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Latest Updates
1) Welcome Message from Your Personal Singing Coach
2) COMMUNICATE with Your Personal Singing Coach!
o We just set up a 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!
3) Brand NEW Website Section! Vocal Exercises!
o Learn all about some useful Vocal Exercises to Extend your Vocal Range, Train Vocal Flexibility as well as Vocal Sustain too!
4) FEATURED Website Section! Vocal Warmups!
o Vocal Warmups are essential before we begin any vocal exercises or singing training!
5) COMPLETED Website Section! Voice Types!
o We just completed the website section on Voice Types, which teaches you about all the various vocal ranges and singing voices, and how you can find your own voice type!
Personal Singing Tips
1) Vocal Training Tip #1 – Humming Exercise
2) Vocal Training Tip #2 – Vocal Exercises Uploaded!
3) Pitching Training Tip #1 – Singing Intervals with Songs
~~ Enjoy Issue #2 of Your Personal Singing Ezine! ~~
Homepage URL
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com
~~ Latest Updates ~~
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Message from Your Personal Singing Coach:
“Welcome all fellow singers and singing students!
I hope that the Pilot Issue of Your Personal Singing Ezine was useful and informative for you, and that you were able to practise your singing with the exercises i provided!
This 2nd issue will provide you with more singing tips, and also bring your attention to a brand new website section i just put up regarding Vocal Exercises!
These vocal exercises will be able to help you to train your voice while in the comfort of your own home, and should be very useful to you in terms of vocal training.
I have also provided you with some useful pitching tips regarding intervals which should be quite useful for you when you practise your pitch jumps!
Practice makes perfect, so keep up the great work, and I wish you all the best in your singing adventures!
P.S: Feel free to share Your Personal Singing Ezine with your friends, 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!
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 are greatly appreciated!”
Yours Sincerely,
Aaron Matthew Lim
Your Personal Singing Coach
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COMMUNICATE with Your Personal Singing Coach!
o We just set up a 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!
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!
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
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Brand NEW Website Section! Vocal Exercises!
o Learn all about some useful Vocal Exercises to Extend your Vocal Range, Train Vocal Flexibility as well as Vocal Sustain too!
First, know what you are trying to achieve with your vocal training. Are you looking for a wider vocal range, or for greater pitch accuracy and flexibility in your voice?
Then, embark on the specific vocal exercise that will aid you in what you wish to achieve, and keep working at it so that you will see improvement in that specific area!
With these vocal exercises that target each of the main aspects of our singing voice, you will certainly achieve a better singing voice in no time!
Click on the link below to visit this useful section on Vocal Exercises!
Vocal Exercises URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/vocal-exercises.html
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FEATURED Website Section! Vocal Warmups!
o Vocal Warmups are essential before we begin any vocal exercises or singing training!
Especially with more vocal exercises available on our website, our advice is for all singing students or budding singers to practise their vocal warmups before doing any training or singing.
This is to prevent any vocal abuse, and to keep our voices supple and flexible so that we can sing for a long time to come!
Click on the link below to visit our section on ‘Vocal Warmups’!
Vocal Warmups URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/vocal-warmup.html
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COMPLETED Website Section! Voice Types!
o We just completed the website section on Voice Types, which teaches you about all the various vocal ranges and singing voices, and how you can find your own voice type!
Understand how to tell the difference between a Soprano, Mezzo Soprano and Contralto, or between a Bass, Baritone, Tenor or Countertenor, and you will be well on your own way to understanding your voice better!
Also, learn how to find your own voice type and vocal range with simple exercises.
Click on the link below to visit our section on ‘Voice Types’!
Voice Types URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/voice-types.html
~~ Personal Singing Tips ~~
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Vocal Training Tip #1 – Humming Exercise!
There are many kinds of vocal warmups available to us, and I have mentioned 3 kinds on Your Personal Singing Guide Website.
Here, I will talk a bit more on Humming, and how it can help you with your voice training.
When we hum, we are able to find a better resonating position for us to sing from. Do make sure that when we hum, we should feel mild vibrations in our face area, and particularly at our teeth area. Our teeth should be gently vibrating when we do our humming exercises, as this is caused by the sound resonating in the front of our mouth.
Humming URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/humming.html
This will also help us to produce a brighter and more resonant humming sound, instead of a darker and duller sound if we were to hum from a lower position from the throat or the back of the mouth.
If you are unable to find the proper resonance, just say this word, “Hmm?”. Do it slowly and deliberately, and feel the pitch as well as vocal position move from a low to a higher position. Once you have achieved a higher vocal placement, keep that sensation and sustain a humming sound at that position. That should be a bright and forward humming position.
From this basic humming position, we can open our mouths and produce a bright and resonant sound, keeping the same vocal placement as we had when we were humming the notes or pitches we want.
Humming is also useful for those of us who are unable to do the lip trill, as i understand that some of us may have some difficulty mastering the basic lip trill exercise. Many of my students also have some difficulty in doing the lip trill, but this is usually overcome by their 2nd or 3rd lesson with me.
Lip Trill URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/lip-trill.html
But for those who are still working on their lip trill and would like to have an exercise in the meantime to train their voice, then do practise the humming exercise, and make sure that your resonating position is in the front of your mouth and face, so that when you open your mouth to sing, your voice will be bright and wonderful!
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Vocal Training Tip #2 – Vocal Exercises!
Your Personal Singing Guide has recently uploaded a brand new section on ‘Vocal Exercises’, and this section teaches everyone how to use specific and simple vocal exercises to achieve improvement in your singing power, vocal range, vocal flexibility and accuracy, vibrato, vocal sustain, as well as to achieve a smoother singing voice!
Some of these sections have specific vocal exercises uploaded for self-practice, whereas others refer to other sections in Your Personal Singing Guide. This is because for those topics, for example Singing Power, training this aspect of your singing voice involves many other basic skills in singing and being able to combine these skills well is crucial to achieving the improvement we want!
In order to achieve Singing Power, we need to be able to provide adequate breath support, so that our voice is able to rest on our breath and be projected outwards into our listening audience.
Breathing Exercises URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/breathing-exercises.html
Apart from this, we also need to train our vocal cords well, so that they are able to vibrate closely on the notes that we want to project, and they do not rip apart easily when we support our voice with more breath!
Vocal Cords URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/vocal-cords.html
Also, we need to work on releasing our jaw and throat for singing, and make sure we do not have any singing problems that will obstruct our voice as we project it outwards!
Singing Problems URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/singing-problem.html
So you see, some aspects of our vocal training do require the mastery of many different tools that we use in our singing, and this is why I do not recommend any single vocal exercise for these more challenging topics!
For those topics that are relatively direct and clear-cut, the specific exercises recommended should be able to achieve the desired improvements!
Try these vocal exercises out, and do give me some feedback if you wish to see more vocal exercises, and what other aspects of your singing voice you wish to work on!
Contact Us URL:
http://www.your-personal-singing-guide.com/contact-us.html
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Pitching Training Tip #1 – Singing Intervals with Songs!
Some of us may find some difficulty in practising pitch jumps, for example from Doh to Mi ( 1 3), or from Doh to Sol (1 5).
In this case, I have a solution that should be able to simplify things greatly for you, and make it so much easier for you to make the pitch jumps that you want!
Many of us would have grown up learning songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or watching Superman the Movie and listening to its theme songs. Well, we can use these songs to help us practise our singing intervals!
For example, the 1st 4 notes of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star would be Doh Doh Sol Sol (1 1 5 5), and this would help us to pitch the Doh-Sol (1 5) interval with great ease!
If this song does not help us (perhaps we do not listen to nursery rhymes), the Superman theme song also has a Doh-Sol interval for us to take reference to! The theme song i am referring to is the one played when Superman appears to save the day, or when the credits are rolling at the end of the movie.
I will be doing up a section on singing intervals soon on Your Personal Singing Guide Website, so be sure to check back regularly on this interesting topic!
You can also try to figure out songs for the rest of the intervals from Doh to Ti, and email me using the Contact Us page on our website! Your efforts will be greatly appreciated!
~~ Website Work in Progress ~~
1) Singing Books
2) Aural Training
3) Singing Rhythm
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Here ends Issue #2 of Your Personal Singing Ezine!
I hope that you will find the above tips useful in your singing practices, and 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, if you find Your Personal Singing Guide or Ezine useful to you, please do spread the word and invite your friends to come visit our website and join you in your singing practices too!
Singing is always more fun in a community with more people joining in with you!
Your Personal Singing Ezine will be back in another 1 – 2 months’ time, but be sure to check back at our website frequently and keep practising your singing!
Cheers!
Aaron Matthew Lim
Your Personal Singing Coach
Your Personal Singing Guide
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