How to Warm Up Your Voice and Why! 

Thanks dude! It’s a brand new channel so hopefully it grows nicely ! I hope it helps

Thanks !! Glad it helps, hope the gig went well.

@@singingmatterscalderThx so much m8, yeah it went pretty well tbh :)

Thank you so much! It’s great to receive comments like this and I hope it helps and makes sense. See you on the next one!! good luck with your singing

Very similar principle. They are both ‘semi-occluded vocal tract exercises’. They create a little bit of back pressure with the air, as it’s being restricted from escaping, it’s kind of building a little air pressure in the mouth so the cords get a air pressure above and below .

I suggest trying anything you can to stop that habit/action of pushing. Lip bubbles will work when that’s fixed . I think in my breathing from diaphragm vid I talk about some step by step ways to work out what’s happening with breath. From taking a breath and making a huh sound. Stopping the air flow with the cords. And then trying to let go of tension but keep the body engaged and holding the breath back. Just LET the air out slowly with a noisy breath hhhh kind of sound. Making it not tense and squeezed and pushed but just allowing the air to escape You’re trying o practice controlling how much air and removing force . Try to read those steps again and/or follow the other vid. It seems impossible but you can change those habits! Notice what happens in your abdomen at the very start of the note. Is your stomach pushing , does you whole body throw the air out(? Pay close attention to what’s happening and practice letting long slow breath out without that , or making a note without that force . Hope this helps

Thanks for taking the time. I can sing easy sometimes, but then I fall into pushing. I just get tighter and have more and more compression going on. Chris Cornell is a big influence and Johnny Cash as well. I try hard to pay attention to my breath and not just going for it, but sometimes it seems like the only way I can do some of the stuff I want to. Then I get tired and can feel that I've caused my vocal cords to swell some and get sore feeling. I will keep working on it. @@singingmatterscalder