Test 1

Question 0

Hyper vs hypo

Answer 0

Hypo not enough physical demand, Hyper too much physical demand. Sing to a baby.

Question 1

4 breathing faults

Answer 1

Clavicular breathing, belly breathing, rib breathing, back breathing.

“How much air your body can hold is not as important as how you use the air you have.

Question 2

Ways of diagnosing a student

Answer 2

Systemic approach
Informal observation of the student
Self evaluation by the student
Systemic analysis by the teacher

Question 3

3 step plan of action

Answer 3

Recognize symptoms, determine causes, devise cures

Question 4

How to use empathy

Answer 4

Try to feel in your own vocal mechanism what the student is doing so you can properly demonstrate that way they can mimic your motor skills

Question 5

Difference between noise and a musical tone

Answer 5

Noise sound which does not have a recognizable pattern

Musical tone sound in which wave pattern repeats itself

Question 6

5 characteristics of a musical tone

Answer 6

Duration, intensity, pitch, sonance, timbre

Question 7

4 physical processes in producing sound

Answer 7

Respiration, phonation, resonation, articulation

1. Breath is taken
2. Sound is initiated in the larynx
3. Resonators receive the sound and influence it
4. Articulators shape the sound into recognizable units

Question 8

Faults related to posture

Answer 8

Alignment faults, tensional faults

Alignment readily apparent
Tensional not always as obvious

Question 9

Good signing posture

Answer 9

Evenly distributed feet
Legs that are Flexible and ready to move at all times
Knees that are loose and ready to move
Hips and buttocks that don’t stick out from either side, gently tucked under and forward as if trying to straighten your back
Lower abdomen held in comfortably
Upper abdomen that is free to move at all times
Chest that does not move up or down. Should already be in place from all other posture techniques
Shoulders that are rolled back and feel as if they are settled in a socket
Arms and hands loosely at your side
Head that is lined up with body and centered on shoulder

Question 10

Primary muscles of inhalation

Answer 10

Diaphragm and intercostals

Question 11

4 stages of breathing

Answer 11

1 breathing in period (inhalation)
2 setting up controls (suspension)
3 controlled exhalation (phonation)
4 recovery period