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Spring & Summer Vocal Tips

Mon, 02 May 2011 19:46:00 +0000

SPRING & SUMMER QUICK TIP #1

HUMMING...AN EASY AND EFFECTIVE WAY
TO KEEP YOUR VOICE IN SHAPE.

With the weather becoming nicer, it is easy to overlook practice time

and to want to get outside and enjoy the spring activities.

It is fine to skip your routine indoor practice time, but you want to

keep your voice in tune. One easy and quick way to have the best

of both situations it to hum. Simple isn't it? Yes...and that's the point.

Singing and practicing doesn't have to be drudgery. It does require

regular work and time put in to keep your voice in good shape and

to strengthen it.

Humming scales, doing the hum-slide exercize (humming from the top
to the bottom of your range and then from the bottom to the top) humming
your favorite song, improvised humming are all important ways you can

maintain vocal power, flexibility and control.

Hum for 5 minutes the first time you begin the process...then a half-hour
or so later, hum for about 10 minutes...take a break and throughout the day,
hum off and on for 5 - 10 minute increments. Try to build the number of times
you hum throught the day during the week until you can hum 10 - 5 - 10 minute
rounds per day.

Proper breath support incorporated with the humming is essential.
Remember to utilize your diaphragm, stay relaxed and you'll find that you have

accomplished the equavilent of you vocal practice time...just not while being

stuck indoors.

Happy Humming! hhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

VOCAL WARM-UPS ~

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:40:00 +0000

VOCAL WARM-UPS

* stretch and yawn; do whatever you do to help yourself to feel deeply relaxed...

* take a deep breath (from the diaghpragm) and on the exhale say and extended hhhhhmmmmm
repeat X 10 allowing the lungs to release all of the air. Collapse your abdomen as you exhale.
* Do a hum-slide up and down your vocal range with "hhhhhmmmmmmmm."

* feel different parts of mouth and nasal area or "Mask/Mid-Range" vibrate with the different sounds:

MMMM MMMMMMMMMM... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV... Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum

* open your mouth , eyes, and face as wide as you can on the last syllable of:

Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula

SILLY PHRASES

* each phrase features different difficult consonant combinations.
Start slow, over-articulating and then increase speed

Red letter, yellow letter~

Good blood, bad blood~

Eleven benevolent elephants~

Teaching ghosts to sing~

The big, black-backed bumblebee~

A critical cricket critic~

Selfish shellfish~

Really rural~

Unique New York~

The tip of the tongue, the lips, the teeth~

To titillate your tastebuds, we've got these tasty tidbits~

COGNATES

* Feel a pulse in your diaphram with the following sounds

unvoiced: PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH

VOICED: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH

unvoiced: TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH

VOICED: DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH

unvoiced: KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH

VOICED: GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH

TONGUE TWISTER!

* This long tongue twister contains many buzz sounds and difficult
consonant combinations. It is possible to say all in one breath if you
use diaphramatic breathing and carefully control the volume of air
expelled. Articulate every sound!

What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two,

a thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do.

for they'll beat a tattoo at a quarter to two:

a rat-ta tat-tat ta tat-tat ta to-to.

and the dragon will come when he hears the drum

at a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two

Voice Disorders and Voice Therapy

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:35:00 +0000

TherapeuticVoiceWork encompasses many notions about vocalizing, singing and therapeutic methods for treatment and improving the voice. There are many areas of study with respect to voice therapy and several physiological and neurological voice disorders. However, there are psychological components effecting voice production and they are the focus of this article. Itis helpful to have a basic understanding of how sound is produced bythe vocal chords and other parts of the voice and helpful to have alittle knowledge about various physical disorders and treatments.

Vocal Hygiene

All voice rehabilitation should include the elimination of vocally abusivebehaviors such as throat clearing, habitual yelling or screaming,habitual breath holding, or glottal attack. Inhaled irritants such astobacco and toxic chemicals should be avoided. Gastroesophageal reflux,or chronic heartburn should be controlled. Itis important to not allow yourself to become dehydrated and you shouldfollow proper levels of fluid intake. Medications with drying potentialshould be minimized to optimize laryngeal hydration.

Five Main Categories of Voice Therapy:

Symptomatic voice therapy addresses the identification and elimination of vocallyabusive behaviors through facilitating approaches. These techniques facilitate a target or a more optimal vocal response by the patient. Examples include auditory feedback, head positioning, laryngeal massage, and relaxation. Disorders of misuse or abuse benefit from this treatment philosophy. Psychogenicvoice therapy addresses the underlying emotional and psychosocialissues that are causing the dysphonia. People suffering from conversion dysphonia would benefit from this approach. Etiological voice therapy focuses on recognition and elimination of the cause(s) of the voice disorder(s). Muscle tension dysphonia may benefit from this approach. Physiologicvoice therapy, a type of biofeedback, involves the use of acoustic and aerodynamic analysis to direct the patient's vocal function back to objectively normative physiologic voice function.

Physiologic voice therapy may be useful on a patient with falsetto. Two alternate classifications of voice therapy techniques -

Direct and Indirect;
Direct techniques focus on voice production and include techniques such as the yawn-sigh method, optimal pitch establishment, and laryngealmanipulation. Indirect techniques focus on reducing the etiologic factor that cause the voice problem and include auditory training and patient education. Through a meta analysis, comprehensive voice therapy was effective in improving vocal performance in adults with Functional Dysphonia.

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