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Backup singers are also called second singers. They provide the second voice, fill-ins and supplementing voice. They enhance and highlight the main vocal. I like listening to songs, especially band songs with second voices, and how their melody completely harmonizes with the lead vocals.

Backup singers have necessary skills present in them—listening and blending in. They are able to listen when to blend in with the main vocal. They are alert and watchful of the main vocalist, like when the main vocal wants to repeat a verse or start from the first verse. They also know how to phrase. They know when to jump in at the right time at the beginning of the song. They begin gently and slowly rise in the same level with the lead. They also know how to do the same thing at the end part.

I have also learned one important trait of a backup singer, about beginning and ending consonants. It said in one article I read that at times when two or more people are singing a phrase, there can be multiple popping “p’s” or sibilant sounds as each singer attempts to sing at the same time. It says there that a careful trick to prevent this from happening is for the backup singer to leave the first letter, the consonant, totally. For example, if the lyric is like, Jack and Jill went up the hill to pick a pail of water, the backup vocalist might sing “ack and ill ent up a ill o ick a ail of ater.” It allows the chief singer to have the clear-cut initial consonant of the phrase without the backup singer colliding or overlapping with them, or being incompatible and in disagreement with them.

Speaking of backup singing, did you know that there is a Magic Sing that serves specially for the backup singer? It’s the Magic Sing Sub Microphone! It can also serve as the second microphone for duets, but that’s another topic to talk about! (: The Magic Sing Sub Microphone must have a Magic Sing microphone to operate.

Cheers to another great Magic Sing product!

We all know that nursery rhymes and songs are part of our children’s learning. These are used for introducing different concepts to the child, like numbers, shapes, sizes or different positions from left to right, up and down, front and back, to here, there, and everywhere! Children songs are also used for reading readiness, by introducing letters and sounds. They inspire different values, encourage correct conduct, and teach proper manners to the children. And they can be very entertaining to our children as well! They are so pleasing to listen to for our little tots.

Did you know that you can introduce your child to singing through these children’s songs? You can hone their singing skills while teaching them numbers and letters, animals and places, the values and manners, and a lot more.

While you as parents take pleasure in your own Magic Sing, you can allow your child sing songs he or she can have fun with that are fit for his or her age! There is a song ship that is especially themed for your kids! It’s filled with children’s songs, nursery rhymes, and even the traditional tunes. There’s BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP, EENSY WEENSY SPIDER, FOR HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW, LONDON BRIDGE, THREE BLIND MICE, among many others. There are lullabies like NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP and especially the most famous, BRAHM’S LULLABY. There are educational songs like the ALPHABET SONG; A TO Z, COME SING WITH ME; NOW I KNOW MY ABCS; BOTTLES,BOXES, JARS AND CANS; ONE, TWO, BUCKLE MY SHOE, and a lot more. There are Bible songs like HOLY HOLY HOLY; NEAR THE CROSS JESUS KEEP ME; NEARER MY GOD TO THEE; and NOAH’S ARKY ARKY. Celebration songs are present as well, like HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU; AULD LANG SYNE; O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL; MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU; O, CHRISTMAS TREE; HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING and many more!

With these songs and more, let your child have fun with Magic Sing too!

Magic Sing, as we all know, is THE absolute piece of entertainment equipment. It has heaps of features and great characteristics every karaoke lover would want in a singing machine. It’s been enumerated time and again the amazing features of this lovely microphone. Today, let us grant each personal preference’s fancy. We all differ in the genres and styles of music we dig into. Some love pop, while some love hiphop. Others listen to jazz, while others sing only the blues. Youngsters want what’s new, but oldies want their generation’s music. Here, personal musical taste matters. And Magic Sing can accommodate every individual’s favorite.

With Magic Sing’s thousand built-in songs, you can definitely enjoy singing your favorite among the multitude in the play list. But if you just can’t get enough and want to hear yourself sing songs under your best-liked music style, then you can just slot in a song chip in your Magic Sing. It’s that easy!

Magic Sing song chips vary from different language to genre. It has English song chips and foreign song chips like Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean. It also has Brazilian, Indian, Italian and Tagalog. The Tagalog chips even have more than five to choose from!

The English song chips include those under different music types—there’s alternative/modern, variety standards, classic to contemporary country, classic to heavy metal rock. If you’re a fan of pop ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, there’s a chip available for you. From R&B Motown to club/disco style, Latin vibes and soft rock with Beatles and Elvis (for the baby boomers out there), there’s a lot of chips that’s offered just for you. Magic Sing even has pop chip for teens, children songs, gospel and hymns. Even traditional and holiday songs, Magic Sing has a song chip for that. If you just want to sing regardless of the style of music, you can get a chip with variety of songs.

Found the song chip with the genre you love? Then get it now and pop it in your Magic Sing! But if you haven’t got a Magic Sing yet, you better get one now and have the time of your life!

There are a lot different styles of singing and vocal techniques we hear from various singers. So, if you are a singer, what’s yours?

If you can produce musical effects by having a regularly pulsating change of pitch, where you can use this style to add articulation, then your technique is what we call vibrato. If you can sing smoothly, transitioning from note to note, where there’s no superseding silence, your method is legato.
If you sing where you can produce strong soaring pitches using your chest voice, then you are a vocal belter baby! Voice created in belting is technically known as chest voice or middle voice, and this kind of voice a powerful one indeed. In the popular music, be it rock or general pop, belting is commonly used to sing higher notes than the normal vocal range.

Moreover, you have clean vocals when you have melodic and clear singing style. It is especially used to label voice of heavy metal singers. This they say, is an alternative to coarse, scratchy screaming vocals or growling vocals, which can be heard from really hardcore metal bands. If you are in a heavy metal band, then you probably have clean vocals. If you are in a solid hardcore metal band, then your technique is almost certainly screaming and growling. Or you can use both techniques, whichever of the two kinds you are into. There can even be an operatic voice in metal music, singing simple melodies then having rough screaming, which they use in what is called melodic death metal.

If you are not a belter but you are not a screamer or growler either, you can have other techniques as well, such as having a breathy chest voice which is different from belting, or a metallic voice. If you don’t scream or growl, there’s even grunted vocals which is nearer to those two.

Whatever style, whatever technique, it’s up to you. Just sing and have a heck of a time doing it.