Belting Check-In

Belting Revised View Exercises to Feel your way into safe monitoring
 Vv, ZZ, SHz
 Into Hey Hey, same feeling at speech level. Do not drive the voice!
 Monitor Retraction Laugh then Silent laugh. NO NOISE!
 Do a ‘laugh’ octave scale. CHECK INTO THE CHUCKLE
 Increase to comfortable volume.
 Now try to get the feeling without over spread so:
UHOH, OK-EE-Yeah… Get that tongue higher on the EH

Checklist
 1st Fingers under ear lobes
 Thumbs on collar bone
 Neck long
 Show teeth with an open bite
 Bunching Under Arms Pits…Find your lats.
Arms down by your side. Twist your arms. Then right angles.
Now wiggle your fingers and arms and maintain the work
 Soft knees
 Little finger test. Place your little finger between teeth. Say Tuh, Luh,
Duh, Nuh. No teeth marks
 Square mouth
 Tongue high and wide.
 Say twangy ‘yeah’. No teeth marks
 Make sure your not tightening up with a silent laugh
 Make it boring with a cynical smile, ie from zygotic muscles
 Use a Y glide…
 Keep straight tone…don’t round the vowels
 Keep the air moving..
 Use a launch note….usually

Vowel Matching
Take your favourite vowel. Yeah to You Yeah-Yi-Yuh-You
Y glides, help keep the tongue up….

Consonants
Surround the consant with the closest vowel
Eg Stop. Put Oh, in front of the word Osto. Make the movements between vowel and word
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