Kung Fu Drills That Can Be Used While Playing With Dog
I've got two videos embedded below. I am using Kung Fu stances to get the feel for a way of working I want to use with the resonators.
These drills remind me of what I'm going to talk about when I post some audio files where I show what I discovered about "Y" and "W" shapes while singing. In the Kung Fu drill, we shift from forward stance, to horse stance, to the other forward stance, and back to horse stance. When I first started doing these drills, I just kind of "switched" abruptly to each position. But as the years have gone by, I am finding more and more in these drills and find that I can use them and "grind" from one position to another in a more fluid and connected motion. This develops the muscles and brings movement to the static stances. The idea I have while I am moving through one stance to another is that of SHAPE SHIFTNG.
As weird as this may sound, that is what it feels like I am doing with the muscles that shift and shape the resonators inside while I'm singing. Using the position of the tongue and soft palate, and throat, I move through the vowel shapes, and especially I move from one stance, the "W" stance to the "Y" stance. Yes, that is what I'm trying to say. The "positions" in the mouth and throat are like different "stances." Resonator "stances." Just like in Kung Fu, when initially I was static in each stance, I have learned to mold and shape shift through one stance to another. As I do this, the movement of my muscles become more flexible, strong, pliant and fluid. This is what is happening to the different "stances" or shapes being formed with the resonator muscles, and muscles of articulation. I will be posting audio files of examples of this. Couldn't do it today because I had choir, but will do, I hope, tomorrow.
In the first video I merely show the drills. The first drill is moving from forward stance East to forward stance West going through horse (north) stance each time. The second drill is grinding back and forth between forward stance West and forward stance East through drop stance left and drop stance right. Please forgive that I do not have a very good drop stance yet, but it is getting there. It is one of my goals to get a good drop stance in Kung Fu
In the second video, I am trying to demonstrate that by using stances while playing with my dog, I can further develop the naturalness and fluidity of the movement.
