Membership Expired Kat Hunter
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I LOVE lip trills. That’s definitely my go-to exercise. If a student has trouble with that, then tongue trills will do. I just find that the lip trill can get the student feeling warmed up over their whole range, with no strain, and of course the air gets regulated this way too.
If it’s a warm up to get ready for a performance I’d usually suggest doing lip trills at the same time as moving the body, to get rid of any tension, as Ben was indicating; especially watching for any tension in the shoulders, abdomen, neck or jaw as tends to happen when people are nervous!
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Hey Matt, you say at the end there you can look up exercises for soft palate nasality as a solution to something. I’d be interested to know what it a solution for? Like what would be the objective for such an exercise?
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Totally! So when you’re thinking about the tongue position you can think of it lifting upwards to block the access of air to the mouth. The air is still coming up behind the tongue and exiting the nose :).
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If you’re interested in the effects of different vowel sounds or consonants, you could always start up a forum topic on the mgr website! Would be great to see more discussion on this:)
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Not sure exactly what you mean, but if you want to test if air is coming out primarily through the nose you can see what happens when you pinch your nose with your fingers. Notice that with a “zz” nothing happens but with an “ng” the sounds stop. The throat should only really “close” during swallowing or lifting heavy things. Not sure if that’s helpful?
