Do you enjoy karaoke singing? Many people do. I bet you didn’t know that, as well as being fun, karaoke singing is actually a great form of vocal training, though. Karaoke is an excellent form of entertainment, especially at parties. If you are happy with your brief moment in the spotlight in front of your friends then that’s great. However, if you are looking to pursue a career as a professional singer, a karaoke machine can be a great investment for you. While you’re trying to put together a band or waiting between gigs, or even as a daily part of your practice routine, karaoke singing can help you to keep your voice in top form.

Karaoke singing can teach you, in some ways better than singing with a band, how to pay attention to things like cues, timing and Read the rest of this entry »

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You may not have heard of speech level singing before, but it is a technique used by many singing stars, including Jennifer Lopez and Michael Jackson, among others.  The idea of speech level singing is to produce tones easily, as if you were speaking, without the discomfort or voice strain that is usually associated with singing exercises.

You see, between your chest voice and your head voice is something that is commonly referred to, in speech level singing, as your mixed voice.  When the resonance begins to go behind your soft palate, the split leaves some of it in your head and some in your mouth.  The mixture of both head and chest voices is called a mixed voice.

Your larynx, also known as a voice box, has two very different sets of muscles that you should be concerned about, inner and outer.  Many singers try to use their outer larynx muscles to control their voice, but that will just cause your vocal chords to tense up.  Therefore, it can create discomfort and it certainly won’t help you improve your singing voice.
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No matter how pro the singer is, there is an unavoidable task for them to take care of their voice especially in the cold and flu, and feel plain vocally awful situations.

However, here are 15 tips to allow you to bring your beautiful voice back to health and normal condition. The most important things are to reduce trauma to your chords and to create a comfortable environment for your throat.

1. ALWAYS drink constant amount of water. Please remember to drink 8-12 glasses of water daily especially when a cold is coming. You can try Alkalol if you really want to flush out a cold completely in 3 days or less. Just get it from the pharmacists. You use it intra-nasally.

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