the scientifically proven #1 singing exercise — Transcript

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1. 0:00yes you read that right the number one
2. 0:02scientifically proven
3. 0:03exercise for your voice
4. 0:12let's check it out right now my name is
5. 0:13adam meshan i'm a singer songwriter and
6. 0:15vocal coach
7. 0:16and as you can see i've got this little
8. 0:18straw that is extremely
9. 0:19thin and that's the goal you want to try
10. 0:21to find as
11. 0:22thin of a straw as possible because that
12. 0:25is
13. 0:25where you get the most benefit because
14. 0:28there is a special back pressure that is
15. 0:30sent to the vocal cords so let's talk a
16. 0:31little bit about the science behind it
17. 0:33now i do not
18. 0:34claim to have done the scientific
19. 0:36research behind it a
20. 0:37scientist by the name of dr ingotite is
21. 0:40the one that has
22. 0:41done the vast majority of the research
23. 0:43behind this exercise but
24. 0:44let's talk a little bit about the
25. 0:46science behind it why it helps your
26. 0:48voice
27. 0:49why it is the number one best exercise
28. 0:51so let's talk a little bit about what's
29. 0:53going on when you sing through a straw i
30. 0:55guess first i should try to demonstrate
31. 0:57what i'm talking about
32. 0:58so essentially we just take the straw
33. 0:59and then we blow air in our voice
34. 1:02through the straw so to sound like this
35. 1:03just on a slide
36. 1:05[Music]
37. 1:10now when we do this we are putting our
38. 1:13voice through a very very very small
39. 1:15opening and when we do that as long as
40. 1:17we create a good seal around the straw
41. 1:19which is a key
42. 1:19important aspect so we don't want to go
43. 1:22where i've got sound and air moving on
44. 1:25the outside
45. 1:26of the straw we want everything to go on
46. 1:27the inside
47. 1:28[Music]
48. 1:33what this does is it helps with the
49. 1:35phonation of the vocal cords it helps
50. 1:37with the vocal cords
51. 1:38vibrating squares them up and gets them
52. 1:41to vibrate as
53. 1:42efficiently as possible as well if you
54. 1:44imagine your lungs fill up with air when
55. 1:47you breathe in when you breathe out and
56. 1:48you sing
57. 1:49you expel that air through your vocal
58. 1:51cords from the bottom
59. 1:52upwards and they come out that air comes
60. 1:55out when we're singing through the straw
61. 1:57we send some of that pressure back down
62. 2:00to the vocal cords and what happens is
63. 2:02you have something called supraglottal
64. 2:04pressure that supraglottal pressure
65. 2:07helps to equalize the pressure that's
66. 2:09coming from below the vocal cords
67. 2:10and allows the vocal cords to vibrate as
68. 2:13effectively as possible now what some
69. 2:15people will notice when they're doing
70. 2:17this exercise is that their voice is
71. 2:19actually
72. 2:19able to hit notes that they otherwise
73. 2:22would not be able to hit and this fact
74. 2:24is due
75. 2:24to the pressure that's built up the
76. 2:27semi-occlusion that's happening
77. 2:29at the lips and this falls into a family
78. 2:31of exercises that are all
79. 2:33semi-occluded vocal exercises that would
80. 2:35be lip rolls
81. 2:36tongue trills all those ones that you're
82. 2:38actually creating some sort of blockage
83. 2:40at the mouth that sends back that back
84. 2:42pressure
85. 2:42but the straw also extends your vocal
86. 2:45tract so that's another
87. 2:46really big benefit to it is that it
88. 2:48extends that vocal tract
89. 2:50and increases the harmonic content which
90. 2:52then feeds back to the vocal cords but
91. 2:54it's really
92. 2:55incredible how i've taken this vocal
93. 2:58exercise through with many different
94. 3:00students
95. 3:00with similar issues with their voice and
96. 3:03how it is
97. 3:04able to dramatically improve all of
98. 3:06those students
99. 3:07vocal issues within a very short period
100. 3:10of time that's why i believe
101. 3:11it is one of the best vocal exercises
102. 3:14and i've included it in my main flagship
103. 3:16course
104. 3:17as a foundational vocal exercise to be
105. 3:20doing
106. 3:20every single day and so it's part of
107. 3:23almost every module
108. 3:24in that course if you want to sing with
109. 3:26more confidence and power then you have
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114. 3:35and you get access to recordings of all
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119. 3:46so now that we've talked a little bit
120. 3:47about the science behind why the straw
121. 3:50is so effective for the voice let's
122. 3:52actually do some vocal exercises and
123. 3:54walk you through
124. 3:55a regimen that you can do with the straw
125. 3:57to be able to
126. 3:58see the most improvement from it and
127. 4:00also the part that i think most people
128. 4:03miss
129. 4:03is start to see those improvements
130. 4:05happen also in your voice
131. 4:06so if you walk through this step-by-step
132. 4:09regimen on a daily basis
133. 4:11you will 100 see improvements so i want
134. 4:14to put forward
135. 4:15a challenge for all of you i want you to
136. 4:17all sing
137. 4:18one line from a song that gives you
138. 4:20trouble so
139. 4:21i want you to pick that song choose one
140. 4:24that is
141. 4:25challenging so not a super easy one and
142. 4:27i want you to record it
143. 4:28right now so stop the video record that
144. 4:31one line right now
145. 4:32that is giving you trouble and then what
146. 4:34we're gonna do is after you're done this
147. 4:36regimen you're gonna re-record that line
148. 4:38and we're gonna see if that doesn't
149. 4:40didn't make a difference so first off
150. 4:42what we're gonna do
151. 4:43and i hope you all took the time to stop
152. 4:46record it
153. 4:46and then come back so when you're ready
154. 4:49come back
155. 4:49let's run through it so we're gonna
156. 4:51start off just by
157. 4:53starting with some low slides now these
158. 4:55low slides are going to work out your
159. 4:57chest voice get the phonation
160. 4:59there in your chest voice operating to
161. 5:00its maximum capacity
162. 5:02but don't feel because this is going to
163. 5:04be for both males and females
164. 5:06females don't feel like you have to
165. 5:08match my pitch just the overall feel of
166. 5:11where your low range is try to kind of
167. 5:13find that spot so we're gonna start
168. 5:24good
169. 5:30now it's totally normal to feel this
170. 5:31back pressure you're actually going to
171. 5:33feel it if you have a super narrow straw
172. 5:35you'll feel it in the lower ranges
173. 5:43[Music]
174. 5:44so right there my voice was breaking a
175. 5:46little bit that's okay we're not trying
176. 5:48to disguise the break we're just
177. 5:50exploring to find what's going on with
178. 5:52our voice
179. 5:53in the moment
180. 5:53[Music]
181. 6:02so now i'm extending the range a little
182. 6:04bit higher i'm going
183. 6:05up above my bridge so let's say my chest
184. 6:08voice is here
185. 6:09my mix is right around here and then my
186. 6:12head voice is up above
187. 6:14so this is what we're doing here
188. 6:23so make sure that you allow your voice
189. 6:25to get up into your head voice what i
190. 6:27don't want to hear
191. 6:28is
192. 6:29[Music]
193. 6:32we don't want to do that we don't want
194. 6:33to start adding volume and adding
195. 6:35pressure
196. 6:36and adding extra force should all be
197. 6:38relatively light trying to stay
198. 6:40in our full voice at the bottom and then
199. 6:42slowly moving
200. 6:43upwards and allowing the voice to shift
201. 6:45gears that's important even if it shifts
202. 6:48gears
203. 6:48with a break
204. 6:49[Music]
205. 6:52and does a little bit of that that's
206. 6:54fine much better to do that than to
207. 6:56force it to do something that it's not
208. 6:58ready to do so let it break
209. 7:00let it flip up into that higher range
210. 7:02just to get the feel
211. 7:03of your whole range from bottom to top
212. 7:17now we're going to do one of the
213. 7:18variations to the slides we're going to
214. 7:20do the hills so we're going to go
215. 7:22[Music]
216. 7:27and all the way down
217. 7:35also make sure that your tongue i
218. 7:37noticed a little bit of tongue tension
219. 7:38there on myself so you want to try to
220. 7:40let it relax by your bottom teeth you
221. 7:42don't want it jumping around
222. 7:43or retracting in the back of the throat
223. 7:46[Music]
224. 7:56and what you'll notice and i want you to
225. 7:58pay particular attention to
226. 8:00here is on the heels you're gonna feel a
227. 8:02lot of abdominal pressure you're gonna
228. 8:04feel a lot of your abs
229. 8:06squeezing so put a hand around your
230. 8:08belly button just to bring your
231. 8:09conscious awareness
232. 8:10and create a muscle mind connection
233. 8:13[Music]
234. 8:17i feel that all the way to my back and
235. 8:19even my pelvic floor i'm feeling
236. 8:21engaging for this part okay so now we've
237. 8:23done a couple of
238. 8:24slides upwards let's try from the top
239. 8:26down
240. 8:31good and we're not looking for a perfect
241. 8:33sound we're looking for just release
242. 8:35anything that's nice and relaxed
243. 8:41[Music]
244. 8:47gonna do this a couple more times
245. 8:54[Music]
246. 8:56good now what we're going to do is we're
247. 8:58going to pick your
248. 8:59song the very same line from the song
249. 9:02that you chose earlier
250. 9:03we're now going to sing again after
251. 9:05doing this now the key element is to
252. 9:07follow exactly what i'm doing
253. 9:09in your situation obviously i can't know
254. 9:11what the song that you chose is but i'm
255. 9:13going to be doing
256. 9:14a relatively difficult line from a song
257. 9:16for myself
258. 9:17and you guys follow along with your song
259. 9:20so don't do exactly the same melody that
260. 9:23i'm doing
261. 9:24i'm gonna pick just so that this doesn't
262. 9:25get copyrighted i'm gonna pick the
263. 9:27national anthem and the rockets red
264. 9:29glare so we're working with the line
265. 9:32and the rockets red glare
266. 9:35okay so let's take that line what we're
267. 9:37gonna do you're gonna do it with your
268. 9:39straw
269. 9:39on your melody we're gonna go
270. 9:45good we're gonna do it again
271. 9:50get your straw do it with me one more
272. 9:52time
273. 9:53[Music]
274. 9:57now what we're gonna do is take the
275. 9:58straw out midway through the line and
276. 10:00we're gonna do it on ah
277. 10:06and again
278. 10:06[Music]
279. 10:07[Laughter]
280. 10:10and again
281. 10:11[Music]
282. 10:15and now what we're gonna do is double up
283. 10:17the line we're gonna go
284. 10:22and the rock gets red glare
285. 10:26and now we're going to just sing the
286. 10:28line
287. 10:29and the rock it's red glare
288. 10:33and see if for you if that line doesn't
289. 10:36become
290. 10:36just a little bit easier after doing
291. 10:38that whole
292. 10:40run through following it step by step
293. 10:42with your melody
294. 10:43see what happens record that now what i
295. 10:46want you guys to do
296. 10:47send me those recordings okay so i want
297. 10:49to hear your before and after
298. 10:51and really hear the improvement and the
299. 10:53difference between
300. 10:54the two because there is going to be a
301. 10:56huge difference so you can send that
302. 10:58over to me
303. 10:58through my website amvocalstudios.com
304. 11:01i'll leave a link down below i'll also
305. 11:02leave my email address there you can
306. 11:04just send that over to me i would love
307. 11:06to hear your before and afters
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