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Summary: Learn tips for vocal performance on stage with expert music tips in this free vocal coaching video clip from a professional music theory teacher.
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Mark W. Black Armed with a master's degree in music and theory and owner/founder of Promethean Studios in Dallas, Mark W. Black has taught hundreds of beginners how to adva... read more
Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We are going to be talking about vocal performance. We are going to perform whether it’s just rehearsal or by yourself or for something or it is an actual game. Basically you should eat 2-3 hours before, soon enough that you are not close enough to the event that you are not hungry, but not so far that you got a big stomach full of food in your tummy where you are trying to support. Different people say that basically everybody… this is my opinion that everyone has a personal body chemistry, you have things in your body that you need to cause a lot of mucous in your throat. Take couple of things that people say that you should not eat milk, nuts, chocolate, citrus products, which is lemon and lime, cokes, carbonated beverages, may make you have phlegm in the throat, which may make your voice break. You personally may not have problem with any of those, so it is not like forbidden list. What I would do if I were you, if you are practicing regularly especially what I would do is I would just go through the list of things that I would do, 3-4 practices eat a can full of nuts and then “dude, like this is not the thing to do,” you know the next thing is “I am going to drink some lemon juice and see what happens and none of those things are really hurting me.” The point is discovering your own body chemistry what gives you phlegm in you and what creates it and typical thing that people say is to drink herbal teas, non-caffeinated teas and non-citrus juices like apple juice.