New Years Resolution:  Start a regular singing warm up regiment with Voice Lessons To Go!

Hello singers!  We all can get into those slumps by the end of the year with ourselves, whether it be our exercise, good eating, organization, or even our — regular singing routine.

Well, here I am, to give you a friendly singing teachers nudge to get you back into a great healthy singing routine just in time for new years.  If you follow this regularly, you should be humming sweetly very soon!

As I always blog, teach, and talk about, being a good singer is akin to being a good athlete.  Your healthy singing voice is contingent on the correct muscles in your body being in shape to support your larynx so that your voice can sail freely through the air without any undue stress on your vocal chords from incorrect muscle use.  Finding the path to the perfect support system in your singing is a daily task and can easily be thrown off without proper attention.   The key to maintaining healthy proper singing is a good healthy vocal warm up done regularly.

Voice Lessons TO GO www.voicelessonstogo.com offers you four of those healthy singing warm-ups on CD for your use anytime, anywhere.  So there is no excuse!!

How to start back in on a healthy Your practice schedule:

Remember, if your practice regiment has been shut down for a bit, you need to ease back into a regular singing schedule to protect your voice- just like you would re-enter any sport.  Start slow, warm-up (vocalize) every time before you sing.  You can add a little bit more to your range, practice time, and challange as your stamina naturally increases.

NEVER PUSH OR STRAIN THE VOICE.

You can alter my four cds; Vocalize and Breath, Do Re Mi Ear and Pitch Training, Pure Vowels, or Stamina to vary your warm-ups on different days, or work with one at a time for a few weeks until you feel you have some mastery.   Now get to that ipod, piano, or stereo and start singing!

written by:

Ariella Vaccarino- creator of Voice Lessons TO GO (singing lessons on CD), and author of Vocalize!

It is important to remember that singing is is an athletic job in the body.  The voice is there at all times sitting in your larynx ready to come out, but the body needs to be warmed up so that it supports the laryngeal muscles to produce the sound correctly in the body.

If you were a runner you would start slow, stretch- the same goes for singing.  Otherwise, the risk is that we can hurt our voices.  We can put pressure into our vocal chords instead of support into our abdominal muscles and legs to produce a  projected sound which can result in vocal strain or worse (over time) vocal nodules.

Even the smallest amount of singing warm-ups can make the difference.  Humming or gentle singing for a few minutes will get the body working.  Full vocal warm-ups are fabulous for not only warming up the voice, but vocal training.  As you do your vocalizes you work on good support, extending your range, and proper vowel production.

I have four volumes of Vocal Warm Ups called Voice Lessons TO GO on CD that can be a great help ranging from beginner to advanced and are available on my website www.voicelessonstogo.com if you are looking for some options they are great.

So warm up every time you sing out.

Sing healthy people!

Ariella Vaccarino

www.voicelessonstogo.com