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Practice slowly at first, then gradually increase until the various combinations can be uttered with great rapidity:
Also bl, br, dr, fl, fr, gl, gr.kl, kt.pl, pr, si, sm, sn, sp, spl, st, str, thr, tr.
Basic Exercises for Your Jaws and Lips
- Pronounce e with extreme extension of the lips sidewise.
- Pronounce ah with the jaw well dropped.
- Pronounce oo with the lips projected as much as possible.
- Repeat rapidly: e-ah-oo; oo-ah-e; oo-e-ah; ah-e-oo; ah-oo- e; e-oo-ah.
Basic Exercises for Your Lips Tongue and Palate
- There should be a sudden recoil of the lips in ip, of the tip of the tongue in it, and of the back of the tongue in ih.
- Repeat rapidly.
- Also with ib, id and ig.
Basic Exercises for Vocal Elasticity
Jaw
- Relax jaw.
- Move from side to side and forward and back.
- Repeat while singing ah.
Throat
- Open the mouth as in yawning.
- Gently raise the soft palate.
- Practise will enable the pupil to contract the uvula as to make it entirely disappear from sight.
Tongue
- Open the mouth, keeping the tongue flat, with tip lightly touching the lower teeth.
- Without arching the tongue thrust it straight forward and draw it back as far as possible several times.
- Again open the mouth wide, and in dotting fashion con tinue with the tongue along the upper and lower lips.
- Reverse.
- Fold back tip of tongue with the aid of the teeth.
- Groove tongue.
- Make lapping movement of the tongue.
- To depress the base of the tongue, carry the point of the tongue forward between the teeth; then draw the whole tongue vigorously backward, as if trying to swallow it.
- Trill aspirate r.
- Trill vocal r.
- Repeat running up and down scale.
Larynx
- Raise the larynx to its utmost height and lower it to its greatest depth. Swallowing will help it to ascend and gaping to descend.
Lips
- Open the mouth and bring the lips together quickly and firmly, aiming at equal pressure.
- With lips tightly closed, compress the breath against lips and cheeks, resisting with these muscles and finally forcing the lips open.
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