Voice Training Improves The Quality Of Voice

Voice training is a procedure of instructing singers as how to improve their singing skills and how to develop their voices taking a proper care. It is quite essential to train a singer especially when the singer has to give the performance on a stage or in a program. Vocal coaches that give the training are highly experienced either in the field of singing itself or in other music related areas. In the second case, the coach can also be a person, say, a guitarist who has accompanied singers for many numbers of years and mastered in the techniques with the enormous experience that he has amassed. Though it is very rare, but at times the voice coach is also a person who does not have any knowledge in music and related spheres but has incomparable medical knowledge about the vocal chords and throat.

Vocal singing training trains the singers to sing following certain vocal techniques. The vocal technique is a process of effectively combining the various physical processes of singing which include respiration, resonation, phonation and articulation. Though singing doesn’t require much muscle strength, it requires a very high level of muscle coordination. This can be gained with regular and systematic practice of both songs and vocal exercises. The various vocal exercises include warming up the voice, increasing the range of the voice, lining up the vice horizontally and vertically, and the acquisition of techniques such as staccato, legato, rapid figurations, singing wide interval with ease, control of dynamics, singing trills, melismas and learning the correction of various vocal faults. Vocal coaches teach the singers how to make the proper use of their voices. Voice training is thus a careful and proper training to brighten the skills of a singer.

The important aim of vocal singing training is to enable the singers sing at the original vocal range without any disrupting change in the quality of the voice. Hence, the vocal coaches, in order to help the singers to achieve the above mentioned goal with the effective coordination of all the physical processes involved in singing.

Top 10 ways to take care of your voice!

Here are 10 healthiest ways to keep your voice in top condition:

10. Take the snot out of your diet!
Limit your overall consumption of dairy and gluten products when getting ready for a performance. These things are just bad…bad…BAD for vocal health and tend to cause mucus build-up on the vocal cords (which restricts the range of sound they can produce).

9. Inside voices, please!
Get rid of husbands, wives, girlfriends, and kids–or anything else that may cause you to yell or scream. Your voice only has so many hours per day before it becomes strained, and yelling shortens this window.

8. No smoking!
DO NOT SMOKE ANYTHING! Smoke is an irritant that swells your vocal cords and burns the cilia off of your lungs, inhibiting them from absorbing oxygen. You think I’m kidding? Really? A singer who smokes? One of my best friends has throat cancer from smoking. They just cut his throat out….doesn't sing too well now.

7. HYDRATE, HYDRATE, HYDRATE
Drink 8-10 glasses of pure water every day. Water lubricates your vocal cords like oil lubricates a car engine. Adding a little lemon also helps. Citric acid tends to clear the mucus off of your cords, and thick mucous causes unwanted friction and trauma to vocal cords. More water = less friction = less trauma = better voice. Get it? Vocal science, not rocket science.  Also, you may want to take a porta potty everywhere you go.

6. No gravel!
NEVER go into the gravelly part of the throat—this means YOU too, rock singers!.  Although it sometimes sounds cool, dropping the larynx roughs your voice up like sand paper and will ultimately reduce your range to one octave! Coughing or clearing your throat does the same thing, so try and drink water to clear your throat next time you are sick.

5. Get good training!
Develop a good singing technique. Vocal training will not change your style, it will strengthen your voice and allow you to sing longer, louder, more often and without fatigue. Vocal training will help make you a vocal athlete and hopefully a great rock star with lots of female fans. Or male. Whatever floats your boat.

4. A good singing voice starts with a good speaking voice.
Develop a speaking voice to go with your singing voice. You speak 99% of the time and sing 1%. A poor speaking voice often leads to vocal strain that will carry into your singing voice. This is true especially on tours, when giving radio and other media interviews, and while speaking publicly.

3. Shut up!
Take vocal “naps”. Your voice needs a rest, just like you do. So, find quiet time everyday – especially when on tour. You also need to take an 8 hour break from talking every 24 hours…for most of us this is sleep. But if you are like me and never sleep, at least find time to be quiet.

2. Warm up!
Do warms-ups every single morning…your voice will get use to waking up earlier and earlier. This is very important! I could use this entire blog to stress the importance of warming up your voice  Annoy your roommates and neighbors as much as possible with your warm ups.

1. When your vocal cords speak…LISTEN!
Most importantly, listen to your voice. Like any athlete, you will be the first to know when trouble is starting. If you voice hurts, back off. Change your set. Choose songs you can sing without straining your voice. However, don’t submit to doing this every single time…find out what the problem is and fix it! You will eventually learn the dos and don’ts of your particular set of vocal cords.

Voice Academy Review: "Singing at The Voice Academy of New York City."

Thank you so much to Jose Navarro for this amazing review of Voice Academy of NYC! We truly appreciate your feedback and we are glad to know you enjoyed your experience with us! You're always welcome back!

For more of Jose, please visit his blog: http://www.josenavarronyc.com.

Hey everyone! Yesterday I had a blast at The Voice Academy of New York City. I started taking singing lessons. It was a great activity to start on spring break and I've been wanting to do it for a long time.

I heard about The Voice Academy of NYC through a friend of mine, and it sounded perfect. It's not a strict program, classes are on the weekends and they are a lot of fun. Since I wanted to do it for fun and to learn a little bit, this classes are perfect!

They are held at Ripley Grier Studios (where I took the pictures) and that place is amazing! It's around Penn Station (Midtown Manhattan) and it's in the same street of the New Yorker Hotel, where I lived the first quarter at Berkeley three years ago.
I felt great the minute I walked in. There are all kinds of arts and talents rehearsing at those studios. From martial arts, to ballet and Broadway show rehearses. There are many rooms and some of them are huge. We were told that Beyonce rehearses her tours there, which was kind of cool!

The class went great. The other students were very talented, but they were so nice I didn't feel intimidated even if it was my first time there. It was a harmony class, and I had never worked on that. We sang "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars and it was a lot of fun to sing it with six different voices at a time.
I also learned a lot about controlling your breathing, body position, singing techniques... while having a lot of fun singing and doing exercises. Moreover, the teacher is very good at explaining and making you understand the theory.
If you want to know more about the school, check their website at VoiceAcademyNYC.com
Here's a little sample of me singing a song in Spanish. It's "De Que Me Sirve La Vida" by Camila. I hope you like it and I also hope I'll get to show you something better and improved after I've taken more lessons!

That was all for my spring break. It was short but I got to do things I really wanted to and never found the time. Now time to go back to school full of energy! Thanks for reading and for listening! See you soon!

Voice Academy Review: "It was an incredible experience that helped me let go of fear and focus in my dreams"

Many thanks to our student Michael for sending us this review of his experience with Voice Academy.Thank you Michael for your kind words and we're really happy we helped you reach your goal.

All my life I wanted to sing. Nothing in life brings me more pleasure than music. Nothing else gets my attention like a melody does. But unfortunately for me all my life I've been really shy. So shy that I've rarely sang in public or in front of other people.

It came to a point I could no longer hide my desire to achieve my goals and follow my dreams, but I knew I needed help to do so: you can't jump off an airplane with a parachute and expect to land safely without training.

So that's what I did. I had recently arrived in New York City to follow my dreams, and I searched for a place where I could find a vocal coach to help me let go of all my fears. Interestingly enough, Voice Academy of NYC caught my attention. Getting in contact with a vocal teacher was quick and I've couldn't find such pleasant experience anywhere else.

 I've never had vocal lessons before, but Vocal Academy and Kat Carlson (the vocal coach) made the experience not only exciting but very essential. I've learned all the basic techniques I didn't know about vocal performance, I was brought to a whole new level of vocal and artistic expression and step by step I was brought out of this bubble I had created around me that was keeping me from performing. Not only Kat helped me lose all my inhibitions that were keeping me from singing, my vocal range improved a lot and I got more "loose", as I learned to not hold in my voice.

I got better at belting out, projecting my voice and I was even able to experience singing in different genres of songs, something I was never able to do before.

I have to thank Voice Academy for making me able to progress as an artist and vocalist and for being able to be sure of what I want. And the best thing about the vocal lessons with Voice Academy is all the little details you learn about your own voice. There's a lot you need to learn about your own uniqueness, and that is something you must always consider as your voice is your own instrument.

I highly recommend Voice Academy not only for beginners but for any other singer-performer that needs preparation for a play, concert or any sort of performance. You will achieve new high levels of excellence and you will notice improvements in your vocal range thanks to the great vocal techniques you will learn at these lessons. It was an incredible experience that helped me let go of fear and focus in my dreams.

Thanks Voice Academy for unleashing the singer in me.

Michael.