1) PERSONAL MESSAGE from Your Personal Singing Coach

2) FACEBOOK GROUP for all supporters and fans of Your Personal Singing Guide

Join our facebook group now and keep in touch with the latest news from Your Personal Singing Guide.com!

3) RESOURCE Webpage: Singing Contests

A useful webpage for those who are thinking of taking part in singing competitions.

4) RESOURCE Website: Interval Ear Training Website

Train your intervals and aural awareness with this useful resource website!

5) COMMUNICATE with Your Personal Singing Coach

Send in your questions about singing, and also compliments or feedback about this website!

1) Vocal Tip #28 – The Tongue and its Importance for Singing

2) Pitching Tip #24 – Tone Deafness

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Message from Your Personal Singing Coach:

“Welcome all fellow singers, vocal coaches and singing students!

It is time, once again, for me to chat with you all, and to update everyone about what’s going on here in our community!

I am proud to announce that our community is now more than 4,000 members strong, judging by the number of subscribers to Your Personal Singing Ezine, which is sent out every 1 1/2 months!

It has been a long and arduous journey, and I have put in so much hard work all this time, and I am very happy to be helping so many people around the world to sing better.

Our Facebook group has also grown from strength to strength, and it now has more than 500 members!

I am also seeing much more activity in the group, with more messages posted on the wall of the Facebook group.

I will also be checking out the posts there, so feel free to post any question or comments there too!

Mother’s Day has just passed, and I hope that everyone had a lovely celebration with your family, and especially with your mother. I just had dinner with my family, and it was wonderful!

I certainly hope to be able to keep improving on my singing website, and make sure that we achieve greater results!

I would like to continue to ask that you get more friends to join Your Personal Singing Guide’s Facebook Group
(http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161546608524&ref=ts)

, and get your friends to join too. Help me to spread the word to everyone in the world, so that my website can begin to touch lives that I can’t even begin to imagine right now!

Do enjoy the tips that I am providing for you in this 26th issue of this Ezine, and feel free to share Your Personal Singing Ezine with your friends and loved ones, or better still, get them to come and subscribe to their very own Personal Singing Ezine! I will be glad to share my singing tips and pointers with them too!

If you wish to share with your friends the back-issues of our Ezine, feel free to do so too:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/Your_Personal_Singing_EZine-backissues.html

Also, if you feel that our website is really beneficial to you, please do let us know by dropping us an email through our Contact Us section on the website! Your comments will be greatly appreciated!”

Yours Sincerely,

Aaron Matthew Lim

Your Personal Singing Coach

FACEBOOK GROUP for all supporters and fans of Your Personal Singing Guide

For those of you who subscribe to our Personal Singing Ezine, do make it a point to join our Facebook Group for readers of Your Personal Singing Guide.

This facebook group allows us to keep in contact with each other online, and also to discuss various topics about singing and music.

Basically, we can build an online music community, but I do need your help for this. Hopefully you can join this facebook group, and also get your friends and family to join too!

I am sure it will be fun to interact with people from all around the world, and exchange pointers and contacts with musicians and singers from every part of the globe!

So, do check out the URL below and join our facebook group now!

Your Personal Singing Guide Facebook Group URL:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161546608524&ref=ts

Thank you for your help, and I hope that our music community keeps growing by the minute!

RESOURCE Webpage: Singing Contests

Some readers have written to me and commented that they benefited from the tips I posted in the webpage on Singing Contests.

This is why I am featuring this webpage here, so that those of you who are thinking of taking part in any singing competition can benefit from the information there.

Even for those of you who are not yet taking part in any competition, it would do you good to just have a read, and know how you can reduce stagefright when performing.

This is useful even in our everyday lives, in daily communication and also in class or work presentations too!

Check out the webpage below:

Singing Contests URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/singing-contests.html

RESOURCE Website: Interval Ear Training

Some time ago, I chanced upon this website for Ear Training and introduced it to some of you readers out there.

I’d just like to take this chance to tell everyone about this great website again, and hopefully more of you will benefit from it!

This website allows you to train your aural awareness, and also learn how to identify musical intervals.

Intervals are important in allowing us to know whether we are singing off pitch, and also to let us have a better understanding of the notes that we are singing.

All you have to do on this website is to select the intervals you want to be tested on, and just get the website to play a random interval to you, after which you will try to guess the correct answer.

If you don’t know what interval it is, you can always check the answer immediately with the click of a button!

Have fun! ;-p

Interval Ear Training URL:

http://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-interval

COMMUNICATE with Your Personal Singing Coach!

Do make use of the Contact Us page on our website, for those of you who wish to ask me questions about singing, or would wish to let us know how great a job we are doing with our website.

We welcome all your comments, and hope to hear from you regularly regarding our website and how we can improve!

I would also like to invite those of you who would wish for me to answer any burning questions about singing, to write in using the online form here and let me know what your questions are.

I will certainly do my very best to answer them, and maybe some of your queries will find their way onto our
website section for Singing FAQ!

Do also let us know what you wish to see on our website, and we will try our best to make the improvements as quickly as we can!

In fact, many of you have already sent in your positive feedback, and I certainly look forward to receiving more from all you readers out there!

Do take note that for the security word challenge, you will need to type the word in CAPITAL LETTERS exactly as it appears, or you will not be able to send us your comments and we would have missed out on valuable feedback from you!

Click on the link below to send us your comments and feedback!

Contact Us URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/contact-us.html

Vocal Tip #28 – The Tongue and its Importance for Singing

The tongue is such a huge muscle in our mouth, and it really is such a wonderful piece of our anatomy!

What we notice about the tongue in our everyday lives, is really only the tip of the iceberg.

The tongue also reaches further down and further back, and affects the way we sing and also how we mouth our vowels.

For example, you can just try singing different vowels like Ooh and Eeh, and notice the difference in the position of the tongue.

You might discover that in an Eeh vowel, the tongue is significantly higher, as compared to when you sing the vowel Ooh.

Check out the URL below if you wish to read about other vocal exercises that allow you to explore and expand your voice:

Vocal Exercises URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/vocal-exercises.html

Of course, we also need to differentiate between the back of the tongue and the front of the tongue, and varying their positions does also affect the way our vowels and our words sound.

For example, singing an Ah vowel with the back of the tongue low, and then with the back of the tongue raised, will most certainly change the tone and colour of the voice.

The tip of the tongue is also another important factor, because there are consonants like L, T, D, and N that require us to use the tip of the tongue in different ways.

I have a student who finds pronouncing the letter ‘R’ and ‘L’ so difficult, and that is because the tip of his tongue is not really totally in his control as yet!

Try singing a simple vowel (A, E, I, O, U) and then varying your tongue position while still making sure that the vowel is heard.

That will most certainly be the first step towards having a more varied and colorful voice!

For more tips on other Basics of Singing, do visit the URL below:

Basics of Singing URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/basics-of-singing.html

Pitching Tip #24 – Tone Deafness

Today, I am inspired to write about tone deafness, after listening to a colleague of mine wrestle with his student’s tone problems.

After the lesson, he commented that the student was probably tone deaf, and just could not get the tone that was required.

I would personally rather think of the student as being tone-challenged, rather than tone deaf, because tone deafness really does mean something quite extreme.

It would mean that the person would be unable to even have different tones in his or her everyday speech, and only talks in a single tone or pitch, sounding very much like a human robot.

I do have some students who do have tone problems, but all it takes are some humming and listening exercises, and also guiding them to be able to produce pitches in different voice qualities, and they’re better already!

Perhaps all it takes is some patience, and also lots of hard work on the part of the student!

Check out the URL below for some listening exercises that tone-challenged singers can practise with:

Ear Training URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/ear-training.html

Another teacher of mine likes to tell us that ‘tone deaf’ people are really people with exceptional hearing.

This is because they can hear frequencies and pitches that normal people can’t hear, and that is why they tend to be led away by those pitches that they hear.

I find this really intriguing, and I would love to understand from tone-challenged people how they feel when they singing off-key, and what really goes through their minds.

Perhaps this is why I named my school ‘Intune Music School’. So that I could help those who have tone problems, and help them to overcome this challenge!

To find out more about singing books that help us to develop our overall singing ability, do check out the URL below:

Singing Books URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/singing-books.html

To find out more about other basic singing FAQ that singers may have, check out this URL:

Singing FAQ URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/singing-tips.html

Should you have any questions, feel free to email me at enquiry@your-personal-singing-guide.com or use the feedback form available on our Contact Us page.

Those of you who wish to check out the previous issues of our Ezine for other tips on singing can also go to the following URL:

Your Personal Singing Ezine Back-Issues URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/Your_Personal_Singing_EZine-backissues.html

Keep up your training as a singer, and do also keep me updated about your progress!

1) Consolidating Information
2) Updating Website Resources

Here ends Issue #26 of Your Personal Singing Ezine!

I hope that this issue is useful to you, and that you are able to gain some knowledge from what I have written in this Ezine. I always try to provide tips that you can use, in a manner that is easy to understand and apply in daily life.

Do remember to join our facebook group so that we can finally meet each other, and share our interests and ideas online!

Feel free to email me at
Your_Personal_Singing_EZine@your-personal-singing-guide.com
or use the Contact Us page provided on our website if you have any feedback, requests or any questions about singing! I will be glad to reply and also to discuss singing tips with you!

Do also subscribe to the RSS feed provided on my website so as to be constantly updated about the new and exciting content that will appear on Your Personal Singing Guide website!

Also, remember to forward this issue of Your Personal Singing Ezine to your friends and loved ones, and encourage them to come visit our website and join you in your singing practices too!

Singing is always more fun in a community with more people!

Your Personal Singing Ezine will be back in another 6 weeks’ time, but be sure to check back at our website frequently and keep practising your singing!

Aaron Matthew Lim
Your Personal Singing Coach
Your Personal Singing Guide

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