Straw exercise with shoulder movement
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Adam MishanAdam Mishan adds shoulder movement to the straw exercise, helping you keep the sound relaxed and free as you sing through it.
What's in the course
45 lessons (2h 13m) · 1 free
01. Neck stretch exercise
Free lesson3:22
02. Ah exercise, and finding spots of tension
4:33
03. Ah exercise - practice along
4:18
04. Straw exercise with head movement
2:55
05. Straw exercise - practice along
3:28
06. Puffy cheek slides with shoulder roll
2:01
07. Puffy cheek exercise - practice along
3:26
08. Mum exercise with neck and shoulders
2:14
09. Mum exercise - practice along
3:40
Lesson transcript
Music Lesson: Days 5 Through 9
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh I'll be your.
Welcome Back
So welcome back! How was the first four days of the course? My hope is that you've been able to experience a greater sense of relaxation and freedom in your voice over the past little while.
You would be hard pressed to find a voice that wouldn't benefit from a lot of the exercises that we went through.
Now, without further ado, we're going to jump straight into days five through nine.
First Exercise: The Straw Exercise
This first exercise is going to be familiar to all of you, but then we're going to jump into some exercises that will be a little bit unfamiliar to you.
Let's Get Started
We're going to start off with the straw exercise.
- With this, we're going to try to move the shoulders as well as blow through the straw.
- Keep the sound as relaxed as possible as we do it.
Are you going to try it along with me?
It doesn't necessarily matter what note you're on right now, and just make sure that your shoulders continue rolling the entire time.
Important Note: Make sure that your shoulders don't get stuck as you're doing this.
Understanding Muscle Independency
One of the most important parts of learning any new skill, especially while singing, is being able to learn muscle independency.
- For example, a pianist wants to be able to learn how to play two notes really, really fast.
- He needs to be able to move the muscles of one finger while relaxing the muscles of another.
The same thing is true with singing.
You'll notice that a lot of people have very strong muscle dependency. You can see this when a singer needs to scream out a high note and clench their face in order to scream out that high note. This shows that the muscles working in their throat are dependent on those muscles clenching as well.
Next Exercise
In the next exercise, what we're going to do is learn to develop independency between:
- The muscles of the tongue
- The muscles of the jaw
- The muscles of the larynx
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Meet your guru
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.
