hey there Roger Burnley vocal coach here
I'm in my studio here in Hollywood
California I'm going to answer another
question thank you guys so much for
sending these questions and again I will
get to as many as I can now this one
said Roger can you make my voice less
scratchy no I can't but you can but I'm
gonna explain to that to you
alright so understand you're having a
scratchy voice it could be a few
different things going on but basically
kind of understand that what might be
occurring is that your vocal cords would
you hear these smooth things that should
go this way
are not somehow coming together and
making a cleaned connection that's just
what you want to think about now there
may be many other things going on with
your voice I can't tell you specifically
because I would need to work with you
everybody's voice is different and
really need you guys to understand that
but this is very general that will help
you so one of the things that you can
start to do to try to retrain your body
your voice to start to get or reach
those clean sounds is to get your vocal
cords to start to come together in a
nice way meaning that the myth the
muscles them have a memory the muscles
that connect the courts to have them
function will then start to come
together just think of that you don't
really need to understand all of that
except that a when they come together
then I'm making a clean sound now what
happens a lot of times is that we're not
aware of it is that you might be falling
back in your throat and then the chords
are not able to make that connection or
you might be using your swallowing
muscles which you know I've talked about
quite a bit so this exercise the name a
name which you've seen me do quite a bit
actually but now understand it this way
what you're trying to do as you have
your thumb under here name
nay nay I'm letting go and then up here
I'm thinking that what I'm doing name an
a then I'm getting the courts to come
together when you're doing that you're
actually training your body using your
brain to train your body how to make
those courts operate in a particular way
now if you're getting to a place where
you feel the muscles coming down you'll
steer that thought that sound is gonna
still sound scratchy so you have to use
what I call my ugly faces my crutches
make a weird face till you get to the
place where the sound is really clean
over time that will become a natural
place for your voice to be let me do a
little demonstration so you can hear it
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you will notice I'm really exaggerating
this because as you guys may know my
whole problem was being way back on my
throat and my natural voice has this
kind of hook sound to it so that would
be where I would go so I'm exaggerating
this and this is why a lot of times I
have you guys do these really weird
faces - may may may may may may may may
may may may the chords are coming
together nee nee nee nee nee nee clean
sup Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary
now as you're practicing that is you're
going higher you're typically going to
find that the muscles will start to
fight you when you feel that stop
because you don't want to reinforce that
habit over time your body will start to
let go it will adjust and you'll start
to see that you're retraining your body
and hopefully you'll get to some really
clean sounds and be less scratchy but
again if this is not working for you you
may need to get to a coach to figure out
exactly what's happening alright hope
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