How to Get Rid of Tongue Tension When Singing - #1 CAUSE OF TENSION!
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- How to Get Rid of Tongue Tension When Singing - #1 cause of tension! The tongue is where most vocal tension begins! Is your tongue tight or does your voice lock up? Watch this video to learn how to relax tongue while singing. Includes Victoria's favorite tongue tension exercises for singing!
0:00 intro
0:33 The Tongue - where tension often begins in singing!
3:01Quick fixes - tongue position
3:29 Exercise 1: Victoria's favorite tongue exercise (spoken)
4:10 Exercise 2
4:21 Exercise 3
4:45 Exercise 4
4:45 Exercise 5
5:19 Exercise 6
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Oh my god! You're the best. I have wasted a lot of time around the web listing to so-called professional singers giving tips, but with your exercises and explanations I can start feeling my Vibrato more relaxed and consistent, my tongue relaxing perfectly out of the way, my posture and attitude much better, even my voice!.. I don't know if 'thank you' is actually enough 😛
You are so welcome! Thank you for the wonderful post!
She is the best indeed
wow this really helped me !! i have chronic pain and tension affecting my ability to sing and speak and i never realized the tongue could have such a an impact. thank you!
I love reports like this! Fabulous! I'm so happy that I can help!
Victoria's victorious vocal tips make us all victors. You're amazing and you have a great personality on top of it all.
Thank you so much Victoria, I am very much on the poor end of the spectrum and theres no way i can afford proper vocal training, and even when i have had "proper" vocal training in the past when I wanted to study music and they certainly didn't know their shit like you do and it was honestly a waste of money. The guitar teachers were incredible, but the vocal tutor didnt know (or wasn't willing to share) anything properly, she had a huge ego. So I am eternally grateful that you share your knowledge without hiding behind a horrendous pay wall that only the rich can afford to cross over. So as you can imagine i have spent a lot of time searching the internet for help, but you are the only true professional I've ever come across who can explain things so easily. I've watched your videos for a while now. From the bottom of my soul thank you so much, and I hope someday I will be able to repay you for your kindness ❤
Awww, thank you for your beautiful post! I am so happy that I can help you! ❤️
The simplicity and exellelence of your message makes me speechless! It is surprising how much tongue tension release helps in singing. Thank you!
Wonderful! Keep up the great progress!
Having a hard time separating my jaw and tongue. Even with the slow yah yah. It really is unruly! Maybe that's why I can't whistle and roll my r's. 🤣 Ultra beginner here. It also feels like I am shouting
I didn't even notice I had a tight tongue until you mentioned it! Even though I grew up singing, I feel like I've been singing wrong this whole time and are learning from scratch. lol
Thank you so much, Victoria! This is truly game changing!
Omg I just watched this video and your jaw tension video and tried the exercises and I am in literal tears! I have been struggling with tension for years, limiting my singing abilities. With just a few minutes of these exercises, I could tell a big difference in my sound, quality, clarity and tone of voice! Thank you so much!! I will continue to use these tips to become a better singer! 🎤 👏🏽 New subscriber! ❤
FANTASTIC! Thank you for posting!
Im so thankful I found you! Youve been Such a blessing to me and have helped me become stronger in my Voice .
Once again ................ Great freedom from years of singing stiffness. Amazing teaching Victoria!!! God bless you!
Your videos are helping me so much ❤️❤️ thank you so much
Great tips! Definitely will apply this to my routine. Thank you!
God bless you Victoria! 🙌
great job,Vic
Excellent Victoria 🎩
Welp... Just figured out why my A4 was so bad. Thanx Victoria
That's Very helpful to me!
Thank you, Victoria!! The root of my tongue is very tight causing tension in the neck. I can fully resonate with your message. I will try those exercises! My voice does sound strangled.
I really needed this thx for the video
Thank you🙏
Thank you!
Thanks lot..❤
as always, so thankful for your videos! i realized that i've been compensating/overusing my jaw because i wasn't able to isolate my tongue. just that little bit of exercise, my voice opened up so much, it had more ring and a lot more volume (which wasn't even something i was intentionally trying to work on)!
Great! I have seen that happen with many students. They learn to release the tongue tension and the voice really opens up! Keep it up!
Wonder ful mam.
I have only put this comment to thank u for putting this much effort on ur channel and for giving detailed effective explanations.
So nice of you! Thank you for your post!
Awesome
You are helping my longstanding tension problems so much with all these videos, you have no idea!!! or maybe you do. Thank you!!!!! ❤
You are so welcome! Thank you for your post!
I followed many things you said. After a week, I saw a big improvement in my singing.
BEAUTIFUL!!
Thank uuu
Victoria I can sing but correcting some areas you taught Ian greatful with your lessons
Thank you for your note! Welcome to the channel!
After watching your videos, I unsubscribed to of almost all the other RUclips channels. This is a God send! You should author a book on vocal pedagogy if you have not already. Your videos bring to life Richard Miller's 'The Structure of Singing System and Art in Vocal Technique'.
Thank you for your generous compliments! I appreciate it! I do not have the energy to write a book, but I do have an audio program that is nearing completion.
Best videos on youtube. actually learns you something
Thank you! I appreciate this!
I found your lesson this past week, and in four days of explaining tension in different parts of the singing apparatus. You have changed my life. Thank you.❤
Awww, this makes me so happy and I am happy for you! Thank you for posting and keep up the great singing!
1:18 that's exactly what I sound like😭😭
Thanks for recommending this Victoria🧡
hi Victoria, been going through your videos again and don't know how I missed this one.i believe the tongue and jaw is my biggest issue, so I am going to really work on these exercises. make notes from your video and try and apply. I am sure this is why I also have a tired voice most of the time. I have been told I have a tied tongue and maybe having it cut possibly could improve the openness and positioning the tongue. I have been on a few of you zooms but I feel ham coming on with the same problems every time. I haven't found anyone else as good as you Victoria you're certainly the top vocal coach and you are so passionate to help singers of all levels. thank you . look forward to Joing you again on a zoom and so pleased I signed up for your Healthy Vocal Technique program, it so helpful. Krissie Stone UK.
Thank you so much, Krissie! I hope to see you in our next class! Stay tuned!
Excellent instruction.
Thank you! Glad it helps you!
Thank you so much, this helped me a lot 🙏❤️❤️
Great! I will make another video on the tongue soon.
I used to flatten my tongue. Since I watched this video, I started using your exercises and now it's so much better.
I am retracting my tongue on the high notes. More like moving the tip of the tongue from a flat default rating right behind the bottom teeth to the frenulum (retracting??). It's still buoyant. I still mind the embouchure. My high notes are the most effortless they've ever been. My "o" and "u" are also more resonant. Is this a "bad singing habit" ?
So gooood
Thank you so much!
You're welcome! Come back soon!
Ur amazing u need more subscribers
Excellent
Thank you!
Great. I am sure I will improve
Keep up the good practice!
Great video,this helped soo much!😊 While singing ,I get nervous sometimes and I feel tension in my throat and my voice shakes.Do you have any tips for overcoming stage fright?
YES! Here is my video on that exact topic: Overcome Stage Fright When Singing - 4 IMPORTANT STEPS! ruclips.net/video/gZFEJIKxX94/видео.html Keep performing in front of people, including friends, family, etc. The more you do it, the easier it becomes!
Your channel should have more viewers! You are the best vocal teacher who has a channel that I've discovered on RUclips so far. Thanks for everything!
PS: If you, dear Madam, are reading this: I'm wondering if it is detrimental to becoming a great singer when one has a tongue-tie. I have a pretty severe tongue-tie. It doesn't prevent me from resting the tongue at the palate when nose-breathing (in everyday life, not while singing), but I just wonder if you think that it's something that makes it harder for me to "get the tongue out of the way" when singing. So far, I don't have the greatest issues, but I DO tensen up quite easily in the throat, neck and shoulders area when singing. Do you think it could have anything to do with that. Do you have any experience with that condition?
Thank you for your reply, if you find the time.
Sincerely,
Christina
Hi, Christina. Thank you for your lovely note. Please feel free to share my channel with your singer friends.
As far as your tongue-tie question, sorry, but I don't have any experience with this. There is plenty of info online, including how it affects or does not affect singing. Sorry that I cannot give you anything specific.
@@Victoria-Victorious Thank you very much for your honest answer! I will continue to recommend your channel. All the best!
So it is good to lift the tongue towards the soft palate when I warm up with lip rolls or with another warm ups when I arrive to higher notes ???
I made a comment on one your other video about a better vibrato, yesterday, about how I could feel the very back of my tongue moving up and down and if that was a real and health vibrato (doin it health is more imperfect than doin it at all for me, I just want to do it so bad lol) I started noticing the pulse (for lack of a better word) about a week or 2 after I started doing the "yayayayaya" exercise with my tongue on my bottom lip and holding my chin so it wouldn't move. That's the same feeling only not nearly as drastic and farther down in my throat...and yes I kept up with your "yayayayas" in the video without moving my jaw 😉 lol. I was actually kinda proud of that it showed my progress that I didnt notice before lol
Thank you for making your videos easy to watch and packed full of information. ❤
Great! A lot of singers are not aware of tongue tension. Keep working at freeing it up! It will make a HUGE difference in your singing!
How lucky I am to find this page ❤
Glad you found it as well!
I am really grateful for you making this video.
You have no idea how long I have had this struggle and not knowing the root cause of my issue.
I have been taking open throat lessons for 8-9 years and this is the first time ive experienced an open throat sensation. My tone was AWESOME and POWERFUL and most important of all it was EFFORTLESS💪🏼
Now I need to build muscle memory for this cause ive built in a lot of bad habits.
Care to help ?🙂
Great news! I am so happy that my video helped!
amazing youtube videos!!! my favorite!! how many times per week and how much time each day should we practice this tongue exercises?
It just depends on how tight your tongue is! A few minutes each day can help and then just apply it when you sing your song! 😊
I’m trying your techniques because I have a dysarthria and I’ve had speech therapy but after a few years of not practicing my tongue is wonky
FINALLY I GOT WHAT I WAS DOING WRONG.... subscribing to u was worth it.
FANTASTIC! I will be making another video on the tongue soon.
Do these exercises work for tongue retraction? I have noticed recently that I have been retracting my tongue to stabilize my larynx, especially when holding a high note. Now when I try to bring the tongue forward my larynx also jumps up because it doesn't know how to stay down without the tongues support.
Love you! My tongue does not rest at the bottom of my mouth.
Ah, start with just feeling where your tongue sits when at rest. Then hum and don't change it. Then slowly apply to singing!
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Thank you, Victoria! I was wondering, when we do the 'ayayay' sound, are we supposed to bring the tongue forward and bend it slightly?
Yes, the tongue comes forward and sits higher on AY and EE.
Thanks very good content, as well as her other vid worth checking out. I tried this but struggled with that part that she (and you hear many other good coaches say) mentioned about placing the "tip of the tongue behind teeth". My singing was still in tune though, hearing the recording, no one would notice but me because my problem is how it felt- Idk how to describe that feeling-- it feels like it's not my normal, I have that feeling that I'm talking while gargling water or as if there's a food in the tip of my mouth while I am talking, or as if I'm trying to imitate Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Hasta La Vista Baby" accent. That how it felt.
Is that tongue behind teeth a universal rule in singing or depends on which your native dialect?
The general rule is that the tip of the tongue touches the inside of your bottom front teeth or on the gum slightly below it. I say "general" because there are stylistic differences and probably dialectical. Just feel where your tongue is when you are at rest. It naturally rests in the bed of your mouth with the tip behind your bottom front teeth. If you sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Hasta La Vista Baby", you are probably pressing your tongue down which is never good for singing.
Hello Victoria!
I have a question that has been on my mind for a while: when saying "ee" or "eh", does the larynx come up very slightly? When I use my tongue to make these vowels and keep my jaw relaxed (with no sound), I can feel my larynx lift very slightly. I don't feel any tongue or throat tension, though. I'm curious if this is just an anatomical thing and something I shouldn't stress about too much.
Thank you!
This is very common. My answer: it depends on what kind of sound you want. No, it should not automatically come up, but at the same time, it should float and not be pressed down with the tongue. Work on stability. Watch my video on the EE vowel: EE Vowel Singing - TIGHT, SPREAD OR MUFFLED? ruclips.net/video/19JbzQP8bEE/видео.html
Relees Edema.
This is hard!
It’s okay! Keep up the good practice!
Hello, Do we move our tongue on the L sounds and other words when sing? Or do we keep the tongue behind bottom teeth at all times?
The tongues stays behind the bottom front teeth only on vowels. It has to change positions for consonants.
What my tongue position should be while singing and how I can speak vowel E on high note i have a difficulty with speaking E on hight note
See my video: EE Vowel Singing - TIGHT, SPREAD OR MUFFLED? ruclips.net/video/19JbzQP8bEE/видео.html
Hi Victoria! It looks like on "ya-ya-ya-ya-ya", your tip of your tongue is behind the back of your bottom teeth? Am I seeing this correctly, or how should we be doing it? I find it hard to sing "ya-ya-ya-ya-ya" with my tongue tip against the back of my bottom teeth.
Yes, that's right. That is your "home base" on all vowels, or on the gum slightly below. I discuss that in other videos. See my playlist on Tongue Tension While Singing.
holy butts this helped
Great lesson I would like to review my singing lesson can I ? Thanks
Yes. I have an option for video review. Details are on my website:
www.healthyvocaltechnique.com/product/video-review-of-your-singing/
Hi Victoria, when doing the first exercise (singing while moving the tongue forward/backwards, the underside of my tongue (under my chin) protrudes slightly when the tongue is forward, is this normal?
I would have to see and hear you in order to advise.
How about many rock singers that sung with their tongue out its tip raised? Is it for the better or what does it do then? Because they do sound good though
I don't know. It could be for special effect. If so, it is not something that I teach.
My lower teeth are to close to allow my tongue to rest between them. If I relax my tongue it covers the lower teeth and also the anterior teeth. With a little of tension I keep the tongue at the base of the mouth but then it close my pharynx a little bit. I’m sure I’m not the only one with a relative small jaw. Not a micrognathia. What can I do? Thank you for share your wisdom and experience in singing
A good guide is to feel where your tongue is when you are at rest. The tip rests behind the bottom front teeth OR on the gum slightly below it, and there is a natural tongue arch.
should i be feeling slightly more vibration in my neck (larynx area) and in my face?
Every singer feels things differently. I cannot attempt to answer your question without seeing and hearing you.
@@Victoria-Victorious thanks, that actually helps.
I suspect I may have hit in a major problem thanks to this video: I can’t do the first exercise (moving the rogue without moving the jaw) at all 😅 any tips for trying to get better control/separation?
Yes! Hold your jaw in the palm of your hand during the exercise. It can move slightly but should not open and close, as in flapping up and down.
@@Victoria-Victorious Ok, I’ll give it a try. Thanks so much!
same!
Is it normal for throat to feel tighter when I try doing the tongue exercise on higher notes?
Rather than say it is normal, I will say it is common. See my playlist on Better High Notes.
Hey Victoria! I tried these tongue exercises I still feel my tongue is getting pushed down into my throat sounding like a frog. I feel I do this even on the inhalation which causes me to get my abs so tight that my support is just ruined. Sometimes I do get it right for some odd reason and then my tongue is relaxed and my abs is relaxed and I am good to go. What is my problem my tongue or my inhalation? :(
I would have to see and hear you to be sure. Did you try the tongue out, tongue in exercise? I believe I included it in this video. I will make another video on the tongue soon.
@@Victoria-Victorious I did try it and my throat chokes up. Just checked your jaw videos again and I notice I rigidly open my mouth far too backwards which is where I understand it as also causing tongue tension? Lookin forward to your new tongue video :D
Hi I like you’re video’s but stil not wiser of it. I can’t sing at al and don’t even know what my voice is where it is and how I can produce clear sounds.
Start with my Beginner's Playlist.
After doing the exercise for maybe five minutes my throat started to feel sore. Any tips for avoiding that?
Without seeing and hearing you, I am going to assume that your tongue is very tight and perhaps you are forcing it down in the exercise. I have a lot of other videos and exercises that may work better for you. You can find them in my playlist on the tight throat. Throat, Tongue & Jaw Tension in Singing - Free up your Voice! ruclips.net/p/PLaWjWxiTysDDDSGygoVWRk_IfZeFI71aj
@@Victoria-Victorious Ok, thank you! I really appreciate your videos, I will definitely check those other ones out! Do you have an tips/videos on tension in the soft palate? I have a lot of discomfort in that area when I sing.
I can,t do that fast.Will i be able to do that fast.If i start from slower yah yah
Sure, start more slowly and then increase speed as your tongue frees up.
Maam , in ,A vowel ) I am very comfortable to touch g#3 note but when it comes e,I ,u vowel I am unable to touch E3 note ..my voice starts straining...is the the problem of tounge?.and ma'am my tounge tip width is very less and not flexible I think. What is the problem ma'am plz.suggeat some exercise
This is very likely tongue tension on those vowels. I have videos with exercises on all of this. See them in my playlist on vowels: Vowels in Singing - Clear, Aligned & Beautiful ruclips.net/p/PLaWjWxiTysDADhRVZJvoZI0QJzbsWShRg
@@Victoria-Victorious thank uh so much ma'am..🙏🙏
Mam i have the habit of singing daily when i go to sleep or when im bored. In a day like 40% ill be singing. Will this cause tongue tension? Mam i try to keep tongue on palate but it comes down. I suck my lips with tongue. Will this change my facial strucfure ? I have more tension in my tongue😥😥
Oh, sorry, but I cannot answer your question without seeing and hearing you.
Need an instructor 🤠.
I cannot do the "yah" with the tongue 😅, the only thing I can do is "lah". Anyone else with this issue?
Fairly common. It just means that the middle and back of your tongue is a bit tight. 😊
@@Victoria-Victorious thank you for responding! How can I fix that?
I have other videos on this in my playlist on Tongue Tension while Singing. Slow down the exercises. Freeing up your tongue will free up your singing voice!
@@Victoria-Victorious thank you so much!
The fact she’s from ny (sounds like me) I’m locked in 🫶🏽
Thank you!
You're welcome! Hope to see you again soon!