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Lesson 9 - How to Protect Your Voice When Singing Live
In this lesson, Hannah covers the basics of vocal placement and how good placement can help to protect the voice.
Lesson aims
- Learn how to shape words differently to assist with better vocal placement
Exercise 1 - Sirens
- Try using guttural sounds as heard in the video, such as "B-uh" or "G-uh", to place our voice lower in the larynx
- Then, perform a siren trying to keep the larynx lower, comfortable and without strain
Exercise 2 - Working on from exercise 1...
- Choose a challenging song and start to replace the wider vowels with narrower ones - "G-uh", "B-uh", "Uh"
- When we are familiar with these vocal 'Uh' positions, then slowly try the actual vowels whilst incorporating the new vocal placement
- This can help us hit the more difficult notes with less strain whilst we practice!
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