If your voice cracks occasionally when you sing (especially when you try to sing high notes), then I have two fantastic exercises for you that target this exact problem and help you smooth out your voice.
I call them ‘Elevator Slides’ and I do them myself in my own vocal practice regularly.
I hope you find them useful!
Nicola xx
VIDEO SUMMARY
Vocal cracks are a common problem for many beginner singers but please be aware that there is a difference between vocal cracking and vocal breaks.
I demonstrate a vocal crack in the video but a vocal break is when you reach a ‘ceiling’ in your voice and your throat starts to become constrained.
Vocal cracks can be caused by a number of things including:
- Muscle weakness surrounding your vocal folds
- Not warming up properly before you sing
- Too much tension in your body
- Not enough airflow coming through your instrument
- Vocal placement – this means where you are resonating the sound in your instrument.
Instead of going into detail about the reasons why cracking occurs, in the video I give you two exercises to do instead.
Have fun with them and most importantly, do these exercises somewhere where you can be free to make a lot of noise without worrying about someone overhearing you – because they sound pretty awful!!
Did you find this video useful? Please let me know what you think in the comments below.
Nicola 🙂
Thank you. Looks like this practice will do the job!
Yes,very helpful thank you!
Plss help me from my voice cracks
Very good video am biginer this is one of practices I need thanks so much
Nicola, it always amazes me to see how many musicians try to sing in the key of the original artist and sound terrible. When if they would transpose the key, they would save their voices and sound 100 percent better. Once I realized this, I began to enjoy singing all my favorite songs! Great Tip!
So true! A bit of simple transposition means you have access to so many different songs that were previously out of your range or written for the opposite gender.
Its good
Pls I really dnt no what to do with my voice ,my voice crack alot,I am into music but my voice is discouraging me,my voice is too crack any time i want to sing,pls i really need your help,i need some thing i can take either drug or herbal anything i can be taking to give me sweet nd smooth voice ,pls i beg of you
Dude I totally get ur pain.
Plz help me! I want to sing this great song I love for my school talent show this Spring, but I keep having these horrible little voice cracks and/or my throat pinches up and it sounds like my voice is fighting between a low octave that I cant handle or a High octave that I cant handle! Any advice? That would be very appreciated. thanks!
pls is there any medicine for the vocal cracking as well as vocal break
Try drinking peppermint tea 🙂
please I need your help my voice crack, if a pronounce a word it will sound different from the main pronunciations of the, I try my best buy no positive result, which type of medicine I will take to help me, reduce my voice cracking.
I really hope this works because I have a really big show coming up and I can’t sing because of my cold!!! I can’t stop my voice from cracking. And my music teacher had to put me in the high pitch group for the harmony bit
My voice cracks so bad when I try to hit the high notes of I’ll be out of breath unlike my twin sister,she can easily sing! I’m gonna try this and see what happens. Thanks!
I tried doing no more night by david phelps, but when i gets to the sustaining part, my voice cracks, but when i learnt on how to feel relax when singing any high note, i overcame.. As high as f5
when i tept too sing the same song over and over again i get this some sort of cracking tickel in my throat and im trying too figure out what that means like it could mean my voice is tired of singing the same song over and over and it starts too feel like im beginning too lose my voice doing it like its not letting me sing almost i need some advice im trying to do something special for a guy i like
Awesome.thanks ma
I have a voice crack and it kinda helps me Nic so I was wondering if u could see some other excersises thx
Please I like the tips but my voice crack a lot please I need your help.
How do I manage my voice as a 21st century preacher?
When I speak loudly on harmonium my voice cracks
I need UR help
Try listening to Hank Williams Sr and don’t worry, enjoy it.
Thank you for this tip im going to try it from here on in cheers N x
Thank you very much for the demonstration of the voice crack and most importantly of the slide warm up. Very helpful.
My voice just cracked and I wasn’t even singing or speaking, how do you explain that?
Nicola my voice cracks everytime I try to sing high and I feel like I’m damaging my voice is there anyway you can help me I’m worried
Amazing way of controlling voice cracks
I’m doing what I always do but this is the first time my voice has cracked when I am singing in a comfortable range. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong!
Make sure you give yourself a good warm up first.
I had a very great vice but now it’s cracked. I’ve taken warm water with honey all to no avail. I will sure try your remedy. I hope it works. Thanks.
does taking raw eggs clear throat @ Nicola
I m Indian classical SINGH. My. Voice cracks on low and lower notes. Do you advice some exercises for this concern. Thank you Singh
Is there anything to help me be less nervous I’m part of my youth group band nd I sing bkrnd I’m so nervous and It makes my voice crack
Thanks
welcome 🙂