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Vocal training

You may be perfectly happy with your vocal style, but the real importance of vocal training isn't so much to change the way you sing, but rather to safeguard your health.

Your voice is like any other muscle in the body - it can get tired, it needs exercise and it needs rest, especially if you are making it do things it doesn't normally do.

If you haven't done much singing before, it is a good idea to get some training so that you don't lose your voice when you need to perform, and don't do any long term damage due to repeated voice strain. In extreme cases the voice can develop lumps on the larynx called nodules - these take a long time to get rid of and can need surgery. However, this tends to happen to people who use their voice a lot, such as opera singers.

Practise your diction.
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Even a little training will help. Try to learn some warm-up and breathing exercises for the voice. Proper breathing will help support the voice and ensure that you don't run out of breath before the end of a phrase. Straining to get the song out when there's no breath left is a common way of tiring the voice.

Warm-up exercises like scales will make sure your voice is ready to perform before you start performing. A great way to lose your voice is to go in cold - causing the voice to work hard suddenly can cause strain.

These exercises needn't take long.10 minutes can make a difference, and they should be done for both live gigs and studio recording.

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Dennis / Derby
If you struggle to reach the notes of your song try singing in a lower key. If you are unfamiliar with this, just hit a note on the guitar or keyboard and try to sing at that pitch. If it is too high, then hit a lower note.All songs are sung in a key which is the note that the song usually starts from and returns to in each verse. As far as voice training is concerned you should visit your local music shops which usually have a list of voice coaches to choose from. Be careful who you select because they might not be suitable for your style of music and some charge excessively.

sammy london england
hi ive sent one of these already but one question i would like to ask is how do you get your voice in the right note without straining it becuse everytime i go to do so my voice goes all wrong and horrible and ruins the rest of my singing.but i dont kmow how to keep control of this without hurting myself.could you please put on this site where to go to get lessons and also how to do traing at home aswell.well thanx again

Carolyn from South Yorkshire
Hi, I have never been anything as good as an opra singer but as far as normal singing is concerned I used to be able to reach some pretty high notes & sing along quite easily with cd's of artists such as Celine Dion, however for the last couple of years I have found that I am not able to get to the high notes like I used to & I think this is because I strained my voice by pushing it too hard & following the advice of non-professionals, I deeply regret not having some kind of training. So follow this articles advice & get training from a professional if you have a good singing voice.


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