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Vocal Function Exercises DVD by Joseph Stemple, PhD
This How To Series provides specific and programmatic information on how to complete Vocal Function
exercises and incorporate them in your clinical care of voice patients.
Here is a media sample for this title: The purpose of this presentation is to provide
for you a tutorial. This is a tutorial for clinical practice and also teaching purposes.
It's designed specifically to introduce to you the concept of physiologic voice therapy,
and in particular the therapy program known as Voca Function Exercises. We are going to
sustain the vowel e for as long as possible on the musical note f. What we're going to
have you do is make it a nasal tone. There you are. Feel it? Yeah. So what we would do
of course is time each one of them and for the sake of this video we're not going to
time each one but I want to. The hardest thing for singers to do is to not sing the exercise,
and you're not. And you don't like to tone at all do you? No, not at all. But that's
precisely what you need to do and remember it's not a singing exercise. It a physical
exercise for the mechanism. Alright exercise number 2 we need to stretch the vocal folds
ok. Not only to they vibrate like this but they stretch to give us our higher pitches
and contract to give us our lower pitches. We need to work out those muscles. The third
excecise I want you to do. What have we done so far? We've warmed up the system, we've
got you into a nice forward focus with that e. We've unloaded the larynx. We've given
you a kind of relaxed vibration though engaged. We've stretched the vocal folds very nicely,
lets contract them. To contract the vocal folds we are going to do the exact opposite
of what we did in the stretching. I want you to glide from high to low. Comfortably high,
it doesn't have to be your highest note because you'll probably hyper function to get your
highest note. Just a comfortably high tone to your very lowest not again on the word
knoll it will sound like this. Related titles include:
Your Voice Is Your Business by Orlando Barone, Cari Tellis, Ph.D.
Vocal Function Exercises CD by Joseph Stemple, PhD
Vocal Parts by Fred Minifie, PhD, Mara Behlau, PhD, Robert O'Brien