This week's live lesson: Strain, Pain & Vocal Health

Join me on Youtube LIVE for a free lesson on strain, injury, and taking care of your voice like a pro singer! Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6HRdzfpT20.

You can set a reminder, subscribe to the channel, and turn notifications on to never miss a new lesson. 

The last 15 minutes will be live Q&A, so please join to get your questions answered! You can also drop some questions here on the forum, as always. See you there!

Yes!! This is awesome, i seem to always strain when trying to go higher or moving from my mid voice to my chest voice. Thank you!!

I already put a reminder on for it!😁 by the way for the lesson I will be using my mom's computer so it will say lensa kittila when I write a question.

See you guys there! :)

any tips to stop straining the throat when trying to reach higher notes?

Hi, Gerardo! Here is the basic principle I shared in the live lesson.

A good approach to reducing tension is to:

First pinpoint what is tensing! Then, either

(1) move those muscles to prevent them from tensing in the first place (i.e.: softening and mobilizing your jaw so it cannot clench, or slowly shaking your head “no” to prevent the neck muscles from “grabbing”) 

OR 

(2) remove those muscles from the equation (ie: preventing tongue tension by singing with the tongue totally relaxed, out of your mouth and resting on your bottom lip). 

The ultimate goal with all of the above is to let the correct muscles do their job without the "help" of those extrinsic muscles that are tensing.

Additionally, make sure you're breathing (low and relaxed, as closely to the high note you're going for as possible), and shift registers if necessary (chest voice to mixed, or mixed to head voice).