Effort

Question 1

What is effort?

Answer 1

Effort indicates where the muscles are working and how hard they are working on a scale of 1-10.

Also the input of energy

Question 2

Relaxation manoeuvres

Answer 2

Breathe to relieve tension in vocal folds 
Massage face and lips -facial muscles 
Roll tongue around teeth -jaw 
Chew- jaw
Speak normally- in speech 
Sing ng- singing 
Walk briskly - breathing muscles 
Make soft vowal - voice

Question 3

Rules for monitoring effort

Answer 3

Distinguish vocal trauma from muscle ache
Listen harder to the muscles than the voice
Hold number till end of breath
Constant attention
No exercise is mastered until all unrelated tension is gone
MCVE (maintain most comfortable vocal effort)

Question 4

Training exercises for effort

Answer 4

Shake the hand of someone and isolate the effort in the hand clasp.
Give your effort a number and reveal the numbers and take turns demonstrating different numbers. 1-10

Question 5

Too much effort is…

Answer 5

Tension

Question 6

What is kinaesthetic perception

Answer 6

When body indicates where the muscles are working and how hard they’re working

Question 7

What vocal components does effort control ?

Answer 7

POWER- breath -airflow + torso
SOURCE - tone - larynx +TVF
FILTER - Resonance - vocal tract structure

Question 8

How do we monitor effort ?

Answer 8

1) locate effort
2) assign it a number
3) hold the number until the end of breath
4) perform relaxation manoeuvres