When an audience comes to hear you sing, they want to do more than see you, they want to hear you connect with the story behind the songs you sing. Every movement you make while on the stage should serve as punctuation to your song. Small movements while singing can play a big part in enhancing your song. Try these tips for striking the right balance of movement while singing:

At home, practice moving around and singing, doing simple tasks as you sing just to practice doing two things at once. After you have mastered moving and singing at the same time, say rather than sing the lyrics to your song and notice your natural body language and hand gestures. The way you move your hands when saying the words to the song will help you to identify the most natural gestures for when you sing the words.

Some songs don’t require much movement at all. During your initial practices it’s probably better to move too much and then later eliminate the movements that don’t enhance the words of the song. Too much meaningless movement will not help your audience to interpret the song’s story. For example, a classical song generally won’t need many gestures and requires little movement. Limit your movement to only those that are absolutely necessary when singing classical music.

If singing is new to you, adding some sort of movement may just be too much for you right now. Taking it one step at a time is a good idea when you’re figuring out how to put your new technique and a new song before the public. Once you have learned good technique you will then need to learn how to move because movement adds to your artistic interpretation of the song. You need to know where to look and how much to move when you sing.

Inexperienced singers have a tendency to overuse gestures when singing because they feel that arm movements make their song more appealing – and they can, when done correctly. Just make sure that you don’t only move your hands, but also move your elbows away from your body and your palms are up and open.

Especially if you tend to move your hands when you speak, you will feel uncomfortable and unnatural if your try and keep your hands by your sides when you sing. Read the songs lyrics aloud like it is a part in a play so that know what is going on in the story and how the character feels and would react to what is happening. By becoming the character in the song, gestures will be part of your natural reaction to what is happening you can use those same gestures when you sing to help tell your story. Remember though, that you should not move unless it adds to the story you are telling.

I hope this information will help you to improve your singing performances. If you want to do more to learn to sing or have ever wondered if it is possible to teach yourself how to sing then I strongly recommend you check out online singing lessons like Sing With Freedom from Per Bristow. All the best with it!