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Is voice training suppose to hurt?

Started by ~RoadToTrista~, June 15, 2012, 10:24:11 PM

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~RoadToTrista~

I've been watching candifla's videos and I'm trying to do the technique she described. Just to make sure, if it hurts am I doing it right? I mean I don't wanna break anything lolz.

Right now something farther back in my throat feels exhausted and a little sore.
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nicole99

If it is starting to hurt, stop hun. You will only end up straining your voice.
Take a break for a day or two.

It will get stronger over time with practice.

Good luck!

apple pie

I didn't follow candiFLA when training my voice, but it was normal for me for my voice to feel tired and a little sore, especially in the beginning when I had to talk for hours in one go. In my experience, I think it is part of building up endurance, just like when you train yourself to run longer and longer distances. After I built up my endurance, my voice never feels tired or sore any more when speaking. (It still does though after singing.)

But if my voice actually started to hurt, I would always, always stop using my voice completely for at least 5 to 10 minutes. That's definitely dangerous. School teachers who talk until their voice hurts and ignore it often end up with no voice at all for months, and it might even need surgery to fix. Not good!!
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~RoadToTrista~

It's not that I'm overpracticing, it was when I talked in falsetto and began "sqeezing" my vocal cords. I could feel a string in my voice in pain while I was talking in that altered voice. Does my voice just need to get used to that particular muscle or am I doing something wrong?
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apple pie

If it actually is painful and it starts hurting as soon as you start, then it really doesn't sound right.

I think I know what you mean by the pain, because if I do falsetto for more than 5 to 10 seconds then it starts to become painful. But that's why I never ever use my falsetto except to specifically demonstrate to someone what falsetto is like; I certainly use it neither to talk nor to sing... I don't think I have a correct falsetto (but I don't care because for me it is useless). But a correct falsetto shouldn't hurt at all; singers sing in it all the time, and in many cultures (non-English-speaking) it is normal to go into falsetto during talking...
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Nov413

Yeah, falsetto shouldn't hurt at all. Maybe get hoarse after a while.
The pain you're describing doesn't really sound right.
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." - John Adams
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~RoadToTrista~

It's not falsetto it's when I go into falsetto and squeeze my voice.

K here's what I basicly got out of the videos. You go into falsetto, you pinch your voice with your throat muscles or whatever, and then you slowly bring it down.
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~RoadToTrista~

Mmm, well it doesn't seem like it's like that anymore. :-\ lol

Also, is your jaw suppose to tense up during voice training?
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