How to practice and open your voice?

Everyone knows that people who don’t use their voice often need to do some preparation before singing if they want to sing, such as warming up their throat. If they don’t warm up their throat, it is easy to damage their throat, leading to serious consequences. In fact, vocal practice often requires professional learning, and it requires frequent practice of voice and pronunciation to open the throat. There are techniques and methods for vocal training. The following specifically introduces how to train your voice to open the throat.

1. "Yawning" training method

The "yawning" training method refers to the method used to lower the larynx and expand the pharynx while singing. In the early stages of yawning, people should try to prevent yawning by forcing their mouths to close.

At this time, the soft palate will automatically rise, the nasal cavity will be excited and expanded, and the larynx will naturally drop. The pharyngeal tubes (nasopharynx, oropharynx, and laryngopharynx) will open up and down with the "yawning" action, expanding the spatial volume of the cavity, making the sound resonance channel spacious and unobstructed.

This "yawning" state is the state of "opening the throat", which is the state when singing. The famous French physiological acoustician Yu Song called it "hidden yawn". It provides the necessary conditions for the circulation of sound and breath.

2. Training method of singing by sucking along the pharyngeal wall

The purpose of "yawning" is to "open the throat" and stabilize the larynx in a low laryngeal position. However, it is difficult to maintain the "yawning" state throughout the entire process of singing.

Using the feeling of "singing while inhaling along the pharyngeal wall" can not only stabilize the singer's larynx in a low larynx position, but also allow the singer to "open the throat" freely and relaxedly.

When a person inhales, the larynx is in the most natural and relaxed state, the throat is not squeezed or pressed, and the breath flows smoothly. As long as you can maintain this feeling of "singing while inhaling" throughout the entire process of singing, you can always keep your throat in a low position and "open throat".

This requires the singer to "think" in his heart and watch with "inner vision" to ensure that the state of "singing with absorption" is maintained throughout.

3. Training method of instant "drinking air"

When a person is frightened, the tense nervous system causes the cavity to expand rapidly. If you take advantage of this moment of surprise and "drink air" inward, you will feel a cool sensation in your throat and a feeling of your larynx "retreating" and "sinking".

What is important is not "drinking cool air" itself, but the movement changes of various organs that produce the "cool feeling". It not only lowers the position of the larynx, but also improves the shape of the throat.

This sudden expansion movement can open the throat in an instant, and this state is the correct state for singing.

4. “Imitation” training method

Vocal music is the auditory art of sound. Learning vocal music is inseparable from the specific sounds of singing, and imitation is necessary. The imitator must have a keen sense of hearing and be able to clearly distinguish the quality of sound color.

During imitation, the vocal organs can respond quickly based on auditory sound signals. This physiological conditioned reflex directed by hearing can subconsciously adjust the vocal state.

For example, imitating people's "wide throat" singing, imitating people's "crying" sound, imitating cow's "calling", etc., can make the resonance organs such as the throat in a state of excitement and expansion, and the throat is open at this time.

By imitating and understanding the scientific methods described in vocal theory, mastering the essentials and practicing continuously, you can form good singing habits. In addition, practicing with the "U" vowel, which is more in line with the singing state when vocalizing, is also a good way to master "open throat" singing.