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Answers: I have an audition for a choir on Saturday and I'm kinda nervous!
This is the 3rd or 4th singing audition I've tried out for and I still get the butterflies:/
I am working on the song a lot, but I still seem to be having trouble with breathing. Any suggestions?
Also, I'm having trouble with some high notes(I'm a soprano 1)
and that has never happened to me before! Any tips on helping my voice loosen up?
Thanks a bunch:]

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Diaphragmatic breathing will get you on track. Try this the next time you practice.

Get in front of a mirror. Place your hands parallel on your abdomen, with the tips of your middle fingers touching. Now when you inhale, your tummy will inflate like a balloon. Your upper chest and your shoulders shouldn't move. On inhale, your tips of your middle fingers will slightly part. Now exhale SLOWLY. Don't push the air out, and don't suck your stomach in. Let the air release on its own. When you are done exhaling, your middle fingers will touch again. It might feel awkward at first, but the more you work on it, the more accustomed you will become to the feeling. Try this exercise over and over again, and then on exhale add vocalizations later on. This will help you with breath support, and in turn it will also help support your high notes. So this exercise will help both arenas.

Make sure before you sing, especially as a Soprano, you properly warm up the ENTIRE RANGE. NEVER PLUNGE into a piece without warming up for at least 5 to 10 minutes. That will loosen up the voice in itself. Don't fear the crackles and the kinks. That is what warming up is for, so it doesn't show up in your pieces. Also remember when you audition for choir, they aren't listening for soloists. They are listening for people who can blend, who have musicianship skills (make sure you view all dynamics and perfect all important notations in your score before you audition), and if you can be a pleasant person to work with. This is a little different from a soloist audition. Show your musicianship skills first. That you can master other things besides "sounding" good. Trust me. I have turned down singers in a choir I taught because of lack of musician skills, and their lack of people skills. So be extremely pleasant, dress nicely, and display not only great vocals, but that you can sing according to what is written. It will impress the judges. Good luck to you and have confidence in everything you do!

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just take big breathes in and then breath out..that always relaxes me when i get nervous and im shy..or i used to be but i do that and it works

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The one trick I learned a few years ago was right before you're going to hit one of those high notes, pull your stomach in. I think its connected with the diaphram. It will also give you volume.

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Do some really great warmups. Warming up is the key.
Go to http://www.singingsuccess.com/index.htm and a little clip their shows you how to do some warm-ups.

Keep it cool kid! It will be OK!

If you are sopranoe sing along with some opera songs. That always helps me!

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try to think of the butterflies as excitement instead of nervousness.

and the best advice anyone can give you is to sing loudly! make sure you are heard well. even if you are wrong, do it proudly and loudly.

strong and wrong!

seriously, make sure you're louder than anyone else. lots of people doing those auditions are very tentative and can't be heard. your teacher can work with you getting the right notes, as long as they know you can be heard, they can work with you.

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