How to open your throat when singing high notes

When singing, there are high notes and low notes. Most people find it easier to sing low notes, while high notes are relatively more difficult. In fact, singing high notes also requires skills. The sound needs to be opened through the throat. Therefore, you must prepare to open your throat before singing high notes, so as not to hurt your throat. So how do you open your throat when singing high notes? Learn more.

1. Yawning

Using "yawning" to "open the throat" is an effective method known to everyone in the vocal world. When a person yawns, the Adam's apple will naturally drop and at the same time, the soft palate will automatically rise. (Pharyngeal cavity: nasopharyngeal cavity, oropharyngeal cavity, laryngeal cavity) As the "yawning" action widens the distance between the upper and lower parts, the spatial volume of the cavity is expanded, making the sound resonance channel spacious and unobstructed, opening the door for the flow of sound and breath.

2. Sing while sucking along the pharyngeal wall

Singing with the feeling of "singing by inhaling along the throat wall" is the most effective way to "open the throat" in a state similar to yawning. The purpose of yawning is to "open the throat", stabilize the Adam's apple in the low throat position, and let the vocal cords work actively in a stretched posture. However, the singers were confused as to how difficult it was to keep yawning throughout the entire process. However, the feeling of "singing by inhaling along the pharyngeal wall" can not only make it easy for the singer's Adam's apple to stabilize in the low larynx position, but also allow him to "open the throat" freely and relaxedly.

3. Others

"Opening the throat" also has an important function: to make the epiglottis, the important "gateway" leading from the laryngopharynx to the oropharynx, "open" in the best state. When people pronounce words, the epiglottis should roll up. The degree to which the epiglottis rolls upward directly affects the resonance timbre. If the epiglottis rolls upward to a small extent, the sound will encounter obstacles when transmitting from the throat to the pharynx, the resonance reflection effect will be poor, and the sound will easily be muffled in the throat. As long as the epiglottis can be fully rolled upwards and the "gateway" is completely "opened", the path for the resonance of the sound can be opened. This is the true meaning of "opening the throat".