When my nose is stuffy it feels like I'm singing through my nose?

Question

I'm not sure if I actually am, but one day my voice will be great and then the next I'll have a stuffy nose and it feels like I'm singing through my nose. I know to sing from my diaphram but it still sounds nasily. Is there any advice on how to sing when your nose is stuffy? Lol

Answer 1

try and open up your throat more, it helps me.

Answer 2

an old remedy that will always help you to find out whether you actually are sing nasally or not: pinch your nose shut while singing. If the sound feels pinched in, why, then, you're nasal. If you have the feeling the sound is still in your mouth cavity, then you are not. Learn to distinguish between the two disparate feelings.
another thing to learn to use is your soft palate, the spongy part on the roof of your mouth at the back.
When you yawn, or act surprised, you will feel this part arch up, leaving a feeling of cold air come rushing into your mouth. You can learn to move this quite easily. When the soft palate is arched up, it closes off the nasal port ( where post-nasal drip also leaks through) and the sound cannot get into your nose. If you leave this tissue slack and unused, the sound often takes the shortcut through your nose, and there you are again, nasal.
when you are stuffed up, your own sense of perception can play tricks on you, you feel frequencies and resonation where you generally don't or shouldn't. Try the nose pinch again, and see if that doesn't help you relocate your voice t o where it belongs.
Singing through a cold is quite all right, but if anything starts to irritate your vocal cords, or if you experience trouble or outright pain in swallowing, then is the time to take a voice break, and get to the doctor to see what kind of infection you have. Singing on a sore throat will do more damage, so do yourself and your voice a favor and shut up. remember, there are no replacement parts for a voice, so treat the one and only well.

Answer 3

Actually, it is best not to sing at all when your nose is stuffed - first of all because you will not get enough air in a full breath through both your nose and throat, second because a stuffy nose could be a symptom of something worse, and could lead to a sore throat, and if you sing with a sore throat it could damage your vocal cords forever.
Best thing to do - breath steam through your nose to help unclog it, blow your nose as much as you can to get it all out, take care of yourself, and stop singing until your nasal passages are clear again.

Answer 4

to tell in case you're making a song by using your nostril, plug your nostril once you're making a song. in case you voice transformations the your signing by using your nostril. to end that, bodily think of of pulling your voice out of your nostril. i be attentive to that it sounds extraordinary, regardless of the incontrovertible fact that it works.

Answer 5

Spicy foods!

Answer 6

breath deep, sing deep and have soothers. (a type of cough sweet)