Did you take notes or make recordings of your previous lessons? It’s always good to keep some type of record of what you go over with your teachers for later review. If you did, just look through those notes and practice the warm-ups you liked most and sing through music you’ve previously worked on, trying to remember the advice you were given and the learning process you went through with those songs.

Being a singer is like being an athlete in many ways. Off-season, sports stars still run, swim, and lift weights even if they’re not trying to perfect a specific technique or train for a specific event. They have to keep fit in general. It’s the same for singers. To keep your support mechanism and good posture/breathing habits strong you should try to sing every day. It’s good to focus and learn new music, being your own teacher by recording yourself and listening back, and it’s also good to just relax and sing along with your car radio. In both cases you are keeping your voice “fit.”

Is your speaking voice rhaspy sounding? Does a lot of air escape in your voice just in everyday conversation? If not, try to control some of that extra air by singing in an exaggerated nasal fashion, like Minnie Mouse or Olive Oil. Feel the sensation of resonance through your forehead and the top of your nose. Try to bring some of that sensation into your normal singing.

If the rhaspyness is happening in conjunction with a sore throat, something is wrong and you could be damaging your singing mechanism. Are you “belting” a lot. Are you singing for long periods of time without taking breaks? Are you singing over a loud band? You might be straining and pushing in ways that are causing serious fatigue. Write it down the next time that happens. Write down what you were singing, how loudly, and for how long. If you do that every time it happens, you might be able to figure out on your own what is causing it.

I hope you have a fantastic upcoming semester!

First I want you to tell me how I can find my voice. It is most important to me. Maybe I’ll send you other request.

Thanks again.

Great question!
By definition, vibrato is a consistent change in pitch on one tone. It is audible, but small enough that it gives the impression that one note is still being played or sung just with some added “color.”
In singing, vibrato is more of a natural phenomenon than in say, playing the violin, where you can see your hand shake to produce the slight fluctuations in pitch. A singer’s natural vibrato is often heard as part of his or her vocal fingerprint. However, it can be controlled to a certain extent.
I do sing without almost any vibrato at all when singing early polyphonic choral work and with a large vibrato (more time between fluctuations in pitch, and larger pitch differences from the center pitch) when singing modern opera.
For me, it is a matter of the amount of air (more focused air= more vibrato) and a sense of freedom and relaxation in my body, especially vocal mechanism (more relaxed= more vibrato.)

Your lack of vibrato might have to do with a lot of tension in your jaw and neck. Try doing ten minutes of stretching your entire body before singing. Let your jaw hang with your tongue loose. Sing on a very comfortable part of your range with as much air as possible. Think “free,” think “relaxed,” think “open.”
Be patient. Try different pitches on different open vowels and record yourself if you can. You can even try doing an over exaggerated vibrato or “spooky ghost” tremolo just to feel what is happening in your mechanism.
And try to keep your body and neck/mouth that relaxed when going for a more normal sounding vibrato.

I hope this exercise is of some help to you! Let me know of any more questions.