Many singers struggle with voice projection. Everyone wants to know how to sing with a powerful, loud and strong voice. Once you’ve established good breathing techniques, here are some things a singer can do to improve their voice projection.

1. Raise your soft palate. It gives much-needed space to the back of the throat to allow more sound to come out. I’ve seen singers sing with a lot of effort, but that effort isn’t reflected in their volume because they just aren’t giving more room in the back of the throat.

2. Relax your tongue. For many, this is a positive side effect of lifting the soft palate. A tense tongue will overwork your throat, which actually tightens and diminishes the sound. Here is an exercise you can do to help you achieve this. Start talking as if your tongue is fat and heavy, as if someone has counted it. You can even practice reading this paragraph out loud. You can practice singing ‘Amazing Grace’ or some other familiar tune this way while focusing on not letting your tongue ‘mess up’. As you practice, you will hear your voice begin to free up.

3. Keep your vowel forward. Be sure to keep the vowels relatively bright when singing I the mask. It will allow your voice to feel as if it is floating. A good way to learn to “float” your voice is by lip trilling up and down scales. Lip trills allow your voice to be ideally placed as you are more focused on holding the trills instead of concentrating on your voice. This causes your throat to relax as your focus is on your lips instead of your throat. Your voice will project effortlessly with this technique.

4. Sing through your consonants, don’t swallow them. There’s the old warm-up that comes to mind: “the tip of the tongue, the teeth, and the lips.” Keep the consonants on the tip of your tongue and keep them light and easy to sing. For example, if you are singing on a nonsense syllable of ‘da’ in the ‘da-da-da-da-da’ exercise, the sound /d/ should not imply that the whole jaw is closing and all the teeth are touching . throat to stay in a good position to sing Instead, the tip of the tongue should be behind the upper teeth. This way, the /a/ is much easier to sing regardless of the pitch.

Singing with a strong voice can be achieved by practicing the correct vocal techniques. If we learn to sing with less emphasis on our throats, we will emerge as better singers.