hey chris liepe here helping you stop throat and neck tension here and now
let's make it so that it's not an issue for you so that you can express yourself creatively through
your voice no matter what you're singing in this video we're going to take some cues from tom york
tastes like
but i can't help
i could blow through the
sea if i just
now if you're not sure what it feels like to properly support your voice
you don't have that sensation built into how you sing what we're going to be going through
in this video is going to be very tough for you so if you need more help with this
click the link below and join my free voice course and thoroughly go through those videos
watch this video and between that free course and this video you'll be able to relieve and get rid
of your throat tension neck tension while singing if you've ever sat across from someone and they
make a quick gesture at you like like this or they pretend like they're gonna throw something at you
what do you do you wince you tense up momentarily you're reacting to a perceived threat
there even if they're just throwing a straw at you or something there's this reaction that's
based out of it's a fear response it's uh i better get out of the way something's going to hurt me
or something's startled me and you can't help it you can't help but react like that if you
don't know what's coming if you're surprised by something if something is unfamiliar and
creeps up on you like that or blatantly gets your attention your natural reaction is to is
to do this you tense up and you tense up in ways that you can't control so when we look at throat
tension like this it is a fear-based response an unconscious manifestation of fear in your body
you don't believe me you think fear's too harsh of a word well when we are pursuing our singing
and we make singing about goodness we're trying to perform a song well we're trying to do something
good we're trying to hurt we're trying to hit a particular note or particular passage that we find
challenging we tense up we tense up because we are unsure of how we're going to be able to handle
what we're trying to do and this tension is a is the only way that our body naturally knows how to
protect itself it's not something we can control and it's not because we can't do something or
because something is too hard it is because of our perception that we may not be able to fulfill our
own expectations or someone else's expectations based on comparison and then we have to realize
that simply saying don't tense up or i got to work on not being so tense we can't say that
because then we're just going to not be able to fulfill our own expectations
as we try to relieve the tension we have to take a completely different approach we stop striving for
anything in the moment when we're singing when we feel that we are tensing up and we let ourselves
go what do i mean by let ourselves go well you have only to listen to the sedated
engagement of tom york and internalize this way of singing to understand what i mean
by let go yes he's hitting pitches yes he's saying words yes he's communicating
ideas but there is this sense that he is laying back in the experience of his voice
yes this is the beginnings of the exercise that i want you to do to start solving throat tension
it's a different way to think about your singing rather than singing she looks like the real thing
she says like the real thing where i'm focusing a lot on i didn't sound bad
but i'm focusing a lot on the pitches i'm focusing a lot on the lyrics and
i felt a little bit of tension there that's not how tom york sounds when he sings not how
he looks and not what we want to model ourselves after if we are trying to sing without tension
so i'm going to get rid of the words and i'm going to loosely hold the pitches
then i'm actually going to start sighing as i sing introduce a little bit more of the words
but i'm still going to be totally slurred what i'm doing is i am i am completely getting rid of
the attitude that i need to deliver on these lines instead i need to experience these lines in stages
and as i experience the resonance in my body as i experience the sound and the tone and the emotions
wash over me that i am summoning as i go about singing these lines some of the things that i'm
pursuing by just trying to be good are going to actually just appear out of nowhere into my voice
yes i'm saying the real thing
to say a real thing
faithless
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if you start coughing while you're sawing take a deep breath and make sure that when you're
engaging your throat you're engaging everything you feel as high in your throat as possible
let's do this again let's continue to sign in lines so it looks like a real thing
this is like a real thing
okay now that i've got this psi
this psi by net definition when we sigh we are releasing tension right
right when we're grunting we're holding on to tension but when we sigh
we're releasing tension so we want to sing sigh and gradually bring in our normal singing voice
and our our tension-free singing is a constant balance between sighing and precision sighing and
goodness but we don't ever want to pursue goodness alone for goodness sake just like the real thing
tastes like the real thing faithless
my fake blessed love now there's some interesting things happening with my voice that i kind of like
little bits of grit some neat emotive qualities that are happening and they're happening from
a a psi abandon standpoint rather than me trying to go
so it looks like the real thing that's actually not a bad way to sing but it is more tense and
it is more prone to creating unwanted throat tension especially as we get higher in our voice
if i take the psi release mentality and balance that with some of the other things that i do
i am going to be in way better shape especially as i start going higher she looks like the real thing
she looks like the real she tastes like the real thing my fake place
now i there's aspects of being intense here but i do not feel any throat tension at all here
so what do you do when you are being attacked by tension realize why it's happening and then sigh
in and out of your singing these two things calling your own self-consciousness out as to why
you're tense and then sighing out of the tension is going to be what keeps you from experiencing
chronic throat tension as you sing no it's not about doing exercises it's not about following
a certain thing to get your voice in shape it's about these two things again if you'd like more
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