Voice Hand Outs and rubric

Healthy Voice

As a singer you need to take care of your voice and your entire body before singing begin.

Good nutrition and adequate rest boost your immune system, helping you avoid colds and other health problems that will affect your Voice Usage.

Hydration is very important for helping the voice function at its optimum for lessons and performances. During singing tasks, drinking room temperature WATER is ideal (NOT COLD).

Warming up!

When you’re ready to begin practicing, you need to take time to slowly warm up your vocal instrument so that it will be ready for the demand that are about to be placed on it. It is never recommended that a singer do an intense vocal demand without first allowing the voice to properly warm up.

Exercises:

Prepare your body before singing: You want to get your entire body ready to sing, not just your singing muscles. Try the following stretching routine.

1. Head Rotation2. Smile closed mouth3. Smile open mouth4. Open mouth stretch5. Frown (lower lip)6. Face massage7. Throat massage8. Shoulder massage9. Shoulder Rotation10. Side bend11. Front bend

Lip Trill :

1. Take a breath, and send the breath between your lips and let them vibrate. If your lips don’t vibrate it’s probably because they’re too tight.

2. If your lips are tight, place a finger at the corners of your mouth and gently push the corner of your lips as you do the lip trill.

3. Try to sustain the lip trill in 4 counts *repeat 5x*4. If mastered, do the lip trill and produce a sound in one

pitch or note

Breathing Exercise :

1. Long S : With a proper way of breathing, produce this “ssss” focusing on making the sound stable and keeping the volume constant.

2. Loud S : Next is Produce the same ‘ssss’ sound, but this time, try to do it as loudly as you can, expelling the air through that small hole from your air balloon as quickly as you can! SSSS!

3. Short S : Produce a series of light and bouncy ‘ssss’ sounds. “sss! sss! sss! sss! sss!”

Vowels : Good Articulation Begins With Good Vowel Production

1. One of the most important techniques to learn is proper shaping of primary vowels. (Ah Eh Ee Oh Oo )

2. Open your mouth widely and observe the different shapes of your mouth while pronouncing each vowels

BEGINNER I II III

Vocal Exercises

I - II

1. Humming 12. Vowel (eeh) 13. Vowel (aah) 14. Amore 15. Lip trill

III


Beginner I :

Can do the Basic warm-ups Can do the Basic Vocal Exercises Understands the proper way of breathing Know the part of her body and understand the Bad habits

and Good habits in singing Proper Mouth Shaping Know the Proper Posture Able to Finish Her/His Three Songs

Beginner II :

Can Easily Do the Basic Warm-ups It will be easy for her/him to do the Basic Vocal Exercises Able to know what her/his singing range Can Apply the Proper way of Breathing Able to replace bad singing habits with Good ones Proper Mouth Shaping Can do the Proper Posture while singing Understands the importance for expressing the the

feeling of the song that has been assigned Able to Finish her/his three songs with proper posture

Beginner III :

Can fully understand the importance of Basic Warm-ups Can do new variations of Vocal Exercises Will be aware of her/his singing range and how to use it

properly Can apply the proper way of breathing in Vocal Exercises

and in Singing Able to sing with Good Posture and with no Bad singing

Habits Proper Mouth shaping and Pronunciation Develop her/his Hearing Able to finish her/his three songs with Good Posture and

Good tone Quality

INTERMEDIATE I II III

Vocal Exercises

I


II-III


Intermediate I

Can perform Basic Warm-ups well Can apply the Breathing techniques and voice quality in

Vocal exercises Can Perform Vocal exercises in his/her singing range

without struggling Confident of his/her posture while singing Proper use of Vowels Understands the importance of expressing the feelings of

ISa songs Understands the message of a song and how to deliver it

properly Able to finish her/his three songs with a Good Voice

Control, Good expressions, and with confidence.

Intermediate II - III

Able to do all the warm-ups very well Has a Good Control in Breathing and a Good control of

Voice Understands the dynamics in singing Learns the Basic on how to Interact with the audience

and how to move on the stage Proper Pronunciation Able to expand her/his singing range (depends on the

voice quality) Can apply Facial Expressions in singing Knows the basic blockings in the stage while performing Able to Finish the song that has been assigned with Good

Stage Performance, Good Pitch and Expressions

Advance I II III

Vocal Exercises

I-II

1. Humming 42. Vowels 3. Amore 44. Ho-Hi sound5. Lip Trill

III

1. Humming 52. Vowels3. Amore-Dio4. Ho-Hi staccato sound5. Lip Trill

Advance I-II

Able to do all the warm-ups and understands how it affects his/her singing

Able to do good modulation in voice Has a Good Voice Control and Techniques Has a Good Breathing techniques Has a Good Diction Can Expand her/his singing range Can belt-out his/her voice Able to sing different Genre and Understands the

Different Approach in each Genres Knows how to communicate while singing Knows the Proper Behavior in the stage Able to Finish the assigned songs applying all the

Techniques and Good Stage Performance

Advance III

Is very well oriented in all warm-ups and Vocal exercises Can Improvise styles in singing Has a very good control of voice and breathing support Can Express the right feelings of the song using Facial

expression, Voice Quality, Intonations and body movement

Is Flexible to sing Different Genres Has an Excellent Stage Behavior and posture Aware of her own style and how to produce a good voice

sound Has Conviction in singing Can belt-out his/her voice clearly and powerful Able to Finish any assigned songs with great stage

performance, perfect pitch, expressions and tone Quality

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