Q&A for How to Avoid Getting Cracks in Your Voice When Singing

Try taking a deep breath down into your ribs while holding your rib cage out. This can help stabilize your breathing, and therefore your voice, while you're singing.

There isn't an age at which you should stop singing. Many professionals continue singing until their final days. If it begins to cause you a large deal of pain to sing, you may want to see a medical professional. Otherwise, sing on!

Take a deep breath before you sing and imagine the sound flying to the back of your head. Open your mouth and relax your voice. Good luck!

Water, water, and more water!

You can keep pitch by thinking of the notes before you sing. Listen to the song and practice matching the notes. You can also get a handheld, electronic tuner, to help you practice staying in tune.

Yes, this helps to lubricate your throat and voice. Honey and water work for this, too.

Make sure to move your lips accordingly. When singing a consonant, for instance, keep track of the movements that your lips make, and when singing vowels, open your mouth and create the shape of each one.

Yes, cold water isn't the best for your voice -- choose cool or lukewarm water instead.

Generally, people realize that they can sing by just doing it in front of someone else and being told they sound good. Of course, pretty much anyone can learn to sing. It just takes practice, practice, and more practice.

It really just takes time. Your lungs are still healing and low notes can take a bit more air. I would drink more water, especially before a performance so you experience fewer voice cracks.

If you're really serious about avoiding cracks in your voice, yes, I would do it every time.

That may mean that you are very nervous during or before the performance. Try taking deep breaths before the performance starts, and instead of cold water, drink warm water or lukewarm water instead.

Other Wikihow articles like this one on how to improve the quality of your voice have great tips for improving your singing.

The best way to so this quickly is by willingly changing registers when you need to. Instead of straining to reach a high note while staying in that loud, deep, chest voice, allow your voice to switch to the lighter, softer head voice. To fix this problem over time, practice scales completely in head voice and then completely in chest voice. Widening your vocal range in these registers will prevent cracking and make your transitions smoother.

If you are going through puberty, you will not be able to stop your voice cracking. Just accept it; it won't last forever!

Warm up your voice and practice scales, going higher each time. This will strengthen your voice and increase your range.

If your voice starts hurting, it's probably a sign that you should stop singing and drink some water. Take a break for about 45 minutes without screaming or yelling.

When you are going through puberty, do not focus on singing high, as this may adversely effect your voice, causing it to develop cracks. Sing at the pitch you are most comfortable with.

Try to remember that this happens to everyone, even some of the greatest singers. It has nothing to do with the actual quality of your voice. Give your voice time to rest and remember that this one moment doesn't define you.

Cracking of the voice during puberty is normal. Wait for until everything gets normal. Avoid screaming, and just be patient.

Nothing, as this is natural and cannot be stopped. This change just takes time before eventually stopping.

Your voice may not have changed yet, or you may simply have a higher voice than other guys.

When you first wake up, your throat is often dry, and your vocal chords aren't warmed up yet.

Yes, just try to keep a balanced diet.

You should not drink scorching hot water/tea. Ideally it should be just a little hotter than lukewarm.

Not really. Things that can improve your voice clarity are honey, warm water and lemons. Try your hardest to not clear your throat in order to be a good singer but instead drink lots of water as it is the main priority when it comes to singing!

Before and during a performance, you should drink a lot of water (room temperature, not hot or cold). Avoid soda, alcohol or even tea.

To heal it breath moist hair. Get a humidifier, rest your voice a lot, avoid caffeine and alcoholic beverages, moisten your throat, avoid clearing your throat and avoid whispering.

Taking a note by note approach can help. Get the help from an instrument like a piano, press a note, sing it, press the note above it, sing it and repeat until you reach your optimum range. Now practice on reaching the note next to it and go on this way until high enough. You will develop a good pitch faster this way.

Cracks in your voice don't heal. They aren't literal cracks, they're something that happen when your vocal muscles tense or loosen, and when they do so too quickly your voice cracks (going high then low quickly).