I write this because many students want to have a couple voice lesson then be able to sing loud after that. My advice is to not be concerned with building a strong voice right away. Your ability to increase your volume will occur after the coordination of your vocal muscles has been established. At some point (see future blogs on this subject), your vocal cords (folds) will be coordinated enough to sing more loudly. Until then, sing only with as much volume as you are able to stay at the level of ease as you sing through your entire range.

In learning to sing right, you have to condition your muscles external to the vocal cords not to be involved in the singing. To produce produce more volume over a period of time your vocal cords will develop their own strength, allowing you to sing with more power, without any assistance from those outer muscles. You will be able to feel it when you get to that point. It feels very different when we DO use the outer muscles. It feels like there is effort; like we have to do something to reach a note (high or low). And it feels relaxed when we just use our vocal cords, it feels so effortless we often think, that can’t be all there is to singing. It’s got to be harder than that!

Signing off for now. Be sure to read more blogs about how you get to this effortless style. I’ll write a building block of ideas on this subject.  Meanwhile, email or call me for a voice lesson and you’ll see what I mean,  Jane