OUR COURSES

   THE IMPACT COURSE
 
   COURSE TOPIC OUTLINE
 
   BODYMIND AND VOICE
 
   WHAT CAN YOU LEARN AT AN IMPACT COURSE?
 
   WHAT THEY'RE SAYING...
 
   LOCATION INFORMATION
 
   CONTINUING COURSE
 
 
  COURSE TOPIC OUTLINE

The courses are practical, hands-on, and oriented to solving real problems of choral conducting, voice teaching, and music education.

  1. Personal Voice and Voice Health
    • How Voices Are Made, "Wired," and "Played"
    • Active Voice Exploration and Discovery in Small Groups
    • Efficient, Healthy Release of Vocal Sound
    • Efficient Breath-flow that Enables Vocal Release
    • Body Balance and Alignment that Enables Breath-flow and Vocal Release
    • Resonation, Vowels, Vocal Range and Vocal Release
    • Forming Consonants without Vocal Interference
    • Voice Qualities and Musical Styles
    • What Hurts Voices, How, and What Can Be Done
    • How to Speak Extensively and Vigorously and Keep Your Voice Healthy
    • Releasing Your Relaxation Response
    • The Design of Warm-ups for Athletic Voicing
    • Daily Warm-ups
       
  2. Conducting Gestures and Voice
    • Inviting Efficient, Expressive Singing with Your Conducting Gestures
    • Teaching Voice Skills Through Literature and Gesture
    • Selecting Choral Music with Vocal Criteria
    • Ear Cleaning: Listening to Healthy, Efficient Choral Sound
       
  3. Teaching and Learning
    • The Psychobiology of Memory, Learning, Behavior and Health
    • Learning in Conscious Awareness and Outside Conscious Awareness
    • They Choose to Sing Because They Love It: Human Compatible Learning
    • Human Antagonistic Learning: Hurt in Our Words and "Body Language"
    • Facing the Fear-Monsters of Singing
    • Teaching and Rehearsing in a Human Compatible Way
       
  4. Child Voice
    • Prenatal, Infant and Toddler Voice
    • The Developing Voice
    • Demonstration with Children: Teaching Voice Skills With Children
    • Demonstration with Children: Teaching Voice Skills in Children's Choirs
       
  5. Male/Female Changing Voice
    • Demonstration with Boys: Classifying and Cultivating Changing Voices
    • Understanding Female Adolescent Voice Change
       
  6. Older Adult Voice
    • The Effects of Physical Changes in Older Adult Voices: Seniors Can Sing!

The VoiceCare Network, c/o Department of Music,
Saint John's University, Collegeville, MN  56321

(320) 363-3374
info@voicecarenetwork.org