Content

• Steps
• Part 1 of 3: Positioning the Mouth and Tongue
• Part 2 of 3: Sound Shaping
• Part 3 of 3: Finding Whistling Problems
• Tips

Whistling may seem like a simple matter, but finding the correct tongue position can take a lot of practice. You can learn to play one tone, but how about singing the whole song? While there are different methods, you need to start with the basics.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Positioning the Mouth and Tongue

1. 1 Flatten your tongue so that it rests on the upper molars on either side of the mouth. This creates a corridor along the palate. Don't let air come out to the sides. By forcibly blowing air along this corridor, you will not emit a noise of breathing, but a sharp whistle.
   • Place your tongue close to the palate, extending the tip of the tongue towards the front teeth. Place the sides of the tongue over the molars. This will flatten the tongue, narrow the canal along the palate, and at the same time form a wide slit in the front of the mouth through which air will be pushed.
   • The correct location is very important here.To make the whistle, you must blow air out of the sharp bend, which in this case is created by the front teeth and tongue. Blowing air higher in relation to the palate makes it even steeper.
2. 2 Press your lips tightly into your teeth. This reinforces the steep bend in the air passage formed by your front teeth. Resist the urge to stick out your lips, as this will produce the sound of breathing.
   • Pout your lips as if you are kissing someone and make a small hole in them less than the diameter of a pencil. Your lips should be kind of firm, tense and there should be a lot of wrinkles on them - especially on the lower lip. It should push forward a little more than the top one.
   • Don't let your tongue touch the top or bottom of your mouth. Instead, it should hang in the mouth at the back of the front teeth.
3. 3 Practice breathing without puffing out your cheeks. For the whistle, the air must follow the indicated path - it must not linger in your cheeks. They may be pulled in slightly as a result of protruding lips. Imagine drinking with a straw - this is how you should look all the time.
   • It should be difficult for you to inhale - the hole formed by your lips should be so small. Then you will be able to control your breathing through it, and you will be able to do it for longer than if you were speaking or singing.

Part 2 of 3: Sound Shaping

1. 1 Blow air out of your mouth slowly, experimenting with the position of your tongue. Although the air passage along the palate should be short, too little space creates a very noticeable breathing sound. Once you find a balance between these sounds, you can move your tongue back and get different whistle heights.
   • It's all about the tongue and cheeks. When you "blow" air through your lips, the main problem can be either that you are blowing too hard, or that the shape of the mouth is not quite correct.
2. 2 Adjust volume and pitch. The less you catch your mouth (large 'o') and the more air, the louder the volume, lower 'o' and less air will make the whistle quieter. It is necessary to collect lips, but not very strongly; just enough for the lips to form a small 'o'.
   • Try to blow; and if there is sound, move your tongue to find out which position gives the best tonality and sound. The pitch depends on the volume (physical volume) in the cavity you create between the opening formed by the lips and the back of the throat. The smaller it is, the higher the sound will be; accordingly, with a smaller cavity, the sound will be lower. In other words, the closer the tongue is to the mouth, the higher the sound is.
3. 3 Experiment with modulation and pitch position. There are many ways to modulate the pitch of the whistle with your tongue: you can swing it back and forth, as with a cane whistle (in fact, it is even very similar), or you can bend it up and down, decreasing or increasing the space. With more experience, you can also use your throat to expand that space and produce even lower notes.
   • The vibrato effect is produced by moving the tongue slightly back and forth, so that there is a jitter between the two notes. As mentioned earlier, it's all about the tongue, cheeks and exercise. If you can whistle, whistle all the time.

Part 3 of 3: Finding Whistling Problems

1. 1 Experiment with wetting your lips. Some people believe that it is a myth that the need to wet your lips to whistle is a myth, others swear it is true. If you are having trouble whistling, try moisturizing your lips. Think of it like wetting your finger before getting sound out of the rim of the glass.
   • Wetting does not mean pouring. Lightly moisturize the inner lips and keep exercising. If you notice a difference, then this method might work.
2. 2 Try blowing air in, not blowing it out. Some people get better at whistling when blowing in air than when blowing out.For most people, however, this is much more difficult. However, the position of the tongue and mouth will be the same. If the standard method doesn't work for you, try it.
3. 3 Adjust the height of your tongue. When the front of your tongue is behind your teeth, lift or lower it slightly. Did the tone change? Does one of the tones sound closer to a whistle than the other? Continue changing the position of the very tip of your tongue until you find a tone that you can reproduce.
   • Once you find the correct position for tip tongue, start experimenting with moving the middle part of it. This changes the air flow and therefore the altitude. Once you find other pitches, it will only take you a while to figure out which position corresponds to which note.
4. 4 Do not give up. It takes time to master the art of whistling. It can take a long time before you find the correct shape for your mouth or know how much air to blow out. Before worrying about pitch or volume, focus on getting an even tone.
   • Ask your friends how they do it. You may be surprised as they may have a slightly different technique. Each person's mouth has a slightly different shape and size from the rest, so the fact that we all whistle in different ways is quite logical.

Tips

• The whistle can be helped by imagining the mouth as a simple whistle, inside of which there is a tongue protruding into the air channel and forcing the air to bend around a sharp turn. This is the effect you need to reproduce with your teeth and tongue.
• Don't force breathing. If you feel tired, take a break and continue afterwards.