Vowel Tract Exercises
Vowel Tract Exercises Spend some time playing with the shape of the vocal tract to help your students understand how small changes in tongue, lip…
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The Key: Balance and Consistency of Air, Muscle and Vowel
Weekly Teaching Tip – Aug. 15, 2018 by Dean Kaelin With all things there is a complicated and an easy explanation. Sometimes we get so…
“Chest Pullers” vs. “Flippers”
Weekly Teaching Tip – March 27, 2018 by Dean Kaelin This week’s teaching tip comes from a question a teacher sent to me. Question: What…
How to Stabilize Long, High Tones
Weekly Teaching Tip – Aug. 15, 2016 by Dr. Hubert Noe How to stabilize long high tones? It is not holding, but a constant continuous…
Working with vocal ensembles on vocal technique
Weekly Teaching Tip – Nov. 16, 2015 by Piotr Markowski By ‘vocal ensembles’ I mean various forms of collective singing – groups performing classical music,…
Tweaking the Vowels
Weekly Teaching Tip – December 17, 2012 Sound is originated with the vocal folds, but then this initial sound moves up the vocal tract (throat,…
Vowel Centering and Narrowing
Weekly Teaching Tip – Nov. 26, 2012 Question: When I hear “a consistent, ‘centered’ vowel” I always wonder about the “narrowing the vowel” concept. How…
The Three Things a Singer Controls – VAC
Weekly Teaching Tip – January 31, 2012 Too often teachers tend to focus on the results of vocal problems rather than on the cause of…
The Importance of the Vowel
As we talked about in our February Teacher Training, perhaps the most important thing we as voice teachers can focus on is the vowel the…
