harryscully

Name: Harry Calderon
Location: Mexico
Posts: 4
Rank: Beginner
Member Since: July 2010

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Is it good to warm up the voice everyday?
I know everytime i sing, i should warm my voice up, but daily warm up even if i am not singing?
Professional sports athletes such as basketball players work on their craft everyday to achieve the mastery that they have of their body for said sport. They practice their shooting technique, their lay ups, their side shots, their dunks, their footwork, dribbling and even other parts of the body by jogging, push ups, etc. The voice is a muscle, and like every other, needs to be exercised on a daily basis if you want consistent results from it.

Even when I'm not going to be singing throughout the day, I do two sets of vocal work outs; one in the morning, and one in the evening/night. It never hurts to do so. You should do them preferably every single day to build elasticity, flexibility, and strength in your vocal cords. Missing one day is fine, and it's not the end of the world, although if you want your voice to grow fast, you should be fairly consistent with the amount of working out you do with your voice depending on those demands if you want to see results.
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Singing Success just isn't working for me.
I've been stuck on the first lesson (disc 3) for over a month now. I'm still horribly inconsistent. Some days I sound great, other days I break constantly and can't even do the warm up exercises (lip rolls etc) without frequent breaks. Some days I can go rather high up the scale with my chest voice alone before needing to switch to head voice, and other times I can't hit middle C with my chest voice and am forced to use my head voice from that point in the scale onwards.

I still can't do the tongue trills or nay nay nays either. I'm CAPABLE of tongue trilling, but my tongue seems to vibrate at a much higher rate than what is normal and I have to push a lot of air out really hard to actually get the trill going, which causes fatigue very quickly and often causes breaks.

As for the nay nay nays, they're just a mess. In order to reach the high notes with these I really have to reach and by the half way point every muscle in my neck is tensed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I know that's not supposed to happen.

I just don't know what to do to get around these issues. The inconsistency I assume will diminish with time and proper technique, but I really don't know what I'm doing wrong with the tongue trills and nay nay nays. It's very discouraging to go more than a month without any improvement.
It happened the same to me, but if you are stuck on a lesson, keep going and leave it for another day, maybe just move on to disc 4 or to the style part to relax. I also use another sites to practice or listen to advices about singing. And of course, nothing better than a teacher to tell what you are doing wrong. Invest time, money, energy and everything in what you like. Success!
Well...
I can suggest you to buy a one month subscription to the site, and watch as many lessons as possible, searching those, where there are students with your same problems.

That helped me very very much, and it is not expensive.
You will also be able to download 5 lessons.
I downloaded theese, wich are very very very good:

CLASSICAL TECHNIQUE FOR THE COMMERCIAL SINGER Data: 6 Agosto 2009
SMART SINGING di Jesse Nemitz. Data: 14 Aprile 2010
SPLIT OF RESONANCE: PART I PHARYNGEAL di Shelby Rollins. Data: 20 Luglio 2011
SPLIT OF RESONANCE: PART II EDGE di Shelby Rollins. Data: 25 Agosto 2011
CONTROLLING YOUR LARYNX di Shelby Rollins. Data: 20 Ottobre 2011

In general, I suggest you the lesson of Jesse and Shelby.
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Beginner at Mastering Vibrato
Hello! Is my first time here in the forum and I've just bought Mastering Vibrato and i haven't use it yet. I've used Singing Success and it has worked for me. Please let me know your comments about Mastering Vibrato!.
Greets for everyone!
Thanks! Yesterday was my first day using it and its kind of weird! But I hope its for good reason Very Happy!
awesome! im just starting it too!!