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A Singer’s Golden Tool: International Phonetic Alphabet

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Blue Card with IPA
Found this at http://obsessionist.net/

Thanks to student Joanne, who asked for online help in learning IPA, or the International Phonetics Alphabet– a crucial tool in being able to accurately (and therefore confidently!) pronounce text in any language for singing or otherwise.  I highly recommend that you check out the following links–know that any time invested in learning this skill will pay off in a big way!

This is a video from Peter Ladefoged’s “A Course in Phonetics”

Sample of Xray Articulation

Here’s the link to the same author’s lessons and exercises for learning IPA:

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/contents.html

If you’d like to buy the whole course on CD-Rom, here’s a link for that:

[amazon_link id=”1428231269″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]A Course In Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged[/amazon_link]

Being Effective vs. Being Efficient

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Upon reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Feriss, Chapter 5

If you get it in your head that practicing is the way to reach your goals as a singer and you as a result, add an hour of practice time to your current routine—you may indeed get a lot out of that extra practice time if it is well spent.   But is that the most effective way to your goal?  Is more time practicing always the answer?
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