The benefits of singing and singing classes

Singing gives you a different relationship with your breathing, with your body and with your own voice, and that's how you express yourself and how confident you stand with them. Classes add up something key: a technique that allows you to sing more time, more easily and without forcing your throat.

You don't have to have a good voice to start with: a good share of what makes a singer sound good and training. Here we tell you what the singing brings, what changes when you study with a teacher and where you can play in Colombia.

To sum up

Singing teaches you how to breathe with intention: to use air to hold phrases without tightening your neck.
You gain confidence by listening to your voice, recording and singing with others little by little.
The singing classes aren't trying to change your voice but to help you use it better and care about it.
Chorus singing is one of the most accessible forms of group music in Colombia.
The technique helps you avoid the snoring and tiredness that let them sing forced into a rumba or a karaoke.

You learn how to breathe with intention

We all breathe, but singing forces you to manage the air: to take it without raising his shoulders, to let them leave and get to the end of his sentence without being choked. That's the first thing that's worked in class and that's what's more about his feeling while singing.

That monitoring can be felt as well as talking. It's common for a singing student to get less tired at a high school exhibition, at a long meeting or at an entire day giving classes. It's not magic: you learned how to support his voice in the air and not his throat.

If you want to start from now on, at [breathing exercises to sing]](/blog/ejercicios-de-respiracion-para-cantar) you have an easy routine at home.

Trust and Expression: Your Voice Are You

The singing has something that has no other instrument: there's nothing between you and the listener. That's why I get so scared at first and that's why I get so satisfied when you get out. That's a step-by-step procedure in class:

You get used to listening to your recorded voice, which most often surprises the first time.
That's how you're singing with your teacher with no words and no one's judging a song.
A complete song that you have to have and be comfortable with.
That's how you're encouraging your family to be singing, a group or a recital.

Besides confidence, you learn to play: to decide where a sentence goes soft, where it grows and what you want to count with that letter. If the fear of singing with others challenges you, we have ideas about [how to overcome stage fear.]](/blog/como-vencer-el-miedo-escenico).

Singing on your own or taking classes: what's changing

The classes do not replace that taste: they make it more sustainable. That's how we see the difference in practice:

What's with the vocal technique?
Status	Singing without technique	With a class-worked technique
Acute notes	They are reached by pushing and squeezing their necks.	They are sought with air and resonance support, without shouting.
A long or several consecutive song	The voice gets tiresome or scattering.	They put up air and energy to get good at the end.
Filling	It's up to the day and the song.	Your ear's been trained and you know how to fix yourself.
After a rumba or a karaoke	That's bad.	Know how to stop, how to heat and how to let his voice rest.
Estilo	Imitate your favorite singer just as well.	You find your own color inside the style you like.

The singing classes they work breathing, tuning, resonance and repertoire to suit you, be it pop, ballast, salsa, Colombian or lyric music. If you do not know what way to get to, read [lyric or popular singing]](/blog/canto-lirico-o-canto-popular).

Chors, groups and places to sing

Singing's an easier way to join a group, because you don't have to buy or load an instrument. In Colombia there are spaces for nearly every age and taste:

Church chores and praisesThat they teach every week and they usually get new voices.
School and university and company chores, many open to people with no experience.
Old age chords in houses of culture, parishes and compensation boxes.
Andean, trio and serenade music groupsThat's where the voice takes the song.
Popes, rock, salsa or tropical music bandsThat they always need a leading voice and choirs.

Chorus singing teaches things that solo singing doesn't: listening to the voice from next door, tuning into a chord, mixing your sound with that of others and following your line at the score while others sing something different.

The technique helps you to care for your voice

Voice is an instrument that you cannot change for another and that, moreover, you use all day to talk about. Voice technique doesn't just sound better: it's how to sing without maltreatment.

You learn how to heat up before you sing and how to lower your intensity after.
Recognize the signs of tiredness: carraspazo, ronquera or a burning sensation.
You stop looking for sharp notes by force.
Do you understand how Bogota's sleep, hydration and cold and dry air influence your voice?

In our [word care guide]](/blog/como-cuidar-la-voz-guia-para-cantantes) That's how you'll find those explain habits step by step.

The honest challenges of singing and to whom it serves

You don't see your instrument. It's all about feelings and at first it's hard to understand what's going on inside.
Your voice changes with your day. A cold, a bad night or a day of talking a lot can be felt.
The exhibit. To mislead you by singing felt more personal than to mislead an instrument.
A progress that's hard to perceive. That's why recording you every once in a while's so useful: it's showing you advances that you can't hear while you're singing.

Classes are often useful to those who have been singing for good and have been wanting to do better, to those who have been using their voices all day at work, to adolescents with an opportunity to be in a band and to adults who have been wanting to sing and have never been encouraged. To them we write Learning how to sing as an adult.

Frequently asked questions

Do you have to have a good time with them? Do you have a good time with them?

It counts how to enjoy and how to contact your voice, but to get ahead you have to practice with an aim: breathing exercises, tuning and a worked repertoire and an eye with karaoke: the volume of the place invites to shout.

Do singing classes change the tone of their voices?

They don't give you another voice but they do change how yours sounds: more resonance, more projection and more control. Your own color remains and what improves is how to use them.

Is it better to start with a choir or with individual classes?

They complement them. The chorus gives you group experience, reading and harmonic ear, individual classes, care for your technique and your particular difficulties. Many chorus singers have been taught to better support their line.

Do singing help lose fear of public talking?

It can help, because you practice standing up to others, breathing and projecting his or her voice. Each person lives with him or her differently, and classes are a secure space to rehearse that exposure little by little.