1) PERSONAL MESSAGE from Your Personal Singing Coach

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

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

3) RESOURCE Webpage: Voice Care

We all need to take care of our most precious asset, our Voice!

4) FOUNDATION Website: Singing FAQ

Learn from the questions that others ask. Don’t do it the hard way.

5) COMMUNICATE with Your Personal Singing Coach

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

1) Vocal Mindset Tip #2 – Singing Cannot Be Learnt in A Day

2) Pitching Tip #32 – Don’t Think of High Notes as High

Homepage URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com

Message from Your Personal Singing Coach:

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

It is once again, April Fools’ Day, and I would just like to wish one and all a very happy day of fun and joy!

I remember the last time I sent out this message, it was probably 2 years ago, when our website was just starting out.

Never did I imagine that I would be able to interact with so many people from around the world, and also help you all out in your singing journeys.

In the spirit of April Fools’ Day, I would like to encourage everyone to go out there, and just have some fun with your singing.

Be it at karaoke or singing sessions, or even just informal gatherings within your family or even with your closest friends.

Just sing, have fun, be merry, wine and dine, and have a great time.

After all, we all sing to be happy, to release our emotions, and to communicate our thoughts and feelings to others. ;-p

I would like to ask that we help to ask our friends and family members to also join Your Personal Singing Guide’s NEW Facebook Fan Page
(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Your-Personal-Singing-GuideCom/247342595295583)

and get your friends to join too!

Joining this Facebook Fan Page will enable us to build a strong online community, and also to interact with fellow lovers of music and singing, and have more fun together!

Do enjoy the tips that I am providing for you in this 34th 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 FANPAGE for all supporters and fans of Your Personal Singing Guide

As some of you might now, Facebook is updating their Facebook Groups, and some of our groups might be archived.

In order to avoid losing contact with all of you great people out there, I am starting this new Facebook Fan Page so that we have a new page to meet up at, and to continue keeping in touching with each other!

This fan page will serve the same purpose as the previous Facebook group, just that I will be visiting this fan page more now, and hope that you can just leave your comments there for me to read.

Do also remember to LIKE the fan page so that you will join us as a member and be updated with our regular singing tips and updates.

I will make more effort to reply your comments at this fan page, and hopefully we can start more conversations there!

Should you have any compliments on our website, do feel free to drop us a comment here as well, and we will be extremely grateful for your kind comments. ;-p

So, do check out the URL below and join our Facebook fanpage now:

Your Personal Singing Guide Facebook FanPage URL:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Your-Personal-Singing-GuideCom/247342595295583

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

RESOURCE Webpage: Voice Care

Taking care of our Voice is almost as important as knowing how to use it well.

If we do not know how to care for our voice, we could be born with the greatest of voices, and it will be squandered and wasted away.

So, learn more about how to take care of your singing voice, and also how to continue to be able to use it in the ways that you want to.

In this way, more people will get to hear you sing, and be touched by your songs and music!

Check out the Voice Care Tips now:

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

FOUNDATION Website: Singing FAQ

The easiest way for us to learn a new skill, is to actually pay more attention to what other people ask, and what other people have gone through.

This certainly will save us from undergoing the same problems that others face, and also find a faster and smoother path towards a better voice.

We can also definitely identify with those who share the same problems as us, and learn from how they overcame their problems.

Check out the chapter on Singing FAQ now:

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

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 Mindset Tip #2 – Singing Cannot Be Learnt in A Day

Running a music school in Singapore, I talk to people who want to learn singing everyday. However, I am curious about one common trait that many of them share.

Many people think that singing can be learnt in just 1 lesson, or even a couple of lessons!

I find this very curious indeed, because we all know that it takes a long time for us to master the piano, or even other instruments like the guitar, violin and others.

However, people tend to think that singing is so simple and can be learnt really quickly.

Some even ask me, can I learn everything quickly in just 4 lessons? Can I learn faster if I take 2 or 3 lessons in a week, and complete the course faster?

My only reply is, “Everything In Its Own Time”.

For those who have more patience and would like to start from the basics, check out the Basics of Singing below:

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

Perhaps it is because we don’t need to prepare anything in order to sing. We just need to use our voice, and open our mouth, and we can sing.

However, learning to sing is not really like learning how to play an instrument.

We can see the notes of a piano, and feel them with our fingers. However, when we sing, we can’t see what’s going on in our throat, or what’s happening to our vocal folds.

We sometimes are also unable to feel what is happening in our throats, because we may not have developed that kinesthetic awareness necessary to do so. And, we certainly can’t touch our vocal folds to know what is going on.

We can only base our learning from what we hear, from what we sing out, and whether it sounds nice or sounds in tune.
That is the only way we can judge if we are singing well or not.

This is why Ear Training is just so important, and we have to also develop a good set of ears, apart from just learning how to produce a good singing sound with our voice.

Our ears can help us to know if we are singing with a good vocal tone, and whether what we are doing is pleasant to the ear, and suitable for the genre of music that we sing.

Read up more about Ear Training, and how you can work on your own skill:

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

So, the next time someone tells you that they can teach you singing in just 1 lesson, think again seriously. ;-p

Pitching Tip #32 – Don’t Think of High Notes as High, and Vice Versa

I know I have said this before, a few times even, but this topic is so important and so useful for all you singers out there.

Do not ever think of your high notes as HIGH, or your low notes as LOW.

If you do think of high notes as high, you will tend to do the following things:

1) Raise your chin higher to the air, the higher the note you sing

2) Jut out your jaw more forward, the higher the note you sing

3) Strain your throat more, the higher the note you sing

All these are Singing Problems that we can solve, but first we have to identify our unique singing problem:

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

Instead of thinking that the high notes we sing are really high, think of them as normal notes within our usual singing range.

My previous advice was to think of high notes as low, and low notes as high. However, I found that it sometimes made people press their voice really low on high notes, and that can be dangerous and harmful to our singing voice too.

Today’s tip is therefore more correct, and less likely to create singing problems later on.

Think of your high notes as normal notes. Nothing too high or too low for you to sing. In this case, your head should be in a neutral position, not strained, or not too relaxed.

Look straight in front, with your eye level parallel to the ground in a neutral vision level.

Now, try to sing high and low without moving your head, jutting out your jaw or straining your throat. You will find that this helps to get you to produce sound in other ways, rather than use unnecessary muscular effort to ‘push’ your notes up higher.

You could also even try to keep the tone of your voice bright and solid as you go high or low, and also keep your stomach muscles relatively relaxed to avoid ‘over pushing’.

This does take time to master, so take it one step at a time, and don’t rush it!

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

Singing Books URL:

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

To read up more about me as a vocal instructor making a living in Singapore, check out this URL:

About Me URL:

http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/music-instructor.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) Next Ezine arriving on 1 May 2012
2) Growing a Stronger Online Community
3) Consolidating Singing Queries for a FREE ebook

Here ends Issue #34 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 Fan Page so that we can meet each other, and build a stronger online community!

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!

The next issue of Your Personal Singing Ezine will be sent to you by 1 May 2012, 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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