Introducing the tonebase voice Healthy Singer Challenge!

Coffee-drinking soprano, trainer of voices and tonebase voice content lead
Heidi_Vass
3 mths ago
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Welcome to the Tonebase Voice Healthy Singer Challenge! We're thrilled to have you join this journey towards becoming your healthiest, most balanced self—both vocally and personally. Each week, we’ll introduce a new challenge designed to enhance your vocal performance while promoting overall health and wellness. From hydration habits to mindfulness exercises and beyond, these challenges will help you build a sustainable routine that supports your artistry and well-being. Whether you're a seasoned performer or just starting your vocal journey, this is your space to grow, connect, and thrive. Let’s embrace the challenges, celebrate the progress, and make 2025 a transformative year for your voice and life!

Introduce yourself in the chat and let us know what your goals are for 2025! Let's get to know one another and encourage each other on this journey of vocal discovery and wellness.

- Letizia
- 3 mths ago
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Hi there! I'm Letizia from Italy. Looking forward to hearing from you the next 8 weeks. Working healthier and smarter is my goal: I wanna do more within less time.

Ciao! 🌞😎✌🏻
- JohnEric_Robinson
- 3 mths ago
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I’m in
- Stephanos_Karaoulis
- 3 mths ago
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Happy new Year to all!

Better articulation, better agility are some of voice goals!
- Coffee-drinking soprano, trainer of voices and tonebase voice content lead
  
  Heidi_Vass
  
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  those are fantastic goals!
- Stephanos_Karaoulis
  
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  Hi Heidi! Your positive attitude inspiring us!
- tonebase_user.19
- 3 mths ago
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Happy New Year All

Cannot wait to start this
- Raymond_Gornik
- 3 mths ago
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Hi, Ray from Ohio. I just started a 90-day coaching intensive with Heidi. This challenge sounds like a good addition to help me excel with the coaching and so much more. Is there a place where I need to sign up?
- Coffee-drinking soprano, trainer of voices and tonebase voice content lead
  
  Heidi_Vass
  
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  no need to sign up! You will get weekly posts delivered to your inbox with a mini-challenge and some inspiration. You can also see the challenges in the forum under "Healthy Singer Challenge"
- JohnEric_Robinson
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Vocal Goals for 2025

To continue to relax my larynx and to learn to turn and unturn it appropriately and to the correct degree as needed; to consistently find the right mix of registers up and down my voice; to consistency produce the right vowel and to find it again after closing to a consonant; to rid my tone of airiness; and to continue, with the help of my current (amazing!) teacher, to untangle the many-tangled snarl that is my vocal technique after a dozen voice teachers and dozens of conductors over the course of forty years.
- JohnEric_Robinson
  
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  Just a partial list, of course; I also hope to become conversant in opera repertoire and opera, period. Currently listening to three versions of Mozart's Magic Flute: one with Fritz Wunderlich as Tamino and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Papageno; one with Gundula Janowitz as Pamina and Lucia Popp as the Queen of the Night; and one in the brilliant English translation of Jeremy Sams .
  
  Tips: check out https://musicwebinternational.com/ralph-moores-surveys/ and https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2019/Aug/Opera-untouchables-survey.htm: these have been my guides to recordings, which I've found invaluable; and
  
  Sir Denis Forman's A Night at the Opera: An Irreverant Guide to the Plots, the Singers, the Composers, and the Recordings, which I've poured over. I started recently as a person nearly entirely unschooled in opera, and this book has been my chief introduction. Such fun!
  
  For more sober reflection, I've begun reading Carolyn Abbate's and Roger Parker's A History of Opera: the Last Four Hundred Years.
  
  And watching all the footage I can find of Tito Gobbi, especially his master classes. Brilliant.
- tonebase_user.19
- 3 mths ago
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Happy New Year all- my goals are to get better at sight reading/sight singing and improve my diction when singing Italian/ French/German.
- rebecca_sheridan
- 2 mths ago
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Practice consistently.

Movement and fitness.

Stop being scared of high notes.