How to sing better?

The easiest way to become a better singer is by practice. The toughest way to become a better singer….is to practice! It is as simple as that…or as complicated, depending on your mindset. You don’t need God gifted voice to become a better singer (it does help though…). All you need to do is practice till you get every note, every modulation correctly.

A friend of mine told me this years ago: ” You can take singing lessons for years and years, but if you don’t have the pipes, you don’t have the pipes!”

Hold your hand up to your ear and mouth so you can really hear yourself.

If you’re really serious about being a singer, the most important skill you can develop is ear training. It’s impossible to sing if you can’t tell if you’re in tune, or if you don’t know how to correct yourself. In addition to ear training, you then want to practice scales, arpeggios, intervals and diaphragmatic breathing.

Someone introduced me to an app called Yousician, which is an app for learning certain instruments and singing. It “gamifies” the practice to be a bit like guitar hero, which is the way it is able to provide you feedback without an actual person hearing you sing and offering feedback. The game also makes it a bit more fun to do on your own.

Don’t do the paid version for singing. The number of singing lessons the app offers is really pretty limited. Just use the free version, sit through the “pay for premium!” voice ads that happen every so often, and continue until you reach the time limit for the day.

The value is in the video tutorials that explain techniques, which are then followed by game-like practice that gives you immediate feedback on your pitch and timing, so that when you then practice songs on your own you begin to have an idea of what to work on and what to aim for in your practice. I’ve gone through the singing lessons. I’ve seen a significant immediate improvement in my ability to sing on key. I can more accurately hear and match notes. More significantly, I also feel like I have ways of approaching singing that I can use to keep improving my voice on my own (at least as much as I can without more technical training).