How to make my voice less scratchy?!
Question: I am learning to play piano, and when I play pieces, my teacher wants me to sing the names of the notes as I play. Problem is, I have a scratchy voice. When I sing, I can't hold a pitch. It's just awful.
Any techniques or anything I can do/drink/eat/practice to make my voice less pitchy and scratchy?
Answers: I am learning to play piano, and when I play pieces, my teacher wants me to sing the names of the notes as I play. Problem is, I have a scratchy voice. When I sing, I can't hold a pitch. It's just awful.
Any techniques or anything I can do/drink/eat/practice to make my voice less pitchy and scratchy?
Well, at least you can play the piano. I can sing, but I can't play. That's what I call awful!
Here are a few tips, but some may not be so...conventional.
Once I had this horrible cold and sounded like a guy. My mom said I should gulp down some garlic (or maybe some form of garlic pills) that worked really good for me.
Well, it worked well cuz I'd also drink warm water throughout the day so my throat would feel better.
BREATHING: This is SO important. You need to make sure you breathe from a deep area! You'll notice the difference when you breathe from the chest than when you breathe from the stomach and/or rib area. It's a more relieving thing which released better sound as well.
While you're at the piano, you can always warm up. Take some warm ups that have vovwels in them (they help your tone and range) and take them half a step up and down. Just explore your voice's abilities.
Do NOT have chocolate, milk or any dairy before you sing! This is HORRIBLE! This'll make it so much worse. And sometimes you don't even think of it. I've just been eating things and then I sing and I wonder why I sound the way I do. (Maybe you don't do this, but this is just a preventive measure I'm talking about.)
Honey, lemon, teas and such really do help your throat. But, remember that breathing and shaping your tone is very impportant as well.
Good luck and happy holidays!
Ive heard famous singers say they make some sort honey elixer that they coat their throats with. Try googling that.
Well this is what my mum tells me.... To sing from your stomach, and not from your throat. But keep practicing, becuase it takes a while to learn.
-Dakota