Mirening is an exercise that will transform your voice. Basta!
It is that easy to learn and that simple to implement and that necessary to do.
And the good thing is, it is fun. It will make you laugh. You will feel at times like Mickey Mouse or a lovely Martian that has swallowed helium.
MIRENING is excellent for improving intonation.
It puts together the task of pitch and articulation.
MIRENING is excellent for learning and memorizing lyrics.
It helps to commit the words to muscle memory.
MIRENING is excellent for running through a show and marking through music
when you want your voice to stay fresh for a show in the evening or a studio job.
MIRENING regenerates your voice,
because you are thin fold singing and not working with the whole vocal fold mass.
Yes you can work and train and preserve your voice.
MIRENING is the exercise to run all repertoire and songs at 80 percent reduced sound level and still have optimal training.
I use 'mirening' to work through material while on tour in hotel rooms or at night time when people may be sleeping.
Curious? Here's how you start:
1) Say the word "kiNG" or "riNG"
and feel where you tongue goes. The tip of the tongue stays behind the lower
front teeth and the back of the tongue raises and gently leans against your
soft palate.
2) Begin to HUM using an 'ng' /n/ and start sliding through easy and small intervals.
The back of the tongue should stay in a high position and soft.
The airflow is at a low level and relaxed.
3) ADDING TONGUE - JAW - and LIP isolations.
Keeping the 'ng' position in place, we will
begin to isolate different parts of the jaw, tongue and lips.
JAW: Keeping the 'ng' position in place sing
a steady tone and while doing so begin to drop your jaw slightly and close
again. Drop it no further than a 1 ½ to 2 finger width apart and always keep
the contact to the soft palate with the root of your tongue.
TONGUE TIP: Jaw slightly open and back of
tongue in the 'ng' position, begin to lift the tip of your tongue up and down
as if you were to speak an 'l' or 'n' or 'd'.
BACK OF TONGUE is humming 'ng' and the tip
of your tongue is moving up and down.
LIPS: Starting again with the 'ng' humming
tone. The tip of the tongue is now resting down and the jaw is slightly
dropped. Now, we will explore isolating the lips.
While humming, move your lips as if you were
speaking an 'm' or 'w' 'p' or 'b'. Your jaw is simply dropped and not moving,
the back of your tongue is up and in the 'ng' position and only your lips and
moving.
All of these movements help to isolate different parts of the tongue and lips and listening to the continuous 'ng' humming sound helps you to monitor aurally the contact between back of the tongue and your soft palate.
4) CHOOSE a favorite song.
In the beginning try to choose a song with a smaller range and that has a slower feel to it so
that you can begin to coordinate all the different muscle isolation.
5) Continuing first on ONE long sustained pitch,
begin to MOUTH the words of the song. Add the mouthing of words to the 'ng' sound.
You want to make sure that you can hear the 'ng' at all times. Often, producing consonants will change the tension in our tongue and pull the tongue down from the back upper position.
In the exercise we are learning to release the root of the tongue and to isolate the tip of the tongue, lip and jaw muscles.
NOTE: you do not want to hear any VOWELS on the MIRENING exercise.
6) Now keeping the 'ng' placement add the melody of the song to the mouthing of the words. Make sure you hear no vowels and that the 'ng' continues throughout.
It is great training!
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In this podcast
I share with you an example of MIRENING
using an easy song that you all should know.
Pulmonary air is not an option in MIRENING:
remember the back of the tongue is lifted.
In MIRENING we use non-pulmonary air for the
sounds such as 's' or 'f' or 't' or 'p'.
7) Plosives and fricatives can be formed with pulmonary air
(that's air coming from the lungs) or non-pulmonary air (air that has been trapped in the oral cavity).
In the beginning this is a bit trickier to do. Practice by holding the 'ng' position in the back and trying to blow a kiss. Make the light smacking sound of blowing a kiss while never losing the 'ng' hum.
8) Work through ALL of your repertoire using the MIRENING technique.
With more than 100 songs written, 
