Just as athletes need to do warm-up exercises before a race or a game, singers need to prepare their voices before a rehearsal or performance. Vocal warm-up exercises get the air flowing and relax your muscles to get ready for the more strenuous activity to come. It's perhaps the most effective way to prevent vocal fatigue and overuse damage. It may seem counterintuitive--vocal warm-up exercises [...]

Breathing is an automatic process you don’t usually think about until you have health problems, but when you decide to sing, it becomes a focal point that you need to manipulate and control. In a nutshell, vocal voice training involves learning to breathe all over again. That may sound a bit odd, but it’s true. Air is what fuels the singing process, and how that air moves through your body is [...]

In any given practice session, the vocal exercises you choose will depend at least in part on the demands of the performance material you will be rehearsing. Start by looking at your pieces and determining what skills they require. If you're rehearsing a piece that calls for the extremes of your range, you will choose vocal exercises geared toward that. If the material has a lot of fast runs or [...]

Vocal training lessons teach you more than just technique. They also help you bring out the beauty in your singing by combining natural emotion with technically accurate vocals. This emotion is conveyed through subtle fluctuations called vibrato and the use of vocal registers. Good singing is much more than just belting out notes. You must control the notes so they express a warm, pleasing quality. [...]