Are you aware of a tiny movement that happens in your larynx when you sing?
What is laryngeal tilting? What happens in your throat? Can you feel it? Can you lose this ability?
Many singers do it unconsciously because it is sort of built-in vocal technique.
Laryngeal tilt has to do with the movements of the cartilages of your larynx that affect your voice. These movements make it easier for you to sing higher pitches but you really hardly notice them consciously. However, they are unbelievably important in making your singing effortless.
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Thyroid Tilt
The larynx consists of three main cartilages: the thyroid, the cricoid and the arytenoids. The thyroid cartilage sits on top of the cricoid and they are connected to each other with a paired muscle, the cricothyroid. When the cricothyroid muscles contract they pull the thyroid a little forward and down thereby tilting the thyroid. While the arytenoids also rotate towards each other closing the glottic chink, the vocal folds close while stretching and lengthening at the same time. This tilting action can according to some research also happen the other way: the cricoid tilts toward the thyroid. Additionally, it has been found that people have different cricothyroid joints; so there can be different patterns of tilting.
Let´s just keep in mind that tiny little movements in the larynx affect the way our vocal folds vibrate when we sing. They don´t always happen when we speak. That is why some people find singing more difficult than others. So-called natural singers obviously do these things unconsciously.
In singing, we produce different pitches; the more the folds stretch, the higher the pitch. If there is no tilt we can still sing higher pitches but not as easily and the sound retains a speechlike quality. With thyroid tilt we can really SING!
Thyroid tilt is therefore very important. Can you also speak with thyroid tilt? Yes, in fact, you can. Some women do speak this way. Think about a XXX. How can it be taught? Usually, it happens quite automatically and classical teachers ask for it from the very beginning when they show with their own voices and have students imitate head and mixed voice.
This terminology is confusing again – it is not produced in the head but by the vocal cords – but we FEEL it in the head. That´s why it has been named head voice long ago. It is the result of a function, not the cause of it. If we don´t have anyone to demonstrate tilted voice sound, we can also imagine crying or sobbing.
These are natural human responses and primal sounds that we can take advantage of when learning to sing. Crying means the tilt happens naturally; adding, even more, cry with sob also lowers the larynx. This enables us to vary the colors of the voice depending on the emotional contexts of songs.
If you have never been conscious of thyroid tilt it is possible to lose it. That can happen unfortunately for a number of causes. If too much pressure is used in singing the vocal fold vibration may become too thick and the lengthening/stretching of the cords gets more difficult. The fine edges of the cords that should be innervated and touch each other gently and firmly lose their sensitivity and thicken.
That calls for even more pressure which of course exacerbates the situation. We hear this kind of forced singing all the time.
The tilt that would enable the cords to stretch may be reduced. There are also cases where trauma to the neck or whiplash may cause deterioration of the laryngeal coordination, thus making singing very effortful.
How to tilt? Gently moan and cry, do the siren exercise (sing on –ng). You might palpate (= touch) the front of the neck gently and feel the tiny forward rocking motion. Tilting adds sweetness to the sound as well as healthy vibrato.
Tilt can be used in all genres, not only classical and it makes singing more comfortable and easier. Because this is such a crucial aspect of vocal technique and so much could be said about it, I will post another article about the subject.
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