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film group Foundations and Fundamentals for the Singing Teacher Choral Director's Guide to Singers Teaching Young Voices Total Access Package
Introduction to functional anatomy
6 FILMS:
  1. Balance - What impact will the alignment of the body have on our voice?
  2. Breath - How can we achieve a steady flow of air with the minimum of effort?
  3. The Larynx 1 – how do we make sound? Pitch and loudness changes
  4. The Larynx 2 – register changes, vibrato and basic laryngeal voice qualities
  5. The Vocal Tract 1 – the jaw and tongue, vowels and consonants
  6. The Vocal Tract 2 – the pharynx and soft palate, acoustic voice qualities
The learning and feeling brain x
8 FILMS:
  1. How we learn - Memory
  2. How we learn - Programming Skills
  3. How we learn - Patterns and Templates
  4. Senses and feelings
  5. Emotions and Learning
  6. Empathy and Learning
  7. Performance anxiety - why it happens
  8. Performance anxiety - what we can do to help
Introduction to Vocal Health
7 FILMS:
  1. Why do we develop vocal health issues?
  2. Inflammation and pacing voice use
  3. Diet and gastro-oesophageal reflux
  4. Common voice problems including the common cold
  5. The effect of hormones on vocal health
  6. The effect of ageing on vocal health
  7. Side-effects of medications
Essential know-how for teachers
6 FILMS:
  1. Structuring lessons and practice
  2. Warm-ups 1 - what are we trying to achieve and why?
  3. Warm-ups 2 - what to do, and in which order?
  4. Students, Parents and the Teacher (Insurance, documentation and safeguarding issues)
  5. Inclusive Teaching 1 – considerations for the inclusive studio
  6. Inclusive Teaching 2 – Specific individual needs
Life Cycle of the Voice x x
7 FILMS:
  1. Introduction – Where it starts
  2. Children - Pre-school Singing, 4 to 7 Years and 7 to 11 years
  3. Adolescent singers – general development and teenage girls
  4. Adolescent boys: Hearing and Assessing voice change
  5. Technique for Young Singers
  6. Group singing for children, working with young adults
  7. Adult singers, female hormone changes, wellbeing and the ageing voice
Teaching Young Voices: Children x x
5 FILMS:
  1. Foundations: why would we teach singing to children?
  2. Why are children’s voices different? What can we hear as they develop?
  3. Infant and young child: early musical development age 0-7
  4. Age 7-11 Skills and technique
  5. Emotions and role play, gender and culture expectations
Teaching Young Voices: Adolescent Changes x x
6 FILMS:
  1. Hormones – what is happening? A note about inclusivity
  2. The Adolescent Brain: Identity and Development
  3. Girls’ voices, changes and expectations
  4. Boys’ voices, listening to the speaking voice and identifying stages
  5. Boys’ voices, when the wrong advice causes problems
  6. Teaching individuals in groups, running choirs and allocating parts
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