How to Sing Better If You Think You’re Bad

Maintain correct posture. To sing properly, make sure you have the right posture. You should stand or sit with your back straight. Your body should not lean to one side or the other. Make sure your head is not leaning forward or backward. ^[1]

• To see how to maintain the correct posture, try singing while lying on your back, or leaning against a wall so that your shoulders and the back of your head are in contact with the wall. ^[2]

Learn to breathe with your diaphragm. Getting the right breath is one of the most important things when it comes to singing. When taking a breath, you must use your diaphragm instead of your chest to inhale air. This means that when you inhale, your abdomen expands instead of your ribcage. When singing, the diaphragm will press down on the high scale and loosen when you lower the scale. ^[3] Using the diaphragm for breathing is the key to singing well.

• To practice, place one hand on your stomach and inhale through your nose. Your abdomen will expand and swell as you inhale. Don’t let your ribcage move up and down. As you exhale, push your breath and contract your abdominal muscles. This action is similar to crunches. Repeat until you feel comfortable singing.
• Alternatively, you can practice by lying on the floor and placing a book on your stomach. Make sure the book is raised as you inhale and lowered as you exhale.

Open the vowels. A quick way to improve your singing is to open up the vowels. This is called the nasopharynx technique. To achieve this technique, proceed to say the words “a” or “u”. Lengthen the mouth but do not widen it. You must separate your tongue from the soft palate and keep them from touching your teeth while singing. The tip of the tongue should touch the lower jaw. This will result in greater efficiency. ^[4]

• Try saying the vowels aeiou. You should not close the jaw. If you can’t hold the lower jaw, use your fingers to pull it down. Keep repeating the vowels until you can say them with your mouth muscles open.
• Practice singing with vowels. Keep your jaw open while singing as you would while speaking. Then sing a piece of music and open your jaw as you sing each vowel.
• It may take you a long time to practice mastery, but your voice will improve a lot. ^[5]
• This way you can start developing your voice. ^[6]

Keep your chin parallel to the floor. When you’re hitting high notes and trying to gain strength, you shouldn’t raise or lower your chin. Your head tends to go up when singing high notes, which can cause vocal problems. Keeping your chin parallel to the floor when singing will help your voice become more energized and easier to control. ^[7]

Expand the vocal range. First, you have to determine your range. Then you can proceed to increase the width of the interval. To do this, you need the right method. Before trying to expand your vocal range, your voice needs to have the right silent vowels and reverb. ^[8]

• To expand the range, practice halftones or full steps at the same time. You should practice with short intervals until you feel comfortable singing the new note before trying to push your voice higher or lower.
• Practicing under the guidance of a vocal coach is the safest, and most effective way to improve your vocal range.

Switch voices between different zones. Your voice is made up of 3 different registers. Shifting between these registers can change the reverberation in the vocals. Learning to control these changes will help improve your vocals.

• Male vocals have two registers: thoracic and pseudotone. The notes of the false voice register are usually quite high, while the notes in the thoracic register are usually lower.
• Female voices have three different registers: thoracic, early, and midrange. Corresponding to each of these zones are vocal transitions.
• The first voice has a higher vocal range. When you sing high notes, the sound vibrates at the beginning. You can put your hand on top of your head while singing high notes to feel the vibration. Chest voice has a lower vocal range. When you sing low notes, they vibrate in your chest. Mixed voice – is the intermediate voice between the chest voice and the head voice. Your vocal range will gradually shift from chest to head to sing the right notes. ^[9]
• When moving from high notes to low notes, you need to switch from your head voice to your chest voice. When you sing, you will feel the sound move up the head or down the chest. You shouldn’t sing notes with the same interval as your voice rises or falls. This will limit the quality of your voice. ^[10]

Drink water. Water helps lubricate and moisturize the vocal cords so they can easily open and close. Sugar-free, caffeine-free, and alcohol-free drinks have the same effect. Try to drink at least 2 cups (470 ml) of water every day. ^[11]

• Warm water is best for the throat. You should use warm drinks such as warm water or warm tea mixed with honey. Try to avoid cold drinks, like ice cream or fizzy drinks, as they can strain your muscles. ^[12]