subject: How to Improve Your Singing in Steps - Plant Yourself in Your Stance [print this page] How to Improve Your Singing in Steps - Plant Yourself in Your Stance
How does a tree improve your singing? By serving as a great model of rooting down into the earth beneath you. Learn this skill and you improve your singing instantly. Here's how:
Plant Yourself
.....just like a tree. To really sing freely, you need a good foundation under your voice. Your body is designed perfectly for that. You have bones, those terrific resonating hard surfaces, traveling all throughout your body. The best part is, many of those bones line up and travel down from your larynx straight into the floor. So lets use them and improve your singing instantly!
Stand with your legs shoulder-width apart, your knees relaxed and slightly bent. Feel your body weight on the muscles of the front of your thighs. Sing something that you really get into and send your voice down onto the sternum, sometimes called your breastbone (the front of your upper chest). Place your hand lightly on that sternum bone to feel the resonance more easily. You should feel a slight vibration in the hand as the sound waves resonate on the bone. Once you feel that bone begin to vibrate slightly, continue to aim the sound down and send it throughout your entire body, along all the bones.
Once you get the hang of using your bones and whole body structure to resonate the voice, send the sound right down your body into the floor. Imagine that you are sending your sound down into the earth under your feet. Do you notice how much stronger you feel singing this way? GOOD! Keep doing it, from now to the rest of your life!
