Remember that you can have air coming out of your nose as you're singing nasal consonants, but not while you're singing a vowel sound.
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Improving Your Singing: Moving Air through the Nose
- Hum a few bars of a song to feel buzzing around your lips. ...
- Try humming while holding your nose. ...
- Hum again without holding your nose.
- What does singing through your nose mean?
- How do I know if I'm singing through my nose?
- How do you hum through your nose?
What does singing through your nose mean?
Nasal singing happens when your soft palate is too low and sound escapes through your nasal passage. Feel the back of the roof of your mouth with your tongue to find your soft palette. To lift your soft palette while singing, imagine you have a ping pong ball in the back of your mouth that pushes it up.
How do I know if I'm singing through my nose?
Here's a very quick tip to tell if you're singing through your nose: Hold your nose closed with your fingers, and then sing. If you sound mostly the same (except for consonants D, N, and M), then you are fine. If you sound radically different, then you are singing through your nose rather than using nasal resonance.
How do you hum through your nose?
Humming Exercise
- Breathe through your nose with mouth closed and the tip of your tongue resting behind your top front teeth. ...
- As you exhale slowly through your nose make a sustained “hmmmmmm…..” sound.
- Avoid pushing the air out with force. ...
- Now, breathe in gently through your nose and repeat.