Transform Your Singing with This Surprising Straw Technique 

Sooo true!I've been using a straw for 10 minutes a day for a month. It works. It relaxed my..not sure what but my voice is more resonant...fuller throughout my range.

Several years ago, after a neck surgery on my left-hand side, I was told some hoarseness would be a normal side effect of the surgery. This was supposed to go away after a few weeks. It didn't! An Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor told me that during the surgery they must have bumped the nerve to the muscle that controls that side of my larynx causing a muscle spasm which prevented the left side of my larynx from closing completely. The cure... ...Straw singing. She sent me to a speech therapist who had me do two variations of straw singing. The first involved gently blowing into a straw inserted into a cup with a few centimeters of water in it. The trick was to keep very steady blowing pressure by listening to the bubbles. The other technique was to then do straw singing also listening to the bubbles to keep the pressure the same. It too several months f doing this multiple times throughout the day for the hoarseness to go away.

I love the clear concise and useful way you present. I find the tone very positive and approachable. Your videos really are great!!

What a great idea. If only I could sing the words at the same time, but still love the straw affect.

hello Ronja, it's quite amazing why other online singing instructors have never mentioned this method i learned this like 40 something years ago, oh cr-p I just give my age away, strangely the straw is maybe the best tool, and the fermentation device to use later when you have expanded on breathing, I absolutely back you up, anyone reading this, it is amazing for the resonance one creates as well as the other things you mention, and actually it also has other benefits, like if you suffer headaches migraine try it you might actually be very surprised, I'm glad I came across you Ronja, clever girl,

I love the Kazoo! 🙌🏻🙏🏻🎉🎶It is SO funny!😄 Thanks Ronja for this new video!

I always enjoy your teachings ❤. Thank you very much coach Watching you from Ghana,west Africa

Hey Ronja, my cool substitution was an "bombilla" for "yerba mate", which is just a metallic straw used for drinking this traditional tea, very common in south american countries, like mine, Chile. Cheers, and thanks for another super useful video!

I’ve got myself a really cheap, plastic kazoo. I’m very pleased with it, it plays very easily, with a pleasant tone! Now to try it with ‘Nail the Pitch’

I've never been a great singer but I think I've gotten better as a side benifit of learning the didgeridoo. This video supports my theory!

Love your videos! (from Brazil)

Interesting and easily explained. Thank you.

I love the new backdrop! ❤ I will now go hunt down some straw substitutes in my home! 😂

Mam you techniques are amazing and practical also...some techniques fell weired but very effective..from India

I think I am a baritone. When singing higher notes through the straw my vocal folds colapse and lose control. I try backing off the air steam to correct it. That works sometimes.

Thank you for your tutorial. It is definitely something I need to improve my voice. How long each day should the straw method be used for. Also, do you recommend a steamer before singing to clear congestion? Thank you.

Excellent video, so smart, a great help to learn better how to feel singing!!! Love it veeeeery much!!! ❤

Thank you for the video - I have a question. Is the straw necessary, or could I just purse my lips as if I had a straw there and do the exercise?

Any fun straw substitution ideas?

😎👍👍👍very interesting. I've never heard of this technique. I'm a Loveless I was born singing. Auto sub, share, and like! ❤❤❤

Love legato singing, great stuff!

Creating a small opening with thumb and index finger like a tiny o. Then hold it on your lips like the mouse peace of a trumpet. While humming like singing let the lips buzz a bit like playing a trumpet. This way its maybe even better as a straw or other small tube solutions for back pressure .

glad i see this video

Well done

Do you have proper warm up techniques for weak vocal cords?

I'ma try this 1 hour a day, I hope it will being back my voice & enhance it further, there r songs I cannot complete coz one line requires a highest note but I can't reach it + I don't wanna remove the line😅.

This might be helpful for beginners, but folks can also get stuck with a crotch, if they don't understand how to hold back the air without the straw. My experience: Rather than creating a back-pressure through a straw in order to combat the air-pressure from the lungs, we could just diminish the initial air-pressure through opening our rib cage and relaxing the belly, holding back the air in the lungs that way when we sing and practice. I feel like that goes more directly to the source of the problem and is a more long-term sustainable solution.

Hi Ronja-the straw exercise works brilliantly for me at first,but after 2 minutes my voice returns to normal. how do i make it stay! thanks paul

Thank you for this! I have a few of questions: - How wide should be straw be? does it matter if i use a skinny straw or a big bubble tea one? - Does it matter if the straw has a curve to it, or should it be straight? - I've been told to do this into a cup half-full of water. Does that make any difference?

I'm taking singing lessons and a singing (vocal) straw came up in conversation so I've been researching. Isn't it important that the straw be narrow enough to create some back pressure? Some of what you are using or recommending doesn't look like it is narrow enough. There are singing straws for sale on the internet and are 2mm up to 9mm. Educate me on this.

emptied a stylo, works well

I used to be a singer in a small band when I was younger. Now my voice cracks and I always feel like I have Phlegm in the back of my throat. Am I just to old, I'm 72, or is it something I can overcome? I really enjoy singing even if I am alone on a country road.

I will get backlash for pointing this out, but the Vader theme here has one wrong note, the next to last tonic, which is lower (to the leading tone); tougher to sing, yes, but so cool!

You had me at the imperial march... lol

Thankyou soo much for always uploading such helpful videos ❤.....Can u please tell me how to improve our voice as well as vocals,pls....

I used a (red) penne pasta, it really worked well!

Will it help my singing voice by playing a harmonica?

I'm struggling with my Sustainability, especially on high notes. my voice shake a lot on high notes. Any help?

Is there any harm in doing this exercise months after Thyroid Surgery?

Please can you put up a video on how to sing on a steady key. Thank you. Also how can someone know and identify his comfortable key

I’m sorry but I didn’t get the free lesson link… Can you help out?

Tank's,i am from indonesia

What about a metal straw? Love this technique, thanks!🌻

Video starts at marker 3:12 :I

Would that be similar to singing through my teeth?

I’ve realized I’m here for the kazoo sound effect.

You’re a sweetie pie.😊

I saw Jungkook doing it in his latest music Vlog ;)

(I'm a high BARITONE)my vocal range has decreased a little bit and it's harder for me to reach the high notes?How do I get my vocal range back the way it used to be?????Don't get me wrong my voice isn't horsey I can still practice but should I practice or do I rest.Or can I practice regularly but avoid the higher notes till my higher notes come back????😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

I use old vapes I have, I'd hollow it out and clean it and it worked fine

are you singing or humming through the straw?

My substitution is really freeeee and easy to get its "pens refill"

Every singer / homebrewer here, now thinks you're super cool!

🥰😍😘

Use a twizzler red or black

It's this an April fool's gag? I paid a professional singing coach £££ for lessons and this"slipped" past his radar? Now I know why the straw man in the wizard of oz has such a good voice.

Very good lesson! Thank you!.. you are quite attractive by the way!

Compression resistance must ultimately be ONLY at the closed glottis.

I'm trying to guess what other language you speak. The way you said "tsee" for "see", I'd say German?

Nibbling on your little ears will be good for my voice 😝

Hva! Er du dansker? Took me long enough.... hahah

Unfair not to add a comment, watched some other straw video and just didn't explain this, some didn't even show any exercise, they didn't even care or realize people hate when RU-vidr rarely ever get to the main point and early enough. Thank for being wise

A great lesson but the TWO MINUTE advertisement at the start will have scared off a lot of viewers. Damn you, RU-vid

i use an unlit cigarette but, same effect

Wth is a fermentation valve and why would I have that but not a straw 😂

Could I just do lip trills and hum instead or does this add something that those exercises do not? Anybody know?

bigger straws from boba tea shops

first!

round pasta noodle

Er du dansker?😊

nah kalo pake sedotan suaraku cuma sampe C ...

If Karine Jean-Pierre were a vocal coach . . .

I am so confused. In Indian classical style and even some western teacher ask to open mouth more rather than less.

Why do you need you need an object? Can't you just make the shape with your mouth without it?

Hmmmmm, It seems a bit hard to say the words, let me know,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Gib

Imagine being in conversation with someone about singing or some other important and interesting subject and they talked at you without breathing/comprehension pauses. How nice would that be? It's not nice to get your brain to reinsert the natural pauses and so the strain becomes too much and you click the off button.....Bye now!

Thank you for the tips and thanks for not getting into the business of selling $50 straws.

Singgeek provides good tutorials, but the condescending tone of the tutor puts me off a bit.....

I want my coach to use star wars melodies when we warm-up.

this sounds like gobbledygook