5 tips to take of your voice – BIGMOUTH Chorus

Now that term is well and truly underway, we can stop telling you all the reason why you should join BIGMOUTH (you already know how fun it is!). Instead, as the cold weather rushes in, we thought it might be nicer to tell you how to take care of that voice you’re developing.

1. Drink plenty of water! Drinking water seems like the go-to advice for everything, doesn’t it? For singing it’s especially important, as your throat can dry out for a number of reasons – medications like antihistamines, air conditioning, coffee, cigarettes. The list keeps going. Drinking room temperature water helps maintain the balance of mucus in your throat (I know gross but important). When we drink, water doesn’t run over our vocal cords but is instead absorbed into the body the same way as food and distributed around the body. This means we have to take in plenty of water to make sure the whole body is nice and hydrated.

If our vocal cords dry out before we sing, it can create swelling which limits the amount of vibration we are capable of, which in turn severely limits our singing potential.