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Sept 1999 Vocal Tip

Water, The Best Vocal Beverage from The Songbird Diet

One of the greatest and simplest ways to keep your voice healthy is to drink lots of water. Water protects the vocal cords, voice box, from getting too tight and dry, which can cause vocal nodules, inflamed vocal cords, losing your voice, tired voice, lack of range, no carrying power, and other serious vocal problems.Water brings good health to your entire body and the healthier you are, the better you can sing.

Drinking enough water everyday can also cure and prevent many modern diseases, that have as their root cause, a lack of water over a long time period. Back problems, arthritis, headaches, sinus problems, and other health problems that many accept as being normal, may be cured by simply drinking enough water daily.

In many countries, there are so many daily beverage choices, coffee, tea, soft drinks, juices, sports drinks, beer, wine, and hard liquor, that you may only drink water once or twice a day, or even not at all. If water is your last beverage of choice, that's bad for your body, and your voice.

. Get a pencil and paper and lets take a water quiz. Write down the answers to the following questions. ( or save the questions , and write the answers offline.)

How many glasses of water have you had today?
How many glasses of water do you have in an average day?
Do you drink coffee? How many cups a day?
Do you drink tea? How many cups a day?
Do you drink beer? How many bottles or cans a day? a week?
Do you drink wine How many bottles or glasses a day? a week?
Do you drink hard liquor. How many bottles or glasses a day? a week?
Do you ever have fresh, raw, fruit, and vegie juices? a day? a week?
Do you ever drink soda pop? How many cans or bottles a day? a week?
What are your favorite beverages?
Which beverages do you drink daily?
What do you drink the most of each day? Next most? Next Most? The Least?

Is water the beverage you drink the most each day? If so, that's great for your body and voice. Is water last on your beverage list, well, that's bad. Coffee, tea, soft drinks, may contain water, but when they get changed into drinks other than water, the body can't use coffee, tea, and soft drinks in the same way. Straight water, can go immediately to whatever parts of the body need it the most.

Drinks other than water, may even cause the body, to use any internal fluids as emergency water. Taking liquid away from your joints, the brain, your vocal cords, wherever your body needs its internal water the most. You want to give the body all the water it needs, so it never has to borrow internal water from the places inside your body that need it the most.

How much water is enough for good physical and vocal health? That's easy to figure out, as long as you know how much you weight. Most vocal experts and doctors agree that you should drink half your body weight in ounces each day. So if you are a woman weighing 100 lbs, you would need to drink 50 ozs of water each day for good health. That's a little over 3 pints, slightly more than 6, eight oz glasses, or 4 soda cans worth of water daily. If you are a man who weights 200 lbs, that's 100 ozs of water a day or more than 6 pints, 16 eight oz glasses, 8 sodas or almost a gallon of water a day.

And if you drink mostly beverages other than water, you may need a lot more water to counteract the harmful effects of many nonwater drinks like coffee, tea, sweetened sodas, which like beer, wine, and other alcohol, can dry out your entire body, and especially dry out the vocal cords. So give your body enough daily water, and you automatically improve your vocal health.

Water is the beverage your voice needs the most. And should be the beverage you drink most often. And as a side benefit, drinking lots of water, can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars a year, over the cost of drinking other nonwater beverages. ( For a more indepth coverage of this subject, see my Teach Yourself Singing course.)

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Oct 1999 Vocal Tip

If You Can Talk, You Can Sing!

If you can talk, you can sing, is one of my trademark phrases that sums up how I look at the human voice. If you can talk, you can sing, has been used by the best vocal teachers for thousands of years. The ancient African voice teachers, used a longer version. If you can talk, you can sing. If you can walk, you can dance.

If you can talk, you can sing, was one of those universal life principles accepted for centuries. Everyone knew that if you could talk, you could sing. And if you went back a couple of hundred or a couple of thousands years, people would have thought you were very strange, if you went around saying, if you can talk, you can't sing.

Ancient Sanskrit legends, close to a million years old, tell about how very ancient man, sang everything, and may even have been able to communicate with some kind of telepathy, also. As mankind lost the Vulcan like mind skills, speech was developed, an offshoot of ceremonial singing and chanting. So languages evolved over centuries from singing to speech, as ancient man made the change from singing sounds to singing speech.

As the 21st century starts, there are thousands of languages spoken on earth alone. Languages, being a special kind of vocal music, use rhythm, melody, and pitch just like singing does. Each language uses its own scales, its own combination of tones to express emotion, and the words that make up each language. Everyday speech, ordinary talking is vocalized singing, everyday singing we all use to communicate emotion, daily events, the past, present, and future, dreams, all the vast variety of human experience.

Once you realize that singing and talking use the human voice in exactly the same way, and have all the same musical elements, you have found one of the vocal secrets known for centuries. Anytime you use your voice, you are actually singing, even if you call it something else.

Which is why I am happy to pass on to you, the oldest vocal secret in this world and many others. If you can talk, you can sing. Have fun enjoying your beautiful, musical voice.

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Nov 1999 Vocal Tip

Give Your Voice a Holiday From Stress for Happy, Healthy, Singing.

One thing that email and online chat rooms can do is give your voice a break. Gives us a chance to type and write more. ( Unless you are using speech to text software , or a video phone chat room, and other vocal technoligy products)

Hours of daily vocal use, at home, at work, on the job, over top of the tv and stero playing, smog, stress, we dont think of daily life as causing vocal stress, but it can. In fact, ones voice can show you how stressed out your body, mind, emotions, and spirit are.

Do you have tired voice? Is your voice weak? Do you cough a lot, get horse a lot, is your voice showing how much stress you are under? If you listen to your voice, it can warn you when you are too angry, too tired, starting to burn out, worrying too much about things like Y2K, that may never effect you at all.

Well, you can't backup your voice, like you can important files on your computer. But you can be kind to your voice, and not burn it out. Avoid the voice destroyers, drugs, alcohol, tobacco. Listen to the emotional state your voice expresses. Are you expressing positive emotions or negative ones. Is your voice stuck in the past, are your vocal words always full of complaining, I told you so, regret, a tv soap opera drowning in emotional suds. Is your voice afraid of the future, always spreading gloom and doom, always worrying , assuming the worst will happen?

If you keep your attention and your voice in the present, here and now, you will enjoy life more, and you will be happier, a nicer person to be around. This removes a lot of stress out of your life, including vocal stress. But, we don't want you to feel like you have to put a paper bag over your head to rest your voice. To make it stress free.

Nature designed the voice for speaking, singing, to be your living musical instrument. Take that vocal break to sing in the shower, use positive words in your speech, hum on the freeway, whistle a happy tune. And when you voice warns you, through a vocal warning sign, that you need a break, take a few minutes to do something you really enjoy, either by yourself or with someone you really love.

A happy you, makes for a happy, healthy, voice.

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Dec 1999 Vocal Tip

Are You Shopping for a New Voice? Try a Vocal Makeover.

The xmas holiday season brings about mts of shopping with everyone buying gifts for friends, family, and coworkers. Many of the presents purchased are musical gifts. Guitars, keyboards, music software, soundcards, CDs, boom boxes, sheet music, drums, horns, are just a few of the many possible music gifts shoppers can choose from. But what if you want a new voice? If you could simply go out to the mall and pick one up, or order one from a mail order catalog, what kind of new voice would you get?

Would you want to sound like a movie star, or one of your favorite singers? Would you want your voice to be higher, lower? Do you think your voice is too soft or too loud? Musical or unmusical? Do you need an upgrade to a Sexy voice, a Business Leader voice, a Military Commander voice, a Broadway voice? Well, you can't just trade in your voice at the Vocal BMW dealer. But you can bring out the musical qualities that are designed into your voice, and are your vocal birthright.

All voices are musical. No one is born with an unmusical voice. Its impossible. All voices can do melodies, rhythms, pitch, micropitch, different volumes, different emotional moods, all these musical vocal skills are built into everyones voice. There are no exceptions. Some people just naturally or through training, use more of the human voice's natural musical skills. But superb vocal skills are in every voice, even if you don't use them.

So, you can get a brand new voice, simply by learning to use vocal skills all voices have. You may not have used any of these vocal skills since childhood, but they are still there, waiting for you to use them again.

All children love to sing, so simply start singing, a few minutes a day. All children use their voices in playing childhood games. Use your voice to create pretend voices, like a child does. Use your voice to make sounds, imitate sounds you hear around you, or sounds you imagine. All children's voices have a lot of carrying power, so pretend you are a child again, and call out to one of your friends down the block, or across a field.

Simply using childhood vocal skills daily, a few minutes here and there, is one of the fastest ways to develop vocal flexibility, carrying power, and a wide emotional and tonal voice range. These natural musical vocal skills are yours, to use in speech and song. Enjoy using them, and your voice naturally improves, is more musical.

This is your vocal makeover, your vocal vacation, your vocal tuneup, your trip to a vocal spa. And is better than actually being able to go out and buy a new voice. Because you can simply develop the natural vocal skills you already have.

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Jan 2000 Vocal Tip

21st Century Singing

The world didn't end on Dec 31st, 1999. I even left my computer on at midnite and watched the date roll over into the new century. And for the first time in thousands of years, the entire globe was working together to solve the same problem. So the century change over is off to a good positive start.

You too, can get off to a new positive start in the 21st century by dropping any old 20th century or older, vocal habits that are holding back your voice. Many prehistoric vocal myths have been around for much of the previous millinium., and have been accepted as vocal facts by many people. All these vocal myths only exist to keep as many people from singing as possible. And if you believe the vocal myths, you will be a non singer. Don't deny yourself the joys of singing because of negative vocal myths, passed down for centuries.

Here are some of the Biggest Vocal Myths of the last few thousand years.

1. You have to be born with a great voice to be able to sing.
2. Only those with the right shaped and sized body can sing.
3. Singing is evil.
4. If you are too old or too young, you can't sing.
5. Only opera is real singing.
6. Talking and singing are two different things.
7. I can't sing.

Here are the Biggest Vocal Truths that anyone can use to sing.

1. Anyone born with a voice can sing.
2. Any shaped or sized body can sing.
3. Singing is good and healthy.
4. One can sing at any age.
5. Any kind of singing is singing.
6. Talking and singing both use the same voice.
7. I Can Sing and So Can You.

Use the vocal truths in your daily life to enjoy happy and healthy singing, which is your birthright. Leave the ancient vocal myths to those who always live in the past, while you simply sing, here and now, and in the future.

That is the joy of 21st Century Singing.

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Feb 2000 Vocal Tip

Romantic Singing

In the countries that celebrate Valentines Day, its a special day of romance, and expressing romantic love. Candlelight dinners, moonlit walks, flowers, candy, heart shaped jewelry, mushy notes, all combine to create a day for lovers.

What could be more romantic than singing someone you love a love song? Most of the songs written, recorded, and performed are love songs. Whens the last time you sang someone a love song, or had someone sing one to you?

Positive love songs have a great healing power. Just listening to them can be a very uplifting experience. And actually singing them is even better. For the sound of your singing, actually charges up your bodies energy fields and brain waves, as recent brain research has discovered.

Theres a very old saying. To become love, sing about love. Sing untill you are so charged with love, that you become love. Soldiers in battle, moms putting their kids to sleep, workers in the fiields, people at a party, and a lover singing about their beloved, all use the love energy in singing.

So you decide to surprise you lover by singing a song. What do you sing? One of their favorite songs? One of your favorite songs? How about composing your own song? Or having one composed for you? All excellent choices for a romantic and loving gift, that will be remembered for years.

Don't overlook the simple wonder, and beauty of your own singing, telling someone that you love them.

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