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Relaxing your voice can be as easy as sitting in a La-Z-Boy and sipping on hot tea. Relaxing your voice can also be as tough as teaching an uncoordinated person how to dance. It all depends on your voice.
Unfortunately for me, I suffer from what I call a stubborn voice. Simply put, my voice never does quite what I want it to do (can I get a witness?). If you also suffer from possessing a stubborn voice, here are a few things that I do in order to help relax my voice:
1) I massage my jaw and loosen it up thoroughly. Jaw tension can destroy vocal tone if it is not dealt with properly. In order to relieve some of that excess jaw tension, I massage both of my jaw bones for about 5 minutes. I also jostle my jaw bones from side to side and move it up and down. The idea here is to get your jaw mobile and agile. When your jaw is free to move around without tension, it makes it easier to sing with more freedom.
2) Hot tea also helps relax the voice and soothes the vocal cords. Sipping on a nice cup of hot tea can ease any excess muscle tension from the throat and soothe/loosen up your vocal cords so they aren’t so rigid and ornery.
3) Finally, I massage my neck in general for a few minutes to make sure I remove all possible muscle tension from the throat area. Gently pressing your fingers against your neck and rubbing them in a circular motion around your throat does wonders for relaxing your voice and preparing your voice to sing.
These ideas sound so simple, but I find that they are very easy to forget. Remember, when we are singing, we want to relieve as much unhealthy tension as possible! These are just a few more ways to help you achieve this goal!
As always, sing on my friends!
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I sing but not that well, it is my frustration though. thanks for this info great blog.
@Dewight Campbell – Thanks for compliments!
Let me first say that you obviously know what you’re talking about here. I too have a stubborn voice too, I’m not that bad at singing but I find that I’m bad at getting my voice to do what i want. I don’t sing often but i do like doing it and it relaxes me so ill probably try and improve it with some help from your posts
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@James – Thanks for the compliment!
Stubborn voice is annoying for sure, and I hope the posts you read are helpful!