Sleep. Rest is the best medicine for your body and voice. It is during sleep that our cells do all their repair work. Make sure you’re getting plenty of sleep, especially if you think you’re getting sick. Double the amount of water you drink. Not juice, not soda, not coffee or tea, WATER. Water helps […]
The average person takes 21,600 breaths per day. The body requires 88 pounds of oxygen per day. (25% of that is used by our brains!) The maximum amount of air the lungs can contain ranges between 4 to 7 liters. One to two liters of air remain in the lungs at all times. (Note: there are […]
In the beginning? Nothing. Gestures are great, but fidgeting is distracting. (Don’t feel bad – all of us fidget at first. *smile*) It takes confidence to stand on stage and sing without looking restless. Depending on your musical genre, you may dance, act or play an instrument while on stage, but every singer should be […]
For singers, the goal of breathing exercises is to let the body learn to take care of breathing on its own. (As always, we practice technique so that we won’t have to think about it when we need it.) As singers our job is to control the exhale. Singing is (usually) done on the exhale, […]
Hey, oversinging happens to the best of us. Here are some questions to help you figure if you might (possibly? just a little bit?) be oversinging.
