Singing technique questions and thanks;=)

Hi everyone and good evening!
Its raining here in south of Sweden tonight after having been a wonderful warm and nice day all day. I like rain but of course it´s nicer with sunlight;=)

Thanks so much for all the comments and all your nice and warming welcomes to me opening this blog. I get so warm inside knowing you all are interested and caring about me and the band. Thanks so much!

I will try and answer questions etc as much and fast as possible and today I will start by some singing technique questions I got. It will take more than one blog post to talk about singing but let´s take it in some steps now and then.

Its hard to go in to exactly what I do when I sing since some things are "by nature" and just comes naturally but of course a lot of things are what I have learned earlier in vocal lessons and also during my career as the singer in Nightwish where my voice is needed to be able to sing many high pitched songs for 1,5 hour many nights a week.

First of all, what I use most when I sing is a technique called "belting". For you who dont know what kinda vocal sound types normally are talked about there are different sounds and techniques to use when singing. This technique is a way to come very high up by pushing the vocal chords together, slamming them against each other, so that no air at all can leak through. If any air leaks through it can make the voice soar and aching. I do this technique also by thinking that I lift my upper lift upwards, kinda showing my teeth and a good sound to practise for it is to imitate an evil witch. You know the evil laughter;=)
Also imitating a car like: öhrn, öhrn, öhrn... as a car accelerating forward. These things make me lift the lip and close the chords. Of course there are so many more things to do to make this technique perfect but thats a easier way to explain what I do. I hope you understand a little bit about it now;=)

This was just a start and I´ll talk more about singing so throw me more questions and of course, about other things too.
See you all later!
Hugs,
Anette