Name the body technique to assure proper alignment for singing.
What are the Five Points of Posture?
100
These are pearly white and slippery.
What are the vocal folds?
100
This converts energy, has a "muffler", and makes noise very similar to the processes found in a running car.
What is the voice?
100
It is commonly called "the voice box".
What is the larynx?
100
This prevents food/liquid from entering your trachea.
Name it and point it out on the diagram.
What is the epiglottis?
200
The blended voice in between your head voice and chest voice.
What is the middle voice?
200
1. Deplete air from the lungs
2. Vocal cords and air fight vocal folds
3. Creates a vibration.
What is how do the vocal cords make sound?
200
This is created by the sudden interruption of the air.
What is sound?
200
Label the larynx on the diagram.
What is....(see diagram)?
200
This shapes the vowel sounds;
Lifting it creates more space in the pharynx.
Name it and point it out on the diagram.
What is the soft palate?
300
Repeatedly doing these will __________________.
Yelling excessively
Dehydration
Smoking
Speaking at the incorrect pitch for your voice timbre
Forcefully singing incorrectly
What are ways to damage your voice?
300
Protects your vocal folds from harm, also vibrates with the folds
What is the larynx?
300
The sound generated by the vocal folds alone.
What is a buzzing noise?
300
These are part of the vocal tract that creates the words.
What are the articulators?
300
It's located above the larynx through which sound must travel.
Name it and label it on the diagram.
What is the pharynx?
400
This piece of advice is the solution for a common singing "issue": Lift your soft palate, drop your larynx.
What is advice to fix a nasally sound?
400
A callous-like formation on the vocal folds from improper use.
What are vocal nodules?
400
This has been compared to a car muffler that shapes the sound created by the vocal folds.
What is the vocal tract?
400
It is determined by the amount of air allowed to pass through the vocal folds.
What is volume?
400
This is the main power supply needed to sing, connected by the trachea.
Name it and label the trachea on the diagram.
What are the lungs?
500
The muscle responsible for drawing air into the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
500
To recover from this vocal disease you might need surgery, many months of vocal rest, or vocal rehibilitation.
What are ways to recover from vocal nodules?
500
This is determined by the amount of tension on the folds.
What is pitch?
500
The sounds "D","T", "L"
What are consonants produced by the tongue and hard palate?
500
The larynx, nasal cavity, soft palate, and vocal folds are examples of this.
Name it and label all four of these items on the diagram.