How NOT to Sing Loudly
Two scenarios:
1) Going for it but still holding back a bit. This is when you are not 100% behind the note that you are about to belt out. What happens here is you hesitate just a little in your mind, and this translates to your vocal folds and throat closing a little. The same support, however, still comes up for the note to be sung correctly, and as a result, you feel your vocals slap together hurting a little. The pitch is off, and your tone is bad. If you had just gone for it and not held back the sound would have been much better, it certainly would not have hurt!
2) The second way not to sing loudly is, if you have a quiet voice and have not learnt how to bring the vocal folds together correctly as you go louder, your voice will hit a place where it sticks, you try to push through it, but all that happens is you run out of air quickly and it agitates your vocals tickling a little. This is called a pushed breathy tone and is not the same as a healthy light airy connection, in which the air steadily flows and the vocals feel light and balanced.
How to learn to sing loudly correctly
The vocal folds (in your voice box) should come together with a light connection (airy, soft, quiet, and clear). As you start to go louder, you should feel your vocal folds squeezing together (this is called vocal pinch or glottal compression) and your breath support starting to firm. If you feel that your support has just collapsed and your tone loses that clear sound and your pitch starts to go off then stop as this is wrong and start again, slowly.
If you are doing this correctly, you may still find that your voice gets to a bit where you know there must be a change (same feeling as the break, a sensation of a lift as you slide from low to high or visa versa with your voice), simply stay relaxed, do not allow the throat to lock up and the voice will flip over this change.
Now that you are allowing your voice to move, the correct muscles will start to strengthen, and eventually you will be able to go from quiet to loud seamlessly.
Exercise for working on Volume
Try this exercise to help you feel the sensations of going from quiet to loud - some of my students have referred to it as feeling like you turn on a switch as you move from the soft to loud connection - see if you can feel it switch over as you go louder or quieter, remember to allow it to do this as it does not hurt, it is simply your vocal muscles learning a new coordination, in time this will smooth out.
Start with a light woowoowoowoo (oo as in the word YOU) and start to go louder, as you do, feel your voice switch over to a brighter sound, and the vocal folds feel a bit more squeezed. If this is done correctly, you should feel the support firm up, and the pitch stay true. If you are going out of tune it's a good indicator that you are now pushing and not doing the exercise correctly.
Alternatively:
Start with woowoowoowoo softly again, but his time as you start to get louder move to weeweeweewee - try to move to wee as quickly as you can, so as not to get the voice stuck as you go louder, stay relaxed and be patient and the voice will come.
When you are comfortable that you can do this exercise, then start to go through other vowels - woo woh wah or Goo Goh GAh (as in YOU, GOT and CAR). Remember that this should never hurt, if it does then you are doing it wrong, so stop.
Dylan Ball (Vocal Coach) http://www.vocaltechnique.co.uk/.
I am a vocal coach with over 12 years experience in teaching students of all styles and levels. I have helped many singers who have come to me after damaging there voices, and have got many so called tone deaf students to sing. I love helping people to really open up and discover there voices.
Why not have a look at Breath Support and Resonance for more information on singing.
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