La-Ga exercise

La GA Exercise

So, what I want you to do for this exercise is the following:

1. Drop Your Jaw
   Let your tongue do all the movement during this exercise.

2. Keep the Jaw Still
   We want to try to keep the jaw still as much as possible. The best way to monitor this is:

   • Put a finger on your chin
   • Look at yourself in the mirror while you're doing this exercise.

How to Perform the Exercise

I like to call this the La GA exercise. It's going to sound like this:

• One of the keys is to try to make it sound as normal as possible and not allow the jaw to move.

Note: You'll notice that your jaw will want to move more and more the higher you go.

Example

So, it's going to look like this:

• "La Gala Gala."

And again, I might look like a ventriloquist dummy, but that's because I don't want to use any of my facial muscles and have them interfere with what's going on in my throat.

Independence of Jaw and Tongue

Something that many of you are going to notice at first is this type of approach. A lot of singers want to add that dependency of the jaw and the tongue. Here, we're going to be fostering that independence.

Full Exercise:
You'll be able to do the full exercise in the audio portion of this module of the course.