For the voice exercises in the next sections you’re going to be using the six-step sequence below.
The first five steps you’ll be familiar with from the exercises in Part One, and are both a useful reminder of the skills you built there and a gradual preparation for step 6, when you’ll be switching your voice on and off on a range of notes without the help of a hum or friendly consonant – exactly as you do for each word when speaking.
Using this sequence for the voice exercises will ensure your voice is solidly head-focused.
The steps of the sequence are:
Hum each note of the exercise, on either an mmmm or an nnnn.
On each note start with a hum, then allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open on an aah.
Do the exercise using one (and then others) of the friendly phrases.
Start the first note of the exercise with a hum and allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open on an aah. Then keep your mouth open while moving smoothly on the aah to the other notes in turn.
Imagine a hum at the start of the first note but don’t make the sound. Allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open, and produce all the notes of the exercise on a continuous aah sound.
Imagine, but don’t voice, a hum on the first note then switch on an aah as you did in step 5. Switch that note off. Repeat the process on each note of the exercise so that you produce a separate aah sound on each note.
The audios in Section 1.5. demonstrate the sequence.
Q: Would you find a Part One refresher helpful at this point?
For the voice exercises in the next sections you’re going to be using the six-step sequence below.
The first five steps you’ll be familiar with from the exercises in Part One, and are both a useful reminder of the skills you built there and a gradual preparation for step 6, when you’ll be switching your voice on and off on a range of notes without the help of a hum or friendly consonant – exactly as you do for each word when speaking.
Using this sequence for the voice exercises will ensure your voice is solidly head-focused.
The steps of the sequence are:
Hum each note of the exercise, on either an mmmm or an nnnn.
On each note start with a hum, then allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open on an aah.
Do the exercise using one (and then others) of the friendly phrases.
Start the first note of the exercise with a hum and allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open on an aah. Then keep your mouth open while moving smoothly on the aah to the other notes in turn.
Imagine a hum at the start of the first note but don’t make the sound. Allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open, and produce all the notes of the exercise on a continuous aah sound.
Imagine, but don’t voice, a hum on the first note then switch on an aah as you did in step 5. Switch that note off. Repeat the process on each note of the exercise so that you produce a separate aah sound on each note.
The audios in Section 1.5. demonstrate the sequence.
Q: Would you find a Part One refresher helpful at this point?
