How to Protect Your Voice When Singing Live

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!