The Straws and Bubbles exercise from our This Is A Voice book

05/16/22 • 21 min

In the first of a new series, Dr Gillyanne Kayes & Jeremy Fisher take you through the Straws & Bubbles exercise from the bestselling book This Is A Voice
Find out the upgrades we now add to the written exercise, and why we'd change some of the instructions
Listeners share their successes using straw exercises including tackling anxiety and singers with PTSD
And Gillyanne discusses some of the SOVT facts she discovered at last week's PAS7+ conference from Brazil, including why SOVT exercises might be very good for shy singers
We announce the launch of the SOVT 1 Training Course, now included in your Learning Lounge Membership
And we include some of the bloopers that happen when we record!
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Golden Nuggets 16th April World Voice Day Special

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This special podcast episode celebrates the annual World Voice Day. The motto this year is "Lift Your Voice".
We are Dr Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher, and we're chatting about our #1 bestselling book on vocal technique, This Is A Voice.
Hear how we were commissioned to write the book, which exercises people love, and how we practise our own exercises.
We'll take you through one podcast listener's favourite exercise - Toothbrush Talk - so you can hear how to do it, and what effect can have on your voice.
And we give you a sneak peek into our brainstorming walks in the hills, and how to ace the "brain dump" in a singing lesson - it'll make your lessons a whole lot better.
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The Breathy-Light Archetype exercises from our This Is A Voice book

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In the second episode of a new series, Dr Gillyanne Kayes & Jeremy Fisher take you through the two Breathy-Light Archetype exercises from the bestselling book This Is A Voice
Jeremy demonstrates different versions of the breathy-light archetype at different points in his vocal range (covering almost 2 octaves), and Gillyanne uses the archetype to narrate part of "Arthur The Rat".
Find out the upgrades we now add to the written exercise, and why we'd change some of the instructions
We've left in the bloopers again - listen to Jeremy cracking on an upper note before controlling it, and how he has to change breath pressure AND vibrato type to sing in a different range.
Both Jeremy and Gillyanne demonstrate the difference between the Breathy-Light archetype in the book and abducted then abducted falsetto - just because it's breathy doesn't mean it's falsetto!
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