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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- What You're Not to Read -- Foolish Assumptions -- How This Book Is Organized -- Part 1: Preparing Your Body for Practicing -- Part 2: Making Your Music Magical with Variety -- Part 3: Working Out Your Range -- Part 4: Advancing Your Singing Technique -- Part 5: The Part of Tens -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1: Preparing Your Body for Practicing -- Chapter 1: Warming Up for Singing |
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Preparing Your Instrument: Stretching Out from Head to Toe -- Opening and Positioning the Lower Body -- Connecting your feet to the floor -- Balancing on the ankles and knees -- Distributing weight in the legs and hips -- Positioning the Upper Body for Easy Movement -- Lengthening your spine -- Releasing the shoulders -- Balancing the head and neck -- Managing the arms and hands -- Putting It All Together with a Vocal Warm-Up -- Chapter 2: Practicing Breathing Exercises -- Moving the Breathing Muscles for Singing -- Opening the ribs -- Releasing the abs -- Moving the sides |
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Releasing into the hips -- Take It In: Shaping Inhalation -- Controlling the movement of your ribs -- Adding suspension to develop coordination -- Opening the torso for quick inhalation -- Let It Out: Controlling Exhalation -- Developing muscle coordination -- Isolating muscles for extra-long phrases -- Singing Practice Exercises with Long and Short Phrases -- Practicing short phrases -- Practicing longer phrases -- Testing your breath control -- Songs for Extending Breath Control -- Chapter 3: Shaping the Tongue and Lips for Vowels -- Coordinating the Tongue and Lips for Back Vowels |
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Shifting the arch around for ooh and ah -- Altering your lip shape for oh and ah -- Tackling the tricky vowels aw and OOh -- Singing through the five back vowels -- Positioning the Tongue for Front Vowels -- Dropping the arch between ee and ih -- Moving between ee and ay -- Distinguishing between ee and eh -- Comparing eh and a -- Singing through the five front vowels -- Alternating between Front and Back Vowels -- Presenting the Middle Vowel, Uh -- Singing Combination Vowels -- Songs for Singing Vowels Precisely -- Chapter 4: Articulating Consonants Accurately -- Touching on the Tip Consonants |
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Exploring the voiced consonants L, N, and D -- Distinguishing between voiced D and unvoiced T -- Sounding out the voiced R -- Singing unvoiced S and voiced Z -- Moving the tip of the tongue to the teeth for TH -- Singing through the consonants L, N, D, T, S, Z, and TH -- Arching Back for Soft Palate Consonants -- Practicing voiced G, unvoiced K, and voiced NG -- Singing through the consonants K, G, and NG -- Working on Lip Consonants -- Practicing voiced consonants W and M -- Alternating between voiced B and unvoiced P -- Moving only the bottom lip for F and V |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Singing -- Methods -- Self-instruction.
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Singing
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| Genre/Form |
Methods (Music)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781119701033 |
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1119701031 |
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9781119701057 |
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1119701058 |
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