Curious Facts about Singing ;)


  • If you take care of you voice (don't smoke or drink often) and learn to sing properly, you can do it none stop as much as you want without getting hoarse.
  • A normal person without exceptional ability should be able to sing two and a half octaves without straining, breaking, or any other weird noise. 
  • Less than 2% of the population is tone deaf. It usually happens from a high child hood fever. If you cringe when you here a karaoke singer miss notes, or can't stand a bad violin player, then you are not tone deaf. You just need some work putting together your ear with you vocal chords. It's a bit like rubbing your belly and tapping your head at the same time.
  • You have two sets of muscles that control the vocal chords, one in front and one in the back that act like zippers to open or close the chords to make a certain pitch. The farther outside of you optimum pitch you go, the more delicate the balancing act between the two. That is where practice comes in.
  • Last fact, and the most important. Even a terrible singer can learn to sing quite beautifully with a little effort and some perseverance. If you have always wanted to learn to sing, than now is your chance to start. do not wait another day for another excuse. Get started, and go for it.
  •  Middle C , with a frequency of 256 Hertz,is near the top of the singing range of a typical adult male voice. It is also near the lower end of the singing range of an adult female voice.
  • Huge cathedrals, with their hard walls and floors of stone, glass and wood, are amazing places for acoustics. Almost any sound seems loud and long, a sit echoes and reverberates through the surfaces. This is why church singing sounds so special.
  •  Make sure that microphone is level with your mouth or slightly higher. You do not want to have to tilt your neck down or you air flow will be restricted and you will lose tone.
  • Do not sing like you are in the shower. This means don't close your eyes the entire time and stare at the floor or ceiling. You goal is to connect with the audience. This means that you want to make eye contact with the audience. You want to make them feel awkward because you are looking at them, not the other way around.
  • studio singing is much different that singing live. It's the details that matter. The timing, perfect pitch, expression, even if you have all of these while you normally practice, you are under a microscope when you are singing in the studio, and every major flaw gets exposed. The best tool to overcome this is practice. The more time you spend in the studio, the better you will become. It will also make you a better singing if you have a good pitch recognition. Hearing your voice dry and magnified causes you to become more on point and acute to what you really sound like.


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