Saturday, April 11th, 2009 at
8:35 pm

gbekommen asked: I have studied privately for a year, so I have a reasonable foundation. Assume I constantly move through the whole *comfortable* range of the voice. I am trying to develop a beautiful, natural, tension-free sound, and improve my intonation. I am willing to work as much as possible at this because it is a career for me. I’m currently striving for about 3 hours a day, which consists of mainly scales, arpeggios and long tones on a wide variety of vowels. I’ve done this for about 3 weeks now and have noticed some improvements. My voice does feel tired at the end of the day, but there’s no pain or hoarseness. If I can practice more, I would like to. Also, any suggestions on what to concentrate on when I practice? What to think about, and what exercises to do? I want a tension-free sound with a nice vibrato (it only creeps in once in awhile for now). I will resume
singing lessons in a few weeks.
No facetious answers please. I think only a professional singer or
singing teacher would know.