How Do The Nose Muscles Help When Singing

  • The Nose Muscles
  • Singing High Notes
  • Using All Your Muscles

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Everyone uses their nose everyday to help them breathe and filter their air.

It’s important to know how these muscles work to get the best out of what our voices can do.

The nose muscle is a muscle that helps you sing higher notes, and create more space for a more fuller sound.

Using these muscles at the right times can help you with your overall control, and tonality allowing for more complexities while singing.

The Nose Muscles

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What are the Nose Muscles and how do they help? The nose muscles are located on the bridge of the nose.

You can scrunch these muscles to help generate space. Scrunching your muscles at the right time is what will help you get the right placement, making reaching the note much easier.

Placement is an important thing as it helps you in finding the right notes.

The nose scrunch is not something that is meant to be overused. So try to only use this muscle when jumping to high notes or push.

Singing High Notes

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When singing a high note, if you are not using your nose, think of this as a disadvantage.

When singing high notes, our soft palate rises. This is a muscle in the back of the throat that works like a trap door.

By moving your nose bridge up and using your soft palate you are creating more space for the air to travel out.

This in turn will make you sound more open. If it feels tight to hit a note that’s around the higher part of your range.

Try to add the nose scrunch in to see if it will loosen the pressure on the vocal cords.

Using All Your Muscles

Upon using the nose scrunch more often, you will want to try and be aware of the other muscles you can use with it.

So far we have talked about the soft palate being a muscle used with the nose to create more space.

Think of your jaw and cheeks, these will also be used situationally to help you sing notes depending on their location relative to your range.

You can use both your nose and jaw at the same time, this is more indicative to creating more space than just your nose.

Timing is everything, you will want your jaw and nose to open simultaneously when hitting a note at the peak of the vowel.

This will help you maintain your control and find the correct placement for singing notes with ease.

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