How To Open Your Voice For Optimum Singing

Your voice, like your body, needs to be exercised to stay in shape, and professional singing teacher Sonia Jones demonstrates some vocal exercises, including scales and sirens, to open your voice for optimum singing during a performance. Enlarge

How To Open Your Voice For Optimum Singing

Your voice, like your body, needs to be exercised to stay in shape, and professional singing teacher Sonia Jones demonstrates some vocal exercises, including scales and sirens, to open your voice for optimum singing during a performance.

How to open your voice for optimum singing. The first tip is definitely practicing your scales, so be it. "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah," and so on.

Another good way to open your voice is if you are in a small place, a quiet place, is to get the tip of your tongue onto the roof of your mouth and "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah," and this clears all your vocal cords and you won't be using your throat. And of course, breathing, breathing, breathing. You've got to breathe right to open your diaphragm, to open your voice for your performance.

Some people open their voice with sirens and this is basically, I'll demonstrate for you. Basically, that's just going through different scales very quickly to give your voice a very quick warm-up. So, just to recap on the best way to open your voice, breathing, very, very important; practice, practice, practice your scales; use the tip of the tongue method for if you're in a quiet place, and if you really are in a rush, just do a few of the sirens.

And that's how to open your voice for optimum singing. .