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Today we are going to discuss ways on how to thin our your voice. You need to thin our your voice as you approach your bridge and enter into your mix voice (or head voice). If your vocal cords do not thin out during this transition, you will bring up way too much vocal weight and cause your tone to sound strained, squeezed, tensed, and whatever other adjective you can think of that relays the idea of not sounding good.
Because thinning out your voice is such a vital component in developing your mix voice, it is crucial that you learn how to thin out your voice as soon as possible. Shelby Rollins, a new Brett Manning Associate at Singing Success, has made an excellent video that describes one way to thin out your voice. However, this is not the only way to thin our your voice. There are other ways to thin out the voice (which we will discuss below the video).
As the video pointed out, vocal fry is an excellent first step towards thinning out your voice, but it could use some help along the way too.
I have found that another way to thin out your voice is to simply practice scales in a lighter sound volume. This is much tougher than it actually sounds. The reason why practicing at a lighter sound volume helps your voice thin out is because it forces you to learn how to bring your vocal cords together in the lightest manner possible in order to produce that light sound. Try this out by using the “mum” exercise. Start out at your normal volume and gradually get lighter and lighter as your practice through your scales. Once you find a volume that proves to be somewhat difficult to connect, stay on that volume until you have taught your vocal cords how to connect at that soft volume. You will notice that as you learn how to connect at lower volumes, your voice will thin out better at a normal volume. It has worked wonders for me – surely it will work for you too.
Another way to thin out your voice is to intentionally practice your exercises with your sound resonating more in your head. For example, let’s take the lip roll. The lip roll can take on many different weights. If you intentionally shift your resonance towards your head when doing lip rolls, your vocal cords will automatically thin out more than if you were to practice lip rolls normally. You can practice lip rolls in this manner in order to develop the sense of how thinning out feels in your own voice.
Learning how to thin out your voice can be tough, but it is well worth the effort and time. What steps have you taken in order to learn how to thin out your own voice?
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hey thomas iv decided to take a break from singing because my voice gets tired all the time now so i think it needs a few days without speech do you think thats the right thing to do. because if i talk for a little bit my voice starts getting hoarse and tired so thats a sign of damaging my voice right. WHat else would you recommend
oh yeah i meant to ask you ages ago about the digastric muscles. When i pretend to speak words without actually using any speech just shaping the words with my mouth gently. My digastric muscles get a little tight is that normal cause i was thinking that maybe my problem is that my jaw is effecting my digastric muscles
What does this sound like too you or is it everyone has this
any answer would be highly appreciated mate keep up the good work
I’ m having trouble with the thinning. I cannot seem to sing in head voice at all above Eflat4. I can’t even vocalize above that at all.
I want to sing like I feeling a clear vocal ability. that could my career I want I want.
Lexi wants some encouragement. speaking friendly.
My voice has gone hoarse because of over-usage yet i hav a lot more commitments to attend to.what do i do?tanx
I cant seem to thin out my voice, its still very thick. Are there any other ways to thin out your voice?
Such a great topic that I feel like people look over very often. Because a “loud” voice is considered a “good” voice, the topic gets overlooked of pulling chest and the like, but like you are saying, the right way is a free, full voice. Thank you for the great article!