The voice is an important organ of human expression, and a good or bad voice directly affects the ability to express language and even the future. A famous American linguist once said, “The appearance and voice of a person is the key to success in life. Moving talk is far better than the heavy cosmetics of the appearance, it can show a person’s beautiful and true personality, it can make a normal man become exceptionally outstanding, can make a less attractive lady look very attractive.” It can be seen that voice is very important for everyone, and even more important for those who are engaged in artistic voice. Long Ping, Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University How to protect the voice and prevent hoarseness, it is especially important to do a good job of voice health care. I. General health care (a) Maintain good health First of all, physical health, exercise regularly to prevent upper respiratory tract infections. A strong body is the material basis for the eternal youth of the singing career, and only a healthy body can create a high level of vocal art. But exercise should also pay attention to the combination of work and rest, after strenuous exercise, it is best not to practice voice or singing, because the muscles of the whole body are in a state of fatigue, pronunciation organs are also very fatigued, which can easily lead to the occurrence of voice disease. Mental health is equally important for those who use their voices. The human voice is very susceptible to the influence of emotions. Singers should improve their cultivation in many ways, and those who have good psychological quality will have positive works. (B) to develop healthy habits 1, to ensure adequate rest
To maintain sufficient and appropriate amount of sleep, 7 to 8 hours of sleep a day is to ensure that the prerequisite for smooth singing, lack of sleep is easy to physical incompetence, the throat muscles are easy to fatigue, so that the voice sounds dark. 2.Keep a good diet
(1) the diet should be moderate and regular, not overeating, so as not to affect the use of breath when singing; (2) eat less sugar, dry, irritating food, so as not to cause chronic inflammation of the oral cavity and throat mucosa, affecting pronunciation and resonance; (3) within 15 minutes before using the voice, it is best not to drink water, so as not to affect the use of breath, and not to drink too cold or too hot water, to minimize the mucous membrane of the throat and laryngeal muscle Strong stimulation of the mucous membrane of the throat and laryngeal muscle, so as not to cause a brief “loss of voice”; (4) after meals should not practice singing to avoid affecting the application of breath; (5) prohibit tobacco and alcohol, especially before and after the voice do not smoke, otherwise it is easy to make the throat dry, laryngeal muscle fatigue is not easy to recover. Alcohol can reduce the accuracy and coordination of the central nervous system to control the action, will certainly affect the pronunciation, and after drinking alcohol vocal cord edema, pharyngeal mucosa congestion, increased secretions, can directly affect the pronunciation. (C) cultivate good voice habits Speech should be moderate, do not overuse voice, otherwise it can make the throat dry and fatigue, causing hoarseness. Second, the professional actors and students of voice protection 1, the beginning of the vocal music students to voice identification
If you are a beginner in vocal music, it is better to go to a specialist to check the condition of your vocal cords for your vocal teacher to use as a reference in identifying your voice. Voice identification is very important for beginners to learn vocal music, so that they know the characteristics of their own voice, which voice is suitable for singing, so that they can take the correct method of training under the guidance of vocal music teachers, so that the voice can be well developed; to avoid singing blindly at their own whim, to sing their voices badly and cause adverse consequences. 2.Don’t overwork your vocal cords
In the performance of the singing without self-measurement, for example, singing for too long, barely with a strong volume desperately upward, singing high notes beyond their own range continuously singing higher, can make the vocal cords by excessive impact and fatigue. If this situation is not corrected in time, it can cause laryngeal lesions such as vocal cord nodules, vocal cord hypertrophy, and myopathic paralysis of the arytenoid muscle over time. So, how much time can you sing every day and every time? This is not a certain standard, mainly according to the specific circumstances of each person’s physical strength and artistic qualities to decide. Goodwill, such as said, weak or beginners, the number of times to sing should not be more, nor should the time be longer; on the contrary, for the physically strong, have considerable artistic qualities, the number of times to sing may be increased, the time may also be extended. But also according to the health of the body at the time and adjust at any time, such as the feeling of fatigue should be immediately rest. 3.The correct use of breathing
Experienced vocalists know how to use breathing correctly when singing. The correct use of breathing can not only reduce the burden on the throat muscles when singing, but also make the voice to maintain a beautiful voice for a long time. As we know, when singing, you have to sing and breathe at the same time, so this kind of breathing is different from the usual breathing when talking and has its own special characteristics. Breathing when singing is generally exhaling for a long time, inhalation time is very short, usually after a short breath, and then to make the exhaled breath enough to maintain the singing of the required music, a certain length of the words. However, to master such breathing is not an easy task and requires special training. If you don’t know how to use the correct breathing method when you sing without training, then you tend to get tired easily in singing and your voice can become bad. Therefore, the correct method of breathing or not is extremely relevant to the development of the voice of singers and dramatic actors. 4, good use of resonance organs
The sound from the larynx is improved and expanded by the resonance organs. Experienced singers and dramatic actors attach great importance to the role of resonance organs when they sing. Because they are good at using the resonance organ, so when singing not only good acoustics, so that people sound loud and pleasant, and they do not feel the strain, in contrast, some people who are not good at using the resonance organ, singing not only poor acoustics, so that people sound like they sing the sound of stuffy hard to hear, while they also feel tired of singing, and long continue to sing bad voice. In addition to the above, actors should also pay attention to: avoid depression and excessive excitement when singing; female comrades in the menstrual period to pay attention to the voice health, etc. Some of the above are from the medical point of view, about how to protect the voice, or the scope of vocal music. In short, for the voice health care, it is summarized as good living and eating habits, sufficient sleep and scientific methods of using the voice.