How to sing properly

Play guitar? Don't know tabs? We can help you out right here.
Post Reply
User avatar
UltraKolby
Hooch
Posts: 412
Joined: Mon Feb 15, 2010 1:50 am
First name: Kolby
Age: 17
Gender:
Instrument 1: Guitar
Instrument 2: Piano
Location: America

How to sing properly

Post by UltraKolby »

Well I finally learned how to sing and play guitar at the same time (kinda :silly:) but I was told that singing from your throat is not the right way to sing and that singing from your stomach or chest was the right way. So I'm just wonder how do you do that, I tried looking up on how to sing from your stomach but every website I go to has different way to do things. So what I'm really trying to say is how to sing from your stomach? Please and thank you :glad:
Image
User avatar
Gutter Dreams
Moderator
Posts: 3141
Joined: Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:48 pm
First name: Sarah
Age: 19
Gender:
PSN ID: SarahFTL
Instrument 1: Guitar
Twitter: sarrrwhite
Location: Canada(!)

Re: How to sing properly

Post by Gutter Dreams »

God I'm terrible at explaining things but I'll try. Obviously, you need air to sing, pushing from your stomach or diagram makes your voice stronger rather than just 'singing from your throat'. The more air, the stronger the note will be. My vocal teacher always says "More air" if a note I'm hitting isn't strong enough.
User avatar
dbauer91
Billy Spleen
Posts: 339
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:52 am
Age: 20
Gender:
Instrument 1: guitar
Instrument 2: drums
Instrument 3: keyboard

Re: How to sing properly

Post by dbauer91 »

legit, sum 41 is maybe in my top 5 artists, and i realize there are a shit ton of more talented bands out there, but "crash" alone changed who i am as a singer. like the way he annunciates "time" and especially "goodbye" in the first verse is a perfect example of this. the vibrato-ish effect he puts into those ending notes is just beautiful and definitely comes from the chest and torso moreso than the throat. like when i sing in that fashion, i find myself twitching a bit (kinda like how kobiashi does while eating hot dogs if that makes sense). also, it's def important to sing w/ some swagger. brad nowell taught me that. like listen to this part at about 1:30 when he says "ain't no waaaaayyyy, no way to shop," he just puts so much badassery into that line.
the truth is there's no right and wrong way to sing (save rebecca black), just whatever you do, try to sound unique.
Last edited by dbauer91 on Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:40 am, edited 3 times in total.
User avatar
dbauer91
Billy Spleen
Posts: 339
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2010 2:52 am
Age: 20
Gender:
Instrument 1: guitar
Instrument 2: drums
Instrument 3: keyboard

Re: How to sing properly

Post by dbauer91 »

and as far as practicing goes, don't waste your time and money on fucking singing lessons. just wail your lungs out in your car.
User avatar
sumfan4
Jessica Kill
Posts: 2707
Joined: Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:48 am
First name: Eric
Age: 19
Gender:
n00b: all of them
Instrument 1: vajayjay
Instrument 2: my weiner
Instrument 3: your weiner
Location: Maryland, US

Re: How to sing properly

Post by sumfan4 »

dbauer91 wrote:and as far as practicing goes, don't waste your time and money on fucking singing lessons. just wail your lungs out in your car.
haha that's what I do! now I'm starting a band and I'm lead vocals :2cool4u:
User avatar
Resident Skumfuk
All Killer No Filler
Posts: 1571
Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:22 pm
Age: 19
Gender:
Instrument 1: guitar
Location: US

Re: How to sing properly

Post by Resident Skumfuk »

dbauer91 wrote: just wail your lungs out in your car.
I LOVE doing this.
Image
User avatar
Jake-41
Underclass Hero
Posts: 3696
Joined: Thu May 14, 2009 4:26 am
First name: Jake!
Age: 18
Gender:
Instrument 1: Banji

Re: How to sing properly

Post by Jake-41 »

Resident Skumfuk wrote:
dbauer91 wrote: just wail your lungs out in your car.
I LOVE doing this.
EVERYONE DOES THIS! HAHAHAHA.
Image
Image
Image
Image
User avatar
HugoDisasters
Jessica Kill
Posts: 2979
Joined: Sat Jan 09, 2010 4:19 pm
Gender:
n00b: You.
AKA: HHUGGZ
Instrument 1: Guitar
Instrument 2: Vocals
Instrument 3: Piano
Location: Sweden

Re: How to sing properly

Post by HugoDisasters »

Jake-41 wrote:
Resident Skumfuk wrote:
dbauer91 wrote: just wail your lungs out in your car.
I LOVE doing this.
EVERYONE DOES THIS! HAHAHAHA.
:hehe:

Click to view the fullsize image.http://i34.tinypic.com/10e1sli.jpg[/imgwidth]
User avatar
Resident Skumfuk
All Killer No Filler
Posts: 1571
Joined: Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:22 pm
Age: 19
Gender:
Instrument 1: guitar
Location: US

Re: How to sing properly

Post by Resident Skumfuk »

HugoDisasters wrote:
Jake-41 wrote:
Resident Skumfuk wrote:
dbauer91 wrote: just wail your lungs out in your car.
I LOVE doing this.
EVERYONE DOES THIS! HAHAHAHA.
:hehe:
was just saying i enjoyed it..
Image
User avatar
Heather
Moderator
Posts: 3071
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:43 pm
First name: Heather
Age: 26
Gender:
Instrument 1: vocals
Instrument 2: guitar
Twitter: @HMac41
Location: South Carolina
Contact:

Re: How to sing properly

Post by Heather »

What Sarah said and I too got better at singing by belting KT Tunstal and Avril in my car...haha

and yes, Crash has some amazing vocals, also the end of Skumfuk. That whole album has his best vocals
Image
Post Reply