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Originally Posted by crimepartner
I like the technicals of singing. variation of notes or whatever, and was wondering if someone can tell me about singing from there technical perspective or what they have been taught.
what about singing preperations?
smoking?
soda?
exercises?
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The main thing for singing preparations is to 'warm up' your voice. Like a warm up for sport, this is all about gently starting to work the parts of your body which you'll be using until your body is ready to start performing. For warming up I'd tend to just sing some quiet songs which are in the middle of my range (an analogy to walking on a treadmill perhaps), and then do some easy scales going from the bottom to the top of my range and back down (an analogy to stretching you muscles).
Don't smoke as it damages or destroys alveoli (think that's right), which are the little air sacks in your lungs. If these are damaged it decreases your lung capacity and hence will limit the length and power of phrases which you're able to sing. Also it can cause various types of burn related irritations to your whole respiratory system, giving you more problems with controlling the airflow in general.
Soda. Not a good idea just before singing as it'll make you gassy and you'll end up burping instead of singing. Other than that its not such a problem for singing.
Exercises:
In terms of SINGING EXERCISES there are plenty of different things you can do - I'd do an internet search for this if I were you. Maybe its a good idea to tape yourself singing first, so that you can identify which are the weaker points in your singing (looking for tuning, breathing, phrasing, range) and therefore what you should work on. This'll allow you to focus your search for singing exercises more.