I have no clue how one would do this.
Can anyone elaborate?
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When most people sing, they push the sound from their throat directly out the front of their mouth. Sure, you’ll say, of course they do, where else can it go? But expending your breath this way flattens your vocal tone and you run out of breath quickly as your breath has no support. But if you sit or stand up straight, take a breath and support your lungs fully with your diaphragm and allow your breath to rise to the roof of your mouth to the point where it almost enters your nasal passages, you will get a better tone. You will also have more control over how much air you expend, which gives you much better control over your singing voice.
Probably still clear as mud, I suppose, but it’s one of the first things you learn when you are taught how to sing.
I appreciate the response. I will try this.
How will I know if I am doing it right?
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What for? If it’s karaoke, some easy crowd pleasers are: Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Clarence Carter’s “Strokin,” and Skynard’s “Sweet Home Alabama.”
If it’s for some other purpose, I have no idea.
I can’t sing for shit, but “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something seems to fit nicely into the half-octave or whatever range of my voice.
Ha! I actually picked this song for karaoke recently. I’m in China, so when I finally saw a song I knew, I just thought about the first 3 or 4 notes of the chorus, figured “Hey, that sounds quite low, I got this…” :smack:
“Send in the Clowns”. Limited range, no need to hold notes for a long time, etc.
“If They Could See Me Now”. Ditto.
“Hey, Look Me Over”. Ditto.
If it’s for Karaoke, suggest Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond.
Whatever you sing, get really into it and make it fun for the people watching. That will trump a good singer that is nervous and not playing the part every time.
Lordy. I had to learn this song for a singing class I took a few years back. And now it will be stuck the rest of the day, so thanks for that.
But I agree with the recommendation.
Several classic David Bowie songs don’t require much singing ability. They are sometimes basically “talking in tune”. If you can more or less stay in beat and hit the approximate range, you’re find.
E.g., Blue Jean. But note that it requires raising ones voice a few times.
Try
As Tears Go By by Jagger/Richards
Or
I Feel Good by James Brown. You can sing the melody and accompanyment [“nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh…”]
Or try a different James Brown:
It’s A New Day So Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn
This, and I’ll expand it to anything sung by Ringo Starr, he has limited ability so all of his songs are quite simple.
Oscar Levant considered Astaire to be 'the best singer of songs the movie world has ever known." Irving Berlin said that Astaire was one of his favorite vocalists. Discussing musicals of the period prominent composer Alec Wilder wrote, “Every writer, in my opinion, was vitalized by Astaire and wrote in a manner they had never quite written in before: he brought out in them something a little better than their best…”