Articles tagged 'How To Keep Your Voice Healthy'

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3/15/2025

Vocal Health for Working Singers

In this article, New York Vocal Coaching teacher Abby Payne discusses ways for working singers to maintain their vocal health.

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2/15/2025

The "King" of All Vocal Exercises: SOVT Exercises

In this article, Bryan Chan discusses the benefits of Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract (SOVT) exercises for reducing strain and improving vocal flexibility, emphasizing breath control, and maintaining consistency as well as effective vocal maintenance.

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3/9/2023

Vocal Inconsistency - Not to Worry!

When your voice starts to sound and feel strange, it can be pretty scary. It can make you feel like you're not a good singer anymore and can cause you to doubt yourself. Sometimes, we try to save our voice by not using it, but that can actually make things worse...

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1/4/2023

Give Your Voice a Drink

What role does water really play in your singing? Find out with David McCall of New York Vocal Coaching.

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12/15/2021

End of Year Thoughts from NYVC Founder and President, Justin Stoney

"I hope each singer finds one thing they have never done with their voice. A risk that they never taken, to stretch outside their comfort zone in ways they never have before." - Justin Stoney, NYVC President and Founder

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4/19/2021

Fitness: Habits and Tips to Help you Sing your Best

We chat with New York Vocal Coaching Senior Associate Andy King about fitness for singers.

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4/5/2021

Diet: Habits and Tips to Help you Sing your Best

We chat with New York Vocal Coaching Senior Associate Julie Reumert about the singer's diet.

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12/9/2016

Tending The Garden

I don’t have time to practice, and I don’t want to bother my neighbors.

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5/9/2015

Signs That You Might Be Vocally Fatigued

The voice is the only instrument that is apart the human body (unless you count clapping your hands as percussion!!). So it makes sense that the instrument is the entire body, not just the larynx alone. Everything from body alignment, respiratory system, the larynx, vocal tract, not to mention the brain are involved in this high level athletic coordination! 

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3/5/2014

TLC for your R&B

The best part of my job as an instructor at New York Vocal Coaching is helping varied singers gain control over their voices. In this article, I want to share a few thoughts on the R&B style and one of my artists who is working to master her R&B sound.