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Hello, I'm Huw!
I'm from Gwynedd, North Wales and I sing with the chorus of Welsh National Opera.
Learn to sing
Why should you learn to sing?
Singing is great for our mental health, happiness and wellbeing. It is something that everyone can do and it has the potential to make us feel amazing.
Sing for you!
Sing for your mental health. Sing to make yourself feel good. Sing around the house, sing in the shower, sing whilst you're out jogging or walking the dog - or perhaps even join a local choir!
Benefits of singing
- Singing can help with reducing anxiety, depression and stress.
- Singing releases dopamine and endorphins to helping us to feel uplifted and happy.
- Singing helps us to release physical tension in the body.
- Singing encourages us to breathe slowly and deeply, which in turn activates the parasympathetic nervous system (the part of our nervous system which helps us to feel relaxed, calm and safe).
- Basically, singing is a completely natural and drug-free way to make you feel great! 😃
- The skills you learn through singing are powerful and transferable.
- Imagine feeling confident and familiar with the sound of your voice in work, school or social situations. Imagine being able to project your voice with ease. Imagine the feeling of being easily noticed, seen and heard.
- Learning to sing will help you to develop a unique confidence in using your voice, which can be applied to all aspects of your life.
Course Overview
This 'Find your Voice! Unleash Confidence!' series of singing lessons has been broken down into small bite sized chunks, making it easy for you to teach yourself how to sing, no matter how busy your daily schedule is.
The first set of four video lessons focus on the fundamentals of posture, breathing and some simple warmups - these fundamentals will set you up well for the more advanced lessons coming later in the series.
The next set of singing lessons will be released in December.
Lesson Preview
Take a sneak preview of part one of this series below. 👇
Lesson Outlines
Lesson 1: Posture
Video Length: 2:15
In this first session I will demonstrate how to physically create a relaxed singing posture. This is one of the first fundamentals of singing, and it will set you up well for the more advanced lessons later in the series.
Lesson Outcomes
- How to create a relaxed lower body singing posture, with a tucked in pelvis, soft knees and feet hip width apart.
- How to create a relaxed upper body singing posture with open chest & elevated ribs.
Lesson 2: Breathing
Video Length: 2:20
Breathing is something we all do every day. Nevertheless, it is worth highlighting some tips and tricks for breathing, in relation to singing.
Lesson Outcomes
- Healthy breathing from the diaphragm.
Lesson 3: Facial warm ups
Video Length: 5:24
Now, let's have some fun with some facial warm ups!
Lesson Outcomes
- 'Chewing Toffee' exercise to wake up facial muscles.
- A fun 'tongue teeth cleaning' exercise to release tension in the larynx.
- Add emotion, feeling and vibrancy to your singing voice with the help of this 'eating luxurious chocolate' exercise.
Lesson 4: Vocal warm ups
Lesson Length: 3:52
Now it's time to start singing. Let's put everything we've covered about breathing and posture into practice, with some simple warm ups.
Lesson Outcomes
- Warm up the full range of your voice.
- Energise your voice.
- Sing with a natural ease and relaxation.
Video transcript
Lesson 1: Posture. [Length: 2 mins 15 seconds]
Hi, and welcome to my first little bitesized video on singing. This first video is going to be focusing on posture and I'll be giving you some physical exercises to help you find that posture which is a crucial element of healthy singing.
So first of all, I'm going to ask you to stand with your feet parallel, hip-width apart if you like, and then making sure that we don't lock our knees - so imagining that we've got nice, soft knees.
So working our way up then, to the pelvis. I want you to imagine that you're about to take a seat on a chair. So that the pelvis is just tucked in underneath us, to avoid standing like this, for example.
[Huw demonstrates a bad posture]
So with a nice, tucked in pelvis, soft knees and feet nice and parallel, we then move on to the upper body.
So I'd like you to now stretch your arms right to the ceiling (excuse me for showing my belly button!) Right up to the ceiling, trying to lift your ribs as high as you can. Standing nice and tall and bringing your arms down slowly - but remaining nice and tall throughout, so as not to collapse.
So we're bringing our arms down, we feel that our ribs are still nice and high and we're kind of pulling through the top of our heads, nice and tall.
That should leave us feeling nice and tall - and also relaxed at the same time. Then just to further enhance that sensation, let's just roll our shoulders back a few times.
[Huw demonstrates shoulder rolling]
That should leave us feeling with a nice open chest, nice elevated ribs, standing nice and tall but also relaxed.
I hope that's very useful! I will see you in the next bitesized chunk.
Lesson 2: Breathing [Length 2 minutes 20 seconds]
Hi, so this little video is all about breathing. Obviously we all know how to breathe. We do it several times a day. But it's worth highlighting a few tips and tricks with breathing in relation to singing.
So I'd like you now to think about a deer, grazing in a field, minding it's own business. It will breathe diagphramatically - like we all do. A nice, low belly breath.
When we breathe in, our belly relaxes and goes out. When we breathe out, our belly comes back in. This is a very healthy state to be in - and that's what we all do, on a daily basis.
When it comes to singing, that should also be the case. But sometimes, with nerves and fear and excitement, we turn into the deer that is just about to be eaten by a lion.
The deer will spot the lion and will start breathing, "uh hu uh hu uh hu..." high and panicky.
[Huw demonstrates nervous, shallow breathing, from the upper chest].
So, when people tell you to take a big breath in, the tendency is, for all of us, to go, "huuuuh..." like this.
[Huw again demonstrates shallow breathing from the upper chest].
Which should be avoided at all costs.
It's not a relaxed way to be. It's not conducive to good singing, and it's not necessary.
So, we want to be thinking about the deer, grazing, relaxing, minding it's own business. That low, belly breath.
So a simple recipe is, when you breathe in, allowing your belly to pop out.
When you breathe out, your belly actually tucks back in.
So out...In... [Huw demonstrates good breathing technique for singing].
And there we have it. Breathing, in a couple of simple little steps.
[Huw smiles and makes a 'thumbs up' gesture!]
Lesson 3: Face and mouth warm ups. [Length: 5 mins 24 seconds]
In this little video, we'll be exploring some exercises and warmups, focusing on the face and the mouth.
So I'd like you to pop a piece of imaginary toffee in your mouth and we're going to start chewing.
[Huw demonstrates chewing toffee]
As we chew, this particular toffee doesn't dissolve, it grows. So the motion becomes bigger, more exaggerated and more laboured. Enjoy the travelling, all the way around, the scrunching at the top, the stretch of the jaw at the bottom, really waking up all of these muscles and the jaw, and so on.
After we've done a few seconds of that, let's go the other way.
[Huw continues to demonstrate chewing toffee to warm up the jaw facial muscles].
By now, this toffee is the size of a tennis ball! So it's a lot of effort!
After a few seconds of doing that, you should feel your face tingling and hopefully feeling quite energised and warmed up.
Having done all that chewing, some of the toffee, sadly, is stuck between your teeth. So we're now going to attempt to clean our teeth with our tongue. So this motion:
[Huw demonstrates the next singing warmup exercise for the tongue].
We'll do 6 one way and 6 the other way. Then 4 [Huw points left], 4 [Huw points right], 2 [Huw points left], 2 [Huw points right].
We should really feel our tongue having a proper workout. The crucial thing with this is to do it nice and slowly. Really travelling all the way around, and the other way.
[Huw continues to demonstrate the tongue warmup exercise].
The tongue is quite a large contraption. It's full of muscles. Very complex muscular structure. And the root of the tongue is attached to our larynx.
So sometimes tension can be carried here. So that exercise is great for relaxing the tongue and helping us prepare this area, in order to sing.
Now, once we've eating the toffee, it's time to move onto some delicious, expensive, posh chocolate.
So this exercise goes like this.
[Huw demonstrates the first singing exercise].
So we go up a step and slide back down. So where does the chocolate come in? The piece of chocolate, it's very tasty, very rich, full of flavours and aromas, and I'd like you to imagine how it would feel if you were eating that chocolate.
So the difference between:
[Huw demonstrates singing without feeling the pleasure of tasting chocolate].
and popping the chocolate in:
[Huw demonstrates singing with feeling, initiated by pleasurable thoughts of chocolate].
Imagine the tastes and the flavours, the smells and how that has an impact on how you produce the sound - giving a nice, energised, vibrant feeling to your singing.
You can do that little exercise working down through the voice.
[Huw demonstrates].
Popping a piece of chocolate in every time - you can't have too much chocolate! Continuing down the voice as far as is comfortable. Then once you've done that you can hop back up, and climb up in the voice, as much as we can, comfortably.
Again, thinking about the chocolate invigorating our intentions.
[Huw demonstrates again].
And this idea of eating the chocolate wakes my face up. It wakes my imagination up. It energises me and helps me sing in an energised, vigorous, yet relaxed state.
I hope that's useful and catch you in a bit!
Lesson 4: Vocal warm ups. [Length: 3 mins 52 seconds]
In this video, we will be combining what we've learnt in the previous videos and introducing you to some vocal exercises that I hope you'll find useful.
So, thinking about our posture, thinking about our breathing and thinking about how we energise the way we sing, with our imaginary chocolate, I'd like to introduce you to my first exercise, which goes like this:
[Huw sings to demonstrate the first exercise].
It's a very simple arpeggio, starting on an 'ee' vowel, going onto an 'ah.'
And we're going to go down.
[Huw sings to demonstrate moving down through the arpeggios].
And so on.
Again, going as low as is comfortable - never digging down, never pushing. Thinking about our posture, breathing and the energy behind it, every time we do it.
And then, once we've warmed up the bottom part of our voice, let's get back up and go upwards.
[Huw sings to demonstrate moving up through the arpeggios].
Notice how relaxed my mouth is. Even though I've got a nice energy, I'm not overworking the mouth. So the tongue is nice and high on the 'ee' and then it lowers on the 'ah.' So I don't need to go, 'ya, yah, ya, ya, yah.'
[Huw demonstrates a bad singing technique for the exercise].
It's very relaxed. You try it. Fab.
Now, the next little exercise we're going to do, consolidates what I've just mentioned, about the tongue. And it goes like this. We're going to go, 'ee' 'ayy' 'ahh'
[Huw sings to demonstrate the second exercise].
And again, I'd encourage you to keep the mouth as relaxed as possible, thinking about the back of tongue nice and high on the 'ee' vowel, coming down a little bit on the 'ayy' and then even lower on the 'ahh.'
[Huw sings again to demonstrate the second exercise].
The reason I'm mentioning the tongue so much is, if we think about those vowels a bit too literal, we end up with this:
[Huw demonstrates a bad singing technique for this exercise].
Of the two, which do you prefer? Which is the most effortless? Which one is the most relaxed? And which one is the most efficient?
Catch you later!
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