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Show Everybody Has Ability And Equipment to Sing What fun to know how to sing whether for just your own pleasure or to entertain friends. And you can sing everyone can sing! You may think Vou have a weak voice of no range. You may go into a shrill quaver singing such a simple air as "Three Blind Mice." But still you have all the equipment any singer uses; you simply haven't learned what to do with it. The reason your voice breaks is that your breathing machine isn't working well. Learn to inhale deeply, deep-ly, expanding your ribs and stiffening stiffen-ing your spine. Exhale slowly until lungs feel completely deflated. To test the evenness of your breathing, stand before a candle. If the flame keeps steadily horizontal when you exhale you are breathing evenly. As for the range of your voice, you can enlarge it with such simple exercises as this one: Speak these syllables in a low, soft voice: BAH, BAY, BEE, BO, BOO. Hold the sound OO, gradually changing from a speaking quality into a soft singing tone. Repeat in a slightly higher speaking speak-ing tone, changing the OO to a singing sing-ing tone as before. And continue raising the voice a little each time as long as you can without strain. Then lower the voice step by step. |