How to Use the Nasal Cavity when Singing

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Hi! I'm Erica Lane with Expert Village, and I'm tallking about how to train the female voice. I'm going to talk about properly using the nasal cavity while singing. In case you haven't heard, a lot of country music singers tend to sing with a nasal voice. It actually fits the style very nicely, but generally one of the rules now a days, especially in most styles of singing. It sounds more mature and more contolled when you're not singing through your nose. Like this. You can tell that I was singing through my nose and it wasn't a very thick, deep, controlled sound. If I were going to cover up my nose and actually just cut off my nasal cavity and not even use it all to where I sound like I'm talking with a cold. That's actually going to sound better. So what I did was I covered this. I covered my nasal cavity. I didn't sing through my nose what so ever and it made automatically a richer, deeper, more controlled sound. So try that. If at first you have to hold your nose to help you remember not to sing through your nose, then try it. After a while, you'll get used to it to where you do it naturally. The only way that you have to open up your nasal cavity is when you're saying certain lettes like N and M. When you're saying those letters, then there's an acception. You have to open your nasal cavity for a second to let those consonants out in order for the word to sound right. But even in some instances you don't even have to say the N or the M and it still sounds like the word, because singing and music is a whole other language. It's a universal language. So once again, when you're singing please avoid using your nose to sing through and mkae sure you close out your nasal cavity so that you have a deeper tone that comes from down here and not from up here.

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