Everyone can become a really great singer.

Yes, there are those fortunate ones who seem to be born with the skill to sing beautifully. The act of singing itself is like a natural consequence of their existence in this world. The rest of us become mere wannabes.

However, this shouldn’t hinder you from fulfilling your dream of becoming a good singer, no matter how ordinary you may sound today. A wannabe can become the next star, just like in what we see in talent searches today.

Everyone has the potential to become a good singer. Singing, as considered in science, is also a vocal exercise that comes naturally because we are human beings. It just needs some proper training and attention to make the potential become a reality.

Singing Drills

There are actually drills that can help a simple wannabe become a great singer. Even the great performers of today are still doing these singing drills to maintain and improve their skills.

They do the drills to improve their range, to practice their breathing and to preserve a good singing voice. Without these usual exercises, their performances won’t be extraordinary.

Here are some of the drills to consider:

1. Breathing Exercises

These exercises are important to be able to control the breathing properly during singing. Pauses and sudden stops in a performance isn’t good. You must know how to breathe correctly to coordinate it with the vocal chords.

2. Vocalization

Vocalization prepares the vocal chords for other singing exercises. It is like warm up in physical exercises. It prepares the senses for further listening and singing activities.

3. Posture Exercises

Many people don’t expect this. However, posture is very important in singing. It allows the body to support the whole effort in singing. Furthermore, this provides a good projection during performances.

4. Developing the Ear for Singing

This one shall train the wannabe to have a good perception of the songs he or she hears or makes. This helps them hit the right tune.

5. Learning Lyrics

Lyrics are important in singing. The words are important in the overall performance as the message of the song depends on it. Thus, training on how to learn the lyrics well and delivering them in proper diction is imperative.

Conclusion

Training and practice with these singing drills may sound simple and basic. However, these are the very tools that shall make a wonderful singer out of you until you are a wannabe no more.

Ah, the blues. One of the most well known forms of music. There’s no other music style quite like it, that has carried such an influence on other music styles and that has such a rich heritage. Surprisingly, though, the Blues isn’t that difficult to play.

The Blues as an oral tradition can be traced back to the mid 1800s, and finds its roots from Europe and Africa. However, the Blues as we know it today is purely an American style of music. It first began to be popularized in the early 1900s, with guys like WC Handy writing songs such as “Memphis Blues” & “St. Louis Blues.”

In the 1920s and 1930s, guitarists used slides from broken bottle necks to create the slide sound (which is something any guitarist should learn when wanting to play the Blues) and in the 1940s Big Band began to take over. This meant that guitars moved primarily into the rhythm section. Then, the 1950s arrived, where piano blues and guitar blues began to develop into rock and roll and other forms of music. This is also when amplifiers and electrified guitar music became more and more common.

The Blues is primarily guitar and piano focused, but it can be played on other instruments too. To play the Blues, there are a few tips and tricks that can get you started quickly. Firstly, the Blues must be played with FEELING. It’s a very less technical style, which you will especially find once you get used to a few progressions, chords and scales. Secondly, get comfy with a Blues rhythm when practicing (most blues is in 4/4 time signature.) Then, learn to play the Blues Scale and a Blues Progression, and you’ll find yourself soon able to play the Blues with feeling and ease.

Let’s look at the Blues Scale. It’s actually quite easy to play and works off the major scale. All it is, really, is the major scale with an added flattened 3rd, 5th and 7th. So, if you were playing in the key of C, the Blue Scale would look like this : C D Eb E F Gb G A Bb C. That’s it. The scale is ideal for improvising over a blues progression, which you should also practice and learn to play.

Typically, Blues progressions are done over 12 measures (bars) – which is why it is known as 12 bar blues. If you were playing in the key of C, for instance, you would play the first 4 bars in the root chord (C), the 5th and 6th bars in the 4th interval (F), the 7th and 8th bars back to the root note (C), the 9th and 10th bars in the 5th interval (G) and end off the last two bars in the root note again (C.) If you wanted to play chords over this progression, you would stick to dominant 7th chords- and to improvise you would just play the Blues Scale as above. Guitarists can add a few tricks – using a slide, or “wriggling” notes for some extra feeling.

Blues has this marvelous ability of getting you addicted to it very quickly. It really is a unique style for jamming and improvising, and one song can carry on for (literally) hours. Not only that, but since other forms of music find their roots in the blues, learning to play the blues will increase your ability in those styles as well.

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Team method Guitar is also a MASSIVE course. There are six books with almost 500 pages of information, 10 DVDs and CDs with video lessons and play along jam tracks, several mini courses covering playing by ear and acoustic guitar, and several software games to speed learning.

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Music is something that has to be made, played, appreciated and enjoyed together. While it’s great that you can listen to your favorite CD in the car and sing along (when no one is looking) the fact of the matter is that music is better enjoyed with friends. When you’re a musician, this doesn’t change. You don’t become a brilliant musician by staying in your room all day and practicing your scales. You have to step out and join other musicians, learn from them, and find out that true creativity is not done solo. The closet is honestly not a very good teacher.

Jam sessions are the way to do this. This is when musicians get together and just… well, jam. Someone starts a groove, a lick, or a melody and the rest of the musicians are inspired and pick it up – letting the music take them wherever it wants to go.

Being a musician requires two things : head and soul. Most musicians have either a lot of the one and too little of the other. Musicians with a lot of ‘head’ know all the technical aspects of music – what mode to play when, which notes work best over which chord progressions, what kind of groove is good for a specific time signature etc. Musicians ought to know these things. But musicians that are on this side of the scale tend to lack a serious amount of creativity – they live in the box, and music is supposed to be about breaking free from the box.

The other type of musician – the one with a lot of soul – is usually the kind of musician with a lot of natural talent. He can play a groove well, or can easily pick up notes with his ear and play them. He is very creative, but has no idea how to actually structure that creativity in an effective way. Usually, he is the ‘misunderstood’ musician – he struggles to work with others, and tends to feel frustrated with them. The truth is that he is less of a musician if he can’t work with others, and needs to learn how.

To be a fantastic musician, is to be a well rounded musician. This is why jam sessions are so important – they help a musician to acquire the skills that he lacks. A musician with a lot of soul learns how to structure his talent into a song, learning when to play and when not to play. A musician with a lot of ‘head’ and technical knowledge learns how to break free from his box a little and just let his creativity take over. This is why band’s should jam, and to jam A LOT. They learn each other’s (and their own) strengths, weaknesses, and learn how to ‘play off’ each other and inspire each other. Many a fantastic song has been written out of a jam session. Take for instance U2’s “Pride (in the name of love)” - that song was written in a jam session during a sound check. U2 is a good example of a band that writes their albums from jam sessions – that’s when the creativity is flowing.

Jam sessions teach musicians a number of things :

1) Songwriting – which we’ve discussed above.

2) Groove. A lot of technical guitarists or even drummers lack groove, which is a very bad weakness. When a jam session is going, the subtle difference between groove and sound starts becoming evident. Also, it’s helpful to jam with a metronome, as it can help all the musicians to learn how to keep their rhythm in time – even if only the drummer jams with a metronome.

3) Tone. Not just guitarists need to worry – or get excited – about tone. All the musicians, including the singer and the drummer, learn during a jam session how to tweak their ear to the subtle frequencies going on, and adjust their tone to fill in the gaps that are missing, and complement the other instruments.

4) Dynamics. To know when to play, and when not to play. Many great musicians have said that it’s not so much what you put in, but what you leave out, that makes a great song.

5) Using your skill tastefully. Shredding the guitar at breakneck speeds are fantastic to look at, but if every song has that kind of solo, it gets boring very quickly. In Jam sessions, you learn melody and note-placing very easy, so that when you break out into a lightning speed solo it’s tasteful more than just plain showmanship.

The benefit from jam sessions cannot be understated – and once you start them, you will soon find out that they’re way more fun than just going over the arrangements of a song over and over again. Jam sessions also improve your confidence – both as a musician and as a band – preparing you for the live performance, and allowing you to relax into your instrument.