“I practice singing along to my favorite songs in the car every single day, but my throat always hurts afterward and I still can’t hit the high notes!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If your throat hurts after you sing, you are doing something wrong. Unlike a piano or a guitar where a broken string can be easily replaced for five dollars, your instrument is a living, breathing part of your body. Your vocal cords are incredibly delicate muscles, and if you use them incorrectly, you aren’t just making a bad sound\u2014you are actually causing physical damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Key Tech Music School<\/a>, we spend the first month with our vocal students simply “unlearning” the dangerous habits they developed by trying to teach themselves. If you want to sing with power and protect your voice for a lifetime, here are 5 fatal beginner singing mistakes<\/strong> and exactly how to fix them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take a deep breath right now. Did your shoulders rise up to your ears and your chest puff out? If so, you are breathing incorrectly for singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you take a shallow chest breath, you immediately run out of air in the middle of a sentence, which causes your throat muscles to squeeze to compensate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch an untrained singer try to hit a massive high note. 90% of the time, they will physically lift their chin and stare up at the ceiling, thinking that reaching “up” will help the note go higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a massive anatomical mistake. Lifting your chin actually stretches and crushes your larynx (your voice box), completely cutting off your airflow. It causes your voice to crack instantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We all start singing because we are inspired by our favorite artists. But if you are a naturally soft, breathy singer trying to aggressively belt like Adele, or a deep baritone trying to squeeze your voice to sound like Bruno Mars, you will ruin your vocal cords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your voice is a unique biological fingerprint. Trying to force your vocal cords to mimic someone else’s anatomy creates immense physical tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Would you walk into a gym, load 300 pounds onto a barbell, and try to lift it without doing a single stretch first? Of course not. You would tear a muscle immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Singing a difficult pop or rock song is the equivalent of heavy weightlifting for your vocal cords. If you just jump straight into the chorus of a high-energy song without waking your muscles up, you risk developing vocal nodules (calluses on your vocal cords that require surgery to remove).<\/p>\n\n\n\n “No pain, no gain” is a fantastic motto for a marathon runner. It is the absolute worst advice for a singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Singing should never<\/strong> hurt. You might feel a slight muscular fatigue in your diaphragm (your stomach muscles) after a long concert, but your actual throat should never feel scratchy, ticklish, or sore. If you feel a tickle that makes you want to cough while singing, your body is literally begging you to stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You only get one set of vocal cords for your entire life. Trying to guess your way through vocal technique by watching disconnected online videos is dangerous. Having a professional vocal coach watch your posture, correct your breathing, and give you immediate feedback is the only way to guarantee vocal health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sing with Power and Safety! Book a Free Online Trial Vocal Session Today.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “I practice singing along to my favorite songs in the car every single day, but my throat always hurts afterward and I still can’t hit the high notes!” If your throat hurts after you sing, you are doing something wrong. 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