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How to Sing Better
Maintain correct posture. To sing properly, make sure you have good posture. You should be standing or sitting up with a straight back. Your body should not be tilted to one side or the other. Make sure your head isn't tipped back or forwards.
To get an idea of the proper alignment, try singing while laying flat on your back. Or, stand against a wall so that your shoulders and the back of your head are in contact with the wall
Learn to breathe from your diaphragm. Correct breathing is one of the most important things when singing. When you breathe, make sure you are taking air from your diaphragm instead of your chest. This means when you breathe in, your abdomen will expand instead of your chest. When you sing, you will push down on the diaphragm when you ascend a scale and release when you come back down the scale.[3] Supporting your voice with the diaphragm is one of the keys to singing.
How to Singing Better
To practice, place a hand on your stomach and inhale through your nose. Your abdomen should expand and jut out when you breathe in. Your chest should not move out or up. As you exhale, push down and contract the abdominal muscles. It should feel like doing a sit up. Repeat until this is natural when you are singing.
An alternative way to practice is to lay on the floor and put a book on your abdomen. Ensure the book rises when you inhale and lowers when you exhale.
Open your vowels. One quick way to improve your singing is to open your vowels. This is called the open throat technique. To achieve this, start by saying "ah" or "uh." Elongate your mouth without widening it. You want to separate your tongue from your soft palette and keep them separated while you sing. Your tongue should be against your bottom jaw. This gives you better quality.
Try saying A-E-I-O-U (pronounced ah, eh, ee, oh, oo). Your jaw should not close on any of those. If you can't keep your jaw down, use your fingers to encourage your jaw to move down. Keep repeating the vowels until you can say them with your mouth open.
Improve Your Voice
Sing the vowels. Keep the jaw open while you sing them like you did while saying them. Then sing a phrase and open the jaw when you sing each vowel.
This will probably take some practice to achieve, but it will help improve the quality of your singing.
By doing this you can start to grow your voice.
Keep your chin parallel to the floor. When you are singing higher notes and trying to get power, avoid lifting or dropping your chin. Your head has a tendency to move up as you sing higher notes, which can cause problems with your vocal cords. Singing while focusing on keeping the chin parallel with the floor helps give your voice more power and control to make sing better