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Module Two - Unit Nine (Option-One)
Belting Explained
with Gillyanne Kayes, Jeremy Fisher

Overview
What is 'Belting', how is it made, and when do I use it? Discover the set-up for safe Belting, gain practice strategies for finding your Belt voice, and feel the postural changes in the body required for high intensity vocalising. The day includes practice time under experienced supervision. A must for teachers and performers interested in working in Musical Theatre, Pop or Rock genres.

Learning Outcomes
On completing this unit you will:

  1 Be familiar with research on high-energy voice use.
  2 Be able to identify situations that require energised voice use.
  3 Have developed personal skills in high-energy voice use.
  4 Have acquired insight into helping students or clients in high-energy voice work.

Unit Assignments

  1 Incorporating belting or yelling into a performance scenario or typical role-play.
  2 Produce computer voice-prints that demonstrate the acoustic changes in the differentiated vocal sets that contribute to Belting.
  3 Modelling belting or yelling for students and clients in a teaching situation (you may use recorded material for this).

Unit Assessment
You will be assessed on your understanding of the component parts of belting and yelling, the physiological positions that contribute to their vocal set-up, and the safety parameters which protect the voice from damage. You will also need to demonstrate your ability to belt, yell or shout without causing vocal trauma.

Other Information
This unit and Option Two (Voice of Violence) target the specialised work required to deal with high-energy voice use. Support will be offered for the development of personal skills in this field via a full day of course follow-up.It is essential that those planning to coach and teach high-energy voice work are able to do it themselves without vocal trauma. Participants working with spoken voice can opt for Voice of Violence, taught by Lise Olson; participants working with singers must take Belting Explained.

The Belting Explained workshop is open to members of the public. Course follow-up is available to Integrated Voice Participants only.

Duration
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Fees

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THE FACULTY

Gillyanne Kayes is a freelance writer, teacher and voice expert. She has been training voices for the last 21 years and has numerous clients working in professional theatre and film.

Jeremy Fisher is a performance coach, Musical Director and prize-winning accompanist. As a vocal coach he works with opera sings, actors, singing teachers and song writers on repertoire, style and performance integration.

David Carey is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, David studied Speech and Drama at the RSAMD, gained his MA (with distinction) in Contemporary English Language and Linguistics at Reading University. He is currently Voice Tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Dr Meribeth G Dayme is Chief Executive of LifeWise International and works as a Voice and Communication Specialist in business and the Performing Arts.

Julie McLean is a qualified Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with fifteen years post-graduate experience. She has worked for the last six years in a specialist capacity with voice disordered clients in the NHS and private sector.

Lise Olson is currently a Lecturer in Acting and Voice at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and teaches 'The Voice of Violence' for Vocal Process.

Jenevora Williams is teacher-in- residence for The National Youth Choir, works with the choristers at St Paul's Cathedral, and acts as consultant to Decca, Hyperion and the ROH on child performers.

Guest Faculty: Sara Harris RCSLT, Tom Harris FRCS; Elizabeth Stirling.

 

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