Singing Lesson for Beginners - Clear Voice

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If your voice doesn’t sound as clear as you’d like it to, this lesson is for you!
I’m Camille, voice teacher with 30 day singer, and I have 3 practical tips for you to sing with a clearer voice.
One important disclaimer, first: if you’re experiencing hoarseness for 2 weeks or longer, please talk with your doctor! If, however, your speaking voice is clear, but your singing sounds a little muffled or “held back”, then these tips should help.
One: prioritize hydration throughout the day - not just while you’re singing. Drinking water feels great in the moment, but it takes time to actually hydrate your vocal folds. Some would estimate at least 90 minutes! Hydrated vocal folds function better, with more clarity of tone and thinner mucus so you’re not having to clear your throat. I’ll always remember one summer, when I was cast as Belle in a production of Beauty and the Beast. The director called to offer me the part, and they passed along one message from the musical director: start drinking a lot of water NOW. And that was over 6 weeks in advance of the actual performance. The point is: hydration is crucial for your voice, just like it’s crucial for the rest of your body.
Two: warm up with something semi-closed. You might’ve hear the term SOVT, standing for semi-occluded vocal tract. Or you may have some experience with lip trills or straw singing. Those are both SOVTs, or exercises in which there is partial closure of the vocal tract, meaning the mouth and throat above the vocal folds. These type of exercises bring the vocal folds together easily and efficiently, helping you to produce a strong, clear tone with minimal effort. You might slide on an SOVT , sing a warmup pattern like an arpeggio, or you could even sing the melody of a song. To transition from an SOVT to a vowel, you might start on the lip trill, for example, and then open up to a vowel within the same breath. Or you could sing on a syllable like MUM, elongating the M sound - the M sound is an SOVT, too!
And third tip, especially if your sound feels a bit muffled or “stuck”, is to do exercises that are more about “placing” the voice than “warming it up”. I know “placement” can be a controversial topic, and I don’t actually use it much in my teaching, but it can be helpful! The idea is: when you get a sound you like, memorize the sensation of creating that sound. Additionally, you can visualize “sending your voice” to that spot in your body where you were feeling sensation. A common example would be “placing the voice” in the eyes or cheeks, or focusing on a buzzing sensation in the nose or mustache area. Let’s try this together, and I’ll do my best to help guide you! Slide on an NG sound, like the end of the word sing, and just notice where you feel sensation. Now slide on an EE vowel, and notice the sensation. I’m choosing these sounds because they tend to be very bright and vibrant - and if your voice feels muffled or stuck, what we want is bright, “forward”, and ringing. Now, whatever you felt on the NG or the EE, can you visualize the sound vibrating in that same space when you sing on a different vowel? Try it on MEH like the word MET. This kind of practice isn’t a good fit for every singer, so no need to force it. But if you like it, it can be a great little shortcut!
Please note: you can vocalize on any vowel, syllable or word that sounds clear to you. So let’s say you’re singing “Joy to the world”, and the lyric “world” sounds particularly clear. Try singing on “wuh” for the whole verse, and see how it sounds! If you happen upon a vowel that sounds nice and clear, start with that and transfer to something more challenging by repeating an exercise twice, with the more challenging vowel last or by changing from the clear, easy vowel to the more challenging one within the same exercise. The idea is: start with what works and use that as scaffolding for something new or more difficult.
Thank you so much for watching this lesson, and as always, I wish you happy singing!
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Tip 1
1:39 - Tip 2
3:04 - Tip 3
7:18 - Outro
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[@davidhenriques9048]

the inhale the voice classical bel canto concept helped me a lot with placement, sucking the sound towards the hard palate, basically the same effect this video focus on, nice lesson

[@hanankim7681]

Thank you Camille ❤

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tahnk you teacher this really helped

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What are some good foods and drinks for singers?

[@Baby_kasy]

Pls help me i want tobe singer but my voice is really teribble😢