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(@metaaaal)
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hello,

i first started singing 6 months ago when i was 16, i have got singing lessons
i recently (2 months ago) started getting vocal problems( i always used warm up exercises), often my troat hurted, not when i was singing but randomly like two days later.

at the time (2 months ago) i got strange red bubbles on the back of my troat. and i couldn't talk to much, cause then my troat started to hurt.
I went to a specialist of speaking and singing, and she told me that i sung to much and to loud. I could better start with singing less and then slowly building up.

First when i needed to sing higher in a song i often sung louder.

now i practice a lot with making a note lighter, with more head voice in it (not falsetto) now i dont need to sing so loud to hit the higher notes notes (for me it is e4/f4/g4). and my troat is improving and i havn't had troat pain for almost a month, before it was once a week, and my talking is improving (can talk longer, but when i talk to much it still hurts a little), and my bubbels in my troat are decreasing (there still there, but less)

So my advice to all beginner singers is:

Don't sing to much in the beginning (build it slowly up) and sing not to loud, try to sing the note (where you may need to go loud) lighter with more head voice in it. then you dont get the problems i got myself into :D


   
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(@hobson)
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Good advice. Too bad that you had to learn this through experience and too bad that your voice teacher didn't advise you to not force your singing.

I'm not sure what kind of specialist you went to, but if she wasn't a doctor, you might consider seeing one.

Renee


   
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(@metaaaal)
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she's a speaking doctor, in my country (the netherlands) its called a logopedist. don't know what its called in english


   
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(@scrtchy)
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I had the same experience, except I didn't have pain or red spots or not being able talk. I just jumped into singing without lessons or understanding. I strained alot to at first and for many years, finding out about and then finding my head voice saved my voice. Now I'm experiencing gigs for the first time where I am not straining at all and it is so freeing and now I can improvise with my voice the way I improvise on the guitar.

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