This past week, I lead a webinar called, Online Lessons and Easing Your Voice. I offer tips and suggestions to help keep your voice in tip-top shape when teaching on FaceTime, Zoom, or other online platforms. Thank you to Neil Moore and the amazing Simply Music team for the opportunity to lead this webinar!
Check it out:
Outline:
1. Objectives
for the workshop
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Help to ease your voice when teaching
online (tools and strategies)
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Healthy phonation and vocal production
for sustained use
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Self-awareness and mindfulness when
speaking
2. Categories
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Posture
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Breathing
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Resonant Voice/Onset
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Self-Awareness/Mindfulness
3. Posture
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How to sit at the piano
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Head
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Chin
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Neck
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Shoulders
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Sternum/Ribs
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Feet flat on the ground
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Where is your camera positioned?
4. Breathing
– Deep, Diaphragmatic Breathing compared to Shallow, Clavicle Breathing
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Nostril Breathing
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Straw Breathing
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Silent Breath
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In through nose/Out on “sss” or “tss”
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Lip Buzzing
Resonant
Voice – Sinus Cavities
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Sinus cavities in the face
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Straw (semi-occluded vocal tract)
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Humming (with and without straw)
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Siren
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Head upside down
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Gentle Onset (compared to hard onset and
glottal fry)
6. Self-Awareness/Mindfulness
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How loud are you speaking
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Wearing Headphones
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Purchasing a microphone
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How you are sitting
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Where is your camera located?
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Avoid glottal fry
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How are you beginning sentences when you
speak?
