Straw exercise with shoulders
Lesson time: (1min 13sec)
Adam Mishan revisits the straw exercise, this time rolling your shoulders as you sing to loosen up and get your vocal cords working at their best.
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This lesson is part of the course 30 Days To A Better Singing Voice
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Lesson transcript:
Straw Exercise
So the next exercise, we're going to step back to the straw exercise. If you guys haven't noticed, I really like the straw.
Why the Straw?
The reason being is that it is so, so effective on so many levels of helping to fix the voice.
- I'm not going to belabor the point with all the science behind it.
- Just suffice it to say that it is extremely, extremely effective in rehabilitating the voice and getting the voice to improve.
How to Perform the Exercise
So, we're going to straw again, and we're going to roll the shoulders as we do it.
- Try to get a really nice circular motion of the shoulders and do it along with your vocal exercise.
- Great job!
Now you're loosening up those muscles and getting the vocal cords working in their optimal way.
You'll find the full exercise for this in the audio section of this course.
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