Breath control
The candle exercise is a great favorite of mine.
Hold up one finger, pretending it is a candle with a flame that you want to blow carefully enough to make it waver, but not go out. That helps ensure a controlled diaphragm where the air is slowly released, not suddenly in a rush.
Watch the second hand on the studio clock... start together, and tell them to drop the "candle" when they run out of air. How many seconds? Write it down on the empty line. Next week, compare. Do this for several weeks.
The "candle" exercise is done 3 times:
- first, with silent blowing.
- Second, with an "oooo" all on one tone, in an easy part of the voice.
- Lastly, pick a song that the child knows - perhaps "Happy Birthday", and begin singing it all on one breath with no new breaths or breaks (harder than it sounds - I do a bit of a drawing-out gesture with my free hand to encourage the voice to continue through the pauses in the song). All this time, I am blowing, "ooo-ing", and singing along with them. It is a bit of a competition, as well as modeling. Their posture needs to stay upright and beautiful all along.
- REPERTOIRE SONG
Lyrics
Lavender blue, dilly-dilly
Lavender green
If you were king, dilly-dilly
You'd need a queen
Who told me so?
Dilly-dilly
Who told me so?
I told myself, dilly-dilly
I told me so
If your dilly-dilly heart
Feels a dilly-dilly way
And if you'll answer yes
In a pretty little church
On a dilly-dilly day
I'll be wed in a dilly-dilly dress of
Lavender blue, dilly-dilly
Lavender green
Then you'll be king, dilly-dilly
And I'll be queen
If your dilly-dilly heart
Feels a dilly-dilly way
And if you'll answer yes
In a pretty little church
On a dilly-dilly day
I'll be wed in a dilly-dilly dress of
Lavender blue, dilly-dilly
Lavender green
Then you'll be king, dilly-dilly
And I'll be your queen
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Morey Larry / Daniel Eliot
Lavender Blue lyrics © Sony/atv Acuff Rose Music, Walt Disney Music Co. Ltd., Walt Disney Music Company
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