Taking Care of Your Voice When Singing

Video Transcript

" Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We are going to be talking about vocal performance. I am going to talk real quick about taking care of your voice. You need to drink lots of water and keep yourself hydrated and that’s true, it is just that everybody says it so it’s kind of boring to say, but it is true. You need to be careful about the volume of your voice both with your speaking voice, if you have a job where you have to talk a lot. If you are a kid, teenager, young adult, you go to parties, you go to bars whatever and you are hollering over people and you are talking over and next thing you know you just spent five hours talking about this volume and the next day you go I don’t know why I cannot say anything, something is wrong with my voice. People who work outside sometimes both from that like cold and stuff like that but actually a lot of people who work outside and just in the wind and they get dehydrated somewhat, not necessarily their whole body, but their throat because they are breathing the fresh, clean and wonderful air. You seem to be careful about that and that can dry you out and you need to open and relax your throat as much as you can. I’m just talking about in your talking, and as a teacher basically whatever 10 years ago, 15 years ago teaching a lot and teaching a lot of people and when I am coming home, my throat is all stressed and what I discovered is that I get tired that would start about two hours before it is time to go home, I will be talking like this it just because I don’t know, I am just tired and you need to watch those same things yourself, basically relax your throat, drink lots of liquids, notice the kind of things that stress your voice and make sure that you are not talking really loud."