Learn To Sing: Correct Singing Posture
How to sing in correct posture? In order to create a loud volumen and produce a beautiful tone the volume chambers in your head and your stomach have to be relaxed.
The most common way for inexperienced singers to correct their singing posture is to “stand straight”. You should avoid such generalizations at any cost because standing straight causes tension in many body parts. And what’s singers worst enemy? It’s tension!
The most important point about good posture is to stand relaxed and natural. Just be sure that your natural posture is not influenced by your modern living standard like sitting all day long in front of a computer.
As a singer it’s always a good idea to visit the chiropractor from time to time to make sure your posture is as natural as possible.
Checklist for correct singing posture
- Place your chin about parallel to the floor.
- Make sure to breathe through the stomach and not through your breast. Practice this by holding your hand on your stomach, breathe natural and your stomach should move up and down slowly.
- Your hands should be at the side of your body. Don’t brandish around with your hands, legs or any other body part.
- Don’t lock in your knees. Keep them loose and relaxed but never squat (that would look funny eh?).
- Avoid rising your shoulders. Keep them down and back but hold your chest high.
- Place one of your foots a bit apart in order to balance your body weight slightly forward.
- If you feel tension or pain in any muscle parts you are either standing in a wrong posture or one of your body parts is hurt. Do not sing when you have a large wound or some of your muscles are cracked.
- Keep your neck loose, relax it! Do the same with your back muscles.
- Try to move fluently. Like when you are dancing. If you can’t dance (you know it when you can’t dance trust me) try to join a karate club or train any other self defense sport. Usually they will help you to exercise fluent movement.
Reasons which can be responsible for bad posture
- Lack of self esteem. Always think positive and confident and your body will adopt your thoughts.
- Overweight! Fifty pounds too much weight can crack even the most professional singer.
- Poor postural habits like sitting in front of a computer the whole day in a bad posture.
Always keep your correct posture even when you are not singing because this will help you to adopt the good position and also protect your body from injuries.
Additional standing in a correct singing posture will show confidence to your audience and improve your self esteem and this will help you to negate the fear of singing.
Exercises to control your posture
#1 Place a book at the middle of your head. Stand in front of a mirror and try to move your head to the left and to the right without losing your chin level and keep your movements smooth. You want to look your audience into their eyes while singing right?
#2 Sing in really bad posture and then sing the same song in good postur. Notice the difference!
Never forget that singing should be fun and if you want to learn how to sing properly don’t make singing a chore.
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