Intro to Vocal Pedagogy, Part 1
概要
TLDRO vídeo fornece uma introdução à pedagogia vocal, detalhando a mecânica do canto e enfatizando a importância da compreensão do corpo na produção vocal. O apresentador explora a anatomia envolvida na voz e discute as melhores práticas para evitar danos. Com exemplos de cantores renomados, ele ressalta que o treinamento vocal adequado é essencial para uma carreira de canto duradoura. Os tópicos abordados incluem postura, respirabilidade, técnica de canto e os efeitos da tensão muscular na produção vocal. O vídeo serve como um recurso valioso para professores que desejam educar seus alunos sobre como usar e cuidar de suas vozes.
収穫
- 🎤 A pedagogia vocal combina arte e ciência.
- 🌬️ Boa respiração é fundamental para o canto.
- 🧘♀️ A postura influencia diretamente na qualidade vocal.
- 📚 Conhecimento da anatomia é essencial para professores.
- ⚠️ Cuidar da voz pode evitar nódulos vocais.
- 🗣️ O palato mole deve ser elevado para melhor ressonância.
- 👄 A língua e os lábios devem estar relaxados e sem tensão.
- 🔍 Estudantes devem aprender sobre sua própria voz.
- 🥇 Cantar é uma habilidade que pode ser desenvolvida.
- 🎶 A voz é um instrumento único e deve ser tratado com cuidado.
タイムライン
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Neste vídeo, falamos sobre a pedagogia vocal e sua importância para professores, especialmente aqueles que são novos no canto. Reforçamos a necessidade de entender a mecânica do canto, revisando os conceitos básicos que ajudam a capacitar os cantores e a melhorar seu desempenho. O cuidado com a voz é essencial, como demonstrado na história de Celine Dion e outros artistas que enfrentaram problemas vocais devido à falta de treinamento adequado.
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A pedagogia vocal é tanto uma arte quanto uma ciência, envolvendo a anatomia do corpo e como isso se relaciona ao canto. A compreensão do funcionamento da voz é crucial para instruir adequadamente os alunos, promovendo um aprendizado eficaz e bem fundamentado, mesmo em faixas etárias mais jovens.
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É essencial não simplificar demais as instruções dadas aos alunos. Com o conhecimento adequado, mesmo os mais jovens podem compreender a linguagem técnica relacionada ao canto e à anatomia, levando a um entendimento mais profundo e à habilidade de vocalizar corretamente.
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Postura e alinhamento são fundamentais para o canto. Mantendo o corpo livre de tensões e alinhado corretamente, os alunos podem facilitar sua respiração e produção vocal. Exercícios e práticas para melhorar a postura devem ser incorporados nas aulas para promover um canto saudável.
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Preparar o corpo para o canto é comparado a um aquecimento para corredores. A condição física diária e a consciência corporal são vitais, pois uma boa postura leva a uma melhor respiração, o que resulta em um canto de melhor qualidade e desempenho geral.
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Cinco áreas de foco no canto foram discutidas: respiração, palato mole, posicionamento (placement), língua e lábios. O funcionamento e a conexão entre esses elementos são essenciais para criar um som poderoso, e cada um desempenha um papel específico na produção vocal.
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A respiração é a base do canto. Ensinar os alunos a respirar corretamente, utilizando o diafragma e permitindo que o abdômen se expanda durante a inspiração, é um aspecto crítico na formação vocal. A respiração deve ser uma parte central do aquecimento vocal.
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O palato mole e seu controle são vitais para criar espaço e ressonância. Aumentar o espaço na boca melhora a qualidade do som, e exercitar essa parte da anatomia vocal ajuda desenvolvê-la em músicos e cantores.
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A posição da língua é frequentemente negligenciada, mas é uma parte importante do canto. A tensão na língua pode prejudicar a produção vocal, e trabalhar para relaxar a língua é necessário para permitir uma maior flexibilidade e controle na emissão de som.
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Finalmente, os lábios contribuem significativamente para a produção vocal. A prática de formação de sílabas e a unificação das vogais através do controle labial são fundamentais. O cultivo dessas habilidades ajuda a evitar tensões desnecessárias e melhora a clareza vocal.
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ビデオQ&A
O que é pedagogia vocal?
É o estudo da arte e ciência do ensino de técnicas vocais.
Quais são os componentes essenciais do canto abordados no vídeo?
Respiração, palato mole, colocação, língua e lábios.
Por que Celine Dion passou a treinar sua voz?
Para evitar danos vocais e garantir uma carreira longa e saudável.
Qual é a relação entre postura e canto?
Uma boa postura facilita a respiração adequada e a produção de som saudável.
Como a respiração afeta a qualidade da voz?
Uma respiração correta utiliza o diafragma, essencial para controlar a exalação e sustentar as notas.
Qual é a importância de conhecer a anatomia da voz para professores de canto?
Compreender a anatomia ajuda a ensinar os alunos sobre como usar a voz corretamente.
Como a tensão muscular influencia no canto?
Tensão nos músculos, especialmente na região do pescoço e ombros, pode afetar a produção de som.
O que são nódulos vocais?
São calos nas cordas vocais causados por tensão excessiva e uso inadequado da voz.
Como os alunos podem aprender sobre sua própria voz?
Com exercícios apropriados, compreensão da anatomia e práticas de aquecimento.
Qual é a mensagem chave do vídeo para professores?
É vital ensinar os alunos sobre como cuidar de suas vozes como um instrumento valioso.
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- 00:00:33hi everybody i'm really excited that you
- 00:00:36are
- 00:00:36here to uh be a part of
- 00:00:39our intro to vocal pedagogy
- 00:00:42for teachers now many of you i
- 00:00:45understand
- 00:00:46are new to the world of singing
- 00:00:50because some of you are instrumental
- 00:00:53people
- 00:00:54and so in college your amount of
- 00:00:57singing was very very short and so
- 00:01:00this is a quick
- 00:01:04uh video to help you understand the
- 00:01:06mechanism
- 00:01:07and what's going on here inside
- 00:01:10uh of us to to make singing possible
- 00:01:15so we're gonna go back to the basics
- 00:01:18and just review and for everybody this
- 00:01:20is a great
- 00:01:21uh thing for us all to think about i
- 00:01:23know for myself
- 00:01:24is preparing for this these were things
- 00:01:26that i remember and
- 00:01:27i brought out some of my old vocal
- 00:01:30pedagogy books
- 00:01:31and all the notes that i took just to
- 00:01:33review and make sure i was all up to
- 00:01:34date on things
- 00:01:35and really thinking about how this
- 00:01:37mechanism works
- 00:01:38but the more that you can teach about
- 00:01:41the mechanism
- 00:01:42the better off your singers are going to
- 00:01:44be the better off the advocacy is going
- 00:01:47to be for you
- 00:01:48because you are truly teaching an art
- 00:01:52and you are teaching them specifically
- 00:01:54how their body works
- 00:01:56and in your building unless you have a
- 00:01:59speech pathologist
- 00:02:02you are probably the only one who knows
- 00:02:05about this portion of their body and how
- 00:02:08important
- 00:02:08and delicate it is so let's get started
- 00:02:13all right local pedagogy what does that
- 00:02:16mean
- 00:02:17i had to bring two of my favorite people
- 00:02:19in here celine dion
- 00:02:21and of course pavarotti now i want to
- 00:02:24tell you a quick story about celine dion
- 00:02:26celine dion is one of my favorite
- 00:02:28singers
- 00:02:29why is she one of my favorite singers
- 00:02:30well i think she's an amazing singer
- 00:02:32first of all
- 00:02:33but the secondary reason is because
- 00:02:36she started her career off as an
- 00:02:38untrained singer
- 00:02:40she had a natural talent her voice was
- 00:02:43very good
- 00:02:44she was picked up by a talent person
- 00:02:48and her career took off as it took off
- 00:02:52her voice started to strengthen many of
- 00:02:55you know
- 00:02:56that after teaching for a whole day your
- 00:02:58voice is tired
- 00:03:01and that it sounds strained at times
- 00:03:05and it needs rest and sometimes we are
- 00:03:08not using our voice in the proper manner
- 00:03:11now i can tell you after a day of making
- 00:03:13videos
- 00:03:14and then going to a rehearsal one night
- 00:03:17where
- 00:03:18uh we're preparing to do some recordings
- 00:03:21for our church
- 00:03:22my voice was very very tired
- 00:03:25now i had not prepared the day before
- 00:03:28to make all those videos we'll get to
- 00:03:30that in a little bit i'll tell you the
- 00:03:32trick with that
- 00:03:34celine dion it was experiencing the same
- 00:03:37thing she had to cancel part of a tour
- 00:03:40but instead of just canceling it taking
- 00:03:42some time off and then hitting
- 00:03:44going back she realized she needed
- 00:03:47something more
- 00:03:48so that this wouldn't happen again what
- 00:03:50did she do
- 00:03:51celine dion is actually a classically
- 00:03:54trained
- 00:03:55singer now the same warm-up she does
- 00:03:59are the same warm-ups any opera singer
- 00:04:01that you would hear at the met do
- 00:04:04celine knew she had to understand
- 00:04:07how to sing properly the art
- 00:04:11of singing so that she could
- 00:04:14have a long career now we know
- 00:04:18in this day and age many people one of
- 00:04:21my favorite singers i love adele
- 00:04:24she has had vocal nodes
- 00:04:27several times and what is the answer
- 00:04:30training no rest yes and
- 00:04:33surgery it's become second nature
- 00:04:37that when there's vocal damage to go in
- 00:04:39and have surgery
- 00:04:41and as we know from
- 00:04:44one of our most beloved singers
- 00:04:48uh julie andrews sometimes those
- 00:04:50surgeries go wrong
- 00:04:52and julie andrews singing voice has been
- 00:04:54silenced forever
- 00:04:58so it's very very important to take care
- 00:05:01of our voices to treat them
- 00:05:06as the gift that they are and to truly
- 00:05:08understand
- 00:05:09how we make this music together
- 00:05:13and how this art is done so let's take a
- 00:05:15look at vocal pedagogy all right
- 00:05:17what is vocal pedagogy vocal pedagogy is
- 00:05:21the study of the art and the science
- 00:05:25of voice instruction
- 00:05:28so it's an art form but there's a
- 00:05:30science to it right
- 00:05:31there's the understanding of the anatomy
- 00:05:34this portion of the body basically from
- 00:05:36here
- 00:05:36to here the understanding of how this
- 00:05:39all works is very very important
- 00:05:43it explores what singing is how
- 00:05:47singing works and how to
- 00:05:50uh properly sing with good technique
- 00:05:54and how this is all accomplished and
- 00:05:56that's what we're gonna look at here
- 00:05:58uh in this this video
- 00:06:02all right now let's dive in a little
- 00:06:04more
- 00:06:06if i can give you one clue don't dumb it
- 00:06:08down
- 00:06:09i taught elementary for several years i
- 00:06:12teach some of our youngest singers at
- 00:06:13the indianapolis children's choir
- 00:06:15do not dumb it down if you are going to
- 00:06:19talk about part of this mechanism label
- 00:06:22it
- 00:06:22just as if you do any other body part
- 00:06:25you
- 00:06:26label your arm you label your hand you
- 00:06:28label your fingers they know those
- 00:06:30things
- 00:06:31they know those parts of the body
- 00:06:34we'll talk about the inside part of the
- 00:06:36body talk about
- 00:06:37the throat the trachea the soft palate
- 00:06:41lifting it the sinuses help them
- 00:06:44understand that
- 00:06:45because the more they understand the
- 00:06:47better off they're going to be
- 00:06:49and i do that with our younger singers i
- 00:06:51did that when i taught elementary school
- 00:06:53and then when they would go home they'd
- 00:06:55be like hey do you know how to lift your
- 00:06:57soft palate
- 00:06:58or did you know that your vocal folds
- 00:07:00blah blah
- 00:07:02and parents would come in and they would
- 00:07:03say i didn't i
- 00:07:05i didn't even know that again i'm going
- 00:07:07to use an a word
- 00:07:08advocacy shows that you're teaching
- 00:07:12art shows you're teaching more than just
- 00:07:15music
- 00:07:16and i know for some people you are more
- 00:07:18than a prep period
- 00:07:20all right let's dive in a little more
- 00:07:22vocal pedagogy can be learned by
- 00:07:24any grade level as long as the delivery
- 00:07:28is instructed
- 00:07:29to its audience all right so how you're
- 00:07:32giving them
- 00:07:34those instructions is very very
- 00:07:36important but again don't dumb it down
- 00:07:38it can be
- 00:07:39told to anybody do they need to really
- 00:07:42get into the nitty-gritty of this part
- 00:07:44of their body
- 00:07:45right here uh when they're in first
- 00:07:47grade no
- 00:07:48but could they know their vocal folds
- 00:07:50are located there
- 00:07:52that when they sing they lift their soft
- 00:07:54palate and how that feels
- 00:07:56those things can be taught right
- 00:07:59we have to meet the students where they
- 00:08:01are uh so we can
- 00:08:03guide them to the next level
- 00:08:05kindergarteners
- 00:08:06kindergarteners can understand that
- 00:08:09singing is not yelling right
- 00:08:11singing is not yelling we teach that you
- 00:08:14have a speaking voice you have a
- 00:08:16singing voice there is soft and loud
- 00:08:21all of these things can be understood
- 00:08:23teaching vocal pedagogy to elementary
- 00:08:25students creates
- 00:08:26understanding difficulties only
- 00:08:29if we make it difficult all right
- 00:08:32the only person standing in front of you
- 00:08:34and what your students can learn
- 00:08:37is you
- 00:08:40you are the only one standing in the way
- 00:08:42of what your students can do
- 00:08:46uh begin by building a shared vocabulary
- 00:08:49don't be afraid using the big or
- 00:08:50scientific words right soft palate
- 00:08:53vocal folds trachea right
- 00:08:56be proactive for example in your
- 00:08:58warm-ups you might say
- 00:09:00feel the lift in your sternum right
- 00:09:02everybody can know this is their
- 00:09:04sternum if i'm going to talk about my
- 00:09:06sternum i need to point to it then the
- 00:09:08students in turn can find it right
- 00:09:10so help them figure this all out again
- 00:09:13if you're in elementary school this is
- 00:09:15very important give them the vocabulary
- 00:09:17then when they get to middle school that
- 00:09:19middle school teacher can take it to
- 00:09:21another level
- 00:09:22by the time they get to high school they
- 00:09:23have all the vocabulary and think what
- 00:09:25you're doing for your program
- 00:09:27think about how you're helping it along
- 00:09:30and how
- 00:09:30far your students are going to be able
- 00:09:32to go because
- 00:09:34of the training you are giving them all
- 00:09:37right
- 00:09:38it all begins with how you stand
- 00:09:41your posture this is very
- 00:09:45very important now
- 00:09:48uh for me i have an issue with my
- 00:09:51posture
- 00:09:52uh when i was in college i started to
- 00:09:55uh hunch over um i started seeing a
- 00:09:59chiropractor
- 00:10:00and um that's something that i have to
- 00:10:03watch
- 00:10:05i have to make sure my head doesn't jot
- 00:10:07out
- 00:10:08especially conducting a lot i i tend to
- 00:10:11get like this
- 00:10:11i always have to think lift because your
- 00:10:14posture is very very important
- 00:10:17how do we define the term posture
- 00:10:21i like to use the word alignment right
- 00:10:24alignment to me it's the correct
- 00:10:27alignment
- 00:10:28is the easy
- 00:10:31way of saying it it eliminates uh the
- 00:10:34tension
- 00:10:35and the tightness right in the shoulders
- 00:10:38and the back and singers often associate
- 00:10:40the word posture with
- 00:10:41you know being stiff um like
- 00:10:44military right when you tell a student
- 00:10:47to stand up tall they kind of
- 00:10:48get very rigid right uh like we would
- 00:10:51see a soldier
- 00:10:53all right the t word is bad tension is
- 00:10:56bad so we don't want that
- 00:10:58right we want them to be very relaxed so
- 00:11:01you can't see my feet but my feet are
- 00:11:04shoulder width apart
- 00:11:05or i might put one foot in front of the
- 00:11:08other so i have
- 00:11:09control of my balance
- 00:11:12now as you're looking at the side angle
- 00:11:15of me
- 00:11:16notice i am not leaning forward notice i
- 00:11:18am not rigid
- 00:11:19but my sternum has to be elevated
- 00:11:24my head is up my head is relaxed and my
- 00:11:27shoulders
- 00:11:28are relaxed forward
- 00:11:31we see this a lot and not like this
- 00:11:34they are in a natural position the best
- 00:11:37way to do this
- 00:11:38is to have your students bend over
- 00:11:42and to have them slowly come up feeling
- 00:11:45each vertebrae
- 00:11:48stack on top of the other roll their
- 00:11:51shoulders and let them down
- 00:11:53and then their head is up easy way to
- 00:11:56find the head up
- 00:11:58make the l goes to the bottom of the
- 00:12:01neck
- 00:12:01to the chin head is up
- 00:12:05all right we carry lots of tension in
- 00:12:07our shoulders if your students carry
- 00:12:09around backpacks
- 00:12:10they're going to have lots of tension in
- 00:12:12their shoulders so getting rid of the
- 00:12:13tension in their shoulders is very
- 00:12:15important
- 00:12:15because the tension goes to the neck and
- 00:12:18that's
- 00:12:19not going to help their alignment and we
- 00:12:22also see
- 00:12:22especially in middle school high school
- 00:12:24boys lots of this happening as they try
- 00:12:26and sing higher
- 00:12:28as we're going to talk about that does
- 00:12:30nothing that only stretches your neck
- 00:12:31out
- 00:12:32there's nothing that's going to happen
- 00:12:35with pulling there
- 00:12:37posture is so important because the body
- 00:12:39must be balanced
- 00:12:40and free it has to be again
- 00:12:43free of tension and movement becomes
- 00:12:47more fluid and
- 00:12:48healthy and you can create a better
- 00:12:50sound
- 00:12:51and artistry because of it right so
- 00:12:54posture is very important and you have
- 00:12:56to take time
- 00:12:57to address that with your singers
- 00:13:00good posture is going to lead to good
- 00:13:02breathing which is going to lead to good
- 00:13:04singing right so make sure you take time
- 00:13:07and address the posture very very
- 00:13:10important now when you are seated that's
- 00:13:13very important too
- 00:13:14we get a lot of slouching in there so
- 00:13:17i'm going to bring a chair over here
- 00:13:21and we get a lot of you know this slouch
- 00:13:24kind of thing
- 00:13:25or even forward
- 00:13:28now there is actually a trick of singing
- 00:13:32with your arms on your knees
- 00:13:36and that makes your back very straight
- 00:13:39and
- 00:13:39you can do some good work with them
- 00:13:41leaning forward but it's because their
- 00:13:43whole abdomen
- 00:13:45that whole section of their body is
- 00:13:47angled
- 00:13:48straight and it takes pressure off the
- 00:13:51lower back as well
- 00:13:53but you can't do it curved down
- 00:13:56hunched over i'll show you from the side
- 00:13:59angle here you can't do it hunched
- 00:14:03you could do it like this again this is
- 00:14:05with straight back
- 00:14:07and you can't do it slouching like this
- 00:14:11why because you're compressing the lungs
- 00:14:13you're compressing that area of the body
- 00:14:16that is so important to our singing
- 00:14:20and again why is this so important
- 00:14:23because our whole body is our instrument
- 00:14:25and we have to teach that from day one
- 00:14:27to our singers
- 00:14:28i always start off talking about with my
- 00:14:30singers that i'm a runner
- 00:14:32when i wake up in the morning and i go
- 00:14:34for my morning run
- 00:14:35i just don't wake up get my running
- 00:14:37clothes and start running
- 00:14:38no i have to stretch i have to prepare
- 00:14:42my body and the first question i always
- 00:14:44ask is
- 00:14:45where's our instrument guys and they're
- 00:14:46like in our body right
- 00:14:48you have to prepare your body
- 00:14:51for the singing your body is your
- 00:14:55instrument and you have to take care of
- 00:14:56it
- 00:14:57right we must keep it stable strong
- 00:14:59flexible functioning
- 00:15:00smoothly balanced and well aligned for
- 00:15:03its best use
- 00:15:04it's important to have a daily physical
- 00:15:08practice that conditions your body so
- 00:15:10when you're singing
- 00:15:12like when we're at retreat we are
- 00:15:14singing all weekend long we're singing
- 00:15:15friday saturday sunday
- 00:15:16it's like a marathon of singing yes we
- 00:15:20have get to know you things we have
- 00:15:21games we uh you know uh bonfires and all
- 00:15:24that stuff but we're singing for
- 00:15:26multiple
- 00:15:27hours during the day right we have to
- 00:15:30prepare the voice we have to prepare the
- 00:15:32body for that because it's going to tire
- 00:15:34them out right and so you have to work
- 00:15:37on that same elements of physical
- 00:15:40posture
- 00:15:41contribute to good singing are also
- 00:15:44necessary for our overall
- 00:15:45good health you know wearing backpacks
- 00:15:48around school
- 00:15:49is really affecting posture of our
- 00:15:52students why because they're either like
- 00:15:53this because it's so
- 00:15:54heavy or they're like this because it's
- 00:15:56so heavy right
- 00:15:58it's affecting their posture the better
- 00:16:01posture the better singing
- 00:16:02you're going to have the better
- 00:16:03performance you're going to have and the
- 00:16:06better sound you are going to have for
- 00:16:08all of this
- 00:16:10all right let's take a look at some
- 00:16:12things i like to
- 00:16:13break down um our singing area and
- 00:16:17you're going to hear this in
- 00:16:18everything that i'm doing into five
- 00:16:21basic areas
- 00:16:22the breath the soft palate we talked
- 00:16:25about placement
- 00:16:26tongue and lips that's what i'm really
- 00:16:29going to
- 00:16:30dive into with you here in
- 00:16:33this video we are going to talk a lot
- 00:16:35about the vocal folds as well
- 00:16:38but this area is what you're really
- 00:16:41going to want to talk about
- 00:16:42with your singers now the reason
- 00:16:46why i have broken it down here this way
- 00:16:49going from one
- 00:16:50to five is because of the way
- 00:16:53it comes out of the body so if we come
- 00:16:55over here
- 00:16:57and we look at this we breathe down in
- 00:17:00the lungs yes
- 00:17:01breath goes up the trachea vocal folds
- 00:17:05up hits the soft palate here
- 00:17:09resonates with placement here goes
- 00:17:13over the tongue and out the lips
- 00:17:16and if we can get a handle on those
- 00:17:19areas it's
- 00:17:20really really going to help us
- 00:17:24now let's talk about breathing
- 00:17:27let's talk about breathing here
- 00:17:30i would like for you to take a moment to
- 00:17:32stand up
- 00:17:33and find the bottom of your ribcage okay
- 00:17:36the bottom of my ribcage
- 00:17:40is pretty low you can see that
- 00:17:43okay now you have no lungs up here
- 00:17:47no lungs nothing is up there right as
- 00:17:50you can see
- 00:17:51it's bone it's your shoulders yes you do
- 00:17:54have some lung capacity here
- 00:17:56that's why if you tap right there that
- 00:17:59makes the sound cause it's
- 00:18:01empty right it's hollow right
- 00:18:04there is space right here and not here
- 00:18:08a lot of times when we ask our students
- 00:18:09to breathe they go
- 00:18:11okay again shoulders it's bone cartilage
- 00:18:14muscle nothing there
- 00:18:17this is where the lungs start and go all
- 00:18:19the way down
- 00:18:21to the bottom of your ribcage so find
- 00:18:23the back part of your rib cage that's
- 00:18:25here for me
- 00:18:25right okay that's right above my belly
- 00:18:28button
- 00:18:29okay so from here to here i can fill
- 00:18:32this area with air
- 00:18:33why because our diaphragm is going to
- 00:18:35take all of this stuff that's down there
- 00:18:38all of our large and small intestines
- 00:18:40and our stomach and our spleen and our
- 00:18:42kidneys and all of that stuff and what
- 00:18:44it does is when we take a deep breath
- 00:18:46in it gets pushed down
- 00:18:49now the diaphragm
- 00:18:53does not breathe in okay
- 00:18:56that muscle does not do anything when
- 00:18:58you breathe in
- 00:18:59it is all of your lungs filling up and
- 00:19:01pushing the diaphragm down
- 00:19:02it is not your diaphragm pulling the
- 00:19:05lungs down
- 00:19:06okay i'm going to say that again when
- 00:19:08you breathe in
- 00:19:10it is air filling up the lungs it is
- 00:19:12your lungs doing the work and the
- 00:19:14diaphragm is just being moved
- 00:19:16down your diaphragm then is engaged
- 00:19:19when the breath goes out the diaphragm
- 00:19:22again
- 00:19:22is engaged when the breath goes out
- 00:19:26okay when your singers breathe properly
- 00:19:29when they breathe properly their hand if
- 00:19:33it's down here by their belly button is
- 00:19:35going to move out they are not gaining
- 00:19:37weight
- 00:19:37in 10 seconds two seconds three seconds
- 00:19:42what is happening is the diaphragm is
- 00:19:43going down
- 00:19:45this area where our intestines are are
- 00:19:47being squished
- 00:19:49our skin and our muscles are relaxing
- 00:19:52they're elastic they can expand and
- 00:19:54that's what's happening
- 00:19:55and that's why the stomach moves out
- 00:19:57that's why our belly
- 00:19:59here moves out when i take a breath in
- 00:20:02you see it go out and then
- 00:20:06and out all right
- 00:20:10when it goes out that is when my
- 00:20:12diaphragm gets engaged
- 00:20:14that is when my diaphragm is working
- 00:20:15your diaphragm is
- 00:20:17what controls the rate of the exhale
- 00:20:20of the leaving of the body right not the
- 00:20:24end
- 00:20:25it's the leaving of the body now most of
- 00:20:27our singers
- 00:20:28are used to breathing up here our daily
- 00:20:30breathing during the day kind of comes
- 00:20:32from here
- 00:20:36not
- 00:20:43i always find it interesting when i go
- 00:20:44to a doctor
- 00:20:46for my checkup and or if i'm sick and
- 00:20:48they say take a deep breath in
- 00:20:50and before my breath is even done coming
- 00:20:52in they want me to breathe out
- 00:20:54and and they say you weren't done
- 00:20:56breathing i'm like i'm a singer
- 00:20:58they're like oh you take a different
- 00:21:00breath
- 00:21:01yeah we are trained on how to breathe
- 00:21:05now if you're an elementary student uh
- 00:21:08you can be taught this
- 00:21:09you can be taught to take good deep
- 00:21:12breath
- 00:21:13and if you're taught in elementary
- 00:21:14school think how good you'll be in
- 00:21:15middle school then
- 00:21:16how great you'll be in high school right
- 00:21:18breathing
- 00:21:19is the battery of what we are doing it
- 00:21:22is
- 00:21:23what creates the sound as we're going to
- 00:21:26talk about so breathing is very very key
- 00:21:28so understanding this area
- 00:21:31it's also why right now with this
- 00:21:35pandemic
- 00:21:36it's so troubling when
- 00:21:39covet 19 hit it is a respiratory
- 00:21:43it is something that has to do with our
- 00:21:45lungs and really has to do
- 00:21:47with our business and so
- 00:21:51we are spreaders of that
- 00:21:54right because of singing it
- 00:21:57is expelling sound now there's
- 00:22:00lots and lots of studies being done
- 00:22:03right now about how far that really
- 00:22:04happens
- 00:22:05but why they're concerned about singing
- 00:22:08is because with most people again
- 00:22:12they're just breathing here in the top
- 00:22:13part
- 00:22:15or when you but when you sneeze and you
- 00:22:17cough
- 00:22:18if you sneeze and you cough you are
- 00:22:20engaging all of this
- 00:22:21while singing we engage all of this
- 00:22:25however it is controlled
- 00:22:28again i'm going to say that singing is
- 00:22:31controlled release of the air
- 00:22:33coughing and sneezing is not
- 00:22:36a cough is pushed up a sneeze sudden
- 00:22:40jolt
- 00:22:41there's a difference there with it it is
- 00:22:44controlled
- 00:22:46when i sneeze i know my wife says all
- 00:22:48the time she's like oh my gosh
- 00:22:50i mean it's so loud and i know i'm
- 00:22:52expelling something from my mouth when
- 00:22:54i sneeze and you know a lot of times you
- 00:22:56you know when you sneeze or cough you
- 00:22:58feel it on your arm right
- 00:23:00okay with singing oh
- 00:23:04i don't feel anything on my arm
- 00:23:07i feel that on my arm
- 00:23:13not really try that on your arm
- 00:23:17you'll see the difference why because
- 00:23:20it's controlled
- 00:23:21yes we are using the lower part of the
- 00:23:24lungs
- 00:23:25but we're using it in a different way
- 00:23:28than a sneeze or a cough
- 00:23:31okay now breathing
- 00:23:35very important so i hope you will always
- 00:23:38make breathing a
- 00:23:39part of your warm-up always a part of
- 00:23:42your warm-up
- 00:23:43prior to breathing though i hope you
- 00:23:44will focus on posture and getting rid of
- 00:23:46tension in the body and preparing the
- 00:23:48instrument
- 00:23:48so first you prepare the instrument you
- 00:23:51get it lined up
- 00:23:52then you start with your exercises
- 00:23:54breathing is one of those
- 00:23:56okay at icc we raise our arms because
- 00:23:59you can't breathe from your shoulders
- 00:24:00though
- 00:24:01right i do a lot with my hands down here
- 00:24:05also
- 00:24:10now blowing air is different than
- 00:24:11singing
- 00:24:13blowing air you're not engaging your
- 00:24:16vocal folds when you engage your vocal
- 00:24:18folds it's different
- 00:24:22it's different than
- 00:24:27try that and see again different because
- 00:24:30the vocal folds are engaged
- 00:24:32and we'll get to that here in a minute
- 00:24:35all right i'm going to go back i want to
- 00:24:38talk about the soft palate
- 00:24:40this is key to creating good sound
- 00:24:44all right now many people have tricks
- 00:24:46about raising their soft palate you
- 00:24:48might say
- 00:24:48put a golf ball i think you have a
- 00:24:51sucker lollipop in your mouth
- 00:24:55the key thing is to raise the soft
- 00:24:57palate okay so we're talking about this
- 00:25:00area here back of the mouth
- 00:25:03right so easiest way to find it take
- 00:25:06your tongue
- 00:25:07put it right behind your teeth i always
- 00:25:10tell my kids click three times that way
- 00:25:12i know it's there all right okay yeah
- 00:25:14okay that is your hard palate that's
- 00:25:16your jaw
- 00:25:18teeth are connected to that now take
- 00:25:19your tongue and start to move it along
- 00:25:21the back of your mouth
- 00:25:25okay the squishy part
- 00:25:28that's the soft palate from the back of
- 00:25:31the mouth
- 00:25:33and they can feel back almost
- 00:25:37to where it's going to start to go away
- 00:25:39right that's your soft palate
- 00:25:42your soft palate is very very important
- 00:25:46to creating the sound here's the key
- 00:25:50space equals sound
- 00:25:53the more space you create the more sound
- 00:25:56you're going to do
- 00:25:57why when i do this does it affect my
- 00:26:01sound
- 00:26:02because it's resonance it's space
- 00:26:05think of a guitar violin
- 00:26:09bass right the sound that they make it
- 00:26:12is not the string it's the string
- 00:26:16resonating
- 00:26:17into the hollow area right
- 00:26:20when you lift your soft palate it
- 00:26:22creates more space in your mouth
- 00:26:24that is key we want the most space in
- 00:26:27our mouth we possibly can create
- 00:26:30tongue goes down and is relaxed soft
- 00:26:32palate goes up
- 00:26:33and we create sounds so i always like to
- 00:26:35say i speak
- 00:26:37like this but i sing like
- 00:26:40this speak
- 00:26:44sing speak sing
- 00:26:50doing sighs and sirens gets that soft
- 00:26:53palate up
- 00:26:54what we are teaching our singers is
- 00:26:56muscle memory
- 00:26:58why because you can't touch all of this
- 00:27:01while you are doing it it's
- 00:27:03not an instrument that is outside of
- 00:27:04your body it's inside the body
- 00:27:06and so you have to figure out ways to
- 00:27:09connect
- 00:27:10that to your singers right
- 00:27:13so anything you can do kinesthetically
- 00:27:15helps them i always like to use my hand
- 00:27:18to represent the soft palate
- 00:27:19in a lot of our exercises and then if
- 00:27:21we're singing and the song i hear the
- 00:27:23soft palette go down all i have to do is
- 00:27:24this
- 00:27:25singers know immediately oh my soft
- 00:27:27palate has to go up
- 00:27:29so practice that find ways to do that do
- 00:27:31yoggs with them
- 00:27:34tongue is down soft pile it up
- 00:27:37now speak with them using that oh my oh
- 00:27:43my boy oh boy
- 00:27:47all of those things will engage the soft
- 00:27:49palate very very important
- 00:27:51you want the soft palate up now
- 00:27:55after you work with the soft palate you
- 00:27:57have to talk about
- 00:27:58placement placement has to do with this
- 00:28:02area of the face called the mass
- 00:28:05why it's where you wear a mask right
- 00:28:08this
- 00:28:09area now that area
- 00:28:12is again hollow there's
- 00:28:16nothing there except when you have a
- 00:28:18sinus infection
- 00:28:20and this is a great way for students to
- 00:28:22figure out
- 00:28:23where their sinuses are or the nasal
- 00:28:26cavity right
- 00:28:27all they have to do
- 00:28:31right here the nasal cavity all you have
- 00:28:33to do
- 00:28:34and say to them is how many of you have
- 00:28:36ever had a sinus infection
- 00:28:39show me where it hurts the most when you
- 00:28:42have a sinus infection and they all
- 00:28:44will point to right here right
- 00:28:47there the nasal cavity
- 00:28:51notice there are other hollow areas
- 00:28:54here right there are other hollow areas
- 00:28:57there that are resonators
- 00:28:59okay like subwoofers kind of
- 00:29:02area okay this area hurts when you have
- 00:29:06a sinus infection because
- 00:29:08it all of a sudden is filled with fluid
- 00:29:11it is meant to be
- 00:29:12hollow it is not supposed to have
- 00:29:15anything in it and when you have a sinus
- 00:29:16infection it is full of mucus and it
- 00:29:18gets
- 00:29:19very very tense and that's why there's
- 00:29:21pressure and then it hurts your head
- 00:29:23it's the best way to find it now using
- 00:29:27that area using the nasal cavity is very
- 00:29:32important
- 00:29:32that's the placement that we're talking
- 00:29:34about this is a key area where
- 00:29:36most people don't get to
- 00:29:40they get the breathing they get the um
- 00:29:43lift but then they don't get the
- 00:29:44placement so
- 00:29:46if i just breathe correctly and i
- 00:29:49lift
- 00:29:53i have that hootie sound right it's
- 00:29:56because everything is
- 00:29:57staying back here not
- 00:30:00forward but if i think okay it's going
- 00:30:03to come
- 00:30:04instead of coming out of my mouth i
- 00:30:06always like to think like there's a
- 00:30:07little hole
- 00:30:08right above my teeth and instead of the
- 00:30:12sound and air going this way it's just
- 00:30:14going to kind of go
- 00:30:14that way
- 00:30:20all of a sudden this is engaged and we
- 00:30:23want that
- 00:30:24things that use z or uh
- 00:30:27v or buzzing me me me me me
- 00:30:32me you wanna get that engaged it's going
- 00:30:36to tingle
- 00:30:36and that's what's going to help you get
- 00:30:38a focused sound
- 00:30:40this area again nasal cavity
- 00:30:43that is your placement all right that is
- 00:30:46your placement it's very very important
- 00:30:48so we've talked about breadth
- 00:30:50soft palate and the nasal cavity now we
- 00:30:53go back
- 00:30:54we're talking about the tongue tongue is
- 00:30:57very very important and we skipped over
- 00:30:59the tongue
- 00:30:59so much but you have to realize that
- 00:31:02your tongue
- 00:31:03is a very very strong muscle
- 00:31:07right now i have an 11 month old at home
- 00:31:10she's almost going to be one here next
- 00:31:12month on the 12th
- 00:31:14and when you see this she will actually
- 00:31:16be one because i'm taping this at the
- 00:31:19end of june beginning of july
- 00:31:21and she is babbling
- 00:31:26[Laughter]
- 00:31:30why her tongue is being conditioned into
- 00:31:33creating words think about anytime any
- 00:31:36of you had to take a foreign language
- 00:31:39and you get frustrated why your tongue
- 00:31:41has to learn it
- 00:31:42right that's that's the biggest thing if
- 00:31:45you think about
- 00:31:46other cultures and their languages
- 00:31:49many european countries they talk very
- 00:31:52forward
- 00:31:53and very fast and their tongue is very
- 00:31:55relaxed
- 00:31:56and their tongue is very forward our
- 00:31:58tongue on the other hand
- 00:32:00is back and we don't talk forward
- 00:32:05right we don't use that area and so
- 00:32:07these are things to think about
- 00:32:10so our tongue if you look at this i'm
- 00:32:12going to switch over to this area
- 00:32:14this part your tongue if you put your
- 00:32:17hand right here this is the bottom
- 00:32:19of the tongue muscle okay this is going
- 00:32:21to weird your students out they don't
- 00:32:23think their tongue goes any farther than
- 00:32:24what they can touch up here
- 00:32:26you know they think it's this little
- 00:32:27thin thing it
- 00:32:29it is this whole mass right here that is
- 00:32:32connected
- 00:32:33to the lower jaw that is your tongue
- 00:32:36our tongue gets very very tense why does
- 00:32:38it get very intense because we talk a
- 00:32:40lot and i know you have those talkers in
- 00:32:43your
- 00:32:44your choirs the tongue needs to be
- 00:32:46relaxed
- 00:32:47you can still talk and understand
- 00:32:49everything i am saying even when my
- 00:32:50tongue is very relaxed my tongue is very
- 00:32:52relaxed as i'm about there now
- 00:32:54but you can still understand everything
- 00:32:56i'm saying it needs to be able to move
- 00:32:58quickly and freely
- 00:33:00tension is back focus on the tongue
- 00:33:03focus on getting rid of that
- 00:33:07you sing an ave maria you know
- 00:33:11[Music]
- 00:33:18you need the space you need the
- 00:33:19placement but the tongue helps make that
- 00:33:21space
- 00:33:22why because it moves down it moves down
- 00:33:25to create
- 00:33:26space you need all of that space
- 00:33:30finally let's talk about your lips your
- 00:33:32lips are very very important
- 00:33:34we talk like this you need to make sure
- 00:33:37that your lips are
- 00:33:38round right your lips are round so that
- 00:33:40everything is
- 00:33:41unified vowel unification our culture
- 00:33:45talks this way
- 00:33:47we don't sing that way big thing for all
- 00:33:50of you to remember
- 00:33:52we speak foreign languages we work on
- 00:33:54that text we work on that text
- 00:33:56what language do we not work on english
- 00:33:58why because we speak it every day
- 00:34:00but it's like henry higgins says in my
- 00:34:02fair lady
- 00:34:03we have not spoken it correctly for ever
- 00:34:06basically right speak your english
- 00:34:09speak it with rounded lips it's going to
- 00:34:12make it sound very different notice
- 00:34:13all i did was change my lips and it
- 00:34:16already has changed the way i'm speaking
- 00:34:18to you
- 00:34:19your lips are very very important they
- 00:34:21also are an
- 00:34:22area a grin of great tension
- 00:34:26great tension so make sure that you
- 00:34:28don't have any tension
- 00:34:30this part you can control the tension
- 00:34:34all right your soft palate is not going
- 00:34:36to have tension your breathing will not
- 00:34:38have tension
- 00:34:39your shoulders are what will have
- 00:34:41tension all right so
- 00:34:42this area these last two things you have
- 00:34:45to control the tension because it will
- 00:34:47affect your sound all right so this is a
- 00:34:50basic uh outline of the things that we
- 00:34:53looked at right now okay
- 00:34:55we started with the lungs and the
- 00:34:58breathing and understanding that
- 00:34:59understanding the diaphragm does not
- 00:35:02help you breathe in
- 00:35:03it is what sustains the breath going out
- 00:35:06all right when you breathe in the
- 00:35:08diaphragm is not engaged the diaphragm
- 00:35:10engages as the breath goes out that is
- 00:35:12what helps you sustain the breath
- 00:35:14that's why you can sing a 12-measure
- 00:35:16phrase or a 12-b phrase 16-beat phrase a
- 00:35:1920-beat phrase a 24-beat phrase
- 00:35:22it is the diaphragm and how it is
- 00:35:24pushing the air out
- 00:35:26right we followed that up through the
- 00:35:29trachea
- 00:35:30the trachea is the windpipe now
- 00:35:34here's another big thing for you to take
- 00:35:37away right now
- 00:35:38this is a big thing because i need a
- 00:35:41drink of water i'm going to
- 00:35:42grab my water and i'm going to drink it
- 00:35:46my throat is dry when i take this drink
- 00:35:49of water
- 00:35:50it is not going to go down that pipe
- 00:35:56it is going down into my stomach
- 00:36:00there are two pipes right there
- 00:36:03when i took this drink of water it did
- 00:36:06not go over my vocal folds
- 00:36:09now i told you i was going to go back
- 00:36:11and talk about when i was doing
- 00:36:13um a lot of these video recordings that
- 00:36:16my
- 00:36:17voice was getting very tired and then i
- 00:36:19had a rehearsal that night for some
- 00:36:21recording for my church
- 00:36:24i didn't prep well the day before
- 00:36:28not in my notes not in in what i'm
- 00:36:30presenting to you
- 00:36:32in this whatever
- 00:36:35water or liquid you have drank 24 hours
- 00:36:39before
- 00:36:40is the liquid that you are working off
- 00:36:43of
- 00:36:44today so if you are dehydrated it will
- 00:36:47take 24 hours for you
- 00:36:50to get over being dehydrated because the
- 00:36:52water has to get into your bloodstream
- 00:36:55then the water is taken through your
- 00:36:56bloodstream to all of your muscles
- 00:36:59to all the areas that need the water
- 00:37:02when you take a drink of water it is not
- 00:37:04going to go over your vocal folds
- 00:37:07let me say this again the water is not
- 00:37:09going to go over your vocal folds
- 00:37:12if it did it would go into your lungs
- 00:37:15and we call that drowning
- 00:37:22this is an aha moment for many of your
- 00:37:24singers
- 00:37:26they think my voice is tired i'm going
- 00:37:28to take a drink of water
- 00:37:33i'm all better it went over my vocal
- 00:37:34folds no
- 00:37:37the only way to get it to your vocal
- 00:37:39folds is to drink it
- 00:37:40let it get into your bloodstream and
- 00:37:42then
- 00:37:4424 hours later it will get
- 00:37:47to your vocal folds right
- 00:37:50the water is going down
- 00:37:54into your stomach it is going down into
- 00:37:58your stomach it is shut off
- 00:38:00it is shut off so that it doesn't go
- 00:38:03into your lungs when we say
- 00:38:05when you uh ate something or you drink
- 00:38:07something and you say ill
- 00:38:09it went down the wrong pipe that's what
- 00:38:11you're talking about
- 00:38:13that's what you're talking about right
- 00:38:14there
- 00:38:16okay so we've talked all about that
- 00:38:20we've talked about your saw pile nasal
- 00:38:22cavity now if you look over here
- 00:38:25right here is the area now that we're
- 00:38:27going to really hone
- 00:38:28in on and we're going to talk about
- 00:38:30we're going to talk about
- 00:38:32your vocal folds your vocal folds
- 00:38:36are located right here mid-level
- 00:38:41okay for the guys it's easy to find it's
- 00:38:43where your adam's apple is
- 00:38:45right that area this area
- 00:38:49you see the vocal folds the best way
- 00:38:51that i can describe it for you
- 00:38:53is basically it is uh like a
- 00:38:56skin you'll see here in a minute i'm
- 00:38:59going to show you
- 00:39:00some video of it that is stretched
- 00:39:04they get thicker and shorter okay and
- 00:39:07they move like this
- 00:39:11and when we speak it's them rubbing
- 00:39:13together
- 00:39:16when we don't speak they're open when we
- 00:39:18are speaking again that's why a
- 00:39:20cough is different than singing because
- 00:39:23the vocal folds are rubbing together
- 00:39:25and the air is moving through a
- 00:39:26different through something
- 00:39:29very small something okay
- 00:39:32located right there
- 00:39:36right so let's take a look at
- 00:39:39a video about your vocal folds
- 00:39:42uh this will be in your resource area
- 00:39:44but i want to show you how they are
- 00:39:47working
- 00:39:54i hope you don't get queasy i'm going to
- 00:39:56show you live video of the singer's
- 00:39:58vocal cords
- 00:39:59as she sings you may want to sit down
- 00:40:10hi i'm chuck gilmore with power to sing
- 00:40:13many students feel singing is a great
- 00:40:15mystery they don't understand
- 00:40:19how their voice works why it works the
- 00:40:21way it does
- 00:40:22and what's involved with singing it all
- 00:40:24begins with the vocal cords
- 00:40:26specialists look at your vocal cords
- 00:40:28with a flexible or a rigid scope
- 00:40:31the flexible scope is a small cord with
- 00:40:33the camera at the end
- 00:40:35it's inserted through the nose and
- 00:40:37extended down the throat
- 00:40:38seeing both ports the rigid scope is
- 00:40:41like a large
- 00:40:42pen with a camera at the end it's
- 00:40:45used looking into the mouth both
- 00:40:49images look like this this can be
- 00:40:52confusing because the vocal cords are
- 00:40:54horizontal in the throat like this
- 00:40:56they are not vertical like this when the
- 00:40:59scope
- 00:41:00sees the cords and projects it on the
- 00:41:02monitor they look
- 00:41:03like they're vertical or up and down
- 00:41:06vocal cords sometimes called vocal folds
- 00:41:10are located in the mid portion of your
- 00:41:12neck about halfway down
- 00:41:14between the top and the bottom of your
- 00:41:15neck there are two vocal cords
- 00:41:19and they're they're connected to the
- 00:41:21front of your neck
- 00:41:22and open and close in the back
- 00:41:26towards the back of your neck they're
- 00:41:28located inside the voice box or lyrics
- 00:41:31the cords sit at the top of your
- 00:41:33windpipe for tracing
- 00:41:35men can feel the top of their voice
- 00:41:37blocks off the call of the atom's outfit
- 00:41:39women have the same thing but it's
- 00:41:42smaller and harder to feel with your
- 00:41:44finger
- 00:41:44your vocal cords are just behind the
- 00:41:47atoms
- 00:41:48now women can sometimes feel their
- 00:41:50average alcohol by placing their finger
- 00:41:52here
- 00:41:54gently
- 00:41:57and about the first lump that you feel
- 00:42:00is
- 00:42:00the top of the larynx about halfway down
- 00:42:04your neck
- 00:42:05feel that small level that's your
- 00:42:07absolute ladies
- 00:42:09and your vocal cords are just behind you
- 00:42:11i can feel a small
- 00:42:12v right in the center
- 00:42:16of the top of my abdomen
- 00:42:21now at first our vocal cords are about
- 00:42:22the same length approximately two
- 00:42:24millimeters
- 00:42:25by age 20 women's cords are about 10
- 00:42:28millimeters and men's 60 millimeters of
- 00:42:30length
- 00:42:31the change for men is much greater and
- 00:42:33this causes the deepening of the voice
- 00:42:35and can make singing during the vocal
- 00:42:38change much harder
- 00:42:40vocal cords are tissue and are
- 00:42:43three-dimensional that means they have
- 00:42:44length
- 00:42:45width and depth just like other tissue
- 00:42:48in your body
- 00:42:49there are different layers of tissue
- 00:42:50vocal cords have three primary layers
- 00:42:53muscle ligament and mucosa it's the
- 00:42:56slick
- 00:42:57outer layer of the vocal fold
- 00:43:00the vocal cords open when we breathe and
- 00:43:03come together
- 00:43:04when we make noise with their voices and
- 00:43:06they're covered up when we swallow
- 00:43:08the type of lid called the epiglottis
- 00:43:11closes
- 00:43:11over the vocal cords when we swallow
- 00:43:13sometimes fluid gets through
- 00:43:15we cough we clear it out
- 00:43:19when air passes through our vocal cords
- 00:43:21as we speak or sing
- 00:43:23they create a series of sound waves
- 00:43:26which we can hear this series of sound
- 00:43:29waves we call vibration
- 00:43:32the vocal cords create the initial
- 00:43:33vibrations
- 00:43:35which is the initial tones we hear that
- 00:43:37begin the sound we make speaking
- 00:43:40and singing now watch and listen as
- 00:43:43these local chords create the vibrations
- 00:43:45that become
- 00:43:46our voices
- 00:43:55[Music]
- 00:44:06hey yeah
- 00:44:25do you know your vocal type i'm not
- 00:44:27talking about whether you're soprano
- 00:44:28alto center or bass
- 00:44:30your vocal type helps you understand
- 00:44:33what your vocal cords
- 00:44:35tend to do when you sing for example
- 00:44:38if you are a light chest no chest vocal
- 00:44:41type
- 00:44:42that means your vocal cords are not
- 00:44:43closing as firmly as needed
- 00:44:46with each vocal type your vocal cords
- 00:44:50tend to do specific things as you see
- 00:44:54once you know your vocal type you can
- 00:44:55begin eliminating weaknesses in your
- 00:44:58voice
- 00:44:58and get the singing voice you want
- 00:45:02visit powertosing.com and take the power
- 00:45:05test
- 00:45:05and the quiz immediately you'll discover
- 00:45:08your vocal type
- 00:45:09explore the knowledge center inside
- 00:45:12powersync's website learn about your
- 00:45:15vocal type
- 00:45:16and the exercises that will help improve
- 00:45:19your unique goals
- 00:45:21i'm chuck gilmore with power to sing you
- 00:45:24can sing higher with beauty confidence
- 00:45:28and power i'll see you inside the next
- 00:45:32video
- 00:45:41so i hope that video helped you
- 00:45:44understand
- 00:45:44more about the vocal folds
- 00:45:48i think it was great opportunity for us
- 00:45:50to stop and to really
- 00:45:51see inside uh what is happening
- 00:45:55so we look inside again right
- 00:45:58this comes down shuts off
- 00:46:01so then uh food water whatever goes down
- 00:46:04the esophagus
- 00:46:06not into the trachea over the vocal
- 00:46:08folds but our vocal folds
- 00:46:11are very very important now to help your
- 00:46:14students understand this i think showing
- 00:46:15a video like this resources like this
- 00:46:18are
- 00:46:18wonderful i remember when uh when i
- 00:46:21first started teaching
- 00:46:22they were cassette tapes or vhs tapes i
- 00:46:25should say
- 00:46:26and only certain people had them because
- 00:46:29you had to go to the doctor and then you
- 00:46:30had to get them and
- 00:46:32and then uh maybe i could borrow yours
- 00:46:34so i could see what the vocal folds look
- 00:46:36like and now
- 00:46:37we have the power of youtube and
- 00:46:40everything that's on the internet and
- 00:46:41we're able to
- 00:46:42see that now as i talked about the vocal
- 00:46:44folds are
- 00:46:45very very fragile part of our body
- 00:46:49if we go back and we look at this part
- 00:46:53uh uh this opening of the video so i can
- 00:46:55see the vocal folds there
- 00:46:58as they said when you are singing higher
- 00:47:00they stretch out so they become
- 00:47:02thinner right and when you get lower
- 00:47:05they're thicker
- 00:47:06right so if you always think of like a
- 00:47:09pipe organ
- 00:47:10the big thick pipes are the low pipes
- 00:47:14little tiny thinny skinny pipes with the
- 00:47:16higher pipes so as we go higher we're
- 00:47:18stretching
- 00:47:19as we go lower we're deepening right
- 00:47:23and what's happening is they're coming
- 00:47:27and as that video showed the um it was
- 00:47:30wonderful to see how they vibrate
- 00:47:33together
- 00:47:34how they come together and they vibrate
- 00:47:36great way to do this with your singers
- 00:47:38is to take their fingers and have them
- 00:47:40rub together because that's really
- 00:47:41what's happening the vocal folds are
- 00:47:42coming together and rubbing together
- 00:47:44now as it said normally our vocal folds
- 00:47:48are like this if we're not doing
- 00:47:49anything a v
- 00:47:50shape right and they come together like
- 00:47:52this now
- 00:47:54those people who experience vocal damage
- 00:47:56what is happening
- 00:47:58is they're taking them and they're
- 00:47:59slamming them together
- 00:48:02slamming them together is what causes
- 00:48:05callus
- 00:48:06that is when on the vocal folds
- 00:48:10they experience nodules those are
- 00:48:12calloused parts of the vocal fold and
- 00:48:14won't allow the vocal folds to touch
- 00:48:17anymore
- 00:48:18and so there's space so then they get
- 00:48:19airy and breathy sounding
- 00:48:22and they don't have the ability to sing
- 00:48:24the way we normally would
- 00:48:25the mucus on there again comes not from
- 00:48:28water but from the blood vessels right
- 00:48:31comes from getting the water down the
- 00:48:35esophagus into the bloodstream and
- 00:48:36that's what creates
- 00:48:37all of that mucus in there is from the
- 00:48:40bloodstream
- 00:48:42all right so as we look at these things
- 00:48:44they need to understand
- 00:48:46that to create good sound to make a
- 00:48:48bigger sound
- 00:48:49has to do with placement and the lift
- 00:48:52not pressure here now
- 00:48:56i want to take just a moment to talk
- 00:48:58about the voice
- 00:48:59change as you saw in the video
- 00:49:02when we are first born when we're kids
- 00:49:05that's why
- 00:49:06little kids like my son and my daughter
- 00:49:10when i'm on the phone with them their
- 00:49:12voices are different right
- 00:49:13but sometimes with uh one is nine and
- 00:49:16one is six
- 00:49:17boy and girl and i'm like is this
- 00:49:19annabelle or is this grayson
- 00:49:22why do we say that because as you saw
- 00:49:26their vocal folds are about the same
- 00:49:27length
- 00:49:28they're all the same once we start
- 00:49:32into the change into adolescence then
- 00:49:35they
- 00:49:35start a bigger change men's voices
- 00:49:38change
- 00:49:39the most however
- 00:49:42your thyroid is located here
- 00:49:45as well your thyroid
- 00:49:49is located in this area
- 00:49:52and we know that through that area
- 00:49:56there are a lot of
- 00:50:00hormones moving so we know
- 00:50:03that the female voice is changing and
- 00:50:05the male voice is changing
- 00:50:06now females ladies your voice is not
- 00:50:09going to change
- 00:50:10as much by the time you are in
- 00:50:13early college your voices is going to
- 00:50:16start to settle
- 00:50:18gentlemen your voice is not going to
- 00:50:20start settling
- 00:50:21until your mid to late 30s
- 00:50:25that's why if any of you notice when you
- 00:50:27go to an opera
- 00:50:29the ladies tend to be a little younger
- 00:50:31than the male leads why is that
- 00:50:33the men's voice is not done changing yet
- 00:50:36they haven't totally settled in
- 00:50:40my voice is now just settling in to what
- 00:50:43it's going to be
- 00:50:44and i can tell you i'm a baritone i've
- 00:50:48got some
- 00:50:48really low notes and sometimes that high
- 00:50:51f
- 00:50:52f g just isn't there but now that my
- 00:50:55voice has started to settle
- 00:50:57i'm owning that f sharp and that g a lot
- 00:50:59more
- 00:51:00than what i was even in college
- 00:51:03my voice is starting to finally settle
- 00:51:06in
- 00:51:06to where it's supposed to be now
- 00:51:10on that i also want to say
- 00:51:13that for the boys it is good to keep
- 00:51:15them singing
- 00:51:16in their higher voice because
- 00:51:19that lower voice is not all
- 00:51:22developed yet the chords are getting
- 00:51:25thicker
- 00:51:26and they are changing but they always
- 00:51:29are going to have that higher range
- 00:51:31they're always going to have the ability
- 00:51:33to stretch
- 00:51:35now if you are an athlete or if you've
- 00:51:38ever been a runner or played sports
- 00:51:40and you know that you haven't done
- 00:51:41something for a while and then you go
- 00:51:43and you try and do it
- 00:51:45it's not as easy if you haven't done it
- 00:51:47for a while
- 00:51:49so we want to make sure they continue to
- 00:51:51stretch
- 00:51:52to continue to have that because if they
- 00:51:54don't they are going to lose the ability
- 00:51:56for the vocal fold
- 00:51:58again a muscle to stretch and so
- 00:52:01we want to keep it engaged now during
- 00:52:03this time
- 00:52:04both for male and female there are some
- 00:52:07notes that they are going to sing
- 00:52:09and there are some days they're going to
- 00:52:11have notes they can't sing
- 00:52:12and that's okay just tell them to work
- 00:52:14through it you can't sing that note
- 00:52:16jump on to the next one take a break
- 00:52:18their voices get tired
- 00:52:20make sure they are hydrating taking good
- 00:52:22rest
- 00:52:23that they are utilizing placement
- 00:52:26and lift to create the sound that it is
- 00:52:30not coming from here that's when we talk
- 00:52:31about doing this
- 00:52:33again i said i was going to address that
- 00:52:35knowing what you know now from that
- 00:52:37video
- 00:52:38knowing how this works that your vocal
- 00:52:41folds go this way
- 00:52:43doing this is not going to stretch them
- 00:52:45any higher
- 00:52:46they move the opposite way right
- 00:52:49so gentlemen have to realize that
- 00:52:51relaxing
- 00:52:53relaxing the neck and good breath is
- 00:52:57what's going to get them there
- 00:52:59that is the key to what we're doing here
- 00:53:02so if we break everything down i'm going
- 00:53:05to move
- 00:53:06back to this we talk about the breath
- 00:53:10the breathing how important it is the
- 00:53:12alignment
- 00:53:12of the body so we can breathe properly
- 00:53:15the lifting
- 00:53:16of the soft palate the use of placement
- 00:53:20the sinuses understanding how that
- 00:53:23resonant area works
- 00:53:26then we talk about the tongue here how
- 00:53:28there can't be tension
- 00:53:30and then finally how the lips work
- 00:53:34as you notice there's not much you can
- 00:53:36do with the vocal folds
- 00:53:38all of this is what helps them all
- 00:53:41you're gonna do
- 00:53:42is put good air through the vocal folds
- 00:53:44to make a great sound
- 00:53:46remember don't push it
- 00:53:49that right there was me taking my vocal
- 00:53:51folds and slamming them together
- 00:53:53they need to understand that you know i
- 00:53:55know a lot of your singers are probably
- 00:53:57involved with sports
- 00:53:59you're going to know if they went to a
- 00:54:01soccer game the night before
- 00:54:02and they yelled why they're going to
- 00:54:04come in horse
- 00:54:05why because these muscles here
- 00:54:09are tired they've been strained
- 00:54:13they've hit one another it's like when
- 00:54:15you go to a game and you've been
- 00:54:16clapping and clapping and clapping and
- 00:54:18your hands
- 00:54:18hurt same thing here with your vocal
- 00:54:21folds
- 00:54:22that's how they work they work by
- 00:54:24connecting and we want to do it gently
- 00:54:27we always want to make sure they are
- 00:54:28connecting in a gentle manner
- 00:54:32well i hope this has helped you i hope
- 00:54:35this has broken things down for you in a
- 00:54:37way that you
- 00:54:38really understand that you can really
- 00:54:40talk to your students about all of these
- 00:54:43things remember it's not too early to
- 00:54:45start talking to them in kindergarten
- 00:54:47about these things
- 00:54:48about finding your sternum about the rib
- 00:54:50cage about the lungs
- 00:54:52about how the air comes through and
- 00:54:55we're gonna
- 00:54:56lower our tongue and we're gonna make a
- 00:54:58little space in there and we're gonna
- 00:55:00sing
- 00:55:00and then you start to add more things
- 00:55:02you're gonna add
- 00:55:03the nasal cavity to it you're going to
- 00:55:05add the sinus area
- 00:55:07and talk about all of that you're going
- 00:55:09to talk about
- 00:55:11the vocal folds and
- 00:55:14all of that area there and how it works
- 00:55:17and you're going to build upon it
- 00:55:18but every time you build every layer
- 00:55:20it's going to make your singers better
- 00:55:22they're going to understand their
- 00:55:24instrument better just as anybody
- 00:55:27understands their instrument you know
- 00:55:28when i was in middle school i got my
- 00:55:30first trumpet
- 00:55:32i was so excited to get it and it was
- 00:55:35actually passed down in my family and
- 00:55:37then finally
- 00:55:38i was able to buy my own uh trumpet
- 00:55:42i had to work very very hard i remember
- 00:55:44i had to save three thousand dollars as
- 00:55:46a middle school
- 00:55:47that's a lot of money for anybody that's
- 00:55:48a lot of money
- 00:55:50and it was a bench silver trumpet i
- 00:55:52thought it was the neatest thing
- 00:55:54i still have it i took
- 00:55:57extreme care of it i took a class on how
- 00:56:00to take it all apart
- 00:56:01how to clean it properly how to make
- 00:56:03sure the valves were oiled how to make
- 00:56:05sure all the slides were greased
- 00:56:06properly
- 00:56:07how um i needed to re-cork the pads
- 00:56:10the spit valves and how to use that
- 00:56:12instrument
- 00:56:13correctly so it would last me a lifetime
- 00:56:18it's the same thing with our voice we
- 00:56:20take it for granted
- 00:56:21it's a gift there are so many things
- 00:56:24that are now moving to
- 00:56:25voice recognition why because our voices
- 00:56:28are unique
- 00:56:29our voices are as unique as
- 00:56:32every snowflake that has ever fallen
- 00:56:34think of that
- 00:56:35how many snowflakes in the history of
- 00:56:37the world have fallen
- 00:56:39and every snowflake that has ever fallen
- 00:56:41is uniquely different
- 00:56:43from the other and that's how our voices
- 00:56:46are
- 00:56:46they're uniquely different and it is our
- 00:56:50job as teachers
- 00:56:52as voice instructors as voice coaches
- 00:56:55to help our singers take care of their
- 00:56:58voice
- 00:56:59so that they can have a lifetime of
- 00:57:02singing
- 00:57:03and being able to do that is about
- 00:57:06knowing
- 00:57:06the mechanism knowing the instrument
- 00:57:10so they best know how to take care of
- 00:57:13that instrument
- 00:57:15thanks for joining me on this session i
- 00:57:17hope it was helpful
- 00:57:18i invite you to go and check out more of
- 00:57:21uh the power of singing youtube
- 00:57:23videos they are a great resource there
- 00:57:25are so many resources out there i hope
- 00:57:27you will also use this video
- 00:57:29as a resource for your students thanks
- 00:57:31so much
- 00:57:32have a great day
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