christine,
something else that i have found to work is to have my students doing a
genteel popping (without pitch) of their folds (i believe vennard had his
students doing this). i try to get them to feel as if the area being used
to make this sound is about the size of a sesame seed.
what remains as a difficult task, is to have the students realize that a
fairly large sound can be made easily through the coordination of a few parts
and that, the effort does not have to mirror the results. similarly,
golfers who can't hit the ball far have a hard time realizing that relaxed
muscles move faster than tense muscles (tense muscles loosing the speed of
contraction as the contraction has already been 'fired').
mike
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