How To Sing Better Without Lessons

When it comes to vocals skills, some people have it and other simply don't. This doesn't mean that people who are not naturally good singers can never becomes professional. There are 1000's of pro singers who relied on training to get them to that level. Many people choose schools to improve their vocal skill however there are numerous other methods in which you can learn to sing better without lessons.

There are a number of exercises which control the air and diaphragm movement in order to to have more control over each note pitch, duration and shape of sound. Simply learning these techniques will improve you singing by a large scale.

As simple as it is to do, this exercise works very well and it one of the favourites amongst other vocal exercises.

The reason for this being so effective is it that encourages your vocal chords to make better vocal coordination’s. It does this by training your most important singing muscles which are the your “inner larynx muscles”. These are the muscles that actually coordinate your vocal chords. These muscles are for swallowing food therefore using these muscles while singing is not helpful for your vocals.

The lip roll exercise which follows, completely dis-engages these muscles while you are singing.

Once your voice is free from these swallowing muscles, you are free to sing easily and effortlessly. In fact, if you are able to completely disengage these muscles, singing will become second nature.

The lip roll involves lifting up each side of your cheeks to take the weight of the loose skin from around the lips as per the photo below:

Once you have this position, blow through your lips as if you are fed up and tired.

You should be making a weird horse like sound.

The next step is to make an “AHHH” sound. It should sound realy dopey since sound will slightly put pressure on your larynx (your voice box), which keeps your voice clear from your swallowing muscles interfering with the vocal passage.

Next, mix the dopey “AH” sound while holding the skin around the lips and you should get a different sound.Thatis the lip roll, balancing the air pressure with your lips while at the same time disengaging your swallowing muscles.

Breathing is an important part of singing, and most teachers will be introducing this as the first stage.

We can start by producing the sound - 'ssss..' - using your breath as well as your teeth and tongue. Make sure that the sound produced is clear "s" sound, and not a 'Shhh'. (A 'Shhh' sound releases too much air).

The challenge is to produce the 'ssss' sound, focusing on making the sound stable and keeping the volume constant. This is good training for the diaphragm and surrounding muscles to keep the sound at a constant volume and length.

The second breathing exercise requires a lot more tension in the diaphragm and also the stomach muscles. Make the same 'sssss" sound but this time do it as loudly as you can as through you are squeezing the air out of a balloon with a small hole as fast as you can. You will find that it's difficult to maintain the sound for a long time, since it is training the muscles around the diaphragm for more tension. This is good training for reaching the higher notes.

The third exercise is more simple, try and following short sounds `ssss! ssss! ssss! ssss!'. Rather than sounding like a snake, what you are doing here is training your diaphragm to be more flexible so you can sing faster songs with staccato sections more easily.

Try the above daily for around 10-15 minutes.