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Lighten Up
That’s right, sing lighter. Here’s
why: your vocal folds, the points of contact that actually
vibrate and produce the sound when air passes through them, are only
about one millimeter thick. Look at the thickness of your
thumbnail. (Not the width across the nail surface, but the actual
thickness of the nail surface.) Teeny tiny! That’s about
the thickness of the contact surface of your vocal folds. Run
your tongue around on the inside surface of your cheek. Feel how
delicate that is? That’s what the surfaces that vibrate together
to make sound are like. Treat them well. Go easy on
them. Singing lightly while using enough air to make the sound,
rather than banging your vocal folds together harder, is the way to
make great sound and keep the voice healthy for a life time.
Treat your vocal folds well and they will take care of making great
sound for you!
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