Your Vocal Training Guide

Clarissa Sophia Von Der Golz

• Publisher: Sound Foundations
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781365857096
• Topic: Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
• Subtopic: Musica

This book will help you find your own unique voice, free it, and then make the most of it. In the process you will cure your TMJ, improve your posture and sex appeal, and reduce the severity and frequency of migraines. It is based on a 'Speech level' singing method, along with elements of 'The Alexander Method', and various self-help exercises designed by chiropractors for the treatment of TMJ, and migraine. This book is for anyone who wants to improve their posture, confidence, sex appeal, and of course their singing voice. it will improve their range, intonation, and clarity. It will put them on the path to discovering the full potential of their own unique voice. This book will be welcome by anyone who suffers from poor posture, migraines, or TMJ. All the exercises here worked for me. I was amazed at the positive difference the exercises have made to my life, and my singing. I am glad to be able to present them to you.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

YOUR VOCAL TRAINING GUIDE

First edition. March 14, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 Clarissa Sophia Von Der Golz.

Written by Clarissa Sophia Von Der Golz.

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Your vocal Training Guide

Find, and make the best of your voice

Improve your posture, confidence, and sex appeal

Cure your TMJ without surgery or expensive Chiropractic visits

Reduce the frequency and severity of migraines

Take control of your singing voice, and your life

Clarissa Sophia Von Der Golz

Copyright 2015 TROONATNOOR All Rights Reserved

Contents

Introduction

Preface

Explanations

Wax on, Wax off

Start forming (new) good habits today

Videos demonstrating the exercises

Singing and Psychology

Now just imagine that!

Self-confidence and Self-doubt

'Positive visualisation'

Self-hypnosis and the law of self-fulfilling prophecies

Here's a stand-up routine I just wrote on this theme

Optimal Breathing

'Passive breathing’

Breathing smoothly and quietly

The big ‘shush’

Posture and tension. Free your voice from its tension prison. Free yourself from migraines, TMJ, and poor posture

Treating and preventing poor posture, muscle tension, TMJ, and migraines

Before you even get out of bed

Relax every muscle

Release your voice from its tension prison

Pulling yourself up to your full biological height: 'The Alexander Method'

Two heads are better than one?

Neck alignment exercise

Massage

Chewing your tongue

De-couple your ‘swallowing’ muscles

You, tongue, down at the back! Or?

'I can do this!’

Ng-a, Ng-ay

Ya ya, Ya-ga, Ta-la

Tongue stretching

First a little neck and head massage

Neck stretches

TMJ ‘release ‘at the chiropractor or doctor

TMJ and jaw ‘release’

‘Self mobilisation’

TMJ 'retraction’

'The scream'

Take your hand and move your jaw back and forth, laterally, in and out, and side to side, horizontally, as you sing

Duck Lips

Chewing your words

Start a self-help group, book a room at your local library, and bring the kids

The ‘Speech Level’, ‘One Voice’ Singing Method

The speech level singing method

One-voice

Don’t forget to sing, and not merely vocalise

Train with vocalisations, but then go on to sing

Sing it like you’d say it

Throat Biofeedback

Using reverberation, resonance, and reflection, for vocal reinforcement

High sigh-ing your way to pharyngeal resonance

Power and loudness

Open your throat, not just your mouth

An exception to remember the rule by

Warm-ups and Warm-downs

‘One-voice’ warm-up, cool-down, and training exercises

Warming-down after straining your voice

Lip rolls at different speeds and ranges

Humming without resistance as a warm-up

Rapid scales warm-up

Nasal NG as a warm-up

Warm up with a ‘meow’

Good morning Elme...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Preface
• Explanations
• Wax on, Wax off
• Start forming (new) good habits today
• Videos demonstrating the exercises
• Singing and Psychology
• Now just imagine that!
• Self-confidence and Self-doubt
• 'Positive visualisation'
• Self-hypnosis and the law of self-fulfilling prophecies
• Here's a stand-up routine I just wrote on this theme
• Optimal Breathing
• 'Passive breathing’
• Breathing smoothly and quietly
• The big ‘shush’
• Posture and tension. Free your voice from its tension prison. Free yourself from migraines, TMJ, and poor posture
• Treating and preventing poor posture, muscle tension, TMJ, and migraines
• Before you even get out of bed
• Relax every muscle
• Release your voice from its tension prison
• Pulling yourself up to your full biological height: 'The Alexander Method'
• Two heads are better than one?
• Neck alignment exercise
• Massage
• Chewing your tongue
• De-couple your ‘swallowing’ muscles
• You, tongue, down at the back! Or?
• 'I can do this!’
• Ng-a, Ng-ay
• Ya ya, Ya-ga, Ta-la
• Tongue stretching
• First a little neck and head massage
• Neck stretches
• TMJ ‘release ‘at the chiropractor or doctor
• TMJ and jaw ‘release’
• ‘Self mobilisation’
• TMJ 'retraction’
• 'The scream'
• Take your hand and move your jaw back and forth, laterally, in and out, and side to side, horizontally, as you sing
• Duck Lips
• Chewing your words
• Start a self-help group, book a room at your local library, and bring the kids
• The speech level singing method
• One-voice
• Don’t forget to sing, and not merely vocalise
• Train with vocalisations, but then go on to sing
• Sing it like you’d say it
• Throat Biofeedback
• Using reverberation, resonance, and reflection, for vocal reinforcement
• High sigh-ing your way to pharyngeal resonance
• Power and loudness
• Open your throat, not just your mouth
• An exception to remember the rule by
• Warm-ups and Warm-downs
• ‘One-voice’ warm-up, cool-down, and training exercises
• Lip rolls at different speeds and ranges
• Humming without resistance as a warm-up
• Rapid scales warm-up
• Nasal NG as a warm-up
• Warm up with a ‘meow’
• Good morning Elmer Fudd
• Hum a 5 tone scale
• Warming-down after straining your voice
• Warm-down lip-rolls
• Enunciation exercises
• Enunciation
• Me, May, Ma, Mow, Moo
• 'Lips, Teeth, Tip of the tongue'
• Adding more bass to your vocal range
• Extending your lower range and bass
• 'Elmer Fudd’ your way to ‘Barry White’
• 'Hwah, get on down’
• Ding Dong, King Kong, Bing Bonggggg
• Add an octave to your vocal range
• Relax
• The difference between core tension (vocal compression) and ‘strain’
• The 'cry' in ney ney ney as one form of 'training wheels' (vocal conditioner)
• Self-diagnostics: how to tell if you are straining
• Conditioning / training the larynx with a yawn-like ‘mmuh’ tone
• Train your chewing (digrastic) muscles to relax
• Train (condition) your tongue to keep out of the way
• Diet, hydration, and mucous
• Head, pharyngeal, and chest voice
• Getting your voice in ‘shape’
• Don't try to pull your chest voice up too high
• Mix voice
• Falsetto
• Conditioning exercises (training wheels)
• Using M and N consonants (as training wheels) to condition your voice
• Mmm ahh slide (using the M training wheel)
• Gwee to wee (using the G training wheel)
• Whine-y ‘neys’ as a vocal conditioning tool
• 'Vocal 'Fry' for ‘feathering’ and zipping up your vocal folds, and finding your ‘mix’ voice
• 'Fry’ your ‘slide’
• Vocal fry to condition your swallowing muscles
• ‘Burp’,’fry’, ‘Lip Roll’, ‘Thin’, ‘Meow’and ‘Nay’ your ‘slide’ to smooth your way through transitions
• 'Whistle' tones
• 'Feathering’ higher notes
• Changing gears
• Turn your voice ‘upside down’
• Avoid strain via ‘vocal thinning’'
• Sotto Voce
• Nay nay nay nay nay nay nay nay nay
• Le Pew
• 'Yawn-sigh’ exercise
• 'Doors creak' ('Dawes Creek') exercise
• Woo-oo woo-ooo woo, Ah ah ah, Ma ma ma, Ney ney ney
• Mum mum mum mum mum
• Lip Rolls
• Mixed octave lip rolls
• Puffy cheeks
• Cry baby? Pussy? Meow like a cat! (So one day soon your audiences can, ‘hear you roar!)
• Sing it in, loud and proud. Yes, that was no typo. In!
• Vocal release with ‘imaginary laughing’
• Just do it!
• Modifying Vowel sounds to facilitate smoother, easier transitions
• Experiment with different sounds to see which are easiest for you to pitch with
• Vowel modification
• Vowel narrowing to make higher notes less work
• Vowel narrowing and opening up from chest to mix
• Opening up vowels
• Figure 8: Thin then Fat
• No no no on a long scale and with a low larynx
• Wee wee wee on an octave scale starting at the top
• Ney ney ney on an octave, repeating at the top
• Tongue trills
• Mastering Vibrato
• Vibrato
• Mum mum mum your way to a vibrato
• Yey yey yey- ing your way into a vibrato
• Head voice vibrato
• Sustained vibrato on oo to uh, on an octave scale
• In conclusion
• Today anyone who can hum a tune can convert this tune into M.I.D.I music and even print out a musical score a.k.a ‘sheet music’, using a basic laptop or smart phone
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