Tongue Position when Singing + Exercises to Avoid Tongue Tension 

I always noticed that little dip in the tongue whenever I watch live performances. Now I know to let it come over time. Thanks, Ranja.

so i did the exercise where you hold your tongue several times and sing, and I did it and sung a high note WITH EASE. keep in mind I used to barely belt that note.

that really hit me when she said to sing your favourite song and then started singing "Wake me up"....oh we miss you AVICII....😑

1:26 who was watching this part in lockdown from the corona virus and is like NUH UH

I've been struggling with my larynx going down and going up for 10 months now. It makes me uncomfortable. Now I know why and it's because of tounge tension. I've been watching several videos, several vocal coach teachers but you're the one that makes my mind enlightened. Thank you for this wonderful video. You're the best❤

2:10 looks like that one randomized sim.

My daughter is trying to learn breathing positions how to breath when singing

"When you yawn....." Dang it, I did yawn!

since i was a little girl everytime I would sing i would naturally yawn..

Heard someone say to be sure to enunciate each individual word in order to make them more clear. It makes my voice more relaxed and flow more naturally. Changed everything. This video just took it to another level. Just under a year before my first live show. Definitely following.

I felt like my throat was straining, had no idea that my tongue placement was the cause of it thank you soo much for making these videos

how to ignore the feeling of awkwardness when we sing?

the back of my tongue feels like it's clogging my throat whenever i sing (but especially in my head voice) ive practced raising my soft pallette but my tongue goes up too. I just feel like my tone quality and volume would increase if my tongue could just MOVE OUT OF THE WAY but i can't control it.

Ma'am you are just awesome! Very detailed teaching! I'm your new student from India😁

😨 Wow! You don’t know how much this helped me, thank you x100 🙏🏽 I could never figure out how to stop sounding so nasally, keeping my tongue flat and raising my soft pallet is a little difficult for my brain to remember right now , but I know it’ll get easier over time

I know it works but my brain dosn't want to do it TwT

I loveeeee your video’s! I have been watching singing lessons for several years, but yours are the best! They are so clear and easy to understand! Thank you so so much!!! ❤️

Love your presentation style! I'm just an old geezer who loves to sing for myself and I've noticed through watching this video of Tony Bennett and Diana Krall singing 'Love is here to stay.' How relaxation allows for timing variation and creative delivery. I find this relaxation really helps. This pair delivery a wonderful version of the song. Do you agree?

This is an excellent and informative lesson, with GREAT practical exercises! I want to mention here that tongue position is a VERY hard diagnostic for a singer to make for themselves. Doing these exercises will cause no harm to anyone... but it would be good to have a live voice lesson (once the planet is able to do those again) and have a teacher diagnose what issues might be happening. Then use this video and these exercises to address the issues. As the young lady says, it's a fine line between too far out and too far in, and relaxation of the tongue works in conjunction with a whole apparatus of other muscles (larnyx, diaphragm, jaw, neck, soft palatte). I love your videos and have added you to the list I give to students for further self-guided vocal progress...

6:56 Tongue Retraction Exercises

Wow. You are the only one that helped me with my singing.. That retracted tounge was my issue and you helped me a llot

There's another kind of exercises I found useful: raspberry sounds, tongue trills, stretching the mouth and tongue, tongue twisters (the 'red leather yellow leather' kind). Perhaps the fact that they look so silly stops us from doing them more often, but they do help.

why do her character makes me feel relaaaaax ? cuz she`s honest and spontaneous .

YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!! My voice teacher was describing where to put my tongue and how it should be going out but I couldn't figure out the right position! This helped so much and now when I sing the high note in my song it bounces off the walls!!

Hey this helped me get rid of the bumps in my voice when singing

Hi!! Can tongue tension cause muscle pain in your throat because it is connected to those muscles?

I love your teaching styles. So clear! Thank you so much. I am 56 years old and singing was my newfound passion. 2 years ago when daughter quit vocal lesson after 2 sessions and had to pick up the lessons left coz they’ve been paid. From there have been watching videos for techniques. Thank you so much. You are an amazing teacher.

its INSANE how big of a difference there is!! this video was incredibly helpful and has changed my voice for the better!! thank you so much

I was trying it until she said this.. 4:34 Man i got goosebumps😶

Use a clean chopstick instead of a pencil to hold your tongue. Otherwise, awesome. Thank you!❤

Something tripping me up, is that i tend to pull the back of my tongue up during a yawn. It's hard to not do that, and it's and when trying to open that back of my mouth especially, the tongue want's to move up too. I don't think i always did it this way, but it's something I've gotten in the habit of when i get these violent-yawns set in when i get tired.

I yawned too much I cried

I didn't know the tongue was konneckted to the larnx. But yes my tongue seems to curl upin the center towards the roof but I feel it sounds nasal. I have damage though so it is not just bekause newbie.

This was a GREAT lesson I have to see what else you have posted. I've been teaching music for 35 years and I think my students will love hanging out on your site and learning things. Sometimes they listen to others better than the teacher! hahah I am a huge fan of RELAX and sing.

Excellent video. I was most certainly not doing it right all along, and this is what sorted me out. I was getting exhausted when talking, but could sing fine, this made me understand why.

I have both tongue retraction and tongue thrust. My tongue doesn't sit on top of my lower teeth but on my palate thought. As a result when I try to exercise keeping my tongue down and the tip of the tongue behind my teeth I end up with the back of my tongue raised and blocking all the space in my throat. Have you ever come across this problem? Any suggestions?

I am a girl but i have a boys voice i hate it please help me please i hate my voice so much please help me

If you have trouble with the tongue on the soft palate, study Mandarin. It has four different sounds in which the tongue goes up to the soft palate. In fact, one of the problems of learning Mandarin to English or English to Mandarin is that each language uses the tongue differently. It's fun teaching either language because you are confronted with changing so many ingrained habits of our languages. There is really no word "word" in Chinese and the underlying difference hear causes a great deal of confusion for speakers of either language.

I love this and all of your videos and especially the fact that you said that maybe we are also doing it right ! sometimes we are so stressed on getting better, and limiting tension, that its hard to know what is actually causing it in the first place

up until I watched this video, all the other sources of coaches have said a forward /neutral/ not retracted tongue is good. You're saying only neutral is good. That's a bit contradictory.

4:32 I literally tried doing that and said sorry 🤣🤣

Amaziiing! The roof of my mouth is always painful when I try to sing a lot of songs with high notes. I just need to relax my tongue behind my lower teeth and I think it helped! 🤩

1:24 this part help and the face u made after the finger thing was really cute XDD thanks for the tutorials :D

Wow, this Video is really helpful for me!!! I could feel the difference in my singing immediately!

Holy sht i thought I was losing my low chest voice it was just because of the tongue tension Thank You Singgeek!!!!

Should the tongue be touching the back of your teeth or be on top of them? And thanks for the video, very helpful !

You're amazing seriously you deserve a lot more subs💖

It's very difficult to hold the tongue while singing 😜😜😜😜

Whenever i sing my tongue produce saliva😂

Here is a tip. Do not try to sing at the same time as you are eating a bacon sandwich.

People told me that I need to yawn to lift my soft palate but if i do that will it stay lifted while I sing

Mam the problem from which I suffer is when I sing without mike , the song seems to be very melodious but when I take the mike and sing then the voice seems to come out through nose Mam what should I do for it? Please reply

After this I feel more confident about my singing

In classical singing the tip of the tongue should NOT be fixed in front and held flat. Especially in the higher register retracting the tip and keeping the tongue and arched. A flat tongue presses on the larynx. A grove in the tongue is a tension.

Thank you! You are an amazing teacher! :)

thank you a lot for this ...I have many problems with this and you just gave me a lot to work . this is very effectivet! thanks:) i just add 4 halftones to my range during practice! omg!!!

I’m really loving your teaching style,you’re charming with a professional approach

Helped me alot. I tried to find my problem because i strain my voice everytime and never found a solution. But with the exercises it is alot better.

Okay fellow Singgeek fans, let’s pay attention to how to spell tongue. T O N G U E. Seriously. Thank you.

where has she been all my life

Yeah... Alright... You've got a new subscriber. Really good video.

You definatley are a geek. Great topics you hit in the last two videos i watched. No one else talks about those things. I wonder how youtube chose teachers of all this random crap. Although, You made a great delivery in this topic. Lol.

Dang, this is kinda hard for me. I've been mewing for a few months now and my tongue just automatically resting in the roof of my mouth. Also, my mouth is kinda long and wide especially in the back part. And it's really hard to sing cuz my tongue just kinda roll and get tense that my tongue gets tired after singing. How can I fix this? 😭😭

Can you please make a video on singing OO and EE vowel on high notes. And your videos are awesome and gamechanging for me.

Hello Mam! I'm so dissapointed that only today, did I discover your channel. I did try your excersice and just found out one of my major problems why I cant sing properly. (2 years of watching other video tutorial never did this topic came out.) Thankz a lot! Accidentaly licked the eraser though.... Whaha.

How do i know that i am singing well? I have been doing exercise and receiving critics from my friends and family but i dont know whether i am singing well😭

Thank u so much ! Love ur all Breathing Tricks. Cause My Breathing very short when practice to sing

You're an amazing teacher! Thank u

The frog was very convincing!

Mam, Does mewing affect the singing in any way....? Please reply ....

Wow, this did it for me! Well I'm not a great singer by any stretch, but I definitely notice a big improvement when I listen to myself with proper tongue position (no more kermit voice), and singing notes in my range is a whole bunch easier (actually it just feels easier to sing now, cool!).

Definitely tension when I did the Kermit voice

You should have more viewers. You're very good at what you do! You seem to know a lot about singing etc.

While singing under the chin that should always be relaxed... ???

gosh,,my tongue is really long

Thanks! The examples of how it sounds (inside your own head) and how it feels were very useful!

Awesome Video My friend 🙂

Can I Show You How I Sing . I HAVE high Notes Problem With straining . I If I show you a Video Can you Tell me from Where is That Tension . And Where and what is my Mistake . Ps . YOURE Awesome

Thank you so much!!! You're a great teacher😊

Great idea I will always confused to use of tounge but you clear some my doubt...Thank you soooooo much🙏🏼👍🏻💐🌹😊🎼🎙🎵🎶🎶🎤

cute Explanation 😍... Love❤️ From India🇮🇳

You freaking rock! Thank you for making these!

4:40

Hi I have a question, why does my chest hurt and start shaking when I'm singing? Im trying im to prevent it from happening but I'm struggling

I am using my swallowing muscles alot while singing is there any exercise to not engage those muscles while singing?

Excellent thankyou i didn’t watch the full video i was jus making sure i was on a certain page

thanks for this detailed description. I must say you're really cute and adorable.

I do a little tongue retraction on certain parts of songs on purpose. I love to add different styles into one song. It brings interest. Love the yawn excercise.

Very informative,thanks for sharing

Hi!!! This video and all of the videos you made about singing , It helped me a lot . Thank you so much for sharing this with us . I was trying to find how to improve my singing voice and everything and all of them wasnt helping me but this video helped me a lot . Thank you :)

I’ve been trying to do it on purpose, lay it down. 😐 P.s.: I really like how natural you are! ;) Good on you!

This video has hands down changed my life thank you so much!!!!!

4:40

Very very nice useful guidence. Thankyou mam. H S Thaker Advocate Vadodara Gujarat India and Geeta Aunty

Anyone else trying to sing that la and sounds awkward 😂😂

Amazing video. Thank you so much. May I ask, where should the tongue be when humming ?

everytime I am done singing my throat feels hoarse and I produce phlegm. What do you think I should to correct this?

Thanks about all

Thank you so much for this video. You have made me understand why my larynx often raises. I have a question though. Does the larynx raise progressively as we progressively sing higher notes? In other words, if i were to sing C D E F G, does the larynx progressively get raised?

Is it because I'm growing up i can't sing how I used to? I remember when I was 11 I sang a song and it was good. But now, I feel too much saliva, I sometimes split when talking, I only have saliva when singing in other language than my native (english isn't my 1st language) I have problems with saying r in English, I can't take breaths while singing since it's hard. I just hope it's because I am a 14 yo, also I can't make high notes, my voice isn't capable of doing that.