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Vocal Fry As a Voice Habilitation Task for Singers by Joshua Glasner Information Handout Handout created Theory and Practice: Vocal Fry as a Voice Habilitation Task for Singers by Joshua Glasner Information Handout Background Potential Benefits Execution • Relatively short vocal fold length (Hollien, We are listening for: Damste, & Murry, 1969), thick, and slack • “Optimizing posturing of the vocal folds • An easy and loose, “popping” sound. (Henrich, 2006). for increased efficiency of voicing. • Improving ease/spontaneity of onset of • A perceptually unpitched sound. • Longer closed phase (Behrman, 2013). voicing. • A specific vowel, usually the vowel that a • Decreasing compensatory muscle behaviors singer will voice in the exercise or song. • Medial edges of the vocal folds are associated with laryngeal weakness. • A seamless transition from vocal fry to loosely adducted, which results in a • Shaping the glottal configuration and the modal (“unpitched” to pitched). lower phonation threshold pressure epilarynx to optimize voice output.” (Ferrand, 2012) (Emerich, Nix, & Titze, 2005) The singer should be aware of: • The desired pitch that the singer aims to • Comparatively less airflow (McGlone, 1967). • Some teachers use glottal fry to “release sing after the vocal fry preparation-task. • Lower subglottal pressure than in modal tension in the vocal folds” (Bunch • Maintaining the same vocal tract posture voice (Blomgren, Chen, Ng, & Gilbert, 1998). Dayme, 2009). after the vocal fry preparation-task (Emerich et al., 2005). • Sensations of vibration toward the front of Other Names: • It may re-train posture memory for the singer’s face. • Pulse Register • Individual pulses and a sense that air is postoperative singers (Buescher, 2002). • Growl Register “escaping.” • Rattle • Glottal Scrape • It may help the singer to “learn how to • Strohbass manipulate vocal fold mass and achieve • Creaky Voice* greater periodicity of vocal fold Possible Solutions *Used to describe vocal fry spoken or sung at different vibration” (Carroll, 2008). pitches in certain singing methods (such as Speech-Level Singing) Possible Difficulties • Request the student to exhale maximally and then phonate. The student will likely In Vocal Pedagogy: use vocal fry. Then ask the student to • Commonly described as an auxiliary mimic that same sound in the exercise. register in vocal pedagogy literature • Student may have trouble • Ask the student to feel more air coming (Doscher, 1994) producing vocal fry. out while he/she is producing vocal fry. • R. Miller suggests limiting its use (Miller, • Student may produce a The student may need to put a hand in 1996) “pressed” version of vocal front of his/her mouth in order to induce a • Vennard states that “glottal scrape” was fry. kinesthetic awareness of air escaping. used by Gillis Bratt, a Swedish voice • Request the student to be aware of teacher and student of Manuel Garcia to • Student may try to sing a aid students who sang with a breathy voice low pitch instead of vocal individual pulses instead of trying to sing a (Vennard, 1968). fry. pitch. Handout created by Joshua Glasner References and Further Reading Behrman, A. (2013). Speech and voice science (2nd ed.). 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