Food
Something you should drink (EVERY day) and especially before/during singing
What is water?
What is a good practice to help build your body build stamina for singing and movement?
The scientific organ that takes in and pushes out breath
What are the lungs?
The best place to practice
Fill in the blank: "Practice makes __________"
What is "permanent"? (NOT "perfect")
Hot honey lemon tea
What is a soothing drink when you are feeling sick or have a sore throat?
The optimal number of hours you should sleep before performing
The involuntary muscle that sits below the lungs and that will relax down when you take a deep breath
What is the diaphragm?
The best way to project and fill the concert hall
What is breath?
The first thing you should do when learning a song in a foreign language
What is translate?
True or False: You should avoid dairy before singing
True! (Avoid the day before and the day of performance)
Screaming at the park
What is something you should not do as a singer?
The direction that the vocal cords are positioned (vertical or horizontal?)
What is horizontal?
True or false: the type of shoes and clothes you wear can affect your ability to sing
True!
Choose the better option: 1) Practicing for 30 minutes every day OR 2) Practicing three days a week for 4 hours
What is option #1? (Practicing for 30 minutes every day)
A fruit that is good to eat before performance
What are grapes? (Hydrates your throat)
Something that secretly tires out your voice more than talking or singing
What is whispering? (avoid this even if you have lost your voice)
The way that vocal sounds are produced
What is the way your breath releases through your vocal folds to create vibration?
How you know when you've learned a song
What is: memorizing and being able to focus more on storytelling than technique?
How you can most successfully connect practice to performance
What is practicing with performance energy?
What is apples/apple juice? (NATURAL - sugar free)
The most flexible instrument in the world that you HAVE to build yourself
What is the voice?
The reason we practice lip trills and sirens
What is awareness of breath support?
How we create intensity in singing (even when singing softly)
What is enunciation of the text and energy through the end of the phrase?
3 things to include in your practice routine every day
What is: warm-ups, character development/lyric analysis, focusing on difficult areas in the music