How do i know if i am raising my larynx during singing and going up in pitch?

Locate your adam's apple with your index finger, inhale and take notice of your laryinx movement it is more than likely to go down a little bit, after that, start singing a phrase. If at the moment you start singing you feel in your index the larynx is raising...tadaaaa! you are raising it! :P


Your larynx must remain floating, flexible and the air that passes by is what makes the sound, not muscle action to squeeze your throat while singing must appear. Good question by the way! Enjoy the process of learning :) good luck!
How do i know if i am raising my larynx during singing and going up in pitch?
well, the first way is visual- watch yourself in the mirror. If you do see your larynx rise, pay attention, not only to the pitchyou are on, but what the rest of your face( jaw, cheeks, tongue, and lips) are up to. They will probably show some of the tension you are feeling.


Okay, so let go of that tone, and let your face relax. Keep watching yourself in the mirror. This is not an exercise in vanity- a mirror is really a very good tool to use. Now, locate the jaw hinge, it's that funny bony structure in front of your ears on your cheeks. When you open your mouth, you can feel that moving. Take your index fingers and trace down from that hinge, still on your cheek, in front of your ear. You should feel a length-wise trough opening up, the more you open your mouth. This is the proper way to open your mouth/drop your jaw for singing. Always start at the hinge, and never lead with the point of your chin. Do you see, while opening, that your larynx is allowed to stay nice and quiet in its own place? Try singing like that. Start with something really easy ( to the point of silly) like a children's song, and observe how nice and quiet things can stay.


As you go up in pitch. you will need to open further- always gently, never with force- and add breath energy from your breathing muscles around your waist. These two things always go hand-in-hand for high notes. None of us can get away with doing just one of them...


Now that you know what all this looks like, you will have to get used to the feeling of it, without the help of a mirror. ( It'd look pretty dumb at this point, always looking in the mirror)


Do you know how you hold a pencil? Well, your hand does, because you trained at it when you were very small. We need to train our muscles to know the feeling of "right" and "wrong" for singing as well. ( A singing teacher comes in real handy at this point, becasue s/he can tell you immediately , and help you fix it just as fast)


Always pay attention to what you are doing while you sing.


I know I will have offended plenty of people by saying this, but good singing is never just putting your heart and soul into it. That comes at the end, after you've learned how to do it properly ( and sometimes cold-bloodedly, at first).


"If there is no technique, there can be no artistry, only the mockery of it." that is a quote from one of the great singing teachers of the late 1800s, Mathilde Marchesi.


Do you ever watch the ice dancers during the Olympics? I love to watch them zoom over the ice, apparently floating along at tremendous speed. They make it look so easy...


but we know how many thousands of hours they have put into their sport before it ever starts to look that way.


the best singers may not have put thousands of hours into it ( most skaters start as little kids, most singers as teens, so there goes ten years worth of training time) but, relatively speaking, they do the same thing. it looks easy, but we always pay attention to it. We won't fall down and risk injury, thank goodness, but there goes one note and then another that we'll never be able to put right unless we pay attention again.


Keep up the good work