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Systematic Voice Pedagogy Framework - Coggle Diagram
Systematic Voice Pedagogy Framework
Alignment
Problems
Pelvis is too tucked or out
Head/neck alignment off
Slouching
Weight too far back on heels
Solutions
Photo from the side
Working on balance (6 points of balance - stacking up from rag doll)
Wall work
Lying down
Walking backwards
Respiration
Problems
Inhalation
Not able to take enough air (too little air for task)
Taking too much breath (stacking)
Ribcage locked
Abs are locked
Exhalation
Losing excess breath - can't sing long lines (lack of appoggio)
Squeezing to get through the phrase
Solutions
Inhalation
Cat/cow
Move ribs as they breathe in
Resistance breath
Reposition them - in a chair flopped over, using gravity
Expel all their air
Exhalation
Suspension at top of breath (feeling expansion in body)
Speeding up the line and then slowing it down incrementally
Unvoiced sounds (s, sh) --> [z] or [v]
hands on head, expanding arms
Phonation
Problems
Onsets (too glottal or too aspirate)
Pressing
Not enough breath
Too much breath
Excess medial compression and/or adduction
Breathy
Poor closure
So much breath that folds can't handle it
Offsets are loud
Solutions
Breathy
Glottal onsets, staccato
SOVTEs
Vocal fry
[i] and [u] - closed vowels to coordinate open vowels
[a] and [ae] and [i] for non trebles
Yodels
Pressed
Aspirate onsets
Falsetto down
Yodels
Vocal fry
SOVTEs
Inhalation phonation
Resonance
Problems
Lacking warmth
Larynx too high
Spreading
Not dropping jaw enough
Lacking brightness
Larynx is too low
Lips are too rounded
Tongue retraction
Poor closure (phonation)
Jaw is over-dropped
Sound is hyper nasal or hypo nasal
Solutions
Tongue
Tongue out (holding with gauze)
Turkey tongue
Tongue over pencil
Larynx
Character voices to find appropriate laryngeal posture
Big dog / little dog
Character voices
Disney princess or prince
Lips
Fingers on corners of mouth
"Face lift"
Massaging
Chewing
Jaw
Speaking
Sing with closed teeth (mixy trebles)
Masseter massage
Chewing
Body mapping
Soft palate
Hypernasal
Plug nose
Use consonant b or p or k
Talk like we have a cold
Breathing through nose versus mouth
Hyponasal
play with nasal consonants, nasal vowels (French)
Snort
ung ung ung
Articulation
Problems
Lack of text clarity
Overworking articulators
Solutions
Speaking the text (in a genre determined way)
See resonance
Registration
Problems
Bringing too much weight up
Losing speech-like quality in ascent (MT/CCM)
Modifying vowel too soon or too late
Voice can't move (poor agility)
Registration is inflexible (stuck in a mode)
Solutions
Working top down
Character voices
Mindful vowel choices (closed vowels facilitate lighter registration and vice versa)
Building passaggio awareness
Building awareness of shifts through metaphor
Calling out versus whooping