Jobuest Musik

Your voice is your power box

 

1. RELAXATION: If you are tense, stressed, or upset it causes your vocal cords to become tight and to shorten. When your vocal cords become shorten and tense you can't sing correctly, you can't sing your full range, you lose resonance. It is important that you practice relaxation exercises as a daily routine so that you can condition yourself, or simply WILL-YOURSELF to become relaxed. You should be able to become relaxed at the snap of a finger. You can't do this, unless you practice relaxation exercises consistently. Here are simple daily exercises you should practice a few minutes through out the day. Sit down in a comfortable chair. Tighten up your fists, now suddenly relax it, let it go limp. Now do the same thing with the leg muscles. Tense them up and then purposely take control over these muscles and make them go limp, relaxed, and totally under your control. The most important tension / relaxation exercise is the jaw muscle. Do the same procedure with the jaw muscles.

Another exercise is to create a big smile on your face and hold it for one full minute. That's a real challenge, most people want to let it go after about 15 seconds. Can you keep it going for a full minute. You will notice that the smile actually creates a sense of relaxation over your body. You will also notice that this prolong smile will actually cause your brain to secrete endorphins which make you feel good. This is why singers come out onto the stage smiling. They try to smile as much as possible, it actually relaxes their body which in turn helps the vocal cords to be relaxed, loosened and elongated. The smile makes the singer feel good, which in turn sends out an emotional vibration to the audiences which in turn makes the audience feel good and receptive to the singer's performance.

Practice shaking your arms and then letting them go limp. Gently rotate your head and neck back and forth to take the tension out of the neck muscles. Shake your hands and then let them go limp. Open your mouth as far as you can then gently let the mouth close back to its normal position with a controlled feeling of relaxation of the muscles around the mouth and jaw.

Some professional famous singers get daily massages to relax their muscles which in turn help to relax their vocal cords. This is nice if you can afford it. However, we all have friends, spouses, or others who can help in this area