The Ultimate Guide To Belting - Beginner Singing Lesson

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Hi, I’m Abram from 30 Day Singer and today we’ll go over a few essentials on how to belt correctly.

Belting is incredibly fun and exciting when done correctly, but it's easy to overdo it by engaging the wrong muscles, which quickly wears out your voice. If you are feeling a lot of strain or experience lots of voice breaking, then take a break and check bad habits like lifting the head and neck.

1) Sustained Support

The first concept for healthy belting is having continual support activation and sustain through any belted note. While this isn't exactly how the term got its name, I like to think of belting as originating from right where your belt sits just below your belly button. Try blowing against your hand for a moment and notice how your abdominal muscles gently engage and pop out a bit. We need this support on a belted note.

Try this sustain style exercise with me. Sustain the top note and at the same time check in with your lower abdominal muscles. They should be engaging by sinking down and out through the high belted note until you drop back down in pitch. Let’s take this up a little higher.

2) Balanced Alignment

Belting requires a more forward chest dominant sound which can trend us towards opening our mouth like a megaphone. This isn’t entirely bad if we want that extra brassy tone, but needs to be balanced with proper head and neck alignment. If we go too far in this wide open direction we can end up squeezing the muscles around our larynx which leads to tension, coughing, and vocal fatigue.

The best way to think of beltings is as a chest dominant but still mixed voice technique. We want taller vowels that originate from the back of your vocal tract. Keep that support engaged from the last exercise and notice your tongue moving up and then relaxing back down while you sing Yah. This will help us guide the resonance to come in from the back of your vocal tract. Let's turn this into an exercise and see what we can do.

Make sure to only do this in short bursts and continually check in with how your voice feels during and after your practice. Good luck and I’ll see you next time!

0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Sustained Support
5:28 - Balanced Alignment
8:27 - Outro

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