How to Improve Your Singing in Steps - Sing into Your Hand
How to Improve Your Singing in Steps - Sing into Your Hand
Sing into Your Hand! What does your hand have to do with improving your singing? A lot if you use your hand to cover your mouth! No that's not an insult, but a clever way of using your nervous system to improve sound.
This is a great technique for opening your throat and relaxing it at the same time. Open your mouth and say ah. Place your palm completely over your open mouth so that your hand is sealed around your mouth. Now sing an ah on a note somewhere in the middle of your range into the palm of your hand. The sound waves will come forward into the palm of your hand, then bounce off your palm and head back into the back of your throat.
Do this a few times and you will be able to feel the sound waves bounce back and open up the back of your throat. The throat opens as an automatic response and relaxes into the perfect shape for exactly what you are singing. This whole reaction is actually your nervous system doing its job to find the most efficient way to do something, in this case singing in a relaxed position. If your nervous systems doesnt ever get a chance to feel its own results, it cant adjust or relax accurately. This exercise aims that sound right back at the nerve centers in the throat, allowing them to respond, adjust and relax without you having to guess what to relax or put any effort into it. This is a great exercise to do often. Try it every day for a week with a song your are working on and notice as your throat gets more relaxed and the singing gets easier over time.