How to Improve Your Singing in Steps - Lighten Up!

How to Improve Your Singing in Steps - Lighten Up!

Lighten up! Thats right, sing lighter. Heres why: your vocal folds, the points of contact that actually vibrate and produce the sound when air passes through them, are only about one millimeter thick.

"But what about all those singers I see on TV working so hard? Isn't it better when the singer works hard and shoes it?" NO! They're actually doing that far more for show than sound. In fact, if you watch singers like the late, great Luciano Pavarotti, they stand still on stage and do almost no work. The air does the work, not the singer.

If you see a singer grimacing and tensing their neck and face, they are working far too hard and actually hurting the voice. That's not healthy singing at all.

Look at the thickness of your thumbnail. (Not the width across the nail surface, but the actual thickness of the nail surface.) Teeny tiny! Thats about the thickness of the contact surface of your vocal folds. Run your tongue around on the inside surface of your cheek. Feel how delicate that is? Thats what the surfaces that vibrate together to make sound are like. Treat them well. Go easy on them.

Singing lightly while using enough air to make the sound, rather than banging your vocal folds together harder, is the way to make great sound and keep the voice healthy for a life time. Treat your vocal folds well and they will take care of making great sound for you!

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