Creating vocal SPACE: Yawn vs. Apple Bite
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Today’s video is on a controversial idea: I’m explaining why I DISAGREE with the common vocal advice to create lift in the soft palate by thinking about YAWNING.
NOTE: Like everything else in vocal technique (and life!) there is wiggle room here. Certainly, there are singers who are thriving with yawn space, and if that’s you, then rock on! Use this video as a chance to experiment with the different colors that the Apple Bite might create.
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This is the first quick tip for singing I have found that was both easy to execute and where I actually did notice a significant difference immediately. Seriously, thank you. It takes me forever to find my placement (every single day!) when I am practicing. I really struggle. This tip helped me find where I need to be better than any other tip I have tried in the past. I could cry ❤
Hi! I’m so glad this worked for you- isn’t it amazing how one idea can really make a difference?
You're supposed to sing higher notes in fully yawn position. Of course with stretched vocal chords it would sound like this.
On the other hand, i agree with the mouth shape (biting the apple) but if you place the sound in front by thinking of it, it would be unforgiving for the vocal chords that tiniest excess of air would destroy the vocal chords (especially for men because we have an Adam apple there).
What i use lately consists the both, i form the sound from the back and aim for the hard palate (right next to soft one) for chest voice and vice versa for head voice. When used with bite, the voice by itself gets placed in the front. But the sensation will stay in the back and vocal chords will be relaxed. With diaphrahm sit in place and coming back very slowly, making a gentle air flow, it feels really relaxed and i can sing for hours with no fatigue. Of course mouth shapes with the words are really important too but its another subject..
This works great for me, your technique may work too but as i said, with tiniest excess of air, it might be really trouble, at least it's what i experienced in the past.
This is game changing! Was always taught to do the yawn technique which actually added more strain to my voice. This is the antidote! Thanks!
I'm so glad, Vic! Keep up the good work!
If you wear distant glasses is expected you feel that your glasses gets more sharper after a few good yawns. Maybe practicing without any corrective lenses could be a game changer.
Yes. Really appreciate the "swallow and re-set" strategy; I've never known what to do in that situation.
Definitely! It's good to "shake the Etch-A-Sketch" once in a while and start fresh.
spectacularly helpful! thanks so much!
Thank you. As someone who yawns a lot during singing this is helpful.
The visualization of biting an apple to create space truly works for me. Been struggling to get the correct technique until i came across the video. Awesome. Thanks
Totally agree. I came to this idea doing my own personal vocal work, but needed a good way of describing the sensation. Excellent demo! I can use this with my students with immediate results.
Thanks so much, Carol! I just uploaded this week’s video on an applied exercise that could help in unlocking that yawn feeling- hope it’s helpful for you!
Don’t agree with your terminology but your positioning is on the money. Your correct positioning is what for me is “like singing in a yawn.”
Yes, however I think that sensations are so different, and although the yawning "method" works for some, it doesn't for others. Even when I tried it I couldn't make work the way it was meant to work. I think it's a matter of exposing these different methods.
Thank you for your videos! They have been so immensely helpful for me as I am beginning my singing journey! I appreciate all the knowledge and effort you are sharing! :)
I'm so glad, Harper! Keep up the good work!
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As simple as operatic versus contemporary style. I am familiar with this topic.
Great point- I think that’s how it’s often taught but in my experience Apple bite is advantageous in both styles. What do you prefer?
I am a contemporary singer so I use apple bite most often. I use the Yawn in many instances as well. Depends on the sound and the feeling I’m going for.
@@Rosannasfriend YES! You have a great approach to technique - use it to create the sounds you want.
Yawn space seems to be the only way I avoid throat tension tho 😅 every other way I’ve tried causes strain 😮
I'm curious why a vocal coach on TH-cam says to place your sound in the nasopharynx and then sing towards back of the head instead of forward as if the sound should go from upper check to back above the ear and out towards the back of head. He claims this is how you sing and forward placement isn't correct. There are so many different things said by different coaches. It's confuses me. Singing in the nasopharynx and back isn't forward so....Is this wrong?
Thanks for this question! I don’t think what you describe would work for me but if it works for him, great. And if it works for you, definitely use it. I suggest what works for me and the greatest number of my own students, which is forward placement.
Would you get the apple bite sensation by just lifting the upper cheeks? I prefer to be told what muscles to move. Thanks.
Hi! Great question. The "apple bite" does create lift in the cheeks, but it also creates a sort of "overbite" feeling that keeps the jaw from jutting forward. If you like to think about specific muscles, try combining lift in the cheeks with a sensation of pulling the ears back, and check that the jaw is not moving forward. Thanks for watching!
@@theweeklywarmup I was watching Tony Robbins, Corey Taylor and other guys with powerful voices, I noticed they tend to use cheek muscle and pressing one nostril as talking, one side of their upper lip is also going up and the jaw looks like is going a little bit foreward. It feels like they use their head just a acoustic stuff.. I know, neck mucles has a huge part on voice -- and both of them have a huge neck muscles, but I still thinking about what Richard Bandler (NLP) said about nostrils, nose and people listening more what we have to say when we have a better relationship with our nostrils when we are speaking to them.
@@regishaiba I'm not sure I totally understand the nostril pressing, but there is definitely a lot of resonance in and behind the nose! Very interesting!
You can use both right yawn and bite , can you?
I'm not agreeing, but maybe I'm just not understanding,. Doesn't yawning come from contraction of sterno-thyroid muscles which attach below the larynx, pulling the larynx down? Isn' t the soft palate completely separate from, and independent of the larynx? I can yawn with a raised soft palate, or a lowered soft palate, or an in-between position of the soft palate. Likewise, isn't a raised larynx independnet of a raised or lowered soft palate?