How to do the Lip Trill

In this video I will show you how to do the lip trill step-by-step, and explain why the lip trill is one of the best beginner exercises for singers to help with breath control. So start trilling your lips and improve your vocal technique.

Warm-up track, Female Singers

Warm-up track, Male Singers

[kellye.]

This is genius. I didn't think i was physically capable

[mintchoco]

literally searched "why do singers go brrrr" thank you for the explanation

[pigmouse]

OMG my chorus does this everyday and I have been just sitting back because I couldnt do this! This actually worked! I will share this with as much people as possible so that you will have more subs keep up the good work!

[boblem]

I'm a 65 year old man learning how to sing during the pandemic. Now, with lip trilling I can really annoy my fellow passengers when I'm using public transit! Seriously, I love your instructions and I am learning so much from you. I appreciate your teachings and am looking forward to more. Thank you.

[elrtnxr]

IT WORKED... IT ACTUALLY WORKED.. THANK YOU SO MUCH💕💕💕

[Helgawinkle]

After 1 year of choir, Musical Theater, and Show choir, I couldn’t have asked for a better video to find. I always struggled with knowing how much I should be breathing, but this literally cured me😭 Thank You!

[autumnricketts]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS WORKED! Thank you so much! I've been trying to do this for so so long and now I can! Thank you so much! I can't express how happy I am!!!

[MiremItziar]

I love how lip trills help me warm my voice but I had a hard time trying to do it, with this video I can finally do it right, thank you so much! 😃

[ailecheri]

WOW??? this is the only video ive found that actually helped me understand how to lip trill. THANK YOU!!!!

[andysartz]

I'm not a singer, but a teacher, which is almost as hard on your voice, I think. I'm starting phonotherapy and couldn't for the life of me do this right. Thank you so much for this video, it helped a lot! I love how concise and straight to the point it is. =)

followed your advice and nothing, this is the hardest thing I've ever had to grasp. Then I remembered your EXPLANATION of how important the breathing and air pressure is to doing this and I GOT IT. What would help me to better understand how to do this is by taking a really DEEP breath and really pushing out that air and it worked. THANKS

[MargitMargalit]

Thank you so much - so many choir directors have tried to teach me and now I can. All always asked me to relax but the simple trick of what you do with the hands did the trick! Thank you!

[genesis_the_pegasus]

Thank you so much! I am someone who has a diastema at my two front teeth. I couldn't get it immediately, however; a few minutes later I realised that if I kind of block behind the gap lightly with my tongue it works fine! Now I just need to practice doing it without the fingers supporting. Subscribed! <3

[likeabunnie]

THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH! I've had the hardest time figuring out how to do this, and I've been trying to improve, and spent a few hours looking for a video that would explain HOW to get my lips to do that...

I was a band geek for most my life, but I'm out of school now and can't afford to rent an Oboe (I was super lucky and was always able to use school's... Reeds were still ridiculously expensive anyways, but I was lucky) so I've been trying to learn singing, it's great, and in a lot of ways my knowledge from band gives me a good understanding of the general music concepts and such, it's very interesting how much is similar, but also how much it's an entirely new "instrument", but even in a much more foreign way than trying to understand another wind instrument, because to form words, there's way more different articulations to learn (plus it took awhile to even know what I didn't know, haha, like where in a note the vowel and consonant sounds go, etc... I'm friends with singers and most of them just didn't know that wasn't just... Something everyone knew... And I didn't even know what all I was doing wrong - it's funny how the more you learn, the more you learn, the more you know you need to learn! It's great, though, I really love learning!)

Anyways, I'm so thankful for this video! It makes sense that people wouldn't understand how it could be so hard for me to just... Do it, lol... And I knew I was doing too much tension in my cheeks, I was laughing at myself because I knew somewhere in my mind I was trying to buzz my lips like embouchure for French horn(/brass- I didn't really play brass but I liked trying basics on my brother's horn... I do not have the air for brass, haha!) or at least just like... When my lips would be exhuasted after oboe for too many hours in a row, my mouth would still be able to hold the embouchure to play oboe, but my lips would kinda do this spitting thing as I leeked air around the reed, which is not correct... So between something in my head thinking it was "wrong" (lots of things are wrong in one context and not in another) and just... Laughing at myself because I KNOW the lips aren't making the note, but I was looking in the mirror and trying so hard to figure out how to relax my lips, but still have enough... Idk what it is still actually, but there's something that makes the lips buzz... Maybe it's how close together they are?

I'm silly but I'm gonna watch this at least several more times haha... I know it seems super simple, and in some ways it is, but I guess everyone has different strengths and challenges, and this is challenging for me, but it's also SO MUCH POTENTIAL to help me become a way better singer, especially because I have asthma and realize in retrospect that, after doing all sorts of great "breathing exercises" back in high school band, I would end up having more issues with breathing once we started playing... I now realize oboe actually doesn't take that much air, so I ended up with a bad habit of not taking a FULL breathe and filling my diaphragm before starting to play on oboe (not really sure if that was correct or not... I've learned a bunch of stuff from singing that I SO wish I could try out on oboe, too, because I know I've gained skills that would make me better at oboe.... My embouchure is likely weak, but still... It'd be cool)... But with singing, if I don't take a full breathe, I run out of air way too quickly (duh haha... Muscle memory is hard to combat though haha...but I'm getting there!), and overall I definately need to improve my air support and this is such a perfect way to challenge that and improve, and now I at least know how to do it enough that I can work at it!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! :-D :-D :-D

[PastorOogway]

Never felt more ridiculous on my life..

A small price to pay for *higher notes*

[Saivinity]

I appreciate this video a lot, it seems stupid but I could not make the lip trill thing work at all and just watching this made it easy. Much appreciated!

[hemmyhardingfela]

This is literally the FIRST video that helped me do lip trills. I literally can't do it without the support, maybe 1 second without sound. But everyone is like "just do it it's so easy" and I'm just crying over there thinking I can never be a good singer bc i can't do them. THANK YOU ❤

[Lily-gsiv]

Thank you!! I could not do this to save my life until I watch your video. ❤

[maggiesoulbird]

Wow it worked! My daughter and i were struggling with this! I'll teach this to her thank you!

[joannehamel]

Thank you!!! I just joined our community choir. I was told to "do lip trills" went I practice my scales. Easier said than done!!! Thank you. Well done!😀