You're always saying we don't have to panic. what I do: PANIC HELP! I NEED MY VOICE SINGING IS THE ONLY THIN THAT KEEPS ME ALIVE

Fun thing to try: 8oz of warm water, 1 TBSP of Honey, 1 Tsp of Cinnamon. Whenever I get a sore throat after late night karaoke, I make this little drink and its gone within 20 minutes. Just a fun thing to use.

I've been having these symptoms for about a year now. but I'm just now realizing what's going on. my voice is my life. I'm very scared. life isn't worth living without my voice. I'm definitely going to look into getting help. Thank you so much.

well i made up my mind i want to follow my dream of being a singer. i love it with all my soul

When he said “tip number one: get over yourself; it was so unexpected to me i laughed so hard

you are the reason i have gotten my voice back!!!!! I have applied all of your techniques to my singing. I lost my voice really bad due to bad technique and i listened to all of your videos, and i now am regaining my voice. What does it mean if you go to hit a note that you used to be able to hit, and your voice just goes to air(no voice or high pitch)? is there a way to regain that range?

I signed up for a live vocal instructor after watching this. Thanks for helping me overcome my own ego! haha

Step One was literally the most important thing I've ever heard. I've suspected for a long time that I have nodes or polyps and your video just helped me come to terms with it and realize that it isn't the end of the world. You've given me hope, and I genuinely appreciate that, Eric. If I ever get the money I'm coming straight to you for lessons, and I really don't care how far I have to go.

great advice. notes: don't push the voice. hoarseness is a sign of bad technique.

My voice was damaged about 4 years ago, and I came across your videos. I then watched you saying this in one of your videos, and followed your advice, so I started listening to my body and warnings, and even withouh any instructor my voice has improved so much!, of course I also used your exercices :) Thankyou very much! One day I'm gonna take lessons with you!

literally crying. I feel like i wot make recovery.. i hope this will work. if i don't sing i don't have anything. its been since like april and its about to be august.

"Pride comes before the fall" ;-)

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Such a coincedence, I am having some issues and suddenly this vid shows up

"Don't let your pride block you off from knowledge." There are some sparkling gems in every one of these. Like a Zen koan.

My voice has been hurting for months!!! I had to speak for my job all day long, then I'd come home and sing as a stress reliever because I just love it so much. I wouldn't warm up even though I knew I needed to. Anyway, I thought because my voice has been hurting so bad that I'd need surgery. And I can't go to the doctor because I don't have health insurance so I got scared that I damaged my voice permanently or I'd need surgery and something would go wrong and if the surgeon slipped up my mouth would get paralyzed. Anyway, you saying that recovery rarely involves surgery makes me super happy!!!! Thank you so much you saved me alot of worrying :D

I wish I could like this 1000 times! What you are doing is awesome. Thank you!!

"I'm 75 years old" lol! I am a former recording artist, performer and singer and I am also a vocal coach, I just found your videos and I love your way of teaching and humor!

you're an inspiration. I've gone back to singing and I feel more like myself than ever before. Stay awesome

I never cease to be impressed by Eric's knowledge and passion for good vocal, talks so much sense. I've never assumed that I'm god's gift as a singer, I'm not responsible for having a good sounding instrument but I've had to re adjust my ideas approach over the years. I'm getting on a bit now but can honestly say I'm singing better these days than ever before but going back over Eric's basics is never a chore. Due to lack of funds I seldom see my own teacher but it doesn't prevent me from working and touching base with these videos too. I have a huge respect for this young man and am always happy to recommend his videos to people without a regular teacher but wish to improve. Many Thanks Eric.

I’ve damaged my voice. It’s been a year since I could sing properly. Right in the middle of recording an album too. Going on an official no singing diet as of a month ago. Taking speech therapy now. It’s a long road to recovery. Hang in there anyone who’s going through vocal damage. It’s the worst!

Hey Eric, thanks for your tips! I'm not a singer (although it would be really interesting to try it out) Im a dancer and your tips are really helpful cause they range out in so many directions. I watch your videos cause I enjoy them hahaha, but when you mentioned that singing, dancing in my case, is all about conditioning your body everyday and sometimes you really do need to become a beginner again. Thats the best advice I've seen in a long while because it teaches humility. Thanks so much for your time and videos!

This is the first time that I've actually taken my voice seriously in my life to the point of looking for expert advice. When I first watched your video heard you advice, I now view my vocal chords as the most important instrument on earth not made by man. I watched exercise lesson #1 and what a difference. I will continue to follow you and would like to meet you one day. I'm only hours from D.C.

Literally love your videos I’m going to American idol this weekend and my voice has increased insanely! I will forever follow your videos!

Yes, watching this in 2021 - my very very experienced music teacher/mentor always says, you can never stop learning when it comes to music. Eric, you know what you talking about. Thank you for the tips

I know I’ve been doing it wrong for 20 years and now I’ve lost my voice and have a tour coming up. Your videos have helped me so much. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏

Eric, I have so big problem with voice, I'm teaching in kindergarten, singing there a lot.... I feel so blessed hearing your encouragements. I bought your course and now feel so much better. Thank you so much!!!!

Mr. Arceneaux is the best, hands down. In just about two months, I followed his instructions, to the T, from his Phase 1 and now Phase 2 programs, and I've freed up my voice more than it's ever been in my life, and I'm 32. In short, be smart and learn from the best. Just do the work every single day. If you're serious, you'll do it.

great job Eric, always appreciate your genuinity

I thought i was done for but thank you for helping me. My voice sounded bad for almost 3 months but doing your vocal exercises really helped me.

Your definitely my favorite singing coach on KZfaq

I've been watching your videos for several months. I practice everyday. I don't have much money or opportunity to take lessons. Your videos have helped me tremendously. You're an excellent teacher. And I really appreciate it.

I'll be quoting you...."Don't let your pride block you off from knowledge." Love this....AND love your spirit and devotion.

Getting over your voice & always being aware you may be messing up at any point.. is how you grow

I'm a soprano I haven't been able to hit them high notes in a lo g time makes me so sad. You gave the best advice I found on here!👍😊

Thank you from Nashville TN. Great videos and lifelong lessons for singing. 🙏🙏

This is such a good video. I have been a part of many choirs where they do not cover this properly. Thanks your videos are great. I've been singing primarily classical for years and you have very good knowledge of the voice and the body. I am impressed.

Thankyou. This is great, and has been very helpful. Damaged my voice recently, helping students to sing at a concert, and have been resting it as much as possible. Although, being a teacher means that I am only just out of the classroom for the summer, and have been talking constantly for the last few weeks! I haven't sung though, which is frustrating, but now I feel ready to build up. I will use your techniques, thankyou.

so happy to have found you! Reall appreciate your wisdom!

I sing in a choir. I love singing for the Lord and last Sunday while singing my voice just went to a whisper while trying to sing an octave higher than my normal range. I get hoarse from time to time and occasionally have to whisper while talking. I am now humbling myself by doing follow up with my ENT Dr. and the speech therapist he referred me to. Thanks for your advice. No more ignoring warning signs👍💗☺

I'm here because I found your videos when looking for exercises because I sing at church & I'm fine all year until we get to practicing the Christmas cantata. Every year once we get to those long practices I'm hoarse by the end of practice. Every few years I have a solo in the cantata & I'm always nervous on top of getting hoarse. After just a week of doing your suggested daily practicing I can already tell a difference in sound & feel like I have a little more vocal strength. It drives the dog crazy, but he'll be fine. lol Thanks so much for explaining your information so well & sharing your knowledge & training with us!

thanks

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Thank you much for this video. I really love to sing and I hope to someday be able to persue a vocal career (I'm only 15 now, so who knows), but I don't take any singing classes, because one, I can't really afford them, and two, because there aren't any proffesional vocal teachers in my neighborhood (that I know of). I sing everyday, I get a painfull throat a lot and I can't belt really well, but I still really love to do it. I recently found out that I can do whistle notes and my friend warned me about the dangers of singing them without a vocal coach, so I got really worried about ruining my voice permanently. This video (and a lot of your other videos) really helped me and taught me a lot about singing I didn't know, and gave me more confidence in my voice. So I'm really glad you take the time to make (or took the time, I don't know if you still make them) these video's. They're really fun to watch too! So I just want to thank you for making these videos and helping me out.

pianissimo & gentle sirens / humming really helped me with this... to be able to go high & low... back & forth without pushing. sometimes tension creeps in.. but being aware..and not writing it off is best.

THANKS FOR THE TIPS

thank you so much for this lesson. you're a blessing. I'm leading the church worship 3 to 4 Sundays every month for couple of years and I know my voice starts to crack instead of getting better. I know something wrong about my way of singing. thanks for your awesome advise. I want to keep my voice to praise God.

Eric, so awesome. I am thankful I found you on KZfaq.

I lost my talking/singing voice while pregnant 11 years ago. 😩 went from suprano to bass! Raspy, crackled, laryngitis very easy.. i wanted to professionally sing. I was once called the mini whitney. 🤔😊.. i ran across your videos 2 years ago after having gone to 2 ENT doctors who found nothing but a little reflux??? I will say your techniques have helped me but man I feel like the walking dead! Im tenacious so i will keep on pressing. 😊 thank you 👍🏽💯

Hi Eric, your videos really are a great help. You're real and honest, which really works for me. I've been having a huge scare the past two months, because (although I'm not hoarse, oddly enough), I suddenly can't hold a clear tone anymore. My voice gets all shaky, making me sound pretty awful. Also it constantly feels as if there's a tight scarf around my throat, which has made me fearful of even swallowing (though there's no pain either). Scary thing is I just turned 17, and I absolutely love to sing, so the thought of me having vocal damage already is really frightening. I'd book an appointment with you though sadly I live on another continent, but if you think I should seek medical help (before it's too late, since I'm still growing getting vocal damage now might be permanent) I definitely will. Or perhaps I'm being paranoid, since there's no hoarseness or pain, but my singing ability has definitely deteriorated.

Great video on Humility...and singing, too.

I'm so glad I'm not crazy. I've noticed this! So much! I'm making an appointment with a vocal coach for in a few days and not singing again until i have someone who knows what they're doing tell me where I'm going wrong! thank you so much!

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Hey...I really appreciate the time and effort you put intohelping others with their voices and careers...This is the first time I've seen your videos and this is the fourth one i have seen today. I have subscribed..I'm going to continue watching your videos and believing in you because just from a couple of videos of yours I have noticed a positive change in my voice's strength and power of singing without straining..thanks so much for what you do. God Bless you and continue helping you help others andmake or keep you successful and happy. If I were where you are and I could, it would have been great to meet and work with you personally. I give u a 10/10 on personality, knowledge, understanding and friendliness. :)

Lot of excellent notes, advises on taking care of the vocal chords! Thanks Eric for bringing this up, although I do sing fairly OK, but I have been facing lot of vocal issues lately and trying to figure what all it could be. Thanks again for this video; helped understand a lot.

OH my goodness I needed this sooo bad! Thank you!!!

Thank you for being so open with your knowledge. I haven't been able to reach the high notes which I could a year ago. I thought it was just because I'd began practicing the lower register, but now I'm aware that I also have other tells, and that I might have vocal damage.Thank you. I should be singing with my church choir at one of the last concerts, if not the last concert while I'm studying in Russia. Sigh...timing.

Thank you Eric God bless you Since I started doing your vocal exercises my singing has become better and it's still improving the sky will be my limit... Thank you so much

My voice range decreased back in April, I was at a pep rally and screamed so loud that I lost my voice. Now here it is in September and nothing has changed, it has gotten a little better. Please make a recovery video.

Thank you so much for making these videos! Eric you're awesome! God bless your heart ☺

Thanks so much, Eric. I'm done making the excuses and looking for shortcuts and ready to learn things right from square one.

Glad I stumbled onto this viideo! I haven't had my falsetto in over a year! I sing several nights a week, its how I pay my bills. Hopefully I've done no damage but thanks to you, I am going to make an appointment with a coach tomorrow. One who can advise me . again, thank you!

Yeah you have the best video on KZfaq for this topic.. straight up thank u.

You're amazing Eric! This was really valuable information. I'm eventually going to take some vocal coaching with you. Best,

This is one of the best videos I have seen explaining this. My throat is really hurting and burning and I don't sing all the time. It even hurts to the touch of my neck area. It makes me not want to sing. It's really frustrating.

Dont let your pride block u from learning. You don't have anything to prove. Just be wise. Humble yourself & be open to some knowledge that can really help you. Great advice- love it👌💯😎

Thank you so much! This video has really helped and woke me up, i’ve been ignoring these signs for so long yet i’ve known deep down i really need to rest and learn some good exercises and apply them to my life every day😘 I’d say i’m far from hot headed and i’m always up to be told i’m doing something wrong haha!! So i really appreciate this, its going to help so much in the long run😁❤️

Thank you!! I've never been trained, but I want to learn how to sing healthy, and sometimes I put wayyyy too much pressure on my voice singing all out in my car... haha. But I thought I had screwed myself over because my range is worsening, and there's slight pain. You give me the hope I need to get through this! Definitely DEFINITELY following what you've said here. Thank you!

Hi Eric, I was about to audition for a rock band this week. My voice got horse or sore a couple of days ago. I was singing a ton from the bands set list. I don’t usually sing that long. I don’t have much vocal training. I know I’m not singing correctly. I can’t last too long before my voice hurts. This time or last night, even though I knew I should’ve not sung, but given my voice a rest, I pushed it a bit. I sounded great, but it hurt a bit. It’s hard for me to just stop singing. I usually don’t go a day without singing all the time. But my voice is still a bit sore. I have a tickle in my throat a bit and sometimes the urge to cough. You are right about pride. I need to not do my audition. I need to let my voice recover and heal. If I do the audition I know I might really hurt my vocal cords. So, hopefully with rest, and not talking much...as it is somewhat uncomfortable to talk too much. It sucks that, I have to tell the band that I should hold off until further notice and when I have gotten some help from the proper vocal coach or doctor. I know that I don’t have very good vocal endurance or good vocal technique. So I absolutely need to make the choice to get the training I need to be able to stop any more damage and sing in a healthy way. This is really in a way, a wake up call. I’m just not sure if it’s advisable to still be in the band, if I’m accepted and start training. Or if should train first and then get in a band. I believed this was time, but my voice health was saying differently. So... pride be gone! Thanks Erik, I was on the brink of making a huge mistake for my vocal health. I just didn’t want to piss off the band members and hurt my chances of doing an audition in the future, if I’m ready. By then, they might get another lead singer.

Love seeing my Latino brothers doing positive things, keep it up man!

You're awesome, thank you for this and your other videos. Really helps me out. I'm trying to work on getting a stronger voice but in a healthy way. Thanks much! :)

Thank you so much! I'm really afraid I can never sing again. Its my second greatest fear. First only is to die alone. I got sick and still sang hard like a fool. Now I am whispy and crackling like a teenage boy. Singing is my greatest joy n best stress relief. My graduate degrees dont matter if I cant sing because singing is how I got thru. I'd pay any dollar to get my voice back!

so it's not because my voice is definitely bad but because my vocal behavior is not right. so much to learn from this video. thanks for the free tutorials☺️

Scary ... But glad to know what to look out for and to be preventative is so important for all types of wellness ... Thank you yet again for such important information! 🎓

Dein Video ist so wertvoll, danke vielmals!!!

Really like how you broke this down. Def following....

Thank you, Eric. We really need to "keep it rookie", we're never too qualified or too skilled.

absolutely great lessons, nuggets of gold

your videos have helped me alot, im a guitar player who's new to singing but i have noticed bad habits in my breathing so your advice has led me to try to fix thosle habits TY.

You are amazing brother. Thanks for your videos.

Thank's for your axplain,, this method helpful

Thankyou so much Eric! :) your lessons helped me to make my voice more good and better...thankyou so much brother for helping us to find our real voice...you are so kind...God bless you abundantly brother :)

Always great advice, thank you.

When you mentioned about raspy voices, I find that a lot of shows out there, like the voice, promote people with raspy voices. What these singers don't realize that their longevity as a singer is diminished by such a style. I have a difficult voic. Takes a long time for it to warm up. When going to karaoke it can take hours before my voice is able to do what it is capable of doing.

I’ve hindered my abilities quit a bit from vaping. I’ve quit now but I’m honestly very scared. Seeing an ENT in 2 days and doing what I can at home. For others going through this, you are not alone. Singing is so much about our mindset, it’ll be okay.

Thank you for this. i think I've damaged my vocal cords. i used to sing constantly everyday and I was fine... But because I loved it, it came easily, and I think I loved it because I was depressed (it was like being a kid putting their fingers in their ears, singing la la la when hearing something they don't like, but blocking out life instead). When I started taking anti depressants I became too content with being quiet and suddenly felt like I forgot how to sing. 2 years later, people are asking me to sing with them and everything that comes out is bad, so I bought an online course hoping I can learn technique, so I don't have to rely on emotions, but after about 7 days of trying to do the exercises right, I've started having a sore throat, and speaking feels like alot of effort. Its actually tiring me out. I still have my voice, and I can still do everything I could do before, but it doesn't feel good. I may well book a lesson. Are there any exercises I can do whilst I feel like this? and how do I avoid more damage whilst working. I work as an online teacher and have to talk all day and it's really tough for me atm.

Thanks for the knowledge I got super scared, I lost my falsetto suddenly and that never happened before...I feel better and optimistic!

I wish you could help Jessie j because her vocals are amazing but lately I feel her voice has detiorated slightly because her chest belt limit has gone from a Bb5 to a G#5, her former complex runs have become simpler and her voice is starting to sound raspy. I still feel she has the best live voice in the industry but I feel its declining 😔

3:27 That statement is SO REAL on many different levels.

Empowering video, thanks!

Hey thanks for doing this video! It's been a great educating lesson!

I got ill back in October and I still had to work. I'm a teacher, so obviously, using my voice still. I started to get better than then got ill again. Fast forward to now and I've been diagnosed with nodules. I can't believe it as I've not sung in so long, but it's taken so long to get referred. Thanks for this video though, as I've often had throat pain after singing and sometimes even teaching! Subscribed!

hmm...this is the single best video on the voice I've experienced so far.

Thanks Eric :) This is amazing. Thank you soo much. Turned my notifications for your channel on after that vid. Wishing Everybody the Best for themselves and Infinite Love, Peace and Balance to Everybodyyy :)

I needed to see this. Thank you.

Fantastic advice, I love your uploads. You're the one source I go to for all my vocal training and support! I damaged my vocal cords a while back, an endoscopy showed one side of my vocal cords never closes fully. The doctor didn't seem concerned (said maybe it was always that way) but you've made me wonder if this affects the way I should be treating my voice - it so easily gets tired and damaged, I'm always hoarse (guaranteed the next day at least) after singing, or even just raising my voice to talk in a loud bar/club. Thinking I REALLY need to follow all your advice! Gracias from España!

Fantastic commen sense tactics to identify and work through vocal cord issues. Thank you for sharing your passion to help. I've been 2 months of hoarseness, losing voice, lump in throat, feels so tight too. Been taking smbicort. I've had years where at least twice a year I'll loose my voice. Wheat her changes, pollen in spring, rag week in the fall. I'm starting to think that I've now got mold allergies. Constant lump in the through. Feels right like some one has put their hand around my neck and squeezed my like crazy. Can speak in a tighter range when it happened. I'd be hoarse and yet still be able o hold notes, stay relatively on pitch. But the minute I'd be asks to talk about a phrasing or the tablature. Had a pulmonary function done as well as an x-ray of my chest. Thought I could take the acid refuser option. Unfortunately, I would only benefit from having an entire set of vocal training sorry this is so wordy. Please feel free to offer any advice you had seen along your journey

Thank you so much for making this video

Thank you so much for your genuine advice!!

Good, good advice De très bons conseils et très judicieux GOD BLESS YOU