How to Eliminate the Nasal Sound When Singing

Video Transcript

"Hey! I am Mark Black and welcome to expertvillage.com. We are going to be talking about vocal performance. So if you have trouble with a nasally sound, or a thin sound, you should open up your throat, drop your tongue, like a yawn, and as I would say a polite yawn in church, or in a meeting, when you yawn like this, somebody says “you are yawning?” and you say no but you are, and what I am trying to get at is dropping my tongue, opening my throat and I am enlarging this chamber here, and I am not particularly telling you to open the jaw, that has an effect, but that is not the effect we are looking for right now. Right now we are trying to say make this secondary, this is the primary resonating chamber of your chest, secondary resonating chamber is the jaw and is opening, and we want to open that up, so again going from really tight to really open, back to a good sound, listen to this… that is all exactly the same pitch, different resonances, very tight throat, high tongue, opening up to big fat yawn, too much, and relaxing to a nice perfect sound. A good exercise for you if you have trouble with that, is to do just that but go slower, you will hit a note on the piano, hit it real tight, tight as you can make it, open up until it’s fat, until it sounds stupid, so fat and full, and then just relax your throat, don’t think about closing anything, just relax until you hear a good sound. So that you can get a sound like this… and somewhere there you would say “I like that sound,” but we need extremes: too tight, too open and then relax to a perfect sound, that is to get the tambour to open up, the tambour of your voice, and most people are too tight. I am not talking about their attitude, I am talking that their throat is too closed."