Vibrato question:Can i still develop vibrato if i had been singing straight tone!
Question: a natural vibrato is a function of the voice when it is well supported and when the muslces of t he throat are given the necessary freedom to move. It's not a locally-controllable function, however. You can't make it happen by traing to wiggle this or waggle that. The brain takes over and does it when conditions are right. Crabby's explanation is how to do a trill, which is an ornamentation.
Since you'Ve been singing for 9 years, I'll assume you're in your late teens or earliy 20s at most. It is not unusual for young people to start encountering their vibrato at that age, assuming that they are learning how to breathe properly, and have achieved some fluency in breath management. A straight tone also often comes from holding on tight to the muscles in the throat, not only the big strap muslces that hold your head up, but the fine, imperceptible ones that help run the voice. Even though this is carried on on a sub-conscious level, the tension still prohibits vibrato from developing. I would recommend you take some singing lessons from a classical teacher, to learn how and what good singing breathing is all about.
Answers: a natural vibrato is a function of the voice when it is well supported and when the muslces of t he throat are given the necessary freedom to move. It's not a locally-controllable function, however. You can't make it happen by traing to wiggle this or waggle that. The brain takes over and does it when conditions are right. Crabby's explanation is how to do a trill, which is an ornamentation.
Since you'Ve been singing for 9 years, I'll assume you're in your late teens or earliy 20s at most. It is not unusual for young people to start encountering their vibrato at that age, assuming that they are learning how to breathe properly, and have achieved some fluency in breath management. A straight tone also often comes from holding on tight to the muscles in the throat, not only the big strap muslces that hold your head up, but the fine, imperceptible ones that help run the voice. Even though this is carried on on a sub-conscious level, the tension still prohibits vibrato from developing. I would recommend you take some singing lessons from a classical teacher, to learn how and what good singing breathing is all about.
I'm not going to say there is no way you couldn't, but from my singing experience it is obvious that developing vibrato after such a long time would take a lot of practice, but anyone that can switch from vibrato to straight is quite talented.
it would be really weird to you at first when you practice vibrato, but you just have to get use to it... it's not impossible. It's like me singing straight tone, i can do it well, it it seems strange to me. Listen to a lot of opera, and kinda grasp their use of vibrato (like how extreme they use it) then once it's stuck in your head, it would be easy for you to mimic them. Then you can tone the vibrato down as you get more of a hang to it.
absolutely!
personally, i had to teach myself at first but its become completely natural/normal now.
what i did to learn was do half steps, going up. for example a b flat to a b. i would start doing that slowly, holding each for a second or two and going back and forth. then i'd speed up so that i was moving up and down between the two notes as fast as i could. sounds kind of odd, but it eventually just allowed something to click.
good luck!