keeping your voice healthy will save you alot of mess and keep you on the right track of managing your voice. These are tip to help you manage your voice with the maximum assistance.
1. Train your voice and body just like an athlete:
Learn proper singing technique, don't overuse the voice, get plenty of
rest, eat a balanced, healthy diet. Singers are like vocal gymnasts who
traverse their artistic range with apparent ease and flexibility.
Gymnasts are extremely disciplined people who spend hours perfecting
their craft and are much more likely than the general public to sustain
an injury. Professional singers carry some of these same risks and must
maintain a disciplined practice schedule with intervals of rest and
recovery to perform at an optimal level, regardless of genre.
2. Let your voice shine. Attempting to imitate
someone else’s voice or singing style can require you to sing or do
things outside of your comfortable physiologic range or current vocal
skill level. This could result in vocal injury. Also remember that if
you are imitating someone who is already famous, their millions have
been made. You want to be the next star that they hire, not just a
copycat.
3. Pace yourself. When you are preparing for a
show or audition season, you must pace yourself and your voice. You
would not think of trying to get all of your exercise in at the gym by
going one day a week for 5 hours. Rather, you should sing (and
exercise) in smaller increments of time (30-45 minutes) each day,
gradually building muscular skill and stamina. As you improve, you
should be able to increase the amount of time as well as the difficulty
of vocal skill.
4. Avoid phonotraumatic behaviors such as yelling, screaming, loud talking, singing too loudly.
When you increase your vocal loudness, your vocal folds bang together
harder (much like clapping your hands really hard, loud, and fast).
After a period of doing this, your vocal folds begin to react to the
impact by becoming swollen and red. Long term phonotrauma can lead to
vocal fold changes such as vocal fold nodules.
5. Adequate hydration. Be sure to drink plenty of
non-caffeinated beverages throughout the day. Although nothing you eat
or drink gets onto the vocal folds, adequate oral hydration allows the
mucus to act like a lubricant instead of glue.
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