1) PERSONAL MESSAGE from Your Personal Singing Coach

2) NEW 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: Pitching Exercises

There are many useful pitching exercises here for you to practise with online!~

4) FOUNDATION Website: Singing FAQ

Learn about Singing by understanding the basic questions that people ask.

5) COMMUNICATE with Your Personal Singing Coach

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

1) Vocal Tip #31 – Too Many Vocal Techniques, Too Little Time!

2) Pitching Tip #27 – ‘Sing’ like a Tone Deaf person

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

Message from Your Personal Singing Coach:

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

I would like to wish all who celebrate, a Happy Children’s Day on 1st October! ;-p

Our children are the next generation’s leaders, and so I do hope that I am playing my part to nurture the next era of singers in our world.

The past few months have been very eventful for me, and I am entering a slightly more relaxed phase, but still important for our preparations for the new year of 2012.

It is now time to look back on the past year, and to think of all the wonderful things that have happened, and just be grateful for all that we have been given.

Having read the books ‘The Secret’ and ‘The Power’, I am a firm believer of thinking and believing, although sometimes life really does throw a hard one at you.

We all just have to keep our heart and mind happy, and just keep on moving forward, because only then will there be progress and improvement!

For those who may have hit a plateau in their singing training, my advice is to take a short break, and you may find that your singing may actually improve when you resume your practice after your break. ;-p

At least, that is what happens in my own personal experience!

I would like to request that you do make an effort to 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!

We just started this Facebook Fan Page, to make sure that we do not lose any of our existing Facebook group contacts, and to build a stronger online community. 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 28th 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

NEW 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 brand 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.

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 new 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: Pitching Exercises

Pitching exercises are more important than we think!

They help us to recognize the pitches that we sing, and also to train our voices to react to these pitches quickly and more accurately.

Certainly, a song is just a huge collection of pitches that come one after another, and learning more about pitches helps us to sing better too.

This is why we advocate learning different musical scales, using them in your singing practice, and applying different vowels to these scales as well so that you simulate actual singing with pitch and rhythm!

Check out the webpage below for more useful tips:

Pitching Exercises URL:

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

FOUNDATION Website: Singing FAQ

Reading about the questions that other people ask about singing certainly will help us in our own singing journeys.

The FAQ (frequently asked questions) that are answered in this chapter are those that were sent in by our readers.

The answers given are highly relevant, and most definitely useful to us, if we do take the time to read them.

We may even find that some of our own questions are answered here too!

Check out this Singing FAQ section 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:

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Vocal Tip #31- Too Many Vocal Techniques, Too Little Time!

Having taught pop singing for the past 10 years, my experience is that 10 years is really still not enough time for us to discover all there is to know about the voice.

There is just so much to learn, and so much that we have to figure out for ourselves!

And the voice is just so mysterious that even on a scientific level, there is so much more that we have to discover and unearth.

But for those who are just looking to know something basic about singing, do check out this chapter on the Basics of Singing:

Basics of Singing URL:

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

Personally, I first started off learning from a senior pop singing instructor at the school I was working in, who was also the one who believed that I could teach the subject well.

I realize now that those days were really important in starting me off on my journey of teaching singing, and I am very thankful for the opportunity given to me then.

However, on hindsight, I realize now that the knowledge gained then was not necessarily correct.

Over the first few years of teaching, I experimented with many singing ‘techniques’, and also discussed teaching methods with my colleagues and peers.

We all tried our best to teach our students to the best of our knowledge, and I am so very grateful for those wonderful young days!

Ever since I founded my very own pop music school, I have come into contact with so much more knowledge and insight about singing.

I have talked with classical singing instructors, speech level singing (SLS) instructors, estill voice instructors, and also many other pop musicians and singers alike.

Each of these schools of thought on singing have their plus points, and any smart singing student would do well to apply the good of each technique when working on our singing voice.

After all, it could perhaps be a case of it all being just different ways of talking about the same thing, or different ways of looking at the same situation.

This is why I firmly believe that Singing is a lifelong journey, and even then, we should still inspire our next generation, and the generation after that, to continue to unravel the mystery that is Singing. ;-p

Check out more about the various chapters in my website:

Your Personal Singing Guide Homepage URL:

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

Do feel free to message me at our NEW Facebook Fan Page if you should have any questions at all! ;-p

Pitching Tip #27 – ‘Sing’ like a ‘Tone Deaf’ person

Yes, I know you must be scratching your head right now, thinking that I’m crazy for saying this.

Sing like a ‘tone deaf’ person??? This guy must be out of his mind!?!?!!

Amazingly, I have told my students to do the above, and I certainly achieved the results that I wanted from them! ;-p

Before finding out what this tip can help you achieve, do check out some useful vocal exercises that you can do everyday:

Vocal Exercises URL:

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

Now, what in the world would drive me to teach my students to ‘Sing’ like a tone ‘deaf’ person?

Recently I encountered students who talk very softly and gently in their everyday lives, and they also sing with a very gentle and ’tilted’ tone.

In a chance encounter at church, I was sitting in front of a lady, who was singing her lungs out for each and every hymn.

The only problem was, she was tone deficient. She went off key at almost every opportunity!

The strange thing is, she was also very LOUD.

And then it struck me. People who are tone-deficient really tend to sing louder, because they don’t sing in a gentle manner.

The way these people sing, is in a very monotonous manner, and this tends to trigger a speech level tone which is much louder than a gentle tilted tone that most singers prefer.

By getting my students to sing some phrases and imagine that they are a ‘tone deaf’ person, I managed to get them to leave behind their tendency towards a gentler tone.

In fact, they were getting much more volume just by imagining that they were ‘tone deaf’!

Certainly, I asked them to still keep close to the correct pitches they had to sing, but just imagining that they were slightly tone deaf, was good enough to trigger a louder singing tone.

It made them sound like they were talking, but it certainly gave them a louder voice.

Try it and see if it works for you too! ;-p

Just be sure to warn your friends and the people around you first.. and ask them to bear with your singing.. haha..

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) Growing a Stronger Online Community

Here ends Issue #29 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 NEW 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 15 November 2011, 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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