Oxford Singing Lessons
Voice development & the psychology of learning and performance
Alexander Massey
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Learning to sing takes good information; good observational skills and feedback from a teacher; and patience, discipline and detailed repetition of muscular patterns by the student. All these articles and videos give useful ideas, but it is only by working through all of them that the student can form a true picture of what is involved in singing.


2. How the voice works - a useful conceptual model for how the singing voice works - a combination of physical mechanics ('the machinery'), and the mental-emotional process that drives it.


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3. Aligning the neck for singing - demonstrating the different sounds produced depending on the position of the neck
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4. Relaxing throat and jaw - showing how true vocal power comes from relaxing the throat and keeping neck muscles soft and not tensed.
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 5. Posture and singing - how opening and lengthening the spine affects the singing voices
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6. Lip rolls: do's and don'ts - this is a useful exercise, but not as easy at it looks. All the demo videos I have found on the web give the wrong advice on how to do them, so I have created this video to put the record straight. Look out for later videos in my series that teach how to improve abdominal breath support and free jaw, lips and tongue.
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7. Freeing the jaw - Part 1 - this shows how different positions and movements of the jaw can have a positive or negative impact on the voice.


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8. Freeing the jaw - Part 2 - six simple techniques on how to free the jaw.


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9. Freeing the neck - six simple techniques on how to free the neck.


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10. Freeing the tongue - Part 1 - How the behaviour of the tongue affects the voice, plus two exercises for freeing tongue (without vocalising)




11. Freeing the tongue - Part 2 - tongue exercises while vocalising - the 'tongue stretch' and the 'tongue curl'

All these videos can also be found at my own YouTube channel - www.YouTube.com/voicewisdom - you can subscribe for free there to receive notification whenever I upload a new teaching video.


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1. Introduction
2. How the voice works
3. Aligning the neck
4. Relaxing throat and jaw
5. Posture and singing
6. Lip rolls  - do's and don'ts
7. Freeing the jaw - pt 1
8. Freeing the jaw - pt 2
9. Freeing the neck
10. Freeing the tongue - pt 1
11. Freeing the tongue - pt 2

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