Puffy cheek exercise - practice along
Lesson time: (3min 26sec)
Practice along with Adam (audio only) on the puffy-cheek exercise, building gentle back-pressure against your lips to keep a full, steady voice as you sing higher.
Download the audio file attached to this lesson to keep practising on your own.
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This lesson is part of the course 30 Days To A Better Singing Voice
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Lesson transcript:
Puffy Cheek Exercise
The next exercise we're going to do is the puffy cheek, as you saw in the video.
Instructions
- Puff out your cheeks.
- Let a little bit of air escape through your lips.
- Try to create pressure against your lips as you do it.
- Incorporate a shoulder roll while performing the exercise.
Execution
- Are you ready? Here we go!
- Keep going.
- Try to maintain a full voice as high as you can.
- Keep the shoulder roll going.
- Smooth.
That's it!
About the instructor
Adam Mishan is a vocal coach who taught himself to sing. His videos document the journey from not being able to hold a pitch to singing with real control, and that path now shapes how he teaches - over 200,000 people follow along on YouTube. In his courses you'll work on pitch, breath support, tone and range in small, repeatable steps, the same way he built his own voice. read more