From the course: Vocal Lessons: 1 Warm Ups and Cool Downs

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Basics: Your tongue

Basics: Your tongue

From the course: Vocal Lessons: 1 Warm Ups and Cool Downs

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Basics: Your tongue

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- One of the physical tools that we have in singing is our tongue. We use it for a lot of different aspects of singing and it can either help or hinder the way that we sing. Example: For-- Do this. Do this consonant: (exaggerates pronunciation) T. Now if you said tee, that's a word, and the word is gonna have a consonant, the actual T, and the vowel, E. So I just want you to do the consonant T, T, and you feel how the tip of the tongue T, touches the front roof of our moth and then drops. That's a muscle action, because your tongue actually starts here, it's the whole inside of your mouth, lying on the floor of your mouth, and it ends right here. Put your fingers there (mock gags and chuckles). (clears throat) Okay, if you put your fingers here and then swallow, you feel that movement? If you didn't do it do it now. Yeah, and swallow. That's your tongue, moving up and then dropping down. The thing that makes the sounds of your voice is right in here, called your vocal folds. You might…

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