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Musical Theater Exercises: Men 1. The ‘Ma’ exercise strengthens the chest notes and creates greater flexibility and control of tones by alternating straight tone and tone with vibrato.2.3.4. The Falsetto exercises technically develop the ability of the vocal chords to roll back to the normal position from falsetto to chest voice. 5. The Staccato ‘ee ay’ exercise connects the abdominal muscle support with the wider, more open production of sound. 6. The Arpeggio ‘Wee’ exercise promotes flexibility and connection. This exercise may also be used with other vowels or in combination. 7. The Major ‘Wee’ exercise enhances the ability to change pitch rapidly. 8.The alternating straight tone to vibrato exercise allows the voice to go from a tense position of a particular pitch to a free position of the same pitch (not to be done with extreme intensity). 9. The Low, Middle, High Crescendo
exercise establishes a hardening shift of the vowel from dark to bright
in various pitches of the registers. |