- Understand your voice and vocal cords
- Avoid damaging habits
- Take care of your general health
- Don’t raise your voice before singing
- Take a rest from singing
Your vocal cords are your most important apparatus
when you sing. The best way to care for them is to make sure you always warm-up
before a session.
Like an athlete always stretches before a race, you
have to loosen and prepare your cords before you sing. Trilling the lips and tongue is a good way to start your warm-up
and helps loosen your jaw and throat.
Take deep breaths and send the breath through your
lips, keeping them loose and letting your lips vibrate. You might feel silly,
but lip trills are a good way to test your exhale endurance!
Another thing to include in your warm–up is going
through arpeggios (broken chords), ascending and descending in pitch as you go.
Practice five-note scales using any consonant or
consonant and vowel combination you’re comfortable with. Doing this will help
loosen your voice up and having loose, warm vocal cords will help care for your
singing voice.
By John Godson
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