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

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Exercise 5 instructions: The la-ga series, part 1

Exercise 5 instructions: The la-ga series, part 1

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

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Exercise 5 instructions: The la-ga series, part 1

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- This exercise has several different melodies to it. I call it the la-ga series. In the number of years that I've been using and teaching it, it has had nothing but rave results, from everyone who has used it. Including myself. Which is why I started teaching it. But, here's the thing, it's tricky. Even though it's kind of simple. And the reason why it's tricky is because we're going to take your tongue through a series of different moves, while you're singing a melody. And, you need to hold your jaw still so that we're able to isolate the movements of your tongue. The movement of your jaw, really, has nothing to do with the movement of your tongue, although it tends to get associated by people because you're used to speaking or singing words, and you're jaw's always moving. What we need to do is isolate the tongue, and hold that jaw still. If you try to hold the jaw without your hand, you'll end up using muscles here, which will end up tensing your tongue. So, your hand now needs to…

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