Food
My Body, My Instrument
Vocal Mechanism
From Room to Stage
Practice, Practice, Practice
100

Something you should drink (EVERY day) and especially before/during singing

What is water?

100
Talking while you walk

What is a good practice to help build your body build stamina for singing and movement?

100

The scientific organ that takes in and pushes out breath

What are the lungs?

100

The best place to practice

What is a quiet place?
100

Fill in the blank: "Practice makes __________"

What is "permanent"? (NOT "perfect")

200

Hot honey lemon tea

What is a soothing drink when you are feeling sick or have a sore throat?

200

The optimal number of hours you should sleep before performing

What is 8-10 hours?
200

The involuntary muscle that sits below the lungs and that will relax down when you take a deep breath

What is the diaphragm?

200

The best way to project and fill the concert hall

What is breath?

200

The first thing you should do when learning a song in a foreign language

What is translate?

300

True or False: You should avoid dairy before singing

True! (Avoid the day before and the day of performance)

300

Screaming at the park

What is something you should not do as a singer?

300

The direction that the vocal cords are positioned (vertical or horizontal?)

What is horizontal?

300

True or false: the type of shoes and clothes you wear can affect your ability to sing

True! 

300

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)

400

A fruit that is good to eat before performance

What are grapes? (Hydrates your throat)

400

Something that secretly tires out your voice more than talking or singing

What is whispering? (avoid this even if you have lost your voice)

400

The way that vocal sounds are produced

What is the way your breath releases through your vocal folds to create vibration?

400

How you know when you've learned a song

What is: memorizing and being able to focus more on storytelling than technique?

400

How you can most successfully connect practice to performance

What is practicing with performance energy?

500
A fruit/drink that will help hydrate your throat before singing

What is apples/apple juice? (NATURAL - sugar free)

500

The most flexible instrument in the world that you HAVE to build yourself

What is the voice?

500

The reason we practice lip trills and sirens

What is awareness of breath support?

500

How we create intensity in singing (even when singing softly)

What is enunciation of the text and energy through the end of the phrase? 

500

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