Head-Jaw Relationship
In my experience as a voice teacher, I've found that tension in the jaw is often related to tension in the nape of the neck, where the head and neck connect. When I teach people to shake their jaws, more …
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Exploring Upper Range
This step in the Advanced Warm-up Series works on taking your voice from the middle of your range and expanding upward. If you want a well-rounded voice warm-up, you might want to add Exploring Lower Range to your warm-up prep. …
Voice in the Pelvic Bowl
This step follows hard on the the previous one, Breath in the Pelvic Bowl. If you haven't read that one yet, be sure to go back and do so now. To quickly recap, in the last post, we were breathing …
Breath in the Pelvic Bowl
In this step, we'll use imagery to focus on the breath in the abdomen, right down into the pelvis. We want to encourage the sensations in the lower part of the body, so we'll use imagery, connected with the feeling …
Conclusion to the Intermediate Warm-Up Series
So we've worked our way through another series of warm-up steps. What have we gained? Perhaps a little better understanding of breath, sound, and the body parts (anatomy) that shape your voice, in particular the tongue, jaw and soft palate. …