6. Practice to Make Your Worst Decent
Rock, Hardcore, and Metal Vocal Instruction
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It's counterintuitive, but practicing to make your best just a little bit better isn't the best use of your time. We're simply not able to be at our best all the time, no matter how hard we try, and being a great singer means delivering a consistent and reliable performance every time you sing.
Learning to let go, and allow your voice to simply be what it wants to be is key here. Let yourself sound bad, make mistakes, get used to not being perfect, and you'll find out how to make even your worst performances sound pretty good, which means your audience always gets their moneys worth.
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7. How Do I Practice
Practicing lots of scales and exercises, in my experience, is not a particularly effective way of practicing singing. Learning to apply techniques to songs, as you learn them, isolating the particular skill while singing along gently to the songs you already love, is far more beneficial.
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8. Breathing
This video explains breath control and support, also known as appoggio. I don’t go into too much detail on why it works, or how, I simply show you how to do it, which is all you really need to know, along with how to fix your posture.
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9. Posture
Standing and sitting correctly allows your skeleton to do almost all the work of breath support for you. Simply fixing your posture can do more for your singing than almost anything else you can do. It also gives a dominant, confident presence that moves audiences, and will positively impact your...
