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öde:
**You move away from the mic to breathe.

E. Spaceman:
Bourbon

sombrasoubrette:
In terms of maintenance: Hot things. Tea. Scarves.

Warming up: five-note scales up and down, arpeggios, vowel stuff. Just humming helps a lot too, hum up and down all your registers. Vocal sirens.

Cooling down: after singing really intensely sing a familiar easy song before you leave off. Also, tea. Throat Coat's the best for healing itchy voices.

Obviously try and stay away from dairy before singing.

Keep your throat very open. If you feel yourself getting tight, stop and swallow. Your swallowing muscles are what are tightening; get those out of the way.

Try and keep your soft tissue--tongue, lips, cheeks--out of the way of your sound, keeping a nice open space. Soft tissue absorbs sound.

Breathe deeply, dropping your air into your gut. Try not to move your shoulders when you breathe--that means you're filling up at the top of your torso with shallow breaths.

Warm up physically before you sing. Run in place, get a little winded.

Thrillho:
Something I learned from a Thom Yorke interview also is to keep your face loose. If you keep your face and lips tight, it constrains your movement and the vocal has to be harder to escape. Keep it loose and the vocal is free to move. That might not make much sense - it's difficult to describe, but it's helped me a lot. It can lead to a few mic pops, but once you control your breathing better it's less of an issue.

Johnny C:

--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 21 Oct 2007, 11:48 ---That might not make much sense - it's difficult to describe

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