Do you get a hoarse voice from singing? I gave a Skype singing lesson tonight and my student and I were doing a serious session about the singing tongue. We did a few tongue exercises and then we reviewed a little bit from my first singing tongue lesson post, mostly using the photo below the crazy "I Can Has Cheeseburger" type cat at the top of the post. We talked about the importance of the tongue and how it can muffle the sound of the voice if it is pulled back in the throat, forcing … [Read more...]
Your Singing Tongue – Part 1
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Your Singing Tongue, Friend or Enemy? We've all heard the proverb about a mighty ship being driven by a small rudder and how our tongues are like that. Just like the rudder of ship controls where the ship will go, the tongue controls what we say and reveals the attitude with which we say it. And since singing and speech are siblings and come directly from the voice patterns we learn when we are babies, both inside our mothers' wombs and after we are born (see my SingBabySing article on … [Read more...]
