Music is an emotion that you can hear. Many people think that a good singer simply memorizes lyrics to a song and sings notes without going off key. It’s not that simple. People can sing the same song with the same musical arrangement and the results will be completely different.

There are many factors to singing and one very important one is singing with passion. When you sing with passion, feeling and emotion, you reach a level of connection with your audience. Songs are not only made up of words. They are also made up of sounds and power and people relate to each one when they listen to music. Singing with emotion is important for the success of any performance. It will stir up feelings and allow your audience to have an emotional response to each song you sing.

Singing is communication. When you sing a song, you are telling a story. You are delivering a message to your audience. How you deliver that message will determine how they identify with the lyrics, feel your emotion and have a reaction to your singing. A vocalist who can intermingle with the emotions of a song will sound much more intense and passionate than one who makes no attempt to emotionally connect with a song. You need to connect to the song in order to connect with the audience.

All songs you sing will have transitionary moments of silence. These pauses add depth to your performance. Emphasize these moments with feeling. Capture the emotions and express them. Facial expressions will also enhance a particular mood of a song and add dynamics as well as connecting the audience to the song.

Always read your audience and engage with them. Stage presence is important. Look at your audience and make eye contact. This is essential in order to sing with emotion. Simply smile when you make eye contact. It lets your audience know that you are having a great time. Energy is contagious. When you have a great time, they will too.

Energy is a must. Your body language is just as important as your vocals in order to convey the energy and emotion of a song to your audience. If you are singing in a venue where there really isn’t much room to move around, always use hand gestures and facial expressions to enhance your performance and show emotion. A good stage presence is important as your presence on stage allows the audience to see your confidence in your ability. Energetic performances are memorable in the greatest way whereas watching a vocalist on stage with planted feet and not moving, would be memorable as a horrific performance. Move the best you can in the space you can, just be sure to move!

Vibrato is not only incredibly effective but also soulful and allows more emotion and expression to your vocals. When you slightly alter or vibrate the pitch of a note that you are sustaining, it is powerful! It actually happens naturally in order to ease the tension on your vocal cords but you can also train yourself to have even more control when you learn to sing from your diaphragm. It is important to use vibrato sparingly to stir up emotion. If you use it too often, it will lose the ability to stir up feelings in your audience.

Dynamic balance is very effective to express the emotion of a song. When you go from loud to quiet and quiet to loud, it is is much more effective than singing loudly for the entire song. Controlling dynamics allows you to sing with emotion and have that connection with your audience. When you implement varying the tone and volume of your vocals, you capture attention and draw people in to your performance. Remember different feelings have different tones and sounds. Reflect and convey the message of the song using the appropriate dynamics.

It is important to capture the feel, passion and emotion of each song you sing, whether it be a love song or a pop/rock song. Always tell a story and give emotion to each and every word. This will put you way above the singers who simply belt out lyrics.

When you are authentic and you allow yourself to be vulnerable you will always leave your audience with a memorable performance.