Young singer looking for personal advice & guidance from good vocal teacher. Any help, please?

I'm looking for any qualified vocal teacher to guide and advice me through my vocal training via e-mail. However, i don't live in USA, i live in Indonesia and i don't have money to hire a personal vocal teacher right now. I'm 20 years old and I just start singing several months ago, and right now I keep training my vocal trough college choir (but not regularly) and book/CD of ';Jeffrey's Allen Secret of Singing';. Still, that's not enough.





These are my major vocal problem to overcome:


1) Poor articulation


2) Shallow breath


3) Little power


4) My range, especially ';crack'; in the upper and lower notes





Once again, i DESPERATELY need advice and guidance from any good vocal techer out there. It would be better if you can contact me via e-mail regularly (daily would be much better). Just give me your e-mail and we can start coresponding each other. Thank you... from the bottom of my heart.Young singer looking for personal advice %26amp; guidance from good vocal teacher. Any help, please?
number one, take care of your throat as much as possible. don't drink things too hot or too cold, as both can be damaging (though too cold is a temporary problem, too hot can burn the throat)


1) you really have to inunciate really well when singing. there are some sounds that you may have to change for the sake of sounding good. for instance, long ';e'; sounds that are held for any longer than a moment should be sung as short ';e'; sounds instead, so that one does not sound like mini-me. try opening your mouth wider, and pushing from your diaphragm more.


2) adjust your breathing. instead of breathing with your chest, use your belly to breath. it may seem less flattering, your belly rising and falling, but that's where your diaphragm is more closely located, and thus what will rise and fall with breathing. wind speed is key. the faster you move the air across your vocal chords, the cleaner the sound will be. above all, practice.


3) same as 2


4) some problems may be eradicated from #2, but your voice just may not be reaady for these ranges. start by finding your current range, and then try to extend it little by little. do not continue if it hurts. you can damage your throat this way, thus lessening your range. if something starts to hurt, STOP.





drink hot (not too hot) tea with honey and citrus products regularly, but for before and during a performance:


stay away from anything acidic in large doses (orange juice, tomatos, etc)


no milk (it coats the throat and makes singing harder)


no cold drinks (it will constrict your vocal chords)


eat oily foods (bananas, potato chips [the greasy kind],etc)(they lube up your throat making things easier when singing.)





you still may learn a lot of things from that book, the may have some good stuff in there on breathing, and maybe a more extended list of food/drink dos and donts. read through the whole thing, and if you have any more questions, contact me via the link on my page. happy singing!