When I ask a new vocal student to show me how they do a semioccluded vocal tract (SOVT) exercise like a lip bubble or tongue trill, 99.99% of the time, they do it by pushing, or they can barely do it at all. Then I show them how to pull instead of push that same vocal exercise. When they try pulling, they experience an instant relaxing of vocal tension, and more open sound. They also tend to do the exercise with more vocal range, because going higher and lower is all of a sudden easier!

Want to try this yourself? Stay with me. By the end of this episode, you will. At the end, enjoy the outtakes. There are things I can't do, either:)

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LINKS:

* Marci D. Rosenberg article https://www.michiganspeechhearing.org...
* Ingo Titze article https://vocology.utah.edu/_resources/...
* Balloon Phonation https://judyrodman.com/introducingba...
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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introduction
01:17 What are SOVT exercises?
01:56 What SOVTE's do for breath inhale, support and control
03:56 Examples of SOVT Exercises
04:20 How & why to PULL instead of Push SOVTE's
05:11 Demonstrations of SOVT exercises
12:04 Outtakes