I know not to eat chocolate or drink milk, but what else? Tea? Vocal Warm ups? HELP!!!
2007-12-03 07:43:08 · 5 answers · asked by cheerstar1912 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
im a soprano. I know warm ups for me to do, i just want to know what foods i should avoid. I have no problem with nerves, none whatsoever. Thanks in advance
2007-12-03 11:28:19 · update #1
The best thing you can do is take your time preparing and do everything you can to make yourself as comfortable as possible. Nerves are your worst enemy; even for a seasoned pro, the first-night nerves always, always alter a performance. You have to learn how to work with nervousness.
Singing is a great way to open your voice. Anything at all from a choir warmup piece to something from Les Mis, who cares what it is as long as you like singing it. (Several national anthems even work really well... although it can be weird if people hear you belting it out for half an hour.)
Your voice and your body are together in this. They're linked by the breath. Try lying down and breathing nice and slowly into your belly. Make some Aaaah or oooooh sounds if you want. Spend some time breathing and see if you can feel your back ribs expanding with the breath. Maybe five minutes on that, if you're not used to it, will be enough.
Tongue-twisters are great. Warm up your face and mouth and tongue by just making crazy faces. If you don't enunciate clearly, it's bad news. A great trick is to take a wine cork (or anything kinda like that size), put it between your teeth, and then try to do a speech as clearly as possible. You'll sound ridiculous but when you take the cork out, enunciating will feel really clear and easy.
Break a leg.
2007-12-03 08:18:39 · answer #1 · answered by green_sprout 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, preparing your voice should have started months ago. Don't do too much at this point or you'll end up losing your voice. You're not used to it, that's why. Also, it's not chocolate specifically. It's sugar. Soda, candly, etc. It's also not just milk, it's dairy or anything that will cause excess mucus. Tea is fine to drink but not necessary especially if you don't like it. Hydrate (drink water), and in the morning before you speak hum a bit to warm up your speaking voice. Before you sing, yes it woud be great to do some vocal warmups but do you have any idea what to do? There are so many, it's hard to tell you on a whim which ones and in what range you should do them. Scales are fairly basic as are lip trills. After a few minutes of warming up, hum your song a couple times then sing your song several times. Just do your best for now without straining anything then find a professional voice teacher and get some lessons.
good luck,
Marianne
2007-12-03 09:59:54 · answer #2 · answered by Marianne D 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't overwork your voice otherwise it'll sound scratchy and generally not good. Right before the audition try vocal exercises like singing scales, and various other similar types of vocal exercises. Also right before the audition try drinking warm tea with honey and have a humidifier in the room with you- this should absolutley open your voice up.
This site has lots of vocal warm up excercises that should help: http://www.gbmc.org/voice/vocalwarmups.cfm
2007-12-04 03:28:23 · answer #3 · answered by nicole_marie8201 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do a scale(do re mi fa so la ti do) and back down
and go from low to high from do to do
i think drinking tea helps
also dont get nervos
that is the worst thing!
2007-12-03 08:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by Gina plain and simple 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do rae me fa so la de do. dont be a worrywart!
2007-12-03 07:51:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋