Lesson 8 of 45SingingBeginner

Straw exercise - practice along

3:28

Practice along with Adam Mishan through the straw exercise (audio only) to ease your voice into head voice without strain - download the audio to keep practising on your own.

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Lesson transcript

Straw Exercise

Next, we're going to be doing the straw exercise. As you saw in the video, this one involves no head movement, you should be moving your head side to side as you do it.

Instructions

  • Follow along with me, and then I'll leave you guys to complete it on your own.
  • Great job! Keep going.
  • Feel it shift into head voice.

Important Tips

  • There should be no strain.
  • If it starts to strain, you can duck out and wait for it to come back down.

Sa, make sure to keep your head still.

Sa, great job!

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