Week Four
Daily exercise for week four – spell casting
Watch the clip below and follow along with Suzi to try a vocal warm up attached to a story. This is a warm up we have done together during our sessions.
Warming your voice up will encourage you to use your voice in a healthy way when you speak and can help combat vocal fatigue. Try to do the warm up every day – a good time to have a go is after breakfast – ie once you have given your body a chance to wake up, but before you have used your voice lots. That way, you will experience the benefit of the warm up when you do go to use your voice on the phone / in the course of your day. You can also find this video on the Breath work – first steps page.
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Lullabies for you to sing: Ama Eebu and Numi Numi
You can access resources and information for Ama Eebu in Lullabies, first steps.
Below you’ll find a karaoke version of Numi Numi for you to sing along with together with a downloadable song sheet which has the lyrics:
Download tracks (right click, save as):
– vocal
– instrumental
Download the PDF song sheet here
About Numi Numi: Numi numi is a variant of a traditional Hebrew lullaby written by Joel Engel (1868 – 1927). Engel founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908 and is credited with collecting lots of Jewish folk melodies.
A lullaby to listen to: Maria’s Lullaby, Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky
About Maria’s Lullaby: This haunting aria is by Russian composer, Tchaikovsky – it comes at the end of his opera, Mazeppa. Maria is traumatised and in a daze – her lullaby closes the opera, and the curtain falls as her last notes fade away. The version of the aria below was recorded at The London Coliseum especially for ENO Breathe with Natalya Romaniw (singer) and Caroline Jayaratnam (pianist):
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You will also find this music in the calming playlist created especially for ENO Breathe.
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