how do you improve your vocal chords and range with vibrato?

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Answer 1

Dear harmonyf...,

It is important to have vibrato. It means you are singing with good breath support and good vocal placement. Not to scare you, but singing without vibrato can be damaging.

Vibrato is all about control of breath support. Really advanced singers can use vibrato without even sounding like they are.

Vibrato is something that develops as your vocal instrument develops. Most vocal chords aren't fully developed until the singers late twenties or early thirties. (crazy...I know)

Vibrato is a natural alternating neurological impulse between the too vocal chords. All you can do to work it is sing.

Improper vibrato:

1) Your jaw shouldn't wabble. Many singers wabble there jaw in attempt to add vibrato. This improper technique usually leads to a tremolo--a vibrato that is faster than a natural vibrato and sounds more like a weird trill.

Many singers who use vibrato correctly still wabble their jaw. It's a mind-over-matter kind of thing. For some reason even some great opera singers shake their jaws.

2) The vibrato isn't produced with the abdominals. Many people will tell singers to pulse the abdominal musles to make a vibrato. This causes a warble--a vibrato that is slower than normal and sounds more like a yodeling technique.

If you are singing in a vocal ensemble it is usually better to have a straight tone--no vibrato. It is better for tuning and blending.

Vibrato has nothing to do with range or voice part. And all you have to do is sing properly to make it pure and strong.

Singing is cumulative--all parts affect all other parts. In other words you resonance can be thrown off if you aren't using proper posture or breath support, or vocal instrument placement.

Before singing one should make it habit to stretch all of the body to release tension and to warm up the vocal instrument. Any tension can and will cause vocal strain and eventually damage.

Nothing should be stiff. Loosen up. Do some light stretching and rub out tight muscles especially the ones around your neck, face, and jaw. It might seem strange, but yes, you should massage your face.

Posture: the foundation of great singing.

(Standing) from the top:
Your head should be level with the floor and you are looking ahead, not up or down. No tension, just placed as so.

When singing everything should be loose with no stiff tension. Tension causes things to be incorrect even when you know the right way and use it.

Next, Roll your shoulders back. Rolling your shoulders back elongates the spine and thorax or chest cavity and lifts the sternum, the bone in the middle of your chest. This allows space for proper breathing.

Keep your knees loose, so that they can bend. Don't lock them.

Keep your feet shoulder width apart. One foot can be a little farther forward than the other if that is more comfortable for you.

Imagine yourself as royalty. This is all perfectly natural and normal. It is simply the way you present yourself--with poise and self-confidence.

(Sitting) additional information:
When sitting it is important to keep all the same posture techniques used for standing.

Make sure you sit as far forward on the seat as possible and keep your feet flat on the floor.

When you have proper posture you can learn to breath properly. Correct breath support and control is the gateway to good singing.

To learn the proper way, you've got to know which ways are wrong.

Improper ways to breath when singing:
1) Clavicular breathing ~ shallow breathing--the shoulders lift
2) Costal breathing ~ heaving like when you are sick
3) Abdominal breathing ~ from just the stomach excluding use of the top of the lungs

To understand diaphragmatic-intercostal breathing, the proper breathing for singing, it is import to understand basic breathing for life. Breathing for life is nearly the same with only a few slight alterations.

How we breathe for living:
1) Involuntary impulse of the brain
2) The diaphragm contracts and flattens to enlarge the thorax or chest cavity
3) The costal or rib muscles expand causing the air pressure to drop within the lungs. The air pressure inside the lungs then equals to the air pressure outside the lungs.
4) Exhale.

Modifications used when singing:
1) More air is required
2) Quicker inhalation
3) Longer periods of exhalation requiring control
4) Voluntary--you determine how and when

**It is impossible to breath correctly if you are not using proper singers' posture.**

Ways to make sure you are breathing correctly when singing:
1) Make sure your shoulders and upper chest doesn’t rise when you inhale.
2) Make sure you are expanding all around. The stomach, sides, and even the back

The laying down exercise is great for practicing proper breathing. You should practice it every night before you go to sleep. When practicing, pay attention to the appoggio, or the moment of balance between inhaling and exhaling just like breathing for yoga.

Before bed breathing exercises:
Lie on your back and wait until your breathing deepens and evens. You will feel expansion around your stomach, sides, and even back. This type of breathing is the ideal form of healthy breathing and the breathing we use for singing.

1. Practice inhaling over a count of 10 and gradually grow to a count of 15 and as high as your lung capacity will allow.
2. Use inhalation explained in (1). Exhale with a hiss of air. It will sound like "tissss...". Work your exhale from a 10 count to a 15 count and so on.
3. Use inhalation explained in (1). Exhale with a hiss of air and pulse using the abdominal muscles. ("tisss, tisss, tisss,...) Work your pulsed-exhale from a 10 count to a 15 count and so on.

Remember: When people refer to singing from your diaphragm it is meant to be a locational reference. The activities of the diaphragm are completely involuntary. You don't control it--your brain does.

Proper breathing takes time to develop. You have to keep practicing to build strength and endurance.

Vocal instrument placement:

We'll start with the voice box or larynx. You can feel it in the center front of your neck. Swallow while touching it. Feel how it lowers? That's the position it should be in when you sing. You can't really mentally control it, but if you've gotten rid of your tension it should be just right.

Your mouth/teeth/lips... It should be opened wide enough to fit two fingers in vertically between your teeth, for some people, even wider for higher notes. Sometimes people just don't open their mouths wide enough for high notes to come out properly.

Your hard and soft pallet... Feel the top of your mouth with your tongue. Upfront, behind your teeth it's hard--that's your hard pallet. Farther back, there is a soft fleshy part. That's your soft pallet. When singing you have to make sure your soft pallet is raised. This allows the air to resonate for a fuller sound. This kind of resonation is especially important for high notes.

To find this position you can yawn. Feel how your soft pallet raises? You could also imagine you have one of those really cool little paper party drink umbrella things. Imagine putting it in your mouth and open it up in there. Now sing like that.

Good luck and happy singing! Just shoot me some email if something isn’t clear or you have another question.

~ moss

Answer 2

practising vibrato to better your vocal cords and range? that's exactly backwards.
We better our vocal cords by practising healthy breath control: vibrato occurs as a natural by-product of that.
The cords are attached at the front to the inside of the thyroid shield ( adam's apple) and swing apart like an inverted V from the back of your throat to the front, in a side-to-side motion. When the air stream sets them into their vibrating motion which produces sound, they also oscillate up-and-down, at a very predictable rhythmic rate, which we hear as vibrato. This cannot happen by "making it so" or forcing it to happen, or waggling the whole larynx up and down in the throat. It only happens when the air stream is so well conducted that the mechanism can follow its own built-in program and lets it happen naturally. This is one of the main reasons that learning to sing well takes so long.
It is often a question of trial-and-error to get it right, smply because we have to learn how to get out of the way of what is already built into our bodies, and not complicate it with ideas that are often downright wrong.
The best "bible" for singers is still the 1967 volume by Dr. Willaim Vennard:
Voice: the Mechanism and the Technique.
Your on-line bookstore carries it. Your local library may not.

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vibrato is not a tool that you use to improve range. Breathing is the only way to improve this. As the above answerer said, vibrato is a by-product of proper breathing and breath control. Now, practice is vital, but practice properly. Not forcing it is also good advice.

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Answer 7

practice, practice and try saying the word instead of singing it, say it the way you want it to sound untill it comes more naturally, then try singing it, dont force it, just keep doing it until you have it. Thats what I do, and it worked for me.