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Episode 266 - Singing with an Open Throat

The Intelligent Vocalist

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Singing From Your Throat

When singers feel stuck in their throats, i'm singing from my throat. What that usually is is a higher larynx and excess muscle. The more we press those vocal folds together the more they constrict. And then we start having accompanying issues of shoving all that air into them. We start to get swelling, which causes the folds to require even more breath pressure. So we really almost go into this a spiral of vocal issues when we have this over compressed throat. This is usually aa combination of problems, as are most things in the voice. It's not just physical. There's often an acoustic issue at the same time. Usually we're trying to pull lower resonance up

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