Summary: Improve a singing voice by taking care of your body, getting a singing teacher and practicing scales on a daily basis. Learn to sing while walking or moving around to improve singing with help from a professional musician and actress in this free video on singing.
Athena Reich is a professional musician, actress, artist, singer, songwriter and coach for all of the above. She is based in New York City. Reich has released four CDs, toured...read more
"This is Athena Reich and I'm a musician and an actor here in New York City and I also coach both music and acting. In this clip I'm going to show you how to improve your singing voice. Well first of all technique is really important, and having a good teacher is going to help absolutely help that. But all the technique in the world can not save you from abusing your body. So you need to get a lot of sleep, you need to be very well hydrated, hot tea is really good for you. Going out to bars late at night often and yelling at people is a sure way to give yourself vocal damage that can even potentially be permanent. So you have to take care of yourself and not yell. Now say that you do take care of yourself but you want to improve your singing voice and you've got yourself a teacher but you want some extra tips. Well you can practice, you can do scales, you can go (la,la,la,la,la,la,la, la,la, that's 1,2,3,4,5, 5,4,3,2,1 in a scale; 1,2,3,4,5, 5,4,3,2,1, and I go up), you can go to any vowel in the world, (doe,doe,doe,doe,doe,doe,doe,doe,doe you can go, lee,lee,lee,lee,lee,lee,lee,lee,lee or mi,mi,mi,mi,mi,mi,mi,mi,mi or ma,ma,ma,ma,ma,ma,ma,ma,ma) and you can really learn how to loosen up. You can sing while walking around, while bouncing on a big ball, you can buzz your lips. There's so many things you can do to improve your singing technique. This has been Athena Reich in New York City."
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