In 1998, I entered my tenth year as a professional singer, traveling in the southeastern United States, with about 120 dates per year. I just released a new CD called "NEW WORLD COMING" and enjoyed some deserved and good motivation in my career and music ministry. Then there is The Night.
I am performing a concert at the Morningside Baptist Church in Columbus, GA, and my last song. Working in Christian music I thought the best way to end it was to use a very strong treble, which usually made the crowd stand up [and feel good]. This evening, this song is Tim Shepard's "I have been sure." I walked into the home, took the notes... and missed it. My voice broke and I effectively killed that moment.
I was dead inside, but the crowd still responded well, and I attributed it to a few days of tired performance. Until the next concert happened again, the next game, the next game, the next game, I continued to think and did not think much. Soon after, my voice had disintegrated. In the absence of my voice cracking, I couldn't sing a word or two, letting me sound like Peter on BRADY BUNCH when his voice began to change. I can't whisper; any attempt to place any power in the description will only be presented in a disaster. After a few months of struggle, I decided to leave this road until I was able to handle the good things.
It went to several doctors and went to the Vanderbilt Voice Center in Nashville to determine what went wrong. I found that I had a disease called muscle tension disorder, in which the muscles around the vocal cords were too tight when talking or singing, and the sound box could not work effectively. Affected people may experience excessive tension when speaking, causing tension or tension.
For singers, it leads to the inability to maintain proper breathing control or proper projection. Because of the tension, all other physical devices required for voice work cannot work together. The end result is a not pleasant tone.
Common symptoms of MTD are hoarseness, severe or harsh sounds, weak sound, ventilation or whiskey, tension, squeezing or strain. After a long period of use, the sound may also make a sound, and the pitch and tone will be different.
Affected people may also experience sore throat or tension during speech or singing, as well as tenderness in the vocal cord area.
There are no known MTD healing methods other than physical therapy for exercising sound without overstressing it. The idea is to train the throat, the voice box, the muscles of the neck and face to relax, remember what they should do, and again as a unit.
With me, my MTD journey is a long journey... Three years later I was on the road and in the treatment, and wondered if I would sing again. My doctor advised me to continue practicing, don't worry about what it sounds like, but just practice singing every day. My idea is that my voice will "remember" what it should do, and all the appropriate equipment will start working together again to produce the desired results.
It took a long time, but in the end I started singing in the church choir again, and sometimes I started singing again. Less than a year later, I returned to the road and started to sing full time. Some of the remaining problems, the pressure of the first three years made my voice slightly weaker, but in general, I am as good as the newcomers.
Muscle tension can be a frustrating and terrible problem. You don't expect it, when it hits you, you are sure that your voice will never be the same again. However, with proper rest, exercise and treatment, you can quickly return to speaking or singing.
Orignal From: Muscle tone disorder: What is it?
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