0781 – The Ubiquitous Panting Exercise

2023.02.20 – 0781 – The Ubiquitous Panting Exercise

Panting

Your vocal folds make a tense and strained sound if they are closing too tightly over the airflow, but a pleasant and easy sound is made when the folds meet and vibrate, stimulated by air passing over them. In this exercise we’ll first work on ‘aspirant consonants’ which are produced with the vocal folds open and not vibrating at all.

·        You can let more air through, by making a breathier sound such as ‘h’: panting like a dog or ‘her her her’ with lots of air and no ‘r’ sound. (Monitor your feelings so you don’t feel dizzy during this exercise.)

·        Now, a breathy ‘ahhh’ up the scales as a glide (it doesn’t matter if you are in tune!). 

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