Your singing voice is produced from the rapid and highly precise actions of small muscles in and around the larynx (voice box). As with any type of demanding physical activity, circulation increases and the muscles swell with blood. Blood supplies all the cells in the body with three essentials for life: oxygen, nutrients and water.
It also performs the vital function of removing waste products from the cells after they convert these three essentials into energy. This is also true of the vocal muscles, and especially when engaged in a rigorous activity such as singing.
When you stop singing, the muscles of your vocal folds are still enlarged with blood and can still retain waste products. Properly completed vocal cool-downs that utilize light vibrations can gradually ebb the blood back to its normal levels thereby gradually reducing the swelling and enabling the body to remove the last of the excess waste.
If you don’t use cool-downs to return your voice to its normal speaking condition, even though your voice training and technique may be excellent, you could experience vocal fatigue and huskiness for one to three days after an intense vocal performance.
On The Deva Method Vocal Warm-Ups and Cool-Downs, you’ll find several easy-to-use exercises, including a singer’s massage, that you can customize to your needs.
Toatally true, always warm up and cool down when You begin, or done with singing. Great cd by the way, i feel like i learnt to sing just using this, now begin with books, can’t wait to order them. I see it gonna be first comment, can only wonder why, after using literlly a lot of another moethods/coaches. This at least work for me. Thank You Jeannie Deva, good one 😘😘😘
Hi Kamil, Glad you found the warm-ups helpful.