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No
Pressing!
And I don’t mean I’m against ironing.
What I mean by pressing is the action of the muscles in your throat
pressing your larynx (commonly known as your “voice box”) downward, or
squeezing the muscles in your throat to hit a note or sing
louder. Pressing is what happens when the vocal folds, the parts
in your larynx that actually make noise, don’t get as much air support
as they need. The vocal folds need a sustained amount of air flow
coming up through your wind pipe to make the noise you are trying to
make. If the vocal folds don’t have enough air coming through the
wind pipe, the cheap cheating way to increase the air pressure is to
use the muscles in the throat to press the larynx down. The
problem is, this is just about the most dangerous way to sing, and can
do great amounts of icky damage to your vocal folds and larynx.
If you feel yourself pressing your larynx down to hit a note,
STOP! Relax, take a breath and sing it again without pressing
down.
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