A, E, I, O and YOU by Lori Lyford, CIF

1. A, E, I, O and YOUby Lori Lyford, CIF

2. Vowel Matching • Sing within your “goalposts” • Show a bit of your top teeth all the time* • The tongue should lie on the floor of the mouth and be relaxed • Tip of tongue touch lower teeth • Keeps lips as relaxed as possible

3. Correct Vowels Sound like the vowel Look like the vowel Feel like the vowel

4. Vowels, Inside and Outside • EE • Stay within the goalposts • Show a bit of top teeth • Natural delivery, just like the ABC’s • AH • Stay within the goalposts • Show a bit of top teeth • Don’t drop jaw too far

5. OH • Keep a bit of the top teeth showing • Use bottom lip to make most of the shape • Move corners forward from AH to OH • Leave the aperture higher on your face • Ooh • Show a bit of top teeth • Move corners forward from OH to Ooh • Smaller aperture than OH with relaxed lips. • Keep the sound outside your mouth

6. Short Vowels • ih eh a uh ur • Stay within goalposts • Use a relaxed jaw, not a “dropped jaw” • Send the sound up and out

7. Vowel Match Technique • “Jim Speak” credited to Jim Casey • Focus on target vowel sounds • Get to the target vowel immediately • No migrating from the target vowel • Prematurely turning to secondary vowel and/or the following consonant

8. Target Vowel Replacements

9. “Jim-Speak” Exercise OOD ODD OHD UGH UGH URGE To - mor - row’s an - oth - er ED ODD OHD AD ED EED day. I hope and pray we’ll EED OOHD ED URGE Be to - geth - er

10. “Jim-Speak” Steps 1 - Syllables only, Chord-by-Chord 2 - Syllables only, more flow 3 - Syllables only, at pace 4 - Slow the pace and add some initial consonants 5 - Continue to add more consonants nearing the correct pacing and phrasing 6 - Sing real words/phrasing, THINK syllables

11. QUESTIONS??

12. Go Forth to Match and RING!!!