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Summary: Learn the chin muscle test to help you sing with proper vocal technique with singing and vocal training tips in this free online vocal coaching video clip.

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James Meny James Meny has been teaching the "mixed" or middle voice technique for years. He is also trained in the opera and classical styles and has studied extensively... read more

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Chin Muscle Test Vocal Exercise

JAMES MENY: I'm going to talk a little bit about an exercise that I find really useful to determining whether you are carrying baggage or not. And I don't care how good a singer you are. If you do this exercise and you find it not working, then there is something else you're doing to sing than the bare minimum. Okay. So this is really simple. You find your chin and you go back a few inches and you're going to feel this big, soft muscle here. As long as you relax, it's soft, okay. And this is part of the hyoid set of muscles here that are underneath the jaw. We're not talking on the neck and it's not right at the chin. It's right below the jaw line or the mandible. And it should remain soft. I'm going to give you a scale, real simple, that you can check. And you want to go up and down on it until you find that this is not working. The idea of it is that this muscle has nothing to do with your singing other than to pull the mandible down. It doesn't create phonation, it doesn't do anything for you to make you sound better or worse. So if this is moving or if it stiffens while you are doing the scale or singing, particularly when you're doing a scale. I understand in singing, 'cause you gotta say words, it might move. But in the scale itself, if this moves or stiffens, then you're not doing your singing correctly. You're using outside neck muscles.

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