Find resources featuring Song Bank songs As its title suggests, this chapter will help you to understand how the voice works. Getting to know about the workings behind the voice will enable you to take greater care of your own and teach others more effectively about voice care.
By reading Chapter 2 of Inside the voice, you will learn how the voice can be divided into three areas: power, source and filter.
The power behind the voice is in the respiratory system.
The source of the sound is the larynx (voicebox).
The filter is the upper vocal tract, which consists of the pharynx, mouth and nose.
You will also learn about:
How the breathing and core postural muscles control the airflow in speaking and singing.
Why bad posture and tension work against good voice production.
How we make sound by engaging the true vocal folds as we breathe, causing them to vibrate.
- How changing pitch and volume is achieved through fine control of the larynx’s muscles.
How the upper vocal tract amplifies and modifies the raw sound from the larynx into the different vowels and consonants.
Click the ‘Inside the voice (Chapter 2: How the voice works)’ link below to find out more. To see endoscopic footage showing what happens inside the larynx when you speak or sing, watch the ‘Going inside the voice’ video.
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Posted 19th Apr 2012 11:18
Hi Miss Hadley,
Thanks for your comment. There does seems to be a glitch with the videos. I've forwarded the issue to our techinical team who are looking into it now. We'll have it sorted in a jiffy.
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Posted 18th Apr 2012 06:05
Having trouble playing any of the videos. Can you help please?
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Posted 22nd Sep 2011 12:58
I'm trying to download this iten and I can't...keep on saying there is a error...:(
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Posted 30th Mar 2011 05:41
These are terrific resources! Well done and thank you :) I'm sure many teachers will find this useful if they happen to spot / follow the process to find them.