Hello there Luciana, I just wanna thank you for all your great videos.
But to be onest i'm lost. In previous threads you've said that a beginner should start off with only the humming - warming up, then do some scales, breathing and loads of other things. But how do we do that?
Let's say we have a student who's willing to put a huge amount of effort to be a great singer, he's going to sing 1 hour a day. How would you practice if you were that student.
Let me try to explain myself:
1 week - warm up - humming
2 week - breathing
3 - blues
...
Correct or wrong?
And let's say you have complited the second week with breathing and now ready to take on some blues, are you still going to do breath-exersices or are just going to focusing on the blues?
Hope i made it all clear
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Hi Martin!
Well.. I'm going to tell you that my lessons are not in order to follow like a book.
When i started with this lessons and I asked to Kris if he wanted an order to follow, he asked me for shuffle lessons , like lessons for advanced students and lessons for begginers all togheter.
So... if you want to have a some steps to how to practice , this is what do you have to do:
* In the beginning , I do not suggest practicing your vocal technique for more than 20 minutes at a time, four times a week.
* Never try to practice with more than one idea in mind at a time. Try focusing and concentrating on only one.. for example: different issues like, breathing, resonance, bad habits or singing on pitch...
It means: 5 minutes for breathing ( deep breathings, holding... breath control ..using diaphragm...Relaxing and opening the throat space, etc). 10 minutes for warm up (hum with M, N, NG and HM for resonance). 5 minutes of articulation ( using exercises with vowels and consonants). 5 minutes for agility (with different speeds). 5 minutes for singing on pitch.. etc.. and go on!
* After you begun overcomming some of your bad habits, you can gradually increase your practice time up to an hour a day (but no more than that). I also suggest taking a couple of days off from it. The voice needs rest, and so does your brain. It's good to give yourself time to process the information.
* When you do go to sing, the voice will automatically remember what to do by itself.
Hope it helps
Luciana
Well.. I'm going to tell you that my lessons are not in order to follow like a book.
When i started with this lessons and I asked to Kris if he wanted an order to follow, he asked me for shuffle lessons , like lessons for advanced students and lessons for begginers all togheter.
So... if you want to have a some steps to how to practice , this is what do you have to do:
* In the beginning , I do not suggest practicing your vocal technique for more than 20 minutes at a time, four times a week.
* Never try to practice with more than one idea in mind at a time. Try focusing and concentrating on only one.. for example: different issues like, breathing, resonance, bad habits or singing on pitch...
It means: 5 minutes for breathing ( deep breathings, holding... breath control ..using diaphragm...Relaxing and opening the throat space, etc). 10 minutes for warm up (hum with M, N, NG and HM for resonance). 5 minutes of articulation ( using exercises with vowels and consonants). 5 minutes for agility (with different speeds). 5 minutes for singing on pitch.. etc.. and go on!
* After you begun overcomming some of your bad habits, you can gradually increase your practice time up to an hour a day (but no more than that). I also suggest taking a couple of days off from it. The voice needs rest, and so does your brain. It's good to give yourself time to process the information.
* When you do go to sing, the voice will automatically remember what to do by itself.
Hope it helps
Luciana
thank you so much!
Yes - great advice Luciana! 
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