0771 – Vocal Conditioning Through Proper Pacing

2023.02.10 – 0771 – Vocal Conditioning Through Proper Pacing  

If your body is tired, your voice sounds tired: it’s one of the first areas where your lack of zeds shows itself.

Before a recording session, get plenty of sleep so your voice doesn’t sound too husky or in a lower register than the producer was expecting when they booked you from your demo reel.

Voice overuse and misuse

Total voice rest

This is an important part of recovering from a voice injury, but not something that is advisable long-term. Your vocal folds need to be exercised if they are not to decondition through lack of use. Therefore, more than a day or so without speaking is not advisable. Better is to stop a problem from developing in the first place, with better vocal conditioning through the use of proper pacing.

If you know you are going to have to do some strenuous voice work then try and leave it to the end of the day. By then your voice will have warmed up, and you will have taken plenty of rest between readings, but the ‘necessary’ strain will not have an immediate adverse effect on the rest of your work.

Pianists insure their fingers for huge sums, ballet dancers their legs, violinists their actual violins. Your voice is your instrument, it’s your asset, it’s you! So, you need to look after and nurture.

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