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Lower Larynx vs Raised Larynx: Which is Right and How to Do It!

Master Your Voice Singing Course: ramseyvoice.com/special-offer Introduction 0:00 What's a larynx? 1:15 The right position for your larynx 3:15 Best exercise to relax your larynx 4:56 Gee exercise 6:52 Many beginning singers wonder whether it's better to sing with a lower larynx, a high larynx, or a larynx that stays right in the middle. Today, we're going to be discussing the perfect position for your larynx or voice box or Adam's Apple when you sing and why. Then I'm going to show you my favorite exercises for keeping your larynx in the perfect position. The larynx, in case you're not familiar, is your voice box also known as your “Adam's Apple”. The job of the larynx is to house the vocal cords. The vocal cords are the two strips of membranous muscle inside your voice box that vibrate together to create sound. The larynx raises and lowers with the muscles outside of the vocal cords, however it's important to know that whatever your voice box does affects your vocal cords. For instance, if your larynx is too high, the vocal cords will be squeezed together. Or, if your larynx is too low, the vocal cords will loosen and open. In singing, the vocal cords open and close periodically in order to create sound with vibrations. So even while it may sound like it's preferable to keep the vocal cords closed, you don't want them to be too squeezed. Also, you don't want the vocal cords to be too loose or open with a low larynx. To lower your larynx, simply pretend to yawn and feel your larynx with your thumb in your first finger. As you yawn, you’ll feel the larynx drop. To feel a high larynx, simply feel your voice box with your thumb and first finger and swallow. You'll feel the larynx rise as you swallow. So which one is the perfect position for singing? The answer is that you don't want your larynx to be too high, or too low. Instead, you want to keep your larynx resting or neutral when you sing. Seth Riggs, the founder of speech level singing was a huge proponent of keeping the larynx resting as you sing higher. He noticed that most beginning singers will raise their larynx as they sing to higher notes. However this isn't ideal, because the voice will tend to feel a little bit squeezy and nasal. Instead, you want to keep the larynx resting as you sing to your higher notes. That means that you need to learn to relax some of these external muscles but also keep the vocal cords vibrating. So in order to achieve this, you can start to feel a little bit of a “yawny” feeling as you sing up to your higher notes. If you feel that your larynx is still rising, try to add a little bit more of the “yawny”, “dopey” or “goofy” sound to your high notes and you'll notice that your larynx starts to rest a little bit more. So when you're first starting off, experiment with yawning into your high notes a little bit more. It's very important that you're not yelling into those top notes. You'll be amazed that when you learn to sing with the larynx in a more neutral position, that you're singing will automatically get better!