Vocal Fatigue

In a recent lesson with a student the subject of Vocal Fatigue came up.  After singing a lot of consecutive days, our student, was concerned something was really wrong with her voice.  She said her singing felt low, heavy, and less easy.  After working with her we realized there was nothing more wrong with her voice the simple vocal fatigue.  She was vocally tired and probably physically tired as well from too much singing.  The advice we gave her was to rest her voice a couple days by staying quiet.  We told her not to sing or talk and definitely not to whisper!  She told us that she absolutely needed to use her voice just one more time before she could take that necessary and important vocal rest.  In order to help her, we worked her breath support by giving her warm-ups to help her re-engage her support muscles and get back to singing ON her breath not WITH her breath.  We also helped her alleviate that heavy, low feeling, by making sure she was feeling her resonance high and forward in her face not in her throat or chest.