How to Transform Your Singing Voice

How to Transform Your Singing Voice Ok so now I’m going to give you a secret that can change your singing voice literally because this is what it did for me and it’s something that I don’t think is to address enough to singers and it makes such a huge, huge difference and it seems like something so minor but it’s big. It is called your swallowing muscles which we don’t want to use a really getting engage when you’re singing and you can find them very easily. All you have to do is put your thumb into your jaws swallow. You feel them come down even you can get more pronounced feeling of that when you start to go into a yawn—oh—going you know where you could feel how you kind of go back on you’re throat and the air is literally stopped. This is one of the biggest problems that people have in terms of pushing their voice and trying to get to those upper note, feeling like they don’t have enough air, it’s one of the major things that people think they have a problem with breathing. It’s not always that problem. It’s that they’re cutting off their air because they’re using these swallowing muscles so much. I’m telling you if you did nothing else but work on releasing, getting those muscles to relax, it would make a huge, huge difference the tongue is connected to this swallowing muscles as well if you put you’re thumb under here and move you’re tongue back on you’re mouth you feel the same thing happening. Now in the program I use a tongue trill, to get you intact with those muscles to start to get them to relax. But I also use this exercises as well. And this exercise is brilliant because you start to feel what’s happening in your body and you’ll start to understand and know how to change it. If you’re having trouble even with you’re pitch. A lot of times about controlling your pitch—that is a lot of times, the origin of that problem can be related to this swallowing muscles. They control so much of what’s going on in the body now it’s not going to say that you’ll never going to feel the move. The difference is, you don’t want to feel them where their really down and tight. That’s going to completely block off everything because what happens physically, the physiology of your body is that when you swallow, it moves you larynx out of the way. When it moves it out of the way or when it goes down that’s to prevent food from going down to your wind pipe right but in your singing, we don’t want that to happen we need the air to continuously flow through. That’s what’s going to get you give you the ability to hit your all of your range, to control pitch and it’s also surprisingly going to allow tone to come through because if you’re blocking off the air you’re going to block your tone. So when you in this exercise, it’s a great one to do and you can do it as much as you want you just put your thumbs underneath and again I use what I call little crutches which is the stands so you can feel really weird faces, you may need to do that a lot you know and I like to use this one because some people are limited I doing maybe the tongue trill or other exercises that your also designed to release these muscles. But this one works really, really effectively you just put your thumbs on you here “meng meng meng neng neng neng neng neng neng” and literally thinking that I’m letting go neng neng neng neng before I tempt to hit those higher notes all that happens is that I want to think that I’m letting the cords get small or tiny to hit those notes and I don’t want to feel these swallowing muscles coming down. if you’re feeling that then what you do is you kind of have to make a little strange face to kind of redirect the sound in a different way because your body has been used to doing something else so now we just have to reverse that but let me give you a little demonstration so it will make sense to you now you’ll see here as I go higher, I’m making a little face because I want to feel get a still get a sense of the sound being up here. and also where these muscles aren’t coming down ney ney ney and take a little higher [music playing] and then I’m telling you when you do those if you times and go over and over it the other thing you can do is that you can take a song and you can do the same exact thing and it works miracles I promise you take the song what ever the song your working on out your thumbs under there and do the nay nay nay’s to the song. and what it’s really important that you don’t change the pronunciation the nay nay nay’s no matter where you are in the melody of the song right going up and down just straight nay nay nay’s you’ll start to feel where hitting that note where you have the kind of position thing sort to speak to be able to get the note without these muscles coming down you do that a few times then you let go of it you go back and sing the song and I’m telling you you’re going to feel a difference.