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  1. Awesome, thanks! I just listened to Stars yesterday and downloaded a backing track. I hadn't heard other songs on that list and they all sound great. Gotta check that Groban's album...
  2. Thanks for your reply! I've been googling for musical songs a lot and checked most well known musicals, but I thought I might have missed some.
  3. Hello! I don't know if this is really the correct board to discuss this, but I didn't find a better one. So, I'm looking for new training songs. I like especially musical songs and other songs with beautiful melodies, and I like songs which move on a large scale. I'm a baritone, but I can transpose, so it doesn't really matter. Here are some songs I've been singing recently: All I Ask Of You (The Phantom Of The Opera) Empty Chairs At Empty Tables (Les Miserables) Anthem (Chess) Til I Hear you sing (Love Never Dies) Josh Groban - To Where You Are Andrea Bocelli - Con Te Partiro Idina Menzel - Let It Go Memory (Cats) Thanks for any Ideas!
  4. Thanks for the replies! I started taking singing lessons in the beginning of this year. Once during the spring I asked my teacher about warming up, and he replied that as the training proceeds, the excercises will serve as warm ups. He is teaching using a bottom-up approach, so the main focus is at support and vowel modifications. The thing that is really confusing me is that sometimes I get that correct "feeling" naturally, and sometimes I don't get it no matter how hard I try.
  5. Hello! I've been wondering how to reduce the inconsistency in my singing voice. Sometimes my voice just feels great: My high and low notes are easy, I can sing loud and soft without sounding breathy and my voice doesn't get tired. Although I'm not a big fan of the term "placement", on good vocal days it feels as if my voice was placed higher. However, usually I have difficulties getting to that state. It's difficult to get proper vocal cord closure, and my voice cracks much more easily. I may not be able to access my head voice at all, and I feel that I sing too "heavy". To improve my voice, I try to breathe low and have a good support, and maintain yawny feeling at throat. I also do warm up excercises, but no matter what I do, the voice doesn't seem to get better. I know that the inconsistency in singing voice is caused by inconsistence in technique. However, I practise daily, and I go to singing lessons once a week. I somehow believe that this might be a warm up issue. I usually hardly talk at all during the day, and doing vocal excercises feels difficult even in the beginning. It would be great if anyone could give me some tips how to get my voice in shape.
  6. Hello! Sometimes my cord closure is ok (not very good though), but usually it's really lacking, and that varies daily a lot. Sometimes even high and low notes feel quite easy, and sometimes I don't have a proper cord closure even on my comfort zone. Are there some warm ups that I could use to improve my cord closure, when having a connected tone feels difficult? I've used scales with syllables starting with 'b' to improve my cord closure. Are there any other excercises that could help? Also, what's a good amount of practice? I have 2-3 cord closure excercises in my daily set of excercises. Does having many cord closure excercises tire vocal cords? And would it be better to do some excercises multiple times a day? I hope this made any sense, but long story short: How to improve my cord closure in the short term (e.g. before I'm going to perform) and in the long term?
  7. Great replies, thank you! I'm still wondering one thing: I've heard multiple times to "anchor my larynx to my diaphragm", and that using my abs allows the diaphragm to go lower. Does that mean that proper support also prevents larynx from rising too high?
  8. Hello! I've been wondering some things about head voice and breath support. 1. Head voice: How can I access head voice and make sure, it's not falsetto? I can connect from my chest voice to the upper part of my range without breaks (lift up pull back?), but that sounds weak so I think it's falsetto. Also, I can't add power to my top notes. Once I've found my head voice, how can I strengten it? 2. Breath support: My vocal coach tells me to constrict my abs when singing higher. However, no matter how hard I constrict them, I don't feel any difference, high notes are still as hard as before. I don't think that it's about the strength of my abs, instead, I must be doing it incorrectly. Where should I feel tension when singing, upper/lower part of my belly? Do you have any other advice on finding the correct way to support my breath? Thank you for any advice!
  9. Thanks, that's some great advice. Now that my flu is mostly over, I've been able to sing a bit more again. I found a video about connecting chest and head voice, and realized that I had been doing what the guy in the vid calls "falsetto slide" (0:37). That's why it feels like I have a "weaker spot" in between the registers. I guess I'll keep on doing the excercise that was shown on the vid. I'd also like to hear if there are some other excercises on connecting head and chest voice. Does working top down help? One more thing that I have noticed is that After I do excercises, or sing high, it becomes more and more difficult to connect vocal cords, and my tone becomes breathy. What could cause that? Is it normal, because I'm not used to sing high yet? Or is it more likely that I practise with wrong technique?
  10. Thanks for your reply! I know it would be best to find a teacher, and I'm trying to do so. I also got a flu a bit after writing that message, that probably also affected my singing although there were no symptoms yet.
  11. Hello! I've sang for a long time more and less actively (I'm an amateur singer), and I'm pretty satisfied with my chest voice. However, I used to become tired after singing, because I "pushed" my voice on higher notes. I did some googling, and found out, that I hadn't used my head voice at all (although the names of the registers were familiar, I didn't really know what they meant). Now I've done some practising, and I can access my head voice by "jumping" to it quite easily. I still find it difficult to switch to head voice when doing arpeggios. Here's my problem: I can sing on my mid-low chest voice or high head voice with good tone, but in my bridge area my tone gets breathy. That includes the higher part of my chest voice and lower part of my head voice. It may be caused by lacking breath support or cord closure, but I don't know which. The question is, how should I practise? I've considered getting a vocal coach, but it's difficult to find one where I live. Thank you for any advice!
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