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How To Perfect Your Singing Voice - How To Get A Good Singing Voice. There are two sets of muscles which control your vocal registers. These muscles are called the thyroarytenoids (TA) and the cricothyroids (CT). To sing contemporary (popular) styles of music, the strength in these muscle sets need to be especially balanced and coordinated. When one set is much stronger than the other, vocal issues such as these occur:
Limited vocal range.
Frustrating pitch problems.
Lack of control of vocal "licks" or embellishments.
Limited options of vocal tone colors.
Lack of ability to blend the voice.
Vocal register breaks.
Vocal strain.
The CT muscles "work" the head voice, or upper vocal register, lengthening the vocal cords by tilting the thyroid cartilage. The TA muscles "work" the chest voice, or lower vocal register, shortening and thickening the vocal cords, of which they are the core.
People who strain in chest voice need a stronger head voice (controlled by the CT muscles), People who have trouble reaching lower notes (common with classically trained singers trying for a contemporary sound) need to strengthen the TA muscles. For a singer, more important than knowing the names of these muscles is learning to identify the sensations...how the voice should feel and operate... when these muscles are balanced.