Yawning while singing

As you sing, the back of the throat expands a bit. Your soft palate raises, contracting the muscles of your pharynx and pushing your larynx down. If you'll notice, that's exactly what happens when you start yawning. And while you're not really intending to yawn, the brain perceives it that way and you end up yawning.

1. Is yawning while singing normal?
2. Why do I feel sleepy when I sing?
3. Does yawning open vocal cords?
4. Why do I yawn when I sing Reddit?

Is yawning while singing normal?

This sensation of quickly filling your lungs with air is how you properly inhale for singing. Yawning happens all the time when working on breath control. The body gets confused with the different amount of air coming in, and you yawn. Voice students yawn plenty during lessons and are embarrassed at first.

Why do I feel sleepy when I sing?

Most vocal fatigue is caused by improper or inefficient breath support. If a singer does not have stable and consistent support for their sound, then the body will adapt by using other less efficient and often damaging ways of getting the sound out. If a singer is singing correctly, the voice should not tire.

Does yawning open vocal cords?

The patient keeps his mouth closed and yawns; then he lets the air out with a closed-mouth sigh (the air exits silently through the nose). Even this modified yawn-sigh appears to lower the larynx and dilate the pharynx, producing a more relaxed vocal tract and a more relaxed-sounding voice.

Why do I yawn when I sing Reddit?

In good singing, we expand the back of the throat quite a bit, by raising the soft palate, often contracting the muscular walls of the pharynx, and lowering the larynx. That coordination is the same one that's used in the beginning of a yawn.