Amber's NV Chapter 4

NV Chapter 4 summary
This chapter focuses on the first invention of Simply Speaking Simply, or clearing away the entanglements that get in the way of singing with freedom and clarity. There were four phases of exercises. First was vernacular speaking to get back to the basic relaxed place we started at before adding on the sophisticated baggage (ie: more proper sounding speech to impress people). The exercise is [ni] [ne] [na] [no] [nu] in the vernacular speech in all it's original accented glory (this is a mix of California and Oklahoma for me). Then we progress to speaking with projection, which is NOT the same as simply speaking louder on the same exercise. Then “lime” is added to the exercise where a constant created flow must be maintained on top of all of this. After that, we get to add pitch along with this projection line choosing a pitch that most nearly matches our current speaking (of the day of hour) then move around the keyboard at random keeping the pitches at least a third apart. Then at last we start refining the vowels as the last layer in this invention.
Key concepts: 1.There is a difference between projecting and being loud, 2.To learn to project without entanglement, 3. Articulators such as the jaw, tongue, lips and soft palate must move very differently that in speech. 4. the tongue must not be used as a crutch to get the sound you think you should be producing.
Key words and phrases: independent articulators, Disentangled vowels, project without entanglement
Connection: We, or our students must not be afraid to reveal our true selves (ie: original vernacular accent) for a while in order to make the foundation of this invention work properly. We must have patience with ourselves as it takes time to build this new skill.