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The Exercises
Vocal Function Exercises are a set of well-researched evidence-based exercises designed to help improve your stamina, power, control, flexibility, volume, range, balance, and vocal coordination. They might feel a little overly prescriptive at first glance, but the devil is in the details! The true magic is in the way an experienced voice therapist individualizes how, when, and how much you use these to help you in your individual search for the most comfortable, joyful voice possible.
If you've been prescribed Vocal Function Exercises by your voice therapist, you're welcome to watch or vocalize along with Melanie demonstrate each exercise in these short videos.
A note from Melanie Tapson, voice therapist:
"You may be asking yourself... why there are only 3 videos when there are 4 Vocal Function Exercises?!
Great question! In general, and especially for teaching purposes, I typically combine exercises 2 and 3 into a single gesture. I find this particularly helpful when you're practicing the exercises 2x each. But the are still two distinct tasks - whoop to glide up stretches the vocal folds, and boom on the way down helps you control the contraction or "descent". For this reason, I've maintained them labeled as exercises 2 and 3 in the middle video so you can still use these even if your voice therapist has indicated they should be kept as 4 individual tasks."
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Hi! I'm Melanie
and I'm incredibly passionate about
all things voice!
As a professional singer, a voice teacher, a voiceover actor, a voice educator, and a clinical voice therapist, understanding the human voice has been my life's work.
But it hasn't always been an easy path unpacking the mysteries of this incredible instrument. As a performer, the demands of the job took their toll. My once-seemingly-invincible singing voice slowly became frighteningly unreliable, and my teaching voice was burning out faster than I could recover. I had no idea what was happening, and I was scared.
And ashamed.
I thought it was my fault - that maybe I actually wasn't good enough, or that my technique was at fault. I had all this training and I still couldn't figure out what was wrong.
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