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At the forefront of your new body awareness is adequate hydration. Drinking enough water is incredibly important for the body on so many levels. Water helps function in the body chemistry to create energy. It is one of the most important body lubricants. Holistic health practitioners suggest drinking roughly half your body weight in ounces of water. In other words, if you weigh 120 lbs., you need to drink 60 oz. of water. I know very few people who drink enough water and in addition to that, wet drinks are not only not water, but also often increase our need for water. Coffee and tea are diuretics and every ounce of diuretic you drink subtracts an ounce of water from your storehouse, so for every eight ounces of coffee or tea you drink, you need an additional 8 ounces of water to offset it.

One of the biggest obstacles to creating good tone in the resonant cavities of the body is inflammation. Inflammation in the bodily tissues greatly increases mucous, which is an acknowledged enemy of singers. Unfortunately for your sweet tooth, the biggest cause of inflammation in the body is the ingestion of sugar in all its forms. If you want to reduce the presence of inflammation in your body, cut way back on your sugar intake.

The last thing I’d like to discuss in this article is becoming vigilant about what you eat. This is more than for the obvious reason of fueling your body with the optimum in nutrition so that your health and vitality are at the highest level. There is a much greater reason for vigilance than choosing good food to eat. It’s also about avoiding substances that have no business being in your body. We’re talking about toxins here. The lion’s share of all the processed food products out there are laced with unpronounceable chemicals whose purpose is to preserve a product’s shelf life, or add or enhance color, or replace more expensive ingredients with affordable chemical ingredients to keep prices low. Regardless of the reason for their use, none of those chemical ingredients have any justification being in your body and they only increase your toxic load, which leads to a higher incidence of illness, which can’t possibly help your singing.

If you want to increase your health and vitality, raise your energy levels and help to keep your body clear of congestion and mucous, I suggest drinking plenty of water, avoiding sugar like the plague, and eating whole, organic foods without those insidious additives. These suggestions will help your body to function in the best possible way to support your dream of being a great singer. Wow, it sounds just like something grandma would have said!

If you need a voice teacher who fully understands the role of body awareness in your singing development, we recommend contacting the Singing Lesson Expert.

Singing Lesson Expert, Rebeca Randle

The first of the important design components is concept. A great voice teacher designs your singing lessons in such a way as to know exactly where they are taking you and the exact best way to get there. It is so important for the voice teacher to communicate the design and scope of their lesson program to their student. Everyone should understand that it is critical for students to practice to get maximum benefit from their singing lessons and the way for them to choose to practice the most is for them to have total buy-in as to the reasons for each element that they are asked to practice. A student who is excited about what each aspect of their curriculum is designed to help them achieve will work harder on their assigned tasks and will improve at a much more rapid rate.

The second component is the exercises. Many of the pieces of good vocal technique involve muscular control. Just like an effective workout routine that is designed to develop your body’s musculature, many of the exercises that your teacher will give you are designed to increase command of the muscles involved with the process of singing. Control of your breathing, commanding the air column, developing vocal power and range all come from these exercises. In addition, these exercises help you to become aware of placement and volume control. Several of the exercises that are built around mastering certain vowel sounds are designed to allow you to sing optimally without regard to which vowel or consonant sounds you might be singing at the time. The practice of the exercises is imperative for the development of tone and power.

The last of the design components is implementation and it is the one that far too often is missing from the average vocal training process. I have seen far too many cases of students who can make a good tone doing a vocal exercise who haven’t got a clue about how to apply that tone to the singing of an actual song. This is truly where the rubber meets the road. Controlling the breath, increasing and taking out volume, knowing when to use vibrato or not, knowing how to connect through both the vowels and the consonants in order to make the words being sung intelligible, and ultimately interpreting the lyrics being sung so that there is profound emotion being expressed in the performance, are all the reasons you’re taking lessons in the first place.

Please do yourself a favor and when you interview a voice teacher to see if they are the right teacher for you, make certain that they have a concept, that they are master of all the vocal exercises, and especially that they know how to have you integrate all of that into actual top level performances that implement all that you have learned. Your future success as a vocalist depends on it.

You can count on getting all your vocal instruction needs met with the Singing Lesson Expert.