Improve thick mass & vocal fold closure: loud, clear, sustainable voice.

Name: 5 short tones
Goal: improve vocal fold closure and develop thick mass (thick mass = loose, thick vocal folds with a lot of contact area; also called chest voice)
Exercise Setup: It’s best to just listen to it right away: You’ll hear 5 short notes on one pitch; you’ll hear the whole thing two rounds each, then it goes up in semitone steps.
Range of the exercise: G – G

Here‘s how:
1st round: laxvoxe on ooo. Make sure you make short notes that start and end directly, so no soft onsets.
Make sure the LAX VOX® tube is at the optimal depth = it doesn’t feel strenuous and you don’t have to “blow” to get against the water resistance.
Just like that, you can now laxvox the second round as well, or you can now take the tube out of your mouth and do the exercise on the vowels:

2nd round without LAX VOX®: Say the five vowels a e i o u, or the “thick vowels” a a a a, ä ä ä, open o, (as in “och ne”) o o o o o
All vowels begin and end with clear, direct onsets. The voice sounds clear and direct, but not pressed.
Listen for the brief bubbling in the water. It sounds like this: “Flupp Flupp Flupp Flupp”.

Movement idea: The music is composed extra rhythmically. Like to move around the room while doing this; walk, dance, bob, sway. Everything is allowed.
The movement prevents you from straining and concentrating too much, and thus building up too much air pressure, which is not good for your voice.
Keep the body and abdomen nice and loose, without paying attention to specific breathing patterns. You can only breathe “properly”.
If you feel you have too much air, exhale briefly before each vowel.
The loose thick mass and vocal fold closure comes from looseness in the muscles, not strength.

Name: Short short laaang
Practice goal: Work on vocal fold closure and thick mass and be able to hold both on a longer note.
Exercise Setup: It’s best to just listen to it right away: You’ll hear 3 tones in the pattern on one pitch for a short time, then move on to the next pitch. You go up a total of 4 semitones. Then the pattern starts all over again. When the second pass is finished, the same pattern goes up a semitone.
Range of the exercise: G – D

Here’s how:
1st round: laxvoxe on oooo. Make sure you make short notes that start and end directly (so no soft onsets).
Make sure the LAX VOX® hose is at the optimal hose depth = it doesn’t feel strenuous and you don’t have to “blow” to get against the water resistance.
On the longer note at the end, hold the note just so and end it with a direct paragraph.

2nd round without LAX VOX®: Say the five vowels a e i o u, or the “thick vowels” a a a a, ä ä ä, open o, (as in “och ne”) o o o o o
All vowels begin and end with clear, direct onsets. The voice sounds clear and direct, but not depressed.
Listen for the brief bubbling in the water. It sounds like this: “Flupp Flupp Flupp Flupp”.

Movement idea: The music is composed extra rhythmically. Like to move around the room while doing this; walking, dancing, bobbing. Everything is allowed.
The movement prevents you from straining and concentrating too much, and thus building up too much air pressure, which is not good for your voice.
Let the body and abdomen already loosely join in, without paying attention to specific breathing patterns. You can only breathe “correctly”.
If you feel you have too much air, exhale briefly before each vowel.
The loose thick mass and vocal fold closure comes from looseness in the muscles, not strength.

Name: Short tones up and down
Practice objective: vocal fold closure and produce thick mass with rapid changes and different pitches.
Exercise Setup: It’s best to just listen to it right away: You’ll hear 5 short ascending tones each (up the stairs) and then it goes 5 tones down (down the stairs). This pattern repeats again two times, then goes up to the next semitone.

Here’s how:
1st round: Laxvox the tones very briefly into the tube. Always ensure the appropriate hose depth as described above.
Even if the tones change quickly – don’t rush. Feel free to walk around the room and enjoy the music instead of focusing too much on the sounds. It’s not a big deal if you don’t hit them all. You can now first both round laxvoxing.
Or you can work with the vowels:
2nd round without LAX VOX®: just like above, you can play again with the vowels a ä open o in the second round. z. For example, all on a, all on ä, all on open o, or you try the following series:

a ä o a ä o a äää (remember that o is open, as in “och ne”)
a a ä a a ä a äää

All vowels begin and end with clear, direct onsets. The voice sounds clear and direct, but not depressed and not particularly loud. Think about speaking.
Listen for the brief bubbling in the water.

3rd variation: You can also do this exercise as a glide tone = join all tones together while maintaining the thick mass and vocal fold closure.

Movement idea: Move around the room. Groove, walk to the rhythm, dance. Any movement is good because it helps you not to be too focused and thus create excessive tension. Keep your belly loose and your breath at rest. He’ll do it ;-D

Name: Dancing Nana or Jaja-Owääää
Practice goal: vocal fold closure and take thick mass to higher registers / “belting” or calling for speaking voice.
Exercise Setup: It’s best to just listen to it right now: Stephanie sings you a melody on the thick vowels here. At the end of each round there is a loud OWÄÄ.
Range: g# – a#’

Here’s how:
If you’ve already done all the previous exercises, you can just sing along here, and you don’t necessarily have to laxvox anymore. But if you notice during the singing or at different pitches, especially when it gets higher, that it gets tight or you start to press, then laxvox this round first and then sing along again.

The music consists of a thousand drums that should make you dance. Remember, the more exercise, the better.
You first sing ajajajajaja that may be nice and thick and as unhealthy as possible, clumsy, direct. Then comes the OOOwÄÄÄ. The OOO may be nice and thick and the ÄÄÄ may be really sharp, bright, loud. So if you were watching someone steal your bike, you’d say, “Ew, don’t do that. Dare to speak up.
Go with it only as high as works well for you today. When it gets tiring or tight laxvoxe again the melody with. Let them cheeks loose with bubbling, chew, move the tongue in the mouth.

Movement idea: This song invites you to dance. Who can resist this groove. Remember, the more the body moves, the less misalignment occurs.

Name: Yeah Yeah Yeah
Practice goal: vocal fold closure and take thick mass to higher registers / “belting” or calling for speaking voice.
Exercise Setup: It’s best to just listen to it right now: Stephanie sings you a tune here on Yeah yeah yeah (JÄ JÄ JÄ sung).

Here’s how:
If you’ve already done all the previous exercises, you can just sing along here, and you don’t necessarily have to laxvox anymore. But if you notice during the singing or at different pitches, especially when it gets higher, that it gets tight or you start to press, then laxvoxe this round first and then sing along again.

Sing it. Put all your Beyonce power into the performance and sing along. When it gets tight or exhausting laxvox again.
Dare to be loud and portable. Being loud is a conscious choice. Go for it. Sing along as far as it still works well for you. That’s usually further than you think you can go ; )

Movement idea: This song invites you to dance. Who can resist this groove. Remember, the more the body moves, the less misalignment occurs.