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Sounding nasal while singing songs but not during vocal warm ups?

So I warm up my voice before I sing using my keyboard. Doing Oo, Ee, Aa, Ah for my lower range to middle, and from middle to high range I do the same sounds but more open, while breathing from the diaphram, I do a few other little warm ups as well but they're a bit harder to explain... I always check to make sure I'm not nasal and I never am, I record my warm ups to make sure... but then when I actually sing a song... my voice goes really nasal especially with higher notes... low to mid is fine, but high notes go really nasally, I've made sure my tongue is right at the front behind my bottom teeth, I'm making sure my throat is open but I still seem to sound rather nasal... any other techniques I could use to help fix this problem?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    1. Nasality is usually caused by over tension in the articulators.

    2. This produces bad resonance and a lack of good tonal quality.

    3. You can not warm up through singing, that went out in about 1923. Biologically it is now known that You need muscles with increased lactic acid.

    4. Not all notes will allow you to have your tongue flaccid, this too is biological and anatomical.

    Now do you understand why so many advise on this forum to find a voice coach as you can not train yourself when you do not understand Laryngeal Biomechanics.

    Source(s): voice coach/otorhinolaryngology
  • 7 years ago

    Instead of pointing out everything I did wrong... could you actuallyy oh idk... tell me what I SHOULD be doing?

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