Creating Space With Your Singing Muscles

• Relieving the Vocal Chords
• Tone
• Space For Breathing Control

When singing a song you first want to pay attention to the tone.

Understanding the tone of the song can help you understand how much space you need when singing your notes.

Some singers sing with very little space, but it works for them.

Opening up your muscles helps you put relief on the vocal cords, correct tone, and assist with breath support.

Relieving the Vocal Chords

If you sing from your throat chances are that when you belt, your voice can crack sometimes or break.

If you have sung a song and felt tired or fatigued 40 sec in then you may be singing from your throat.

It is important to understand that when belting or pushing to high notes, you want to create more space.

This can be done by engaging the cheek, jaw, and tongue muscles.

The goal is to create more space for the air to move out from your lungs. Which relieves some pressure that may sit in the throat.

Raising the cheeks allows you to sound brighter, whereas lowering the tongue and jaw helps with fullness.

When singing high notes, it’s often that people clench those muscles instead of opening them up.

Tone Of Voice

Your tone of voice is affected by the amount of space you provide to the vowel. E sounds and Oo sounds do not engage the jaw.

So using your cheeks would be the best muscle to open those sounds.

If you find your voice to be nasally, that is a soft palate and tongue muscle issue.

You will want to work on strengthening your soft palate and keeping your tongue low.

These are some options to generate space to cure nasally vocals.

However, if you are looking to have a more nasally tone, try doing the opposite.

Space For Breathing Control

Breathing control is one of the hardest things to do vocally.

An easy way to gain access to more air while singing is to take a bigger breath or strategically plan your breaths.

By creating more space with your cheeks and jaw, your mouth is open wider. Meaning it can take in more air, making it easier to breathe.

You will know you have a tight jaw, if you are singing higher and you feel that muscle tighten up.

A loose jaw can help you exhale and inhale with ease making sustaining notes for longer easier.

Space is something that depends on the song, so make sure to listen closely to tone quality.