As much as we can work on your voice technique in our voice lessons, practicing at home is important for you to get the most out of your voice study, and get better at singing, faster.
There are a lot of challenges to practicing at home, especially now with family members working at home and doing school online. Here are some tips for your home practice:
- Talk to your family to see if they can give you some privacy for a short time each day, or a few times a week, so that you can practice.
- Choose a quiet area, with a piano if you have one. If you don't have a piano, you can use a piano app on your phone, or practice along with YouTube videos.
- Sometimes it can help your practice feel more private if you use earphones.
- Recording yourself and listening back to the recordings is great.
- If it's too hard to find a time and place to practice now, just remember that you can practice all day long by doing the following:
- monitor your posture throughout the day
- do your breathing exercises
- do core-building exercises like crunches, planks, yoga, pilates, etc.
- practice relaxing your jaw, neck, and head, while you engage your core
- do some straw phonation (humming through a straw) every day
- listen to lots of music that you would like to sing
- sing in the shower!
If you have any more concerns about practicing, be sure to let me know - I'm here to help you!
