Climbing uuuuuuuuuup!
Young children often cannot distinguish between their speaking and singing voices and thus sing in a kind of speaking drone. Children should be encouraged from a young age to explore the upper, or head voice, and to employ their voice for singing tasks as much as possible. One great way to help a child find their signing voice is by practicing using their voice to make a glissando sound. Glissando means a continuous sliding movement from one pitch to another. This extends the pitch range of both singing and speaking voice, developing expressive qualities of the voice |
Explore glissando sounds at home and make a recording of different glissando sounds, including family, friends and/or neighbors. Try to include the glissando sound of the Kindermusik Slide Whistle in your recording. The park is the perfect place to practice glissando sounds as you go uuuuuuuup and dooooooooown on the see saw and climb uuuuuuuuuup and then slide dooooooown. What other activities lend themselves to glissando? |
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