your vocal chords to sing the next note in tune.
Once you know the song, feel it. As you’re learning a song, it’s very important to focus on technique and precision, but once you’ve practiced it and you know it, let expression take over. Let those crescendos and decrescendos come, let your voice crack- take the music out of the drivers seat and let your emotions do the talking. An imperfect solo sung with feeling will beat a perfectly sung emotionless solo every single time.