singing

St Thomas Chaldean Angels Choir on the 9th of June, 2011.

CHALDEAN ANGELS CHOIR

Learn to use your voice to sing for the church, for others & for yourself
Singing is about expressing yourself, inspiring others and engaging in a process of better understanding the world.
Singing is a skill based on muscle memory. It is an extension of speech. To become a good singer you must be able to breathe properly, sing with power (resonance) and sing on pitch. To become a great singer youll need to add musicality that only comes with continuous practice. Singing is about expressing yourself, inspiring others and engaging in a process of better understanding the world through your own indulgence in the musicality, creativity and emotions of singing. The following steps list the important things to take into consideration to be a good singer or, musically intelligent. Once you follow a few, you will notice your ability improving immediately. one foot slightly in front of the other, bending your knees slightly. This allows you to breathe more easily. Keep your shoulders back and down, floating over your torso and keep your chest high. Most importantly, relax your face!

Things to consider:
Posture: Breathing Practice Singing Tools

Posture:
Stand up straight with your feet shoulder width apart and

Do, Re, Me, Fa, Sol, La, Ti

Anyone can become more musically intelligent.

Power of Music
When you use the right techniques in music, just like in a poem or novel, you can inspire, motivate, learn and teach things beyond what language or anything else can do on its own.

Musical Intelligence Musical Creativity

Breathing:
Proper singing begins, develops and ends with proper breathing. Take a deep breathe before you start each song to produce the right sound, and continue doing this throughout the song. Use your lungs when singing. This chest voice sounds better than head voice. potential to become a good and great singer and work on their strengths. As you practice, you will get better, learn more and you will be able to pick up music much more easily and extend your musical range.

Most teenagers have creative ideas that they dont have the techniques to express. It is from this lack of ability they have in expressing themselves that they become bored, uninspired, and sometimes even depressed. Our emotions, sense of meaning and connections with others are extremely important to living a VALUABLE life. Musical intelligence and musical creativity enable us to express these.

Singing Tools:
Get to know your singing tools in order to understand what to work on and how. LUNGS Your breathing organ. Your lungs are located in your chest area, under your ribs. When you breathe, your lungs expand into your diaphragm, which then pushes down on everything below your rib cage. This is why your stomach pooches out. SOFT PALATE The soft tissue constituting the back of the roof of the mouth. To avoid screaming, you need to raise the soft palate. You can do this by pretending youre drinking through a straw as you sing.

As you practice you will be able to pick up music much more easily and extend your musical range. Practice:
Singing is a skill, and music is a type of intelligence. Just as people can improve their reading skills and linguistic intelligence, you can improve your singing skills and musical intelligence with proper technique and practice. Dont be put off by thinking youre not a natural singer. Some may be born with a better ability to sing, just as some are born with a better ability to read, but everyone has the

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MUCOSAL LINING Vocal chords have mucosal lining (like cartilage between bones). In order to produce this lining, your body needs to stay hydrated and you therefore need to drink plenty of water every day. This lining is what allows you to produce a healthy mucosal wave in the larynx. (this is the vibration and fluctuations that make your notes sound soulful). THROAT Need to leave your throat clear to be able to produce nice, clear sounds. Do this by eating healthy and drinking plenty of water. Sugar coats your throat. Dairy makes your voice sound like its blocked by something. Leave your throat clear at least half an hour before singing. MOUTH Need to create a space in the back of your mouth when singing. Imagine a gumball in your mouth. Thinking of this creates the space and allows a deeper, more maturesounding voice.

Justin doing his thing =P

Learning how to sing is an extremely valuable skill. Most people's creative ideas and levels of emotion are beyond the technical abilities they have to express them. Learn the techniques of singing so you can one day express your love, frustration, anger, joy and other emotions freely.
Even the simplest use of dynamics will make your songs come alive. Start with a comfortable pitch and sing softly. Crescendo to loud and then decrescendo back to soft. Do this using different vowel sounds and pitches. Out of the 5 different dynamic levels, the average person can comfortably sing 2-3. Remember, singing softer doesnt mean you sing weak. The more you practice, the louder and softer youll be able to sing healthily. AGILITY The flexibility of your voice. To become more flexible, practice singing Do-ReMe-Fa-Sol forwards and backwards as fast as you can. Also, try singing ha at different pitches and with dynamics. The beginning of the song Aphrodisiac by Brandy is a great example. Put your hands on your stomach and make sure you are taking deep breathes when singing. FLUCTUATION These are the soulful vibrations in the voice. Practice singing every vowel sound with fluctuations. SCALES A single scale can be manifested at many different pitch levels. Practicing scales will strengthen the muscles used for singing and give you better control. Jessica Nissan, 2011

Warm up:
VOCAL RANGE The breadth of pitches the voice can produce. Start singing in a range youre comfortable with. This is your middle range then practice using a low range, go to high range and back to middle. VOWELS Sing every vowel sound (a e i o u) at every pitch, and at different octaves. DYNAMICS Variations in the intensity of your resonance.