Sing without Tongue Tension (& activate the Epiglottis)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- Singing without tongue tension is tricky. The tongue wants to control the pitch and our registration. Our job is to shot it BETTER ways of behaving.
In this tutorial, I will show you exercises and checks to reduce tongue tension by engaging a little-discussed piece of cartilage (the EPIGLOTTIS).... "Epi-WhAAAAT?" I hear you say. Yes, that's right. Your Epiglottis is the piece of cartilage that protects your windpipe from aspirating food and drink. By becoming aware of it and activating it, you can relieve more subtle forms of root of tongue tension which allows for greater range, ring, power, and richness of tone. And who DOESN'T want that?
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Oh my gosh. I can't believe you just did the gargle thing. I realized not long ago, that gargling encourages continue air-flow and therefore was a good exercise. But I usually don't know what I'm talking about. So I'm so glad you confirmed that I was onto something.
Very useful to show a real thing. I love non conventional exercises. Thanks
Yes, epiglottis! I would change the tittle to give this little guy more importance, because it is a *great* revelation what you say about this. Thanks!!
"Don't throw up. Sorry if you did" lolol
This is such a great video!
In yoga there is a cleaning of the root of the tongue in which you get 3 fingers (index, mid and ring) and you press and massage it. It changed a lot my tension but i never knew how to link it with singing and speaking. Thanks for bridge it.
Do you sing a song while gargeling or just the rhythm?
Great video! One question:
When doing the "gg" sound (7:18), is the muscle underneath the jaw supposed to stay relaxed? (I mean the muscle that you check with your thumb, as in the beginning of the video, around 1:04).
Because with every "gg" sound mine gets tense. I cannot make that sound without moving that muscle. It pushes downwards as I start that sound.
Moving the muscle is different from tension though! If it moves but doesn't harden, I believe you are doing the right thing. The muscle that you feel is the tongue (bottom) itself. It's allowed to move, just not tense up and harden.
Hello, I’m sure there are other videos about the subject of singing and so forth but yours is the first one to come up. I wanted to ask you a question or 2 not directly related to this video. Have you ever had to use stagger breathing while singing really long notes or are you a single performer? To be honest, the main reason I’m asking you this is the fact that, from what I have personally seen, when singing in a choir I have personally noticed that the sopranos section always end up having to hold out the longest notes and I don’t think that is fair to the soprano section and choir directors should have the tenor section do a lot of the longer notes as well. But again I realize my comments are way off subject to this video. But I just wanted to ask you if you have ever had to use the stagger breathing method for really long notes. I’m thinking you might be a stand alone performer but I’m curious to see your reply.
Hi @vernonson! So, I don't consider stagger breathing a real technique or method. It is just a practical way to maintain a beautiful choral sound without taxing individual voices. Yes, I do think it is practical especially because choral writing can be taxing if you have to observe all the breathing (or non-breathing) markings, dynamics, etc.
I also have this dry spot in my voice that when it gets irritated causes me to have a dry cough and like a high pitched whistling or wheezing. It feels like injury/tension combo but no one can fix it and my livelihood is on the line. Plz help if you can
Probably your voice is sitting heavy on your vocal folds. If you're singing and suddenly have a tickle that makes you cough it's voice placement.
Being Activated means you close or u open epiglottis ;