How to practice protruding and rolling in the lips
Protruding your lips was probably easy to picture. Could you also picture what “rolling them in” means?
No, I cannot picture it at all…
Here, “rolling in” means folding both lips inward over the teeth as shown below.
I understand the shape, but I cannot move my lips that well…
If rolling in your lips is difficult, first use your fingers to push both lips into your mouth, then make sound in that position.
Once you are used to the shape with your fingers, gradually release them. Practice until you can maintain it without using your hands.
I see… But it is still difficult…
There is no need to rush.
It is difficult because you have used the muscles that return your lips to their usual shape to stabilize—or fix—your voice.Your throat should be able to make the sound on its own, but the lips act as if saying,“The throat cannot manage alone; I must help!”That unnecessary interference has become a habit, also holding back the vocal folds’ development.
With repeated practice, you will learn to control throat and lips independently, so take your time. The throat’s own abilities, weakened by that interference, will gradually return.
On the next screen,practice with your lips protruded, distinguishing thick Goo, thin Paa and intermediate Choki.
Goo voice example
Paa voice example
Choki voice example
If this exercise is difficult,[Introductory 01]is a good lesson to practice more accurately first.