Voice care

• Rehearsing on a Tired Voice: How to Cut Without Losing Progress

  Cancelling every tired rehearsal is as unhelpful as singing through all of them. The useful skill is knowing which parts of a rehearsal can be done at low vocal cost — and doing those parts well while the rest waits.

  2026-09-13 11 min breath Voice care
• Voice Rest After a Cold: How Much, and When to Stop

  After a cold, the question is never whether to rest the voice but how much. Complete silence for a week is rarely necessary and often counterproductive; singing through a swollen voice is what causes the injuries people worry about.

  2026-09-03 10 min breath Voice care
• Hydration and the Vocal Folds: What Water Actually Does

  Drinking water does not lubricate your vocal folds. It hydrates the tissue underneath them, systemically, over hours. That timing is why the glass you drink right before singing does almost nothing for the next ten minutes, and why the water you drank this morning does.

  2026-08-25 8 min breath Voice care

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