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If you can’t work out how to apply your spoken voice training to
singing
If you sing beautifully but are worried about speaking
onstage
If you have students who are having problems with their
voice
you need to
discover the secrets of singing and speaking
With One Voice
 Two of the UK's leading voice trainers get together for one day to
clarify the similarities and differences of voice training for
singing and speaking.
Techniques, tips, practical exercises in an
exploration of how spoken and sung voice training actually works
Dear colleague,
With One Voice is a one-day seminar where you can discover how two
different training modes for singing and speaking can support each other
and why they sometimes differ.
Can a singing teacher help you with your speaking voice?
What does
an actor do to make their speaking voice so powerful?
Can a voice
teacher help you to sing?
Is singing a "special" voice use?
Singers use their speaking voice more during the day than their
singing voice. This course helps singers find a more effective
speaking voice to inform and support their singing.
Many actors with good voices think they can’t sing. This course
helps actors use the skills they already have to find their singing
voice and increase their employability.
The day seminar contains three practical workshops and a host of ideas and
techniques from two of the leading trainers in singing and speaking
in the UK today.
 Gillyanne Kayes
is a renowned singing consultant, author and researcher with more
than 25 years teaching experience with actors and musical theatre
performers. Co-director of the voice training company Vocal Process
(with Jeremy Fisher), her book Singing and the Actor is a
recommended text for numerous performing arts courses around the
world: "Kayes' work is both exciting and rewarding. Having seen her
teach her magic, I can guarantee you that her techniques, when done
properly, reap amazing results."
John Staniunas, Voice and Speech Trainers Association, US
 David Carey is Senior Voice Tutor at RADA and former Course Leader
of the Voice Studies course at CSSD, training over 200 voice
teachers during his 17 years in the post. He has worked for more
than 30 years in the field of voice, with such companies as The RSC,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Stratford Ontario Festival. He was
recently awarded the National teaching Fellowship by the Higher
Education Academy of England in recognition of his contribution to
voice teaching. This year he published a workbook with his wife
Rebecca Clark Carey - The Vocal Arts Workbook "Refreshing and
imaginative, this book teaches through enhanced awareness, and
instructs through clear and specific exercises" Cicely Berry
Vocal Process
"incorporates the latest thoughts in the voice science world into
their training, presented in a clear and digestible way" (Zone
magazine).
The company is regularly featured in the media for its "unique
approach to voice" (Opera
Now Magazine).
Discover the fundamental concepts that underlie vocal training
The With One Voice day seminar includes an indepth look at diagnosing vocal faults in
both singing and speaking:
Diagnostic Session
Posture and
physical tensions
the neck, the shoulders, knees and
toes. Habitual posture, weight distribution,
head-neck relationship.
Posture and physical environment
does your singer use a mike? Does
(s)he move around in performing, are there habitual postural
imbalances?
Breath
habitual breath use, problems with in-breath, problems
with out-breath, supported speaking voice
Breathing patterns
overbreathing and starving, “Support”,
Exercises for flexible breath use breathing for singing and speaking
- one size does not fit all!
Phonation
tone onsets, effort use, creaky voice, pitch variation
Phonation
patterns
recognising pressed phonation, poor vocal fold
closure, constriction, inappropriate effort levels, understand why
the “falsetto flip” happens, why some people can’t seem to get out
of “head voice”, why others can’t get into it.
Resonance
larynx height, pharynx width, tongue use, soft palate,
jaw, lips, placement
Resonance patterns
tongue problems, size and
shape, habitual larynx position, what is nasal tone and what do you
do about it? Is your voice too edgy and bright or too dark and
covered?
Articulation
muscular precision, use of energy, balance of vowel
and consonant
Articulation patterns
do your habitual patterns need to change for
projected spoken or sung voice?
Working with your clients:
why any healthy
singing voice can speak well - and why it sometimes doesn't
why seeing and
hearing what your students do is vital - help them help
themselves
how you can understand your students' experiences
on a much deeper level - and communicate effectively in language
they can grasp
The day also includes three separate
workshops:
Key elements of singing
training:
Key elements of spoken voice training:
Singing the text, speaking the song:
Key elements of singing
training:
Pitch and the vocal folds - finding pitch, sustaining pitch
Breath use - breathing for
speaking, breathing for singing, the elastic recoil breath and
'diamond of support'.
Building tone - resonance and
bodywork to create 'core' sound
Range and register - exploring
your full vocal range, finding the gear changes
Singing the text - working with
words, rhythm and melody
Key elements of spoken voice
training:
Body - release tension, energise
and align
Breath - open ribs, connect to
diaphragm and abdominal muscles
Voice - connect breath and voice,
open up range
Resonance - open and free the
vocal tract
Speech - energise the muscles of
articulation, work the lips, tongue and soft palate
Singing the text, speaking the
song:
Finding more colour, more power,
more range, and more meaning by crossing the boundaries between
the training disciplines.
Testimonial: "A
very rich, informative and pleasurable day. Made me hungry for
more!" PW, theatre voice teacher on With One Voice
Course information:
This
one-day workshop takes place in London on Saturday May 17 2008.
Venue: The Royal Academy
of Dramatic Arts (RADA), Chenies Street, London WC1E
Time: 10am - 5pm
Price: Full Price
£95.00
ISM/Equity/MU
£85.50
Teacher+Student £140.00
***please note that Vocal Process
courses often sell out quickly (the 2008 Belting Explained
course sold out within three hours of being advertised). Be sure
to book your place early on With One Voice.
To your success
The Vocal Process Team
Vocal Process
137 Sunderland Road
London
SE23 2PX
+44 (0)20 8291 1758
http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk
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