Skeleton and places of balance
The human spine has these 5 regions.
What are cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx?
The 4 main types of breathing are these.
What are thoracic, abdominal, clavicular, and balanced (a thoracic/abdominal combo)?
This muscle and the vocal ligament make up the majority of the vocal folds.
What is the thyro-arytenoid muscle?
What are imploded k's, breath of silent delight, li'l straws, imagining hot soup, 'piggies'...?
If a singer sings an unmodified /u/ on a Bb4, it will be this.
What is not very resonant?
The A-O joint is named for this.
What is Atlanto-occipital? The "atlanto" comes from C1, the atlas vertebrae, and the "occipital" comes from the occipital condyles or occiput bone of the skull.
When the crico-thyroid muscle contracts, this is what happens to the cartilages that it connects.
What is they rock together at the front?
In the Vibrational Modes way of labeling register, this is the shape of the glottis in Mode 1; and this is the shape in Mode 2.
What is square-shaped in Mode 1, and triangle-shaped in Mode 2?
When we engage the buccinator muscles we start a chain reaction wherein these muscles contract, thereby raising the larynx.
What are the (middle) pharyngeal constrictors?
In order to remain resonant in classical style, a treble singer will need to do this.
What is modify their vowels towards the nearest location of Resonance 1?
These are the 6 places of balance in the human body.
What are the A-O joint, the arm structure, thorax in relation to the lumbar spine, hip joint, knee joint, and ankle joints?
In speaking and singing, this is how we regulate exhalation.
What is by regulating the release of the contraction of the muscles of inhalation; or regulating the elastic recoil of the structures of inhalation?
When the vocal folds are vibrating in Mode 2, they are said to be 'skinny and alone.' Therefore to maintain clarity of tone, the singer must do this.
What is bring the cords together with more firmness than in Mode 1 because in Mode 1 they are more square-shaped, there is more contact area between them, and they are 'chubby and bumpin''?
These are the 2 actions or phases of a free jaw.
What are swinging back and dropping?
To maintain classical timbre and allow a vowel to 'turn over,' this physical condition must be met.
What is the vowel and vocal tract length must remain the same?
These are 3 ways that we have discussed to help a student find balance in their A-O joint.
What are leg swingin', ears plugged and humming, top molars parallel to the floor?
In terms of the vocal folds, the 2 ways to ascend in singing are these.
What is by thinning the vocal folds primarily through crico-thyroid activity; and adding tension to the folds when the thyro-arytenoid muscle contracts in strong opposition to the crico-thyroid muscles?
One way to "do" legato is this.
What is keep the same relationship of breath to cords and cords to each other at all times? or maintaining a legato of overtones? or staying legato in your mouth/pronunciation?
Vowels are made when our vocal tract has these.
What is narrowings?
When a non-treble's vowel has 'turned over,' and has therefore lost a bit of resonance, this option is available to him.
What is 'ninja-level' formant tuning, singing the written vowel through the nearest Resonance of the Vocal Tract?
This is the number of vertebrae and the number of pairs of ribs we have.
What is 12?
The 3 reasons why thoracic breathing is preferred for Musical Theater singers.
When the vocal folds transition from Mode 1 to Mode 2 or vice versa, no matter the skill of the singer in masking the sound, there is always this.
What is a binary shift from thick cords where the thyro-arytenoid muscle is vibrating to thin cords where those muscles don't participate in vibration.
These are the 6 ways that we can find and maintain a lowered laryngeal posture.
What are thinking about it and spending breath with the necessary speed, touching it, a low breath allowing for tracheal tug, working with affect like sympathy or mischief, listening for the ooh/uh in the sound, trying the chiaroscuro whisper?
When a vowel 'turns over' in a non-treble classical voice, in regards to Harmonics and Resonances, this is happening.
What is H2 passes through Resonance 1?