Teach Yourself to Sing in 10 Easy Steps

Introduction: 0:00
Tall posture: 2:19
Breathing: 3:41
5 tone count for males: 7:29
5 tone count for females: 8:09
5 tone Gug for males: 11:41
5 tone Gug for females: 12:00
1.5 octave ooh vowel for males: 13:52
1.5 octave ooh vowel for females: 14:11
1.5 octave Gee for males: 15:49
1.5 octave Gee for females: 16:18
Octave repeat "Nae" for males: 17:49
Octave repeat "Nae" for females: 18:15
"ee" vowel vibrato for males 19:29
"ee" vowel vibrato for females 9:58
Singing songs (replace exercises with words): 20:26

Have you always wanted to teach yourself to sing but had no idea where to start? I mean let's face it, private lessons are expensive! And the truth is that many singing students are learning to sing online now.

In fact, I've had many students who taught themselves how to sing. So, I wanted to make this video so that you can learn to teach yourself to sing in 10 easy steps.

In my years of teaching students, I've taught a lot of students who have started by learning to sing on their own. This is a great approach, since it's more affordable and you can teach yourself on your own schedule.

However, there are some singing techniques that make learning to sing much easier and faster. In this video today, I'm going to show you how you can teach yourself to sing in 10 easy steps.

The first step in teaching yourself how to sing is to use tall posture. Bring your feet to shoulder-width apart. You'll notice that your hips are also shoulder-width apart so that you have a straight line between your feet, hips and your shoulders. This is the tall posture.

In the second step, you need to learn proper breath control. In this case, breathing from the diaphragm is the best breathing for singing. Breathing from the diaphragm simply means that as you inhale, your diaphragm contracts, which expands your belly. My favorite exercise for improving your breath control is to Farinelli breathing exercise. In this exercise, you're going to inhale for a four-count, hold for a 4 count, and then exhale for a four-count. This is a fantastic exercise for improving your breath control.

The third step in teaching yourself to sing, you need to learn to sing on pitch. Unfortunately this is probably the hardest thing to do when you're learning on your own, so you're going to really have to record yourself and listen for where you get off pitch. In this exercise, I'm going to give you a very simple scale so that you can learn to sing more in tune. We'll sing the five tone count, where you sing a 5-tone major arpeggio, but you replace each note of the scale with the words 1 2 3 4 and 5. As you're doing this exercise, make sure that you record yourself so that you can tell where you're getting off.

The next step in teaching yourself how to sing is learning how to project your singing voice. Projecting correctly just means that you're able to sing at a volume where you could be heard in the back of the theater, without straining your voice and without whispering. One of the easiest ways to learn to project is to start a by speaking the words first, then applying that same speech level sound to your singing voice.

The next step in teaching yourself to sing it is to sing in chest voice. Chest voice is the name for the range of notes at the bottom of your voice. In this exercise, you'll sing a five-tone gug as in the word gutter where you replace each note of the scale with the word gug. You’ll notice that this gug gives you a lot of chest voice.

The next step in teaching yourself to sing is learning to sing in head voice. Head voice is the name of the range at the top part of your voice. In order to find your head voice, you're going to sing a 1.5 octave scale on the word “ooh”, like oops.

The next step in teaching yourself how to sing is to sing in mixed voice. Mixed voice is the combination or blend of the chest voice and head voice together. There are lots of great exercises to help you do this, but one of my favorites is the 1.5 octave “Gee”, where you replace each note of the scale with the word “Gee” as in geese.

The next step in teaching yourself to sing is to learn how to belt. Learning to Belt means singing with a strong volume on the high notes in your voice, without straining. In this exercise I'm going to give you an octave repeat bratty “Nae” as in nasty.

The final step in teaching yourself to sing is to learn how to sing songs. Unfortunately songs are very difficult to sing because the vowels, consonants, Dynamics, and Melody are always changing. So when you're first learning how to sing, it can be great to sing songs on a friendly vocal exercise. So if the exercise “Gee” was working well for you, and then sing The Melody of the song on the word “Gee” and then go back to the lyrics. You'll be amazed at how much easier it is to sing.

[samsonite_iykyk]

My next shower world tour is gonna be fire 🔥 :)

[maizygiles]

My best friend is an INCREDIBLE singer and I’m trying to learn to not sound like a dying goat so that when we sing party in the USA together I don’t sound so bad 😂

[anonymous]

Importance of Feedback - 1:21
#1 Posture - 2:01
#2 Breathing - 3:20
#3 Sing on Pitch - 5:56
#4 Learn To Project - 8:36
#5 Sing in Chest Voice - 10:42
#6 Sing in Head Voice - 12:27
#7 Sing with Mixed Voice - 14:45
#8 Belting - 16:45
#9 Vibrato - 18:43
#10 Singing Songs - 20:24

[dontknowman]

7:30 singing in pitch
13:55 head voice
15:55 mix voice
Reminder for me

[ashlyann]

I can tell you genuinely care about helping others. This is definitely your passion!

[meg]

im a total beginner, never did theatre or choir or anything, and ive always considered myself to be a 'bad singer'. im just trying to learn to impress my gf and this genuinely helped so much

[wildalbalass]

A beginner guitar player her aged 63. Now I have to learn to sing too. Having grown up in a household that humiliated everyone ( but one ) who sang means this is a real discovery for me. I thank you for your encouragement and inspiration. Love to you n yours from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[reneebabin]

Dude, I don't know what you do in real life, but you are an AMAZING teacher.

[avantikamishra]

I can afford to join an expensive vocal lessons but I don't have the time out of my days due to heavy academic pressure but some angels like you actually help to teach us how to get the best out of our vocals. Obviously everybody can sing but there is a range and limit to which you can use your vocals. Honestly these short videos in my break helps out a lot.

[imscardeu]

Tips that help a little:
- warm ur voice with a piano (select notes in order and if the note is higher so make ur voice, when the pianokey gets lower so ur voice), do this for 5-10 minutes, u can choose

- U NEED to relax those shoulders (i know at first its hard, but not impossible), also breath deeply before singing relax, sit straight, and when singing ONLY move mouth, u dont need to move all ur body ( when u get better u can move more) finally find a comfortable position.

-DO NOT restrain yourself if u try to sing low it wont work (im not saying u need to scream), but u get it. ( I KNOW UR FAMILY MAY BE THERE) so close ur door thats all, if u have siblings get them out the room.

-also very important, find ur type of voice, sing with normal tone, so u find what works for u (if u do find, it will be easier)

- DO NOT IMITATE THE VOICE OF UR FAVORITE SINGER, i know because i went threw the same thing, it gets easier when u sing WITH UR VOICE

- once u think ur ready, try doing karaoke to easy songs u know

it took a couple of days but i got better, i hope u too

[lagrad]

I just started to learn to sing as a new hobby and didn't have a clue on how to start because couldn't find an explanation for the theory, but then I found this video and I'm grateful!! I didn't know what a mixed voice meant until now! Thank you!

[rvan]

RAMSEY HAS GOT A VERY CONTROLLED GOOD VOICE, A PATIENT AND A TEACHER WITH A PASSION...

[drew]

Most singing tutorial videos I’ve watched have been really hard to learn from but this one is actually really good! Thanks 😊

[justhereforfun]

This is absolutely incredible I don’t know what happened but after I did the pitch exercise I was able to sing so many different notes on pitch and I freaked out this was so helpful thanks so much

[musicaddic]

5:51 actually that’s kinda cool you mention the inhale for X amount of seconds and exhale afterwards cause that’s a therapy trick I learned forever ago to help get emotions under control. Kind of cool to know there’s more ways to use that trick! :D

[TAL_ENT]

I have been struggling with straining my voice, but even after just 3 days of this practice has helped me exponentially! Thank you!

[wongeggyork]

My mum is always sad that she cannot sing due to a surgery . As she was talking about it again yesterday, she mentioned how i have a better voice compared to her's but I never sang.
It really got me to try singing (actually to "sing") while I can and give it a try since no one else in my family plays any music.
Your video helped a lot and is such an encouragement to make me believe that learning to sing (with 0 talent) is possible! Im sure I can perform for my mum soon haha

[bellarosemusic]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! Studying music and starting to teach myself and this has taught me so much!! Thank you!

[steamboatt]

I really love that you left in your bloopers while talking instead of relentlessly cutting and mixing to make yourself sound perfect and scripted like so many other YouTube channels. You come across so much more personable that way & it makes this video feel like a conversation, not a lecture, which is so awesome for learning. I work on a lot of videos pre and post production so I just wanted to say that, it's amazing to hear someone talk naturally and imperfectly to their audience and be so down to earth and willing to teach as you are. I learned so much! Thank you for the video

[veezy]

I was a marching percussionist who played snare drum so learning to sing is a whole new beast to tame