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In this episode I am going to be answering Sam’s question from New Zealand. So, thank you very much for all of the correspondents that we have received from there I am going to be answering Sam’s question here today and Sam’s question is “where is the uvula and how to correctly do the Ung Warm Up Exercise?”.
So, first and foremost, warming up your voice is very important, you always want to do this before you do any scales or singing. We always wanted to make sure that your voice is properly warmed up so that you never hurt or damage your voice in the future because we want to always sing with a healthy voice with correct technique.
To start with let’s go over some basic anatomy.
In this 1st diagram here, looking at the back of our mouth, we’ll see a little bit of flesh hanging down at the back and that is called your UVULA.
When we’re doing the Ung Exercise, we want the back of the tongue just to block off the arch, or the back of the uvula; we don’t want the tongue to completely lift up and sit at the top of the hard or soft palate.
Moving to the second diagram, let me explain a bit about the hard and soft palate. What I would like you to do at home is to put your finger to the roof of your mouth just in front of the top teeth and you feel that this area is hard or bone. – That is called ‘hard palate’. If you keep running your finger backwards, it will get soft and this will turn to what we call ‘soft palate’. That will go back for about an inch to where your uvula will hang down and you’ll get another inch at the back of the uvula and then your nasal port opens up there enabling you to breathe with your mouth shut.
As well just so that you know, we have two sets of vocal cords. The most used set is the true set which is the lower set and this sits at the bottom of the throat. Try to vibrate or move your true voice by popping two fingers at the bottom of your throat while speaking – as it widens out below the Adams apple. It will vibrate there when you sing or speak. At the top of the throat, we have the ‘false cords’. Try to vibrate your false cords by placing two fingers at the top of your throat while speaking or singing in false voice… you should feel the vibration at the very top of your throat.
When we are doing the Ung Exercise it is done in 1/10 of your normal volume. This is ‘vocal yoga’. I have been using this warmup exercise my whole career and all of my professional singers and students use and warm up with this exercise and no one has ever had any vocal disorders after using this particular exercise and warming up properly before every show or before every practice session.
Your tongue needs to raise up when we’re doing the Ung exercise and block off the back of the Uvula – this is what your tongue will be doing. We do not want the tongue to come up and hit the hard palate as we’re going to get a dumb sound. The reason why we are doing this is because we are circulating warm air around the two sets of vocal cords. When you are humming, your mouth is shut, your tongue is flat and you feel the vibration at the start of your lips. We are taking that vibration and circulating the warm air around the two sets of vocal cords you when you block off the back of the uvula.
Please feel free to go back to our old YouTube clip regarding the Ung warm up exercise.
I hope that has explained our professional warm up exercise, keep the correspondents coming and I’m sure this will warm you up every time.
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