You might be wondering – “Come on! I know how to breathe!!”. I don’t doubt you. You of course know how to breathe – to be alive! But do you know how to breathe – to sing effectively? Mostly not, if you are a beginner. There are two fundamental aspects to breathing while singing: 1. Taking proper breath breaks during singing. If you find yourself short of breath to complete to segment/line while singing, then you are not breaking the right…
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Dear fellow singing aspirants and music connoisseurs! We just released a major update to Riyaz that brings in desired improvements to this already well-received application (thank you for that!!). This release also brings in few new aspects that will further help you in nurturing yourself to be a singer or a well educated connoisseur. Here is what changed and what’s new in this version. 1. You can now pause and resume while practising in Riyaz There are many long practise…
Today let’s talk about one of the recent additions in our Riyaz app, the Vocal Monitor. This feature is requested by many Riyazers like you. So how does it help you improve singing? I’ll tell you a few usage scenarios and leave the rest to your creativity and imagination! Scenario 1: Sing and visualise what you prefer As you know, there are many exercises in Riyaz which you should practice everyday to sing better. But, a lot of you asked us to…
In this post, we will help you with identifying your (modal) voice register and consequently your sruti. For those of you who are not aware of these concepts, let me clarify what they actually mean.
Hello, and a warm welcome to this community of singers and singing aspirants! Do you still remember the first time you pedalled a bicycle? Relive that thin moment before we finally sailed away relishing the hard learnt ability to balance ourselves on its two wheels. We all craved for that gentle, loving nudge. An elder sibling, or perhaps a close friend, or one of our parents/grandparents – somebody has been with us as we struggled to get ourselves up there and rein it into our…