From the course: Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better

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Exercise: Liberating your lips and enhancing resonance with a song

Exercise: Liberating your lips and enhancing resonance with a song

From the course: Vocal Lessons: 2 Singing Songs Better

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Exercise: Liberating your lips and enhancing resonance with a song

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- Talking about lips, frequently tension in the lips, when you're singing a song, will actually grab the muscles right in here. That creates a formidable barrier to your vocal flexibility, the possibilities of your vocal tone, the ambiance, your ability to move around your range and sound full and delicious. (laughs) If you try to use your lips to get notes or to form your vowels, that's where the tension starts building up. I'm going to use Novy to sing a section of one of her songs, and you'll see what happens as we evolve this, and then I'll give you a tip on how to resolve it for yourself. Okay. (clears through) There? ♫ We are wounded time out ♫ Time out listen ♫ We are wounded time out ♫ Time out hold your fire now ♫ We were all the same ♫ - Okay. How does that feel? - Not good. - Not good. Not good. Okay, you might, if you didn't notice it the first time around, rewind this video a little bit, and take a look at what was happening with her throat. Now, we're going to use a…

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