Singing + ULC = ???

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  • #9938

    David M Pope
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    Anyone here (CNS-ers/CBL-ers) have any experience with how the voice reacts to eating ULC many days/weeks consecutively?

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    #204451

    Richard Schmitt
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    Explain please good sir?

    #204452

    Gnomer
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    umm huh?

    #204453

    David M Pope
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    My experience with singing is that your vocal folds responds very much like muscles do (probably due to the larynx) to a stimulus.  I know there are several musicians/musical folks here, and I was just curious if anyone had any experience with staying ULC and whether that hampered vocal recovery/vocal performance at all.Yeah, yeah. I sing.  Sue me!  😛

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    #204454

    Richard Schmitt
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    Sue sue sue!!! Kidding. I like to sing even though I can't, haha. Personally no I don't notice anything irregular.

    #204455

    CBachelor17
    Member

    I cant imagine that vocal cords would be effected in any way from being ULC.Much as your eye lids, fingers, tongue are all going to "perform" the exact same way..

    #204456

    TCB
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    I cant imagine that vocal cords would be effected in any way from being ULC.Much as your eye lids, fingers, tongue are all going to "perform" the exact same way..

    There's a "that's what she said" joke in there, somewhere... Has to be.

    #204457

    David M Pope
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    I cant imagine that vocal cords would be effected in any way from being ULC.Much as your eye lids, fingers, tongue are all going to "perform" the exact same way..

    I was thinking along the same lines, but then got to thinking vocal production - especially the levels involved with singing - would have higher demands than blinking, breathing, or some of the other tasks aligned with the para/sympathetic system... Just interested if anyone has noticed negatives (or positives I s'pose). Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 4

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    #204458

    David M Pope
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    I cant imagine that vocal cords would be effected in any way from being ULC.Much as your eye lids, fingers, tongue are all going to "perform" the exact same way..

    There's a "that's what she said" joke in there, somewhere... Has to be.

    Absolutely there is...Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 4

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    #204459

    CBachelor17
    Member

    They are literally tiny fibers in your throat… I thought this was a joke when i read it…lol being ULC is not going to effect your vocals in anyway at all…

    #204460

    hack_attack
    Participant

    Actually, I have been thinking about this for several months through cycles of SA/DB/CNS. It seems to me that there is little effect, but I have noticed that occasionally when ULC after a night of singing I can be slow to warm up the next morning. However, this is really only when I am really pushing for longer periods of time above C/D5 up into the higher end of my chest range. As any tenor will tell you, singing above a high C for any amount of time can be tiring. Again, I think the effect is probably minimal, but it certainly isn't a thoroughly studied topic.

    #204461

    David M Pope
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    Actually, I have been thinking about this for several months through cycles of SA/DB/CNS. It seems to me that there is little effect, but I have noticed that occasionally when ULC after a night of singing I can be slow to warm up the next morning. However, this is really only when I am really pushing for longer periods of time above C/D5 up into the higher end of my chest range. As any tenor will tell you, singing above a high C for any amount of time can be tiring. Again, I think the effect is probably minimal, but it certainly isn't a thoroughly studied topic.

    Thanks for the response, Kyle. Definitely what I was looking for. Any differences in the low range? Sent from my SCH-I545 using Tapatalk 4

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    #204462

    hack_attack
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    Now that one really depends. Some days my throat is nice and responsive to low notes from the get go, so I can comfortably get down to an E2 from the start. Some days, however, I've noticed that my voice just seems tight (typically this follows a night of heavy singing) and so I usually spend a minute or so in vocal fry (that frog-like sound you can make which is essentially the bass version of falsetto), which seems to loosen things up some. If you just sit there and go make a continuous “oh” sound while going up and down in pitch within your vocal fry, you will eventually feel your throat start to loosen back up.

    #204463

    David M Pope
    Participant

    I've found this to be the case, too.  I think it's mainly a stimulus response to the quality of sleep I get, but was intrested if anyone had noticed ill effects from being ULC.  Thanks, man.

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