HOW TO BUILD CONFIDENCE ON STAGE

Do you feel your legs trembling before large audiences? Do you forget everything you memorized for discussion? You are not alone. Lacking confidence on stage is something even the most professional performers can suffer from. However, with good preparation and delivery techniques, you can handle even the biggest of audiences. If you can think it, you can do it!

Part 1 of 3:

Practicing Your Performance

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   Envision your best performance.Instead of imagining the worst scenario, challenge yourself to think more about how the performance could go well. Remind yourself why you are doing this performance, and why you believe in it. The good feelings will boost your confidence instead of increasing your nerves.^[1]
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   Practice often before performance day. Make sure that you know your lines, choreography, music, note cards, anything at all, completely by heart. You can go through everything daily to ensure that you won’t forget a thing. This way you won’t feel nervous about the possibility of forgetting something on stage.^[2]
   

   • If you're participating in a debate or giving a speech, research the topic of discussion thoroughly. This will increase your knowledge of the subject matter so you can speak confidently without sounding stumped. This is especially crucial if you will answer questions after the speech!
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   Record yourself beforehand for pointers. If you lack confidence because you don’t know how you look on stage, record yourself practicing and watch it back. Now you will have a clear idea of what the audience will see when you go on stage, and you can work on any mistakes you see.^[3]Part 2 of 3:

Building Your Confidence

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   Eliminate all negative thoughts. If you start telling yourself that you can’t do this, you don’t know what you’re doing, and so on, your confidence will drop dramatically. Anything that you tell yourself regularly, you start to take as reality. This will make you think that you cannot pull off confidence on stage no matter how hard you work.
   

   • Put an end to this practice by replacing any negative thoughts with positive ones. It can be as simple as stopping yourself from thinking “I can’t do this” to “I can do this.” Saying positive thoughts out loud to yourself also makes a world of a difference.^[4]
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   Have your costume or favorite outfit ready to go. Pick out your outfit the night before so you are not worrying about it the day you go on stage. Choose something that you like and makes you feel secure and confident. If you have a costume, make sure that everything fits perfectly when you go into fittings, and don’t be afraid to speak up if something doesn’t feel right.^[5]
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   Talk to your friends or fellow performers. Chances are, anyone else that is going on stage with you is lacking confidence as well. Sharing these feelings can help you realize that you are not alone, and it is completely normal to be nervous. You can also tell a trusted friend or family member how you are feeling, and they will most likely share their excitement at seeing you onstage.
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   Get plenty of rest. You don’t want to appear tired for your speech or performance. Allow for your best night’s sleep the night before, whether it means going to bed early or listening to some calming music.^[6]
   

   • This is especially crucial for dancers! Don’t overdo anything at your dress rehearsal. Coming into a performance with your brain and muscles fatigued can increase your chance of getting an injury.^[7]
   
   
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Nailing Your Performance

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   Make eye contact with people who look especially interested. If you feel your confidence beginning to slip but see people nodding in the crowd, don’t be afraid to focus on them. This will remind you that you are doing a great job and people are interested in what you are trying to do or say. If there are no nodding audience members to be found, you can also look at a trusted family member or friend who will support you no matter what happen 
   
   
   
   

   
   

   
   
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   Maintain a confident posture.Hunching forward makes you look less confident, and actually hinders your confidence as well. Stand up straight, act like you are balancing a book on your head, and your feelings will quickly improve. You will also make a good impression on the audience and how they see you.^[9]
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   Keep your voice loud and clear. This does not mean you need to shout. Just make sure that you are speaking loud enough that everyone in the room can hear. If you have trouble with this, practice in front of a group of friends to test your “public speaking” or “acting” voice.^[10]
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   Don't rush the performance. Time can be a tricky thing when you are on stage. Purposefully make yourself start out slow so you can get used to the audience and your place on stage. The audience may have trouble understanding you if you speak too fast. ^[11]
   

   • It helps to keep a timer clock going as you perform, to give you a better sense of how slowly (or quickly) time is actually passing. You can keep it on your podium, or just keep it in your pocket to take out and quickly glance at between subjects.
   • For dancers, pay attention to the music counts and make that a priority if you feel like you might be rushing. The music determines all of your movements!^[12]
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   Get the audience laughing, if possible.If permitted, ask questions, include facts they'll be interested in, and tell short stories relevant to subject matter. This will increase interaction and everyone will loosen up a bit.^[13]
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   End on a good note so the audience leaves in a happy mood. Be sure to end the discussion or performance with awow feeling. If you make a mistake but finish strong, chances are the audience will only remember your amazing ending.
   

   • For speakers, you can end with a question that will keep the audience thinking about your speech long after it ends. You can also end with a call to action that reiterates why you are speaking in the first place.
   • Dancers can act like they just gave the best performance in the world to end on a good note. No matter what happened in the performance itself, smile (if choreography allows), stand up straight with your shoulders back, and give the best finishing pose you’ve got.

SING LIKE A PRO

Can you learn to sing better?

You can learn to sing better.

I can still remember when I was 11 years old, living in the suburbs of Tasmania in Australia, and my dad suggested to me I take singing lessons. I had always just sung around the house, sung along to songs, and never thought about the fact I would ever need to be formally taught. I just thought singing was something that came naturally, but boy was I wrong. 

SO CAN YOU ACTUALLY LEARN TO SING BETTER? 

It’s always incredible to me how differently we all use our voices. Making sound with the voice is an incredibly efficient process but we don’t just come out of the womb and understand how it works - especially when it comes to singing. Very often there is massive untapped potential in a voice because we don’t innately know how the voice can work at its best. And I find our natural speaking voices are influenced by so many emotional factors 

• was there a tense atmosphere in your house? 
• did you feel you had to speak softly? or loudly? 
• are you a shy person?
• do you talk nonstop without taking a breath? 

When I started out with voice lessons my voice was very breathy. This meant I couldn’t project my sound and would always run out of air. My voice didn’t have that cut-through quality and at the time I didn’t even know that was desirable. But once I had learned to make that sound - my entire singing technique improved, everything was easier, I had more control, more projection, and singing became effortless and fun. I learned to be able to control the amount of cut-through quality I wanted to use, so if I need to these days - I can completely take it out of my voice, but if I need to sing across a theater - the people in the back will understand the words. 

In the end, learning technique gives you incredible control over your voice, and this allows you to express whatever a song requires. The voice is an incredible instrument and at its best, should feel and sound, effortless. 

SO CAN YOU LEARN TO SING BETTER? 

Improve your singing

How Can I Improve My Singing?

Like most broad statements, answering this question is not as straight forward as it may at first seem. The key to understanding how you can improve your singing has a lot to do with first diagnosing what your problem areas are. However, as a rule I can say that healthy practise that uses the fundamentals of good technique (diaphragmatic support, controlling the breath and then exercising the vocal folds without any tension in the throat) - is always going to improve your singing.

The voice (when I say this I am “technically” speaking about the vocal folds) is connected to all sorts of muscles, and so like any muscle - they get stronger with use. It’s also important to lean into exercises gently and gradually take on more challenging things; you wouldn’t go to the gym after never working out, and expect to lift 100 kilos on your first day.

Having said that, here’s a few simple ways to always improve your singing, no matter where you’re at, or what skill level you’re currently at.

1. Take care of your body

Unlike other instruments, the voice is very much a part of your body and it is one of the first things to show you are tired. Therefore you have to approach singing somewhat similarly to physical exercise. This means regular sleep, don’t overdose on foods that cause you irritation, avoid alcohol, and make sure you are well hydrated.

2. Make sure you always practise using correct breathing techniques

This is hugely important. If you aren’t supporting your voice with your breathing it allows tension to transfer to the throat putting stress on your vocal cords. See the above link to learn the correct breathing for singing and discover the ONLY place you should feel tension when you are singing. If you feel tension anywhere else, basically - you’re doing it wrong!

3. Once you understand the correct breathing - practise!

There are two distinct sides to being a great singer. One part is technique - and the other part is Practise. Technique you can learn, but practise and doing it is the inescapable part that requires commitment and time. Noone can make you a great singer no matter HOW much technique you understand, without the repetition practise so that that technique becomes part of your muscle memory, and eventually the most natural thing in the world. Being a great singer means being able to control a lot of minute muscle movements that control pitch, sound and dynamics. The more you do it, understanding what you’re doing - always listening and using your ear to refocus your phrasing, the more natural it becomes.

4. Build on your technique

The other part of being a great singer is actual technique. If you really want to be a great singer you need to understand vocal technique and how to implement that techniques in your own body and voice. When you use it correctly singing becomes easier, more efficient, louder and everything you want to do in your voice becomes possible (within the realms of your own genetics!!) Breathing is a hugely important part, but then comes sound and the larynx, and finally using the articulators. Other things like posture and performance play a role but the most overlooked part of good vocal technique is (in my opinion) understanding vocal tone/ sound and how to fix those problems. I’ll do my best to try to explain facets of sound in this blog, but if you want to dive in right now and know everything - visit www.bigsinging.comwhere you can take my step by step, comprehensive course on vocal technique where I teach you absolutely everything you need to know.

5. Be you

The last thing I want to say is, great singing is really about a certain authenticity. Beneath all the technique, the high notes or the loud phrases, ultimately great singing moves us. It allows the audience to feel something. The best way to do that is not to try to pretend to be anyone else. We all have our limitations physically, in how we sound, how high we can sing. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. Be whoever you are with the instrument you have and be proud and still in that. If you strive to be generous, emotionally open and allow yourself to be vulnerable it doesn’t matter if you sing high or low or loud or a little bit off every now and then. Connect with your audience honestly. That is the MOST important thing. Singing is giving. Singing is empathy. Singing is the most mysterious thing in the world. But it connects us and opens us up. What could be better than that?

Proper breathing

OK,they are lot to reach..
But lemme quickly say this one..

Today we are going to teach..
*PROPER BREATHING FOR SINGING*

So let me explain the right breathing for singing.

THE INHALE

Breathe in and RELAX your stomach. That means the stomach should move outwards when you breathe in. You may have to really work on this because we often hold our stomach’s tight all day long. But the wall of the abdomen is the only way we can control the diaphragm, so as we breathe in we’re setting up the process where we will control the air later on. To do that - your stomach has to move outwards! Because then - the diaphragm moves down, and in doing so - like a vacuum - air gets sucked into your lungs, and the diaphragm switches ON.
As you breathe in make sure your shoulders stay down - your shoulders shouldn’t move when you breathe, that is called “shallow breathing” which gives us zero control later on. You know those people that literally get taller when they breathe? - don’t do that. Remember: we need our stomach to move out when we breathe, otherwise we won’t be able to slow down the rate that air rushes OUT of our lungs. Why? because we need the diaphragm to do that. (and if your stomach doesn’t move = no diaphragm!)
Also - as you breathe in - let your rib cage expand outwards at the back - left and right. So if someone stood behind you with their hands on your floating ribs (they are the ribs lower down at the bottom of the rib cage, they’re actually more movable) their hands would feel the expansion. You can also do this yourself. So what you want is expansion forwards in your stomach - and left and right at the back.
 Keep in mind when you first do this, you might feel like you have no support at all. A lot of people are used to the feeling of tightness in their chest when they’re full of air but that is “shallow” breathing. Once you start breathing “low” - as opposed to high - (low being when you include the diaphragm) - it’s a much more relaxed feeling. But feeling that tension as your ribs expand at the back can help that feeling of fear and discomfort. However - to breathe correctly you really need to start to trust that your diaphragm is doing the work for you.

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*THANKS FOR READING*

*BY ADMIN*

My worship lyrics

TRIBE OF DAVID MUSIC
MY WORSHIP LYRICS BY
JAYCROWN FT JANE BASSEY
Text - Isaiah 25vs1

     Solo 1 (JAYCROWN)
as long am alive
as far I am breathing
I'll glorify your name.
nothing gonna stop me
there's no me,without you lord
his your love that kept me through..
your awesome passion grace.
over me never failing..

Chorus.. (call &resp)
I ----will-----wor---ship you 2ce
(HOOK)
you deserved it,you deserve
all my worship,and my praise
take the glory ,take the praise
I bring to you ...
for you alone....

Solo 2 (JANE BASSEY)
You ve been there for me
My on...e and on.ly,
You're the only thing that keeps me
Me.........on going
Forever you are lord,
Forever,you're my saviour
I will love you more and more
......Everyday of my life

*Chorus*
I will worship you.2ce
*hook*
You deserve it ..you deserve..
All my worship,and my praise
Take the glory
Take the praise
I bring to you ..
For you alone..

Bridge.. (Call&Resp 4ce)
Is for you... All my worship
Is for you all of my praise.
I give it all to you 3ce
Yo..uu......uuuu...uuuuuu
I give it all to you 3ce..
All of my worship.

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Vocal Subdivisions

Vocal subdivisions 

In classical music or the opera world, voice types can be further divided into categories based on the size and agility of the voice. The first four terms are in order like the soda sizes at the fast-food joint. Light is the small, lightweight cup, and dramatic is the cup so large that it
won’t fit in the cup holder in your car.
✓ Light: A bright, youthful, agile voice.
✓ Lyric: A medium-sized voice with a warm
color that’s comfortable singing long, even
phrases. Lyric is appropriate for a romantic
character.
✓ Full: A louder, stronger voice that doesn’t
necessarily sing fast lines as easily as a
light voice.
✓ Dramatic: A voice that’s even louder than
a full voice and sings a heavier repertoire,
such as Wagner. Dramatic voices can peel
the paint off the wall from 50 paces. These
voices are big and heavier than full lyric
voices; they aren’t known for subtlety —
they’re all about power and strength.
✓ Coloratura: A flexible voice that moves
easily through fast lines in the music.
A singer can be a mix of the terms in the preceding list. For example, a light lyric coloratura refers to a medium-sized light voice that moves easily. Seeing the words combined to describe a voice type isn’t so confusing if you understand the definition of each descriptive word.
However, only in the classical world is it important for you to know how your voice fits within this list. Don’t worry about the specific kind of category you’re in until you get some training.