How To Use The Song Mapping Method
- What Is Song Mapping?
- Consistency & Routine
- Confidence Through Certainty
Have you ever sung a song and realized that it sounded really nice the second time vs the first time?
This is partially because your brain becomes more aware of what notes to sing and how to sing them, the more you practice.
An effective way to practice creating consistency and routine is song mapping. There are many uses for this and different ways to map out a song.
Ultimately you will feel more confident in yourself and find yourself making less takes while recording.
What Is Song Mapping?
Song Mapping is when you analyze the lyrics of a song and decide where you’re going to use your muscles. You can print out the lyrics for a song and markup what words you will use on your cheeks, nose, jaw, or tongue.
This makes the song easier to follow and easier to remember where to use it. You can use a highlighter to highlight specific words.
Think about vowel sounds, and try to use the highlighter on words that correspond to the prospective vowel.
For example, let’s say we will use blue for the Jaw. The word “love” uses the jaw. So highlighting the word “love” in blue would help you to remember to lower your jaw while you’re singing.
This can be a very simple process that helps generate faster results when singing through a song. Song mapping is not just limited to where you should use your muscles.
You can also practice blocking. Blocking is the movements you make on stage. You can write down where you plan to move to the left or right stage.
You can also plan where you take your mic off the stand, and what you plan to do with your hands. This is to avoid confusion and create more of a routine in your singing.
Consistency & Routine
A great way to create some depth to the way you sing, is singing a song more. The more you hear it, the more it becomes something that is easily remembered.
When singing notes, its important your brain is able to process the tones and keys so that way your song remains melodic.
Mastering this can help you develop your own sense of style when singing it. Song mapping works like a shortcut to this. Highlighting words can help you remember what muscles to switch to so you can create a routine in singing songs.
If you find that you are out of breath singing through a fast song. You can put a red dot to signify where you will take your breath.
Mark up the whole song and you should find it much easier to sing through. The importance is that you spend the time so that way you can better familiarize yourself with the song.
Confidence Through Certainty
A great way to create some depth to the way you sing, is singing a song more. The more you hear it, the more it becomes something that is easily remembered.
When singing notes, its important your brain is able to process the tones and keys so that way your song remains melodic.
Mastering this can help you develop your own sense of style when singing it. Song mapping works like a shortcut to this.
Highlighting words can help you remember what muscles to switch to so you can create a routine in singing songs.
If you find that you are out of breath singing through a fast song. You can put a red dot to signify where you will take your breath.
Mark up the whole song and you should find it much easier to sing through. The importance is that you spend the time so that way you can better familiarize yourself with the song.
