hi martti,
if your neck muscles are not tense when you are not singing then, you
must be tensing them up during singing for a reason. you could relax them
but, the tension will return if you still have the original cause. that
cause is usually an effort to 'control' the sound.
a lot of people confuse confinment with control. you have no need to
confine what you can control. control in singing is initiating the sound.
if your command to your voice is producing sounds you don't like, change the
command. trying to 'shape' it is futile (ever try shaping sound with your
hand?).
trying to 'shape' words with your mouth (more so than when just
speaking) gets the constrictor muscles involved which raise the larynx.
(you could try singing with a pencil in your mouth. tape it and you may be
surprised at how little your mouth plays in the role of forming words.)
mike
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