Mechanics
The process of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide.
What is breathing?
The parts of your body that help form words out of sounds.
What are articulators?
A good articulation warm up.
What is a tongue twister?
You fill these up with oxygen when you inhale and push oxygen out when you exhale.
What are lungs?
How low or high your voice is.
What is pitch?
The folds in your larynx that vibrate to create sound
What are vocal chords?
The three main types of articulators.
What is lips, teeth, and tongue?
Name some reasons why warming up before a performance is important.
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This muscle expands when you inhale and relaxes when you exhale, pushing air out of the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
The way you vary the pitch in your voice and add interest and meaning.
What is inflection?
Name three things that are bad for your vocal chords
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Speaking clearly and making sure that you are using your articulators to be understood.
What is enunciating?
The four parts of a good warm up.
What is Breath, Power, Resonance, and Articulation?
What can happen if you yell instead of project?
You can damage your voice.
Speaking in only one pitch and not changing your tone.
What is monotone?
Which sounds do your articulators create?
What are consonants?
Saying words the way that they are written in the dictionary, putting stress on the right syllables.
What is pronunciation?
A good example of a resonance warm up
What is humming?
The freedom of all bodily tensions.
What is relaxation?
The very highest your voice can go all the way down to the lowest it can go.
What is range?
What are sinuses?
Name one of the musicals that we watched a clip from in class.
What is Singin in the Rain, My Fair Lady, or The Phantom of the Opera?
What is inflection?
What does it mean to have power behind your voice?
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