Besides producing good sound and accurate vowels,
Structural Action can be exploited in circumstances where your voice
has to travel over a distance, or when speaking to small groups
without the aid of a microphone, or where you are competing with
background noise. In an increasingly noisy world, these occasions
are more and more frequent. Structural Action can enable you to
be heard clearly without straining your voice or without appearing
to exert too much effort. Structural Action is an important vocal
dynamic, which, when combined with good Tonal Action and Consonant
Action, can overcome nearly any competition.
Structural
Action
also employs a Triple Repetition at Three Levels of
Vocal Energy.
Students Learning On-Camera
These
students were unrehearsed.
They learned how to do
Structural Action
as we filmed them in a
public coffee-shop
near the
La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.
Yellow Letters = Major Vowels
Throughout
the program, Yellow Letters always indicate the Major
Vowels.
Sentences
/ Structural Action
After learning all
the individual
Structural Vowels, words are combined into Sentences,
and
performed in Three Stages.
Stage 1......... Maximum Stretch for Sense Memory
Stage 2......... Medium Stretch at a Faster Repetition
Stage 3......... Normal well-formed pronunciation
Contents of Tape 2
Major
Vowels.....
#5-AH..... #1-OO...... #4-0.....
#3-AW..... #21-OH..... #51-OW.....
#6-A..... #3Y-OI..... #6Y-I.....
R-VOWEL.....
PRACTICE SENTENCES
