Vocal Training

Vocal training is an immensely important aspect of a musicians career. Singing a good song is almost a matter of getting the right intonations and sound without having to strain one’s voice. Almost every successful musician has undergone some kind of vocal training at some point of his career. In essence, training ones vocals to achieve perfection can improve one’s singing ability tremendously. Just like a person who trains for guitar playing, the more a person trains at playing guitar the better he will get at playing guitar and his overall performance will improve. The same applies to vocal training.

Musicians, especially vocalists for a band or an individual singer for that matter, usually do warm ups before taking to the stage. These warm ups are very important as it will determine whether the singer can perform well for the entire concert .It has been said that doing breathing exercises is an important part of vocal training and singing. Essentially breathing exercises should be done in such as way so that the breathing momentum is in tandem with the notes that the singer is singing. This kind of training will ensure that a singer does not run out of air while singing and it will also train a singer to take breaths between phrases.

It has been said that posture also plays an important role in a musicians or singers ability to sing. All this has to do with a persons lungs because is a person does not maintain a good posture then that persons diaphragm which acts to bring air in and out will be pressured and this will affect the way in which a vocalist sings.

Another aspect of vocal training which is not physical in nature is simple having more confidence in oneself. Every time a musician or vocalist takes the stage, they become nervous at some point. This is caused by the fact that they are either completely overwhelmed by the crowd at the concert or just inexperienced .This nervousness can cause a vocalist to make mistakes while singing or at least affect his performance on stage, This problem can be avoided simply by gaining more confidence in oneself so that while on stage ones fullest potential can be exploited.

Most vocalists normally turn to their singing instructors for vocal training. A vocalist must pick his singing instructor with great deliberation and he must find an instructor that specializes in vocal training in the genre of music which the vocalist is training to sing. There are numerous genres of music which people train to sing in. Among theses are rock, jazz, pop, metal, classical music, and various other genres. Each of these genres has different kinds of vocal styles and a vocalist that is training to do vocals for metal songs must not ask a vocal trainer which specializes in pop music vocals to train him to sing. What this means is that the the proper selection of a vocal trainer depends greatly on the genre of music which that vocal trainer specializes in.

Care must also be taken to protect one’s throat from harm. Just as a persons body needs protection, similarly a vocalist must take steps to safe guard his throat from various elements that can do harm to his throat which in turn will affect his singing capabilities. Smoking is one such vice that can cause detriment to ones vocals. Also vocal training must not be over done so as not to cause harm to ones vocal chords and larynx. Protecting ones vocal system will be a step in the positive direction of vocal training.