Your mouth does a lot of heavy lifting when singing or talking in terms of tone quality and pitch.
Learning how to shape and control your mouth, facial, and throat muscles are a large part of learning to sing well.
I’m not a trained vocalist, but I am a trained brass instrument player, and the principles are the same.
Although I recently realized that I’ve been treating singing as a musical instrument when I sing in the shower, and I have a ton of things I’ve learned on my own that I wish there was a community here to share it with. I’ve gone from being a meh singer to being able to sing 3, almost 4 octaves on key, and I’ve made progress being able to intentionally polyphonically sing.
#1 tip is practice singing as quietly as you can. Not a whisper, but like you turned your stereo down.
I’m not sure what research you have done, but you should find some. There are things that make your a better signer short term but will ruin your voice long term. I’m not really an expert in this so I’ll just leave you with the warning to get some advice from someone who is trained if you haven’t. (What you shared so far seems okay, but I don’t know what else you are doing)
My suggestion is what will protect your voice in the long run.
Actually singing well loudly, and safely, requires you to move the air over your vocal cords very fast, which isn’t something most people do intuitively.
But singing quietly with good tonal quality also requires a ton of fast moving air, and won’t work without it. By making that muscle memory, you can then safely sing loudly.
Breath control is crucial to any wind instrument, voice included.
Your mouth does a lot of heavy lifting when singing or talking in terms of tone quality and pitch.
Learning how to shape and control your mouth, facial, and throat muscles are a large part of learning to sing well.
I’m not a trained vocalist, but I am a trained brass instrument player, and the principles are the same.
Although I recently realized that I’ve been treating singing as a musical instrument when I sing in the shower, and I have a ton of things I’ve learned on my own that I wish there was a community here to share it with. I’ve gone from being a meh singer to being able to sing 3, almost 4 octaves on key, and I’ve made progress being able to intentionally polyphonically sing.
#1 tip is practice singing as quietly as you can. Not a whisper, but like you turned your stereo down.
I’m not sure what research you have done, but you should find some. There are things that make your a better signer short term but will ruin your voice long term. I’m not really an expert in this so I’ll just leave you with the warning to get some advice from someone who is trained if you haven’t. (What you shared so far seems okay, but I don’t know what else you are doing)
My suggestion is what will protect your voice in the long run.
Actually singing well loudly, and safely, requires you to move the air over your vocal cords very fast, which isn’t something most people do intuitively.
But singing quietly with good tonal quality also requires a ton of fast moving air, and won’t work without it. By making that muscle memory, you can then safely sing loudly.
Breath control is crucial to any wind instrument, voice included.