How To Sing Without Straining - 2 Exercises To Remove Vocal Tension

[@valentineyves]

Ha my throat began to feel sore Edit: Woah after I did the excerises my throat began to feel better Thank u

[@somename9330]

ILOVESUGAKOOKIES&TAE!!!! INFIRES MAN!! 1. Same problem my throat is tired AF , I'll try it 2. YEAH MAN INFIRES !!!!!!!!!!!

[@valentineyves]

Liliyan 릴리얀 😂Yeah it works INFIRES

[@sirsnow371]

릴리얀Liliyan infiresss man

[@rebeccahuber7824]

Thank you! My throat is always sore & I sound like I'm losing my voice after singing.

[@xlectraheart]

I want to do musicals but I can only sing about four songs good without my throat hurting so I hope this works.

[@FreedByDigital]

Singing is like any physical exercise if you do too much or perform it incorrectly you get sore. That's why athletes have coaches and so should singers 😀

[@sophiepaul5271]

Same I love musicals

[@jwen2528]

What is such a good comment doing in this random KZbin video

[@YN-nm4zx]

My voice hurts no madder what I do or what I sing so-

[@ItzHunterrrr]

I'm here cuz I can't sing more than 2 songs in my truck driving home lol

[@jbello9398]

😂😂😂

[@KayoYuuki]

me

[@jkm52399]

You don't even know how much this helped me. I struggle with this but I dont have a voice teacher and I really want one and ur vids help me a LOT!!! Thx!!!😄

[@Singerssecret]

Jadeen M you're welcome! :)

[@kayleighplympton115]

I know I don't know you but you don't need a teacher. If you get a teacher your more likely to sing like the teacher you have and not in your own amazing way. Also they cost a lot and it's easier for me at least to get my own opinion on my voice (record it)or have a family member or friends help. ☺️

[@jkm52399]

Kayleigh Plympton​ oh thank you!! I appreciate it😁

[@rion4590]

I’m still a very basic singer & want to learn to improve this skill. I recently honed in on my vocal strain and have been searching and searching for techniques to eliminate this. This video really helped a lot, thanks!

[@latalebro5571]

joohoney 100 how are you now

[@teargrande5581]

starts at 2:14

[@tool-enjoyer666]

Tear Grande bless your soul, i hate introductions :(

[@michellesantillan2500]

Thanks helped alot!❤

[@sariahjohnson7237]

Beautiful

[@nuzhathtahoora2080]

Thanks

[@sophiaclaudiaquinjensenii6200]

My throat hurts so much while singing. Like something is stuck there. My voice isn't going up

[@jasonyahtman8889]

Me too

[@notbrad5]

Did the excercizes help?

[@magdacovaliu1723]

Yeah sometimes I have that, it means your just straining your voice and your doing something wrong, you need to keep really hydrated, really try to relax your breath and do some other things that you can look up on the internet

[@michaela2776]

That’s because you’re not supposed to sing from the throat so to speak in the first place. If your a natural singer the fastest way to sing is to take singing lessons. Everything should be at the front.

[@chrissy2364]

@Tucker Mulder me too! And my voice gets scratchy

[@thandiedawnfabila5424]

I literally had a sore throat from singing high note rn, I did this exercise, and voala it's gone! Thank youuu! I didn't know you have to warm up your vocals before singing.. Silly me.

[@tatianamcmillan1051]

I was singing today and my throat starting hurting so I was about to start singing again and came here and did it and I feel way better now

[@Singerssecret]

Glad it helped! Don't forget to sub to my new channel for all new tutorials: kzbin.info

[@marissa1943]

THIS LADY IS A GENIUS. I had a lot of vocal tension and straining in my chest voice and my head voice was shaky and airy. At first I couldn’t even get my lips to vibrate like she does (yes, that’s how bad it was) and eventually I got it and now my voice is a million times better. My head voice is smoother and there’s way less tension on my chest voice, and no more squeaking or cracking. This strange trick is a freaking miracle

[@Singerssecret]

Glad it helped!! :)

[@angelinamorin2278]

How long did you do the exercise and how many days more or less did it take for you to even get your lips to do like hers? Cuz that's the problem I'm having, I can't even get it to do what she does ):

[@isebabie]

I've been singing for 10 YEARS! After a looong break from my singing, found that I've been straining my vocals a lot. I think this video really helped me get down to the nitty gritty as to why that happens! My vocal teacher and mom always told me to relax and hearing it from you... I think THAT's my reason why. My tongue also needs to learn his place (lol) Thank you so much for this video! :)

[@Singerssecret]

my pleasure!

[@l0ad1n96]

Omg thnx I lost my voice before last year to be exact now it’s much better now I can actually sing without cracking and vibration I can go low and high very smoothly I’m soo happy and excited!!!

[@bhavyasangeet4161]

Fofa Strong really? Actually I also lost my voice since 5 years. I can sing only 1 song without stress and after that my throat gets very very week nd stressed. Will this work for me also?

[@MarzAndrea]

This video has already helped me a lot and I can feel my vocal cords relaxing

[@Singerssecret]

Glad it helped :) Just so you know, all my new tutorials are being posted here: kzbin.info

[@michaela2776]

Good advice. Also projection your voice incorrectly can cause tongue tension, throat tightening, etc.

[@starswater]

Thank you for this. Every other time I've tried to look up what it is I'm doing wrong that results in my throat hurting I've just seen the answer "sing like you speak" plastered everywhere, but talking a lot hurts my throat after a while too, far more so when I try to sing like that.

[@UniqueTouch]

will stop that crazy high pitch that just pops out of your vocal and sounds horrible??? I"ll never forget that when ever i sing at a higher register that I have to try hard to contain that rooster screech! that sometimes comes out on certain pitch words Oh How i Hate that!

[@SabrinaRosa02]

Unique Touch omg same that happened to me at choir a few times it sucks lol this video helped a lot

[@julianfernandez5513]

Wow, this actually works! I noticed an immediate improvement in my voice, thank you!

[@billy9361]

I can sing easily without getting tired if I'm singing in a low key like hey Jude by beatles but when I sing in a high key I can do it but I have to strain and then I can't sing in a low key like when I sing in the key of hotel california

[@gracejennings9034]

I definitely need this,when I belt to high my through starts to hurt

[@joszyism]

Excellent video. It felt like my throat was dry, parched and strained. Now i have a solution, thanks to you.

[@ElowenFaye]

please never stop doing videos like these, you're amazing ! :)

[@EvelienMaes]

Awesome videos! Finally someone who can give a good explanation with doable exercises. Exactly what I need! Thx thx thx! Is there any news on video 3 of this serie? Greetings!

[@butthole9580]

im just tryna get my voice back, so much soreness.

[@dylanplatas8869]

Good luck, Mr. Butt hole :)

[@tnmctnmc4466]

It helped me too. My coach had told me to do the lip bubble but i couldn't do it unless i engaged the muscles around the mouth into a small smile, which seemed to defeat the point of relaxing. You showing us how to put the two fingers on the cheeks completely solved the issue.

[@JonnyRichMusic]

Thank you so much

[@PeachPlastic]

I do improv singing and our coach never mentioned that we could simply hold our cheeks during the lip bubble! I found much harder to do without! Thank you! The one time where my throat will always cramp up and get stuck in vocal strain is in church. I have a suspicion that the key they choose is way too low for my voice. After a short while, it will just hurt and my voice will disappear a little.

[@marctheislander5467]

I learnt alot from this vocal video... Ill be doing this exercises for sure... Thanx for this Much love from Fiji 😉😉❤

[@marija2310]

I used to strain sing and I didn't understand why it hurt so much and how to sing properly. I even went to Music school for 8 years and even tho I learned a lot about singing, they never showed me how to sing without straining aka not from my throat and everyone kept telling me that I sing from throat and when I couldn't do high notes I sounded bad. Anyways, I wish someone has taught me how to stop. I just recently, like at 21 started doing some exercises that completely stopped this habit for me. First, I let air out of my mouth like blowing air and saying AAAA while doing it. I was surprised how I could hit high notes just like that. After blowing air and saying A, I started singing, mouth fully opened and just letting air out. I never strain, it's always just letting air out of my mouth. Breathing beforehand and even yawning before singing helped me to finally break this habit and now I no longer sing from the throat. I just wish someone taught me this years ago because than I wouldn't had quit Music school and would've taken singing lessons and stayed in the choir. Btw I developed stage fright because of some comments made on my straining, like I said, I sounded like a goat singing high notes. I am so happy that now I can sing whatever :')

[@brookeann7986]

OMG THISS IS AMAZINF WTF HUGE THANKS

[@bugglenuggets1600]

OMG THANK U SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!! You have no idea how much this means to me! I do performing arts and there's a song called "Words Fail" from Dear Evan Hansen and all I wanted was to belt that a4 note! I couldn't do it and a few people at my college said it wasn't possible for me to do it! And thanks to you I can do it and it actually sounds good! Thank you thank you thank you! I can prove them all wrong now :) aghhh your amazing!!!!

[@ukuukulele1056]

Thanks so much Nicola for explaining that in an easy way to understand 👍

[@fandomedits25]

Thank you so much for this video, it helped me a lot.☺️

[@AegoEzroh]

Wow this immediately helped ease my throat! Thank you so much!

[@lizi5972]

thanks for this! I seem to have been getting very tired after singing more recently... I'll get back onto the lip 'bobbles'

[@musashaik1921]

thank you!it had helped me to sing....# omg I can sing pretty good now🎤

[@Perfectsound88]

Omg That was awesome about Muscle Memory.Fantastic Video. 🙏🙏Loads of love from India 🙏🙏

[@Singerssecret]

Glad you liked it!!

[@LeslieSoliman]

Thank you this is very helpful! Do you have any tip for relaxing the neck while singing? (sorry for my english I'm italian!) :)

[@Singerssecret]

+Leslie Soliman If you're still straining in your neck after watching this video, you'll need to look at your vocal placement (i.e the surface inside your mouth that you are resonating your sound). Watch my Belting videos because I'll explain how to move your sound forward and reduce neck strain by changing this slightly. :)

[@LeslieSoliman]

***** thank you so much!! :)

[@ArnoldVeeman]

Sometimes when I hear these singers from the eighties it seems to me that they all did strain their voices tremendously. Like Morten Harket (although he sings very different now, probably due to different techniques he acquired over the years, but I am not sure about that) Anyway when I try to get those high notes, I will reach them, with a lot of tension and precise steering but I din't think it is the best way to do this. I wonder if there are some other techniques or will this technique that you just mentioned eventually cut it?

[@sylviakokkinos9969]

Thank you so much, this helped so much :)

[@DavidDorenfeld]

thanks!

[@matchbox3eb]

Car warmups the best. Lol every time you say Gig I kept thinking you were going to the Geek. I'm like must be regional slang haha

[@guitarforfree]

ty

[@justbeinglucy]

i’m singing a hard song that’s it’s higher than my range and i’m scared i mess up

[@Charmer_Vijay_Ghatay]

This has Help me a lot ma'am. Mount Everest Height Thank you Ma'am for sharing with us🙏

[@Singerssecret]

My pleasure 😊

[@beautyspotty9444]

This way my tongue remembers being relaxed while doing the exercise. Everything is gone when starting to sing lyrics

[@Jones572]

You're pretty awesome!!! ...great stuff!!

[@selenaollivere4218]

thank you so much niocole

[@angelhyadavid471]

every time I do my lip bubble my throat feels like it's vibrating 😂😂 it's funny....and it's rlly helpful

[@omarrobreid]

Hi Nicola, great work, I have learnt a lot from you, where is video 3? I have been searching for it for a while now.

[@SilvernightMM2]

I cannot find video 3, either. Have you heard back from her?

[@omarrobreid]

No, I haven't received a response as yet Cassidy, still waiting. I found the videos on this topic very useful though.

[@bihboh]

For how much time will i do this exercises please !? And id it ok to do it everyday , i sing in a band late at night in bars etc.. shall i do this everyday even when am not going to sing with th gigs or just before i sing ? Thank you for your videos it help a lot !!

[@munchii935]

I have this bad habit of where when I sing my tongue just raises and it makes me sound nasally. But I tried to not move my tongue up and I still sounded the same. I have no clue what I’m doing wrong XD

[@youtuberocks8397]

You are awesome 😁

[@firebird4726]

What if I have a blunt tongue? Is this still effective?

[@haleyallen4966]

Hello! Out of a lot of videos your have worked the best for me! However, I do need some help on controlling my voice. I have see teens my age sing with a clear smooth voice and they can sing pretty much every song with a smooth flow. And because of my voice I can only song certain songs or it sounds weird. Please help me!!!

[@princely99]

great

[@matimoi]

Mu tension does not come from a tense tongue (it's sometimes even too relaxed). Do you have exercises for other types of strain?

[@BINCH-xe3kp]

if the tension is anywhere around your throat, a good exercise is yawning because it opens up the whole area and loosens it. I absolutely swear by yawning for my warm up exercises

[@selenaollivere4218]

You're awesome

[@Singerssecret]

+Selena Ollivere Aw thanks! You're awesome too :)

[@selenaollivere4218]

Your Welcome

[@James-nr9gm]

Perusing KZbin for tips because my vocal control is so bad I get pain after 5-10 minutes of solfege 😂 I had abandoned the endeavor but really want to progress in ear training for instrumentals, I have no aspiration to become a singer 😛

[@knightsaha]

Mam,can u post a video regarding muscle tension dysphonia? I have been to several therapists, ENTS but no one could actually find a particular remedy as there is lack of any physical damage. But the problem which i face is a terrible tension or a feeling of a lump or my vocal muscles too tight that sometime they go out of control and nowadays i feel a problem in clear bright speaking. But i experience or never have experienced any kind of pain.My range has significantly reduced. Thank u mam for this vocal tip.

[@oliver4721]

Ayan Saha hey I had the same problem . I went everywhere to help resolve the problem, but the person who was actually able to help me was an ear nose and throat doctor! Through putting a camera down my nose and getting a look at my cords, they discovered that I have VCD or vocal chord dysfunction. They were able to give me vocal exercises and amitriptyline to cure it . Hope you're doing better now !

[@deepgrewal9862]

Thank you so much. That helped. And you are too cute.

[@Singerssecret]

Deep Grewal haha! Thanks :) and you're welcome.

[@newtoatheism5968]

I feel like I strain a lot and it probably doesn’t help that I have a road bump in my throat I had to have surgery when I was a kid so I probably don’t think I’ll get any better

[@YourLifeFantastic]

I LOVE your videos! My question; I've been doing the lip bubbles and have found them to quite valuable. My only issue is my upper lip gets tickled after only a few seconds. Then I stop, scratch my upper lip (between the fleshy part of the lip and just below the nose), and start again. Is there any way to not be tickled by this exercise?

[@Singerssecret]

+YourLifeFantastic That happens a lot when you first start using the lip bubble. The more you do it, the more you get used to it and it stops tickling. :)

[@joseignaciodiaz3388]

Is it a bad idea to try these exercises without having practiced the ones from the third video? I couldn't find it

[@user-kt9vn1hz1s]

I have a question I kind of lost my voice today I wasn't really like singing like you said I don't know if this is true but is there anyway for me to get my voice back like sleep or something cuz I did have like a sore throat after being sick I didn't know if that could be the cause of it or cuz I have been coughing a lot do you think that sleep will work my voice will sound better in the morning I'm just trying to ask that and I need my voice by next Friday cuz I have a festival to go to a singing Festival

[@KaylaMc96]

Hi thanks for the videos but where is video 3 for the Belting series? I can't seem to find it

[@Singerssecret]

+KaylaMc96 Hi Kayla, I took it down because I noticed something in the background that shouldn't have been there. It was just on that video. I'll get it back up again for you soon :)

[@StudioBlixje]

+Singers Secret are you getting video 3 up again?

[@katrinanordyke7359]

I start my warmup with the lip bubble and still get vocal tension. What am I doing wrong?

[@deerhat7875]

Im scared for my voice I hope this would help

[@sumanms6992]

for the past 10 days , my speaking sound us fine but when i sing even in lowest volume , my vocal chords hurt . Any idea?

[@obungabooga4735]

I'm tryna learn idontwannabeyouanymore bye Billie

[@MegaJacko4]

heres my problem. my tounge does not tighten when i try scales its completely relaxed. my voice though is quiet and breathy and when i sing...i just dont pronounce the words correctly. i think its my voice trying to develope into a style. everytime i try singing with my diaphram my lungs just dominate involuntary and i cant seem to shift the air back and im not really in a position where i can practice belting. its so frustrating. i do feel ive got a very powerful voice in me somewhere...i just have no clue how to unlock it. if i hear a song even once i will sing it like the artist...i just cant seem to sing it my own way.

[@lilaheartung1969]

firecracker 91 doesn't sound like your breathing with your diaphram

[@samithewildalpaca3578]

firecracker 91 same!

[@kaddiradjodha2460]

Whos here in 2019>>>>>

[@SilvernightMM2]

Where can I find video 3?

[@somanypetals]

if this is video four...where is video three...I'm a confused woman

[@shubhambelsare9067]

How often should I do this?....at least once in a day is enough??

[@valegomez4462]

Shubham Belsare absoluteky yes

[@brettkramer6316]

so should we stick our tongue out when doing the you yo ya and may-ble exercises as well?

[@Singerssecret]

Brett Kramer do any basic exercise with your tongue stuck out to begin with. The secret is really to use the exercise to help your tongue relax before you sing.

[@sophiesmith3195]

I always lose my voice after singing!!

[@Singerssecret]

Too much vocal tension. Look at my videos for reducing this.

[@nickfickell6098]

i ruined my voice by doing dumb stuff with my throat like coughing weird, i regret it to this day i think i need botox any help would be appreacited

[@wkeejdj5109]

2:14

[@ajfna]

im a good singer but idk wht happened i lost my voice for 5 months and then got it back and my voice start to be baddd

[@LEGENDARYYTLEGENDARYS]

ikr puberty makes it hard for me to sing its become unstabled now.

[@cooperfritsch3326]

My mouth gets so tired when singing just one song when i used to be able to sing all day

[@shegoeslocofoco]

I looked through all the videos but cant find the 3rd video in the series... =/ a link in the description maybe?

[@shainaelizabeth3304]

I cant sing more then two seconds

[@karaoketaylorxsingsfan232]

To me it looks hard to do the Tongue stuck out thing

[@Beautiful_Des]

I'm weird Everytime I do a raspberry it makes my nose tickle 😂😂😂😂

[@yeebee2016]

THAT'S WHY I SOUND BAD AT SINGING well not exactly bad. it's just i strained my voice to much

[@cratew2142]

I cant find vid3 anyone know were it is?

[@Singerssecret]

+cratew2142 Aaah everyone keeps asking about this. I took it down because of something in the background but I will get it back up soon!

[@wonskiyo]

Is it available yet?

[@joelants5207]

It doesnt seem to matter what I try to learn about the voice the answer always seems to be the lip bubble

[@taylorwerling6130]

my voice is so strainy. i cant sing without it shaking in a weird way

[@jeremiefasolati6096]

Should i do this everyday ?

[@Singerssecret]

Consistency is the key to building a better voice so sing as often as possible :)

[@jeremiefasolati6096]

+Singers Secret thank you ! 😊 i hope this will help me ! 😊

[@agritaklavina760]

I just feel that my neck muscles are strain and not free

[@selda_KZ]

🤣💜

[@danielpam6310]

Basically I need to relax.. No no you relax!!! Don't tell me to relax! Who do you think you are!?? 😂

[@9windsongs]

I cannot for the life of me do that bubble cheek thing with my lips. Idk why.

[@Singerssecret]

You can do a tongue roll instead. Not quite as good but similar. :)

[@guitarforfree]

u throw like a gierl -)

[@gavinmendiola1069]

I feel like u r 6"4

[@alexn8035]

I used to not have vocal tension then I took testosterone :/

[@esbkgyoutube1954]

doesnt help anything

[@Politickticktickin]

R u single?

[@Ellzwerfmusic]

thank you!