Voice Training:The Root Remedy for Chronic Laryngitis Voice workers are prone to chronic laryngitis, which is recurrent and difficult to recover from. To get to the root of the problem, it is not by medication, but by the correct method of vocalization. Why is it that when ordinary people speak naturally for a longer period of time, their voices are very tired and even hoarse, while TV hosts speak for hours on end, their voices are still so powerful and full of luster? This is because they have professional training in the pharyngeal method of vocalization. We advocate in the work can not rely on their natural voice to speak hard, but also to use vocal skills. Breathing techniques: abdominal breathing, fast inhalation and slow exhalation, inhalation is not full Abdominal breathing: is the use of abdominal muscle contraction and pressurization of a deep breathing. Abdominal muscle contraction, increase abdominal pressure, abdominal pressure so that the diaphragm upward push, increase the pressure of the chest cavity, so that the lungs in the air out of the strong. The method of training inhalation muscle groups: 1, the method of holding the breath: the practice is to first inhale a large breath, after inhaling enough breath, hold the breath, do not exhale, hold the breath for as long as possible. Slowly you can exercise the ability to hold your breath for a long time, that is, the ability to fix the thorax. 2, the method of counting: the practice is to first inhale a big breath, inhale enough air, the thorax is fixed; and then with a very light and very fine, just their own voice can be heard counting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 …… has been counted until it can not be counted again; and then, inhale a breath and then again, so repeated training. This way the number of numbers counted will be more and more, and the time will be longer and longer. It is best to count to more than 50 in one breath. The following two audible exhalation exercises lay the foundation for our voice control. (1) “Lip popping” exercise: lips closed, that is, with the breath impact on the lips, so that it makes a “toot” sound, be sure to make the lips quivering, but also to make the lips sound loud. “Lip popping” exercise should experience the content is: 1) with the feeling of slow contraction of the abdominal muscles to pressure the breath impact on the lips; 2) so that the breath from beginning to end of the even flow, can not be a moment of more gas, a moment of less gas, even is the most critical; 3) experience your “lip popping” exercise, a breath can be more than popping lips, so that it makes a “beep” sound, must make the lips quiver, and more to make the lips sound loud. 3) Experience your “lip flicking” exercise, how long you can flick your lips in one breath, which is also the key exercise of breath control. In addition, the “lip flick exercise” can also be used as a vocal massage exercise to help the tired voice to restore health as soon as possible. (2) “Humming” exercise: It refers to the resonance of the nasal cavity, which is used to prepare for a higher voice in the future, and to bridge the upper and lower tones. It is with “humming” that our voice has its luster. The “humming” exercise is to hum with the mouth closed, when the mouth is closed, you should feel a small mouthful of saliva, the nasal passages stand up, and then inhale deeply, humming. The same requirement of uniform breath with a sense of movement. Nasal resonance, not nasal resonance, it refers to the sinuses, nasal cavity, palatine sinus resonance, and nasal sound is the sound directly to the nose. Remember that “humming”, the sound is in the nasal cavity above the back of the eyebrow at the issue, every day a single tone can be used to extend the practice, until the eyebrow vibration. When we do these exercises, we can carry out simple vocal exercises. Vocalization skills: the use of resonance, so that the larynx naturally put down the pharyngeal resonance cavity adjusted to one end of the thick and one end of the thin, this resonance position, the sound has a role in expanding. Therefore, before vocalizing, open the mouth wide, make the back of the neck stand up, make the epiglottis cartilage stand up, the tongue body down and up, make the soft palate and uvula put down. A straight tube is formed. The sound, when it comes from the vocal cords, goes upward and directly to the top of the nasopharynx, where it reverberates around the top of the head. This sound is very loud, thick and metallic. This is the “head voice method”. To check whether this method is correctly applied, just feel the back of the head and the top of the head for vibration when you speak. With the basis of u vowel pronunciation, we can realize the breath of singing, and realize that the voice does not rely solely on the throat (as generally believed), it is a combination of the three parts of the head cavity (soprano), pharyngeal cavity (alto), chest cavity (bass), the organic combination of the smooth, mellow, penetrating and enduring sound. Before you speak, you must take a full breath, and then speak slowly and smoothly using your breath. Consciously head forward low, jaw inward, so that the neck muscles relax, the back of the neck naturally straight, so that the throat, nasopharyngeal resonance cavity into a straight line. Here I give you a practice saying the word is “cannon” Before practicing “cannon”, we have to do a little preparation, that is, the breath should be deep, the mouth should be empty, as if containing a ball, the nasal cavity should be open, the chest cavity and the head cavity should feel up and down connected. When these have been prepared, we can sound, the power of sound must be in the small abdomen under the action of the rebound force, so that the resonance of the oral cavity to be exploded. You can press your hand on your belly and feel the starting point of the sound in your belly, and when your belly gives out, the sound from your belly will quickly hit the center of your eyebrow and pop out. “The “Mi” sound is a flat sound that is produced when the upper and lower teeth are closed. In order to make it have a certain resonance space, we can use “mi (rice) + (pause)” when practicing, the latter “pause” sound makes the mouth become rounded, and the sound is also concentrated. In the send “mi (m) + (pause)” this sound, the first practice, must be issued within one second, the requirements of the same as above, breath, resonance. When you master it, you can lengthen each tone, because the “m” sound is more resonant with the nasal cavity, so the nasal cavity should be erected, actively open, so that it resonates in the nasal cavity. When this monotone sound is correct, you can add a “mao (cap)” word, with “(mi + appeal) + cap” alternately read in succession. The word “cap” itself is the same as the pronunciation of “gun”, so that the opening of the handful of accents of the continuous training for the future changes in the sound of more words to lay the foundation. In other words, no matter what the sound is, the breath foundation of our pronunciation cannot be changed, and with this foundation, our voice will have staying power. Through a period of single and double tone practice, the breath of the voice has further improved, we can do some more complex word sound training. Next, we can do some tongue twister training. Make the previous vocal exercises, from the unnatural state, and gradually restore the natural process, and to maintain the unique flavor of the language of the drama in the line, boldly use the tongue twister, so that the sound to strengthen the ability to expand and contract, to master the language of the ability to control the fast and slow. Here I would like to recommend a tongue twister: “Eight hundred standard soldiers run to the north slope, artillery soldiers run side by side, artillery soldiers are afraid to touch the standard soldiers, standard soldiers are afraid to touch the artillery guns.” This tongue twister is a good piece of breath training material. When memorized, you can concentrate on the use of breath to experience each sound: each word should be “blasted” out under the support of breath. That is to say, it should be emitted with elasticity under the effect of the small abdomen. The use of breath is from natural to unnatural, and then back to natural, which is a process of sound and breath progress. After the previous fast and slow sound training, the feeling of the sound has been basically formed. The last thing we need to do is to train the artistic tone of recitation and speech, through a good poem and some touching stories, to stimulate the artistic passion of the voice practitioners, through the fast, slow, strong, weak sound changes to make the voice practitioners feel more clear and accurate use of breath. The portrayal of lyrical voice and passionate outbursts are the result of testing the quality of the voice practitioner’s previous training. As said the training process, we have a basic understanding, of course, in training, some people practice monotone or single word can be better use of breath, once encountered more words, it is difficult to send out the quality of monotone. I can tell you the easiest way is when you start to yawn to say a sentence in a row, then the voice position is very high, the breath is also very deep, although a little false, but before you have not found a good voice, it can help you to experience, but also a relatively easy to master the exercise. There is another action when “yawning” is to lower the larynx, the natural fall of the larynx opens the channel to the voice, and the voice issued at this time is smooth and pleasing to the ear, of course, I don’t want you to use such a voice to speak, but to let you go through a period of intensive training, to experience the correct sound of the air, sound, resonance, and spitting, when you have a certain amount of time to accumulate, you will be able to experience the correct sound of the voice, and then you will have a better voice. When you have a certain amount of time to accumulate, your breath pivot point will certainly move down, especially when you speak loudly, you will unconsciously use the power of the abdominal muscles, and finally get an unexpected good voice. Reminder: No matter how good your voice is, no matter how scientific the method is, if you use your voice for a long time with a large amount of exercise, you will have a voice disease. Therefore, it is important to keep in mind that the time of using the voice should be rationally distributed based on the training in a skillful and scientific way.