hey chris liepe here with dance gavin dance singer with slave singer with amarosa singer
johnny craig yeah the king of being kicked out of bands that's not what this video is about
we're talking about how to get the runs okay the king of runs sam the king of rock the king of runs
well
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always struggled with i have these sort of pre-programmed um agile things i can do where
you know i'm like following a pentatonic scale down or something like that but i struggle with
being able to on the fly move around neighboring notes like you do you seem to be able to do lots
of different combinations it doesn't seem to matter and i notice you're in there singing and
when you hit one of those runs it looks as though your mouth leads you in and i'm sure you're you
know you're thinking about the notes maybe not even each specific note that you're going to
but it looks like as though your mouth is leading you to a place and your voice is following can you
unpack that a bit i'm kind of in my brain i'm like picturing the note with the way that i'm going to
move my mouth okay so the way i want to make a note trail off or go up go down go side to side
i'm using my mouth and visualizing how my mouth is going to move so it's like
and you're just picturing how you're making your mouth look while you're doing it and so
it may look a little silly to some people and it may look you know dumb to someone watching
it but it's going to give you the most you know mobility it's going to give you the
the best chance you have at finding those notes moving them side to side up and down
letting your mouth lead you so if you go to that that one the very beginning of what you just did
am i doing it similar yeah so you're so much more articulate because you're letting your mouth move
it feels contrived to me to do that yeah i would rather go like this
well that's also using your throat more than you're using your mouth you're using the air
in your mouth so taking a nice big breath
you can just bring it up and down
is there a tongue component to it maybe a little bit you got to get comfortable with it
it's almost like a shake yeah what i lose the notes for a minute okay
kind of like a vibration because now i'm i'm doing oh
yeah yeah yeah yeah there now i've coordinated the movement of my jaw
with the with the movement of the pitch even though i'm not going for notes whereas if i ah
there's an added level of articulation there right like oh
i already feel the difference
you can go as fast and as slow as you want to whatever's comfortable do it again
that that's really helping me to you know so we'll call that the the the yoyo jaw uh
so if i take one pin
that really does feel like it takes strain off of what i'm trying what
i was originally doing with only my throat
yeah that works it works so let's talk a little bit more about breathing you've mentioned that
you need a lot of air to do these runs but talk a little bit about how you moderate your air
in the midst of those runs you know you've got a lot of notes going on obviously you're you're
moving and letting the voice be be led by your jaw how does airflow factor in there yeah well for the
you know the big then the money notes you know that's where the air kind of comes out for the
lane leaning back a little bit that's where we're conserving the air and you're using your jaw more
and it's it's kind of it's conserving it a little bit you're able to
you're able to hold you're able to get a bigger run in there because the jaw is
what's doing all the work as long as you're putting in a little bit it's coming out and
then the big notes is when you let the air out and you can do that big fancy thing at the end
where people are like wow how you know how did you do that right and the the jaw movement it's
it's really interesting because i think it's easy to think about jaw movement as tension
but when i watch you do this you look very free it's actually keeping you away from tension it's
a form of intensity that is leading your ear it is leading the physicality of what you're doing
and it's it's creating an opportunity to release the tension in your neck and then the airflow as
i'm putting this all together is a way to not only create dynamics but enable you to start and land
the run which creates character which creates the character right and it creates something that is
um a whole thought whereas if you were trying to just push air through the whole time uh
you may not have you may not be able to count by the end you may not be able to be relevant
by the end of that run you may not be able to i guess keep track he's letting his jaw or lead
those articulations i need to work on that that exercise to sort of gateway into this is that
moving you're letting your tongue just kind of be do what it does but getting your job
and working it sounds stupid as i'm working it out but i do feel how i'm able to simultaneously
back off on air and articulate something i haven't felt before until i tried that yeah very good up
and down side to side up and down good good ways to get that yeah you know practice that up and
down uh that up and down side to side do a couple more runs for us just just go for it so we can
yes it's so interesting because you lean in dynamically
if i were to do this a similar thing in my in the old way that i approach it
notice it's all one volume you are able to incorporate dynamics within your run
in a way that i can't with the technique that i use thank you very cool breathing breathing
breathing is huge yeah and then obviously side to side up and down if you want more stuff like this
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