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Summary: Learn how to practice a lip bubble vocal exercise in this free video clip on singing, musical instruments and music theory.
Brian Hudson is a professional songwriter in Austin, TX. He has toured and recorded with the Hudson's, a local folk band in Austin, for the past 6 years. Brian also teaches folk, jazz...read more
"So here is another vocal exercise. This is called the Lip Bubble and it is basically when you do this over your exercise. And the idea behind doing... of your exercise is to basically learn how to regulate your breathing because you do not change the amount of air that you use for any given pitch when you are making this sound. So this helps you regulate your breathing. And you want to basically be trying to use about the same amount of air everywhere that you are singing so that you kind of know and get a better sense of; you always want to have plenty of air to sing any note. That is kind of axiomatic to singing. Then this exercise helps you regulate air use. So here we go. We will start up higher with a high G. Okay, basically I am at the top of my range and I am going to work myself out around there. So now I am hitting that note that is a half step higher strongly."