0799 – A Trill-iantly Easy Lip Warm-Up

2023.03.10 – 0799 – A Trill-iantly Easy Lip Warm-Up  Lip trills These encourage you to relax your mouth and lips, easing the muscles associated with enunciating, warming them up and encourage a consistent air flow·        Close your mouth and teeth and relax your lips and cheeks·        Exhale to vibrate your lips until you use up all your breath (if this is tricky, put an index finger on each cheek at the end of each lip, and press lightly)·        Repeat with short bursts of ‘trills’, gliding from a low tone up to a higher one to make a sound similar to a child doing a car impression – or a braying horse on a rollercoaster ·        Repeat with more tense lips