Hi and welcome to another blog, proudly brought to you by Vox Singing Academy. My name is Peter Vox and right now we’re going to be discussing a very important question. “Why is my voice hurting and how can I eliminate this?”
There are many scenarios and reasons why your voice could be hurting, but we are going to be discussing the number one point that is brought up in lessons by singers. The number one complaint that most often arises is “My voice is generally hurting when I am singing.” Please remember this. That age old saying “no pain, no gain” does not apply to singing.
Let’s work through some points that are going to be greatly helpful in reducing pain and having a longer lasting voice.
1. Posture. We don’t want a military straight posture, but we do want a relaxed straight posture to sing correctly. Hunching over makes singing very hard. Just as a guitar neck needs to stay straight to maintain pitch, so does your spine need to stay straight to stay in tune when singing.
2. Breathing and support. Diaphragmatic support is very important, I have got YouTube clips that are covering these topics, Please go and have a look at these. It is so important that we are putting the right amount of breath pressure underneath the vocal cords all the time and that your diaphragm is always doing the work. This is your engine, your power tool. Please use this and as well as this it is very important that you have proper diaphragmatic breathing.
3. Using your mouth. If your mouth is shut, you have to push a sound through a very small gap. This is hard and will put pressure on your vocal cords. If we open up and let the sounds flow out, we’ll take the pressure off the cords. Please look into the mirror, get your mouth working and let your sounds flow out. Look at some of your favourite singers on YouTube and you’ll see them using their mouth properly.
4. Stamina. This is a big point. You can’t sing for any length of time if you don’t have stamina in your muscle. Your voice is a muscle that we need to train. We need to build our voice up to the point where we are singing longer and higher. I have lots of different lessons and YouTube classes that will give you some scales to build up the stamina in your voice.
5. Practice. If you want to sing longer, you need to practice longer. A little bit each day so that you can sing to the length of time that you desire.
6. Fatigue. If your voice is fatiguing after 5 minutes, please stop because that is the limit of your voice. That’s probably as far as you can sing on that particular day. This is like running or jogging. You can jog for longer periods of time and quicker once you build up fitness and stamina the same thing goes with your voice. Please always remember that as a singer you are an athlete.
7. Warm-up your voice before you start singing. Cool down your voice after you sing as well. Use the correct warm up and cool down techniques. Again, I have YouTube clips regarding this. It is very important to take care of your instrument.
8. Key of the song. A lot of people will damage or hurt their voice by singing out of key. Generally they are trying to sing too high and trying to go too loud then hurt their voice as a result. Please pick songs that are in a comfortable key where you sound the best and you’re not hurting your voice. Remember, every voice is different. It’s like a fingerprint.
9. Discomfort or pain when you have a cold/flu. Please go through some scales. Warm up properly. Gauge how much of voice you have and got to use, and if it is hurting, do not continue. Do not push your voice if you have some sort of ailment.
I hope that this has helped you out! Please make sure that you will apply these techniques. Here’s the link to my related 5 minute singer Video and see you in the next blog!
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Key advantages with online singing lessons. Consistent practice is the key to improvement!
Save time & money.
Flexible times worldwide 7 days a week.
* Record your entire singing lesson on video for future reference.
* Have lessons where and when you want!
* You have to stand directly in front of camera. This is a HUGE key advantage over in studio lessons as the teacher can closely
monitor you’re breathing & mouth placements for correct articulation, pronunciation & diction.
* All student can clearly hear & see the teachers demonstrations as teacher sits directly in front of their camera.
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