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Systems-Based Listening - Challenges and Tools - Coggle Diagram
Systems-Based Listening - Challenges and Tools
Articulation
Challenges
Underactive
overactive
Not independent
Tools
tongue/jaw independence exercises
Respiration
Challenges
accessory muscle engagement, over exerted breathing
Clavicular breathing
Over-breathing
Noisy breaths
Holding breath - not releasing
Running out of breath
No rib movement, no abdominal movement - rigidity
Inappropriate breath strategy for rep
Tools
Aerobic exercise for breath reset
Tying breath to emotion
Hobermann sphere
Body mapping in front of mirror
Kinesthetic tools - belt, theraband - increase awareness
Re-positioning the body (frog) / bending knees
Laying on the floor with a book
Sipping in breath on straw
dealing with unvoiced breath - candle - making breath visible
bubbles in water
how long can one breath sustain you?
emptying tank
[s] or [f] --> [z] or [v]
lip trills and raspberries
Phonation
Challenges
Pressed phonation
muscle tension
underactivation?
too much air pressure
Breathy phonation
Noisy onsets and offsets
vibrato challenges
rate, extent, amplitude (?), time, lack of vibrato or inability to sing straight
over-listening, micromanagement
Tools
straws/SOVTs
character voices
Having a baseline/happy song/"feel good"
exploring glottals/breathy
Checking in on intention and mindset
Speech and intonation
Sound exploration even in repertoire
vocal fry and inhalation phonation (IP)
Humming well
"mother-ese" vs. not
Instability
Resonance
Challenges
Stuck in one resonance strategy
ability to find pharyngeal narrowing (twang)
Recognizing whether a sound is brighter or darker
Inability to maintain consistent resonance through vowel changes or pitch changes
"ping" - lacking resonance
Over-dropping the jaw
Tools
medicine vowel
expressive strategies
finding narrowing - not over-dropping jaw
exaggeration
5 voices
patrick and spongebob
leveraging speech
Registration
Challenges
Tools