Thanks for the comment… I’m so glad you noticed these things, too! Yes, you can set a singer up for automatically better vocals if you know these things.

Sam; thank you so much for this feedback and I’m so glad you’re noticing improvements and ease in your voice! YES, yawning has to do with ears because the Eustachian tubes empty right there in your throat channel. When your soft palate rises as you drop your jaw to yawn, your Eustation tubes open a bit more, causing you to feel it in your ears. Notice that you feel it in your ears when you raise your eyebrows as well. Ears, eyes, palate, jaw… they are all connected!

I am new to this but I think vocal break is one my problems. I believe it is helping, and that along with improved jaw flexability seems to make singing easier.

Robin, what a great comment, and a mystery to be sure! I do recommend eating fresh pineapple at gigs as well, but I know from vast experience that diluted canned juice does the trick, too. It hadn’t hit me until your comment that heat would kill the enzyme, but of course it would! I wonder if perhaps it doesn’t manage to kill all the enzyme, and that this may be why it still works, even at the heavy dilution I recommend to avoid acid reflux. I’m going to ask a chemistry professor I know to dig into it.

Thank you, Lee, so glad you see the significance here for changing habits. And you’re right, the idea of re-routing the myelin sheath highway has so many more applications. Glad you found it interesting!

I’m so glad to hear from a UK admirer of Dave Loggins. Thank you for your kind words; grateful that you enjoyed this interview. Yes, his old albums are full of his special magic as songwriter, guitarist and singer. With that soulful, beautifully resonant voice, he is my favorite male singer of any popular genre (my other favorite being Andrea Bocelli). Thanks for your comment.