Have you been told you sound nasal?
Now you can learn exactly what causes nasality, how to control it, and how to find clearer diction in 27 minutes or less!
 

But there's a lot of confusion out there!

All of these phrases refer to the same thing.

• The velum

• The soft palate

• The velar port (or velar pharyngeal port)

• The nasal port

• The palato-pharyngeal valve

• The opening into the nasal cavity

• The doorway into the nose

And even the position of this structure isn't described in the same way

The structure can be:

lifted, closed, touching the back wall
or
dropped, open, touching the tongue, hanging in midair

Or the cavity can be:

closed off, blocked, sealed, not resonating, denasalised, hyponasal
or
open, hollow, unsealed, resonating, vibrating, nasalised, hypernasal

And here are some myths about the soft palate:

• The soft palate is always raised when you sing

• The soft palate lifts automatically when you breathe in

• You can't control the soft palate

• You get a brighter tone if you sing into your nose

• There's more resonating space in the nose than in the mouth

• The jaw, tongue and soft palate work together

• Contemporary musical theatre singing is always nasal

What you need for good vocalising

What you need for good singing or speaking is flexibility of the soft palate, closing when necessary and opening when necessary. Join the group as they go through the exercises for finding and controlling the soft palate. This DVD footage was devised by Gillyanne and Jeremy for actors, singers, teachers and voice therapists wanting to learn precise, effective techniques for vocal improvement in singing or speaking.

The DVD is packed with tips for teaching the techniques to your own students and clients, including using hand signs for clarity and isolation exercises to release excess tension. Filmed as part of the Singing and the Actor Training intensive seminar, you will see Jeremy and Gillyanne take the group step by step through identifying nasality, finding the soft palate, and gaining voluntary control of this doorway between the nose and mouth. In less than 27 minutes.

The plenary session includes visual, auditory and kinaesthetic cues for a complete learning experience - watch as the participants visualise the soft palate moving, hear the sound change and feel the difference in their own voice. Witness the group singing and speaking with and without nasality, and hear the difference.

The techniques on this DVD are based on the exercises in "The nasal port", chapter 6 of Gillyanne's groundbreaking book Singing and the Actor (voted "My favourite book on singing technique" by Jeanette Nelson, Head of Voice at the National Theatre). All the information you require to master these techniques is on this DVD, but if you already have a copy of Gillyanne's book, you can find The Nasal Port on pages 57-70 of the second edition, and Controlling The Nasal Port on pages 56-66 of the first edition.

• understand the cycle of learning - and find out which of the four stages of competence you are in

• discover why 'brain pain' can get in the way when you learn, and what to do when you get it

• feel, hear and visualise the techniques for a deeper understanding of how your voice works

The DVD is divided into Chapter headings and is incredibly easy to navigate, either by mouse on your computer mouse or on television using your DVD remote handset.

1. Monitoring personal effort

2. Brain Pain and Competence

3. What is nasality?

4. Diagrams and film

5. Finding the soft palate

6. Moving from nasal to oral vowels

7. Opening and closing the door

8. Speaking with a dropped soft palate

We've tested the DVD on a number of different machines including PC, laptop, Mac tower and DVD player... the footage will play on your computer or standalone DVD player and can be played full-screen. Each chapter can be stopped and rewound, so if you want to go over something several times, you can!

Our mission is to bring you clear, precise and effective information and techniques to improve your vocalising, performing and teaching.

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"If you really want to know about the inner workings of the human voice, you need to turn to the work of Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher" OPERA NOW magazine

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"Revolutionising the way singing is taught" LINK Magazine

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"I gained enormously from the course – not least the safe nurturing and encouraging environment."  Louise Whittaker

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"Wonderful teaching and clear and accessible explanations of some complex concepts." Jan Jinkerson

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"I feel like I’ve learned an awful lot and want to take it much further. You are both very inspiring teachers." Sasha Mitchell

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"I enjoyed every single moment of the course. Both Gillyanne and Jeremy are very approachable and their teaching methods are first class. Highly recommended to anyone who wishes to improve their voice quality." Grace Plummer

And here's a longer email we received about the first training DVD in this series, Constriction and Release:

• Testimonial:
"I wanted to let you know personally how thoroughly impressed and excited I was upon watching the training DVD. As a Voice Specialist (Speech/Voice Pathologist and Singing Voice Specialist) I found the information utterly (and engagingly) correct in regards to healthy voice application.
Your application and direction of just "how" to explain and demonstrate this information was so very exciting and inspiring. I am really looking forward to adapting quite a few of my teaching methodologies with a 'Vocal Process twist'.
I cannot tell you more, just how impressed I was when I popped your DVD into the DVD player, and after it finished I felt an overwhelming sense of conviction in regards to my teaching methods (not to mention a bit of sadness as I wanted to watch so much more).
Many thanks to both of you." Amber Davey, Director The Sydney Voice Centre, Australia

And there's the Vocal Process guarantee!

We guarantee that if you find the DVD to be faulty in any way we will replace it with no cost to you. Just return the faulty DVD to us and we will send you another copy and refund all postage costs to you. (Please understand that due to the nature of a DVD and its content we cannot offer replacements or refunds on opened items unless they are faulty. This is in accordance with the UK Distance selling regulations).