• • • Feature presentation 04 Feb
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    • New Bio 400 words
    • Intro - weekly pitch covers range of services - what is value for each Spin selling
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  • • Weaving strands of nonsense
    • in rhyme to raise a cheer,
    • foolish contradictions
    • and promise for the year.
    • Sing a song traditional
    • extolling recent past,
    • be grateful for each day we rise,
    • delight it’s not our last.
  • • The colours of the oceans, reflect those of above
    • the tones and hues of man and beast are coloured by our love.
    • Sincerity, equality, experience of being
    • are fruits of what lay deep within, uninfluenced by seeing.
  • • Shattered, broken resolutions
    • scatted blithely all around,
    • what remains of hopeful promise
    • lying on uncommon ground.
    • Why resolve and then forget -
    • why not fine intentions met?
    • Human nature, time conflicting,
    • thoughts and pressures contradicting.
  • • A walk afresh ‘midst altered land
    • experiencing change first-hand,
    • pine, birch, ash and mighty oak
    • by furious northern winds vast broke,
    • stark evidence o’er paths, walls, fields,
    • how order unto nature yields.
  • • The lights are out, the tree now gone but that is just a start,
    • the future’s made of little gifts that rest within a heart.
    • One by one and step by step with quiet, firm resolve,
    • from good to better, better best, fresh answers should evolve
  • • RTE sounds Wk3 17.01
    • Irish sounds.com Collective Bands Alt
    • Tanmay Vora qaspire.com
  • • The pen is mightier than the sword
    • contemplate & focus
    • & say it from the heart
    • & verse a concise art,
  • • What is there that needs be said
    • by lengthy discourse sombre read?
    • Let not words be dour or trite
    • but drift like feathers, softly light!
  • • Hello, I’m Charles Luxford, professional singer and vocal coach
    • When it comes to speaking, singing or simply surviving, correct breathing is essential.
    • By correct breathing I mean: through the nose.
    • In recent centuries we’ve been cooking and therefore, softening foods - crunching & chewing less.
    • As a result our jaws have receded - our mouths and crucially, nasal areas, diminishing.
    • One reason for a wide variety of breathing problems
  • • Snoring, for many, is a particular issue.
    • I strongly recommend reading James Nestor’s book, Breath to help understand the breadth of contemporary circumstances.
    • In the meantime, let me offer some practical assistance.
    • Close your mouth & begin breathing through your nose.
    • Take your time, breathe slowly and concentrate on the sensations you feel particularly when breathing in.
    • Do you feel cool air in your nose and the passageways beneath your eyes?
  • • Having read James Nestor’s book, I’ve adapted my coaching increasing the focus on nasal breathing… whether speaking of singing.
    • His research resonated with my own thoughts and instincts
    • For many years I’ve tried various methods to help stop me snoring. Shortly after reading James’ book, I was made aware that I had actually stopped.
    • James suggests some simple means to help ensure a bedtime-mouth-closed process.
    • Its successful implementation requires explanation, understanding and some practice.
  • • I’d be pleased to help you learn how.
    • Im, Charles, professional singer and vocal coach, Thank you
  • • Misty moon with spectral lining,
    • solitaire ‘cross heavens shining,
    • sound-track made by night-owl’s call,
    • stillness to each sense enthral.
  • • Hello, I’m Charles Luxford, a professional singer and vocal coach. Welcome to my flip-book profile.
    • A conservatoire graduate, I’ve many years' experience performing on the opera stage, the concert platform, fronting a swing band and giving private recitals.
    • My professional performance repertoire spans Bach to Bacharach - or to put it another way, the classical to the contemporary.
    • I also teach singing and speaking skills - as I like to call it, vocal deportment.
    • As a singing teacher, my pupils range in age from seven to seventy.
  • • Whether you want to join a choir, prepare for an audition or work towards grade and diploma qualifications, I’m pleased to assist.
    • My primary aim throughout is: communicating and coaching confidence.
    • My vocal coaching has me helping people to listen in order to develop and enhance their delivery skills.
    • I work with business folk, assisting with writing and delivering talks, lectures and presentations
  • • My website and my expertise has also attracted those facing challenges, for example: post-stroke, PTSD, dyslexia.
    • I’m happy to teach either face-to-face or online. So please tell me, what’s your current aim or longer-term ambition. Is it:
    • Whatever your intention, I aim to make the learning process rewarding and enjoyable.
  • • join a choir?
    • deliver a speech?
    • take a singing exam?
    • write a presentation?
    • prepare for an audition?
    • entertain family and friends?
  • • Thank you,
    • Charles Luxford - Communicating and coaching confidence
    • graphically supported by:
    • Colin Horner - the ART of communication…
  • • Silence and thinking are nicely combined
    • with rest for the ears and space for the mind.
    • Clarity comes given time to gestate,
    • profound the results whether early or late.
  • • Situation
    • Problem
    • Net Payoff
    • Implications
  • • Twilight with redness, horizon defining,
    • brings to the fore, gentle earth’s golden lining,
    • outline of Aln, as day’s colours subside,
    • it’s greyness outstretching, low, languidly wide.
    • The River Aln runs through the county of Northumberland It rises in Alnham in the Cheviot Hills and discharges into the North Sea at Alnmouth
  • • Charles' Portfolio
  • • Fair Cheviots a-rolling, you seldom roll away,
    • seductively attracting footfall day on day.
    • Greens and browns your palette, endless lines of stone,
    • enduringly appealing, our Border-lands, your own.
  • • When it comes to speaking, singing or simply surviving, correct breathing is essential.
    • By correct breathing - I mean, through the nose.
    • In recent centuries we’ve been cooking and therefore, softening foods - crunching & chewing less.
    • As a result our jaws have receded - our mouths and crucially, nasal areas - diminishing.
    • One small reason for a wide variety of breathing problems.
    • Hello, I’m Charles Luxford, a professional singer and vocal coach
  • • Snoring, for many, is a particular issue.
    • I strongly recommend reading James Nestor’s book, Breath to help understand the breadth of contemporary circumstances.
    • In the meantime, let me offer some practical assistance.
    • Close your mouth & begin breathing through your nose.
    • Take your time, breathe in and out slowly.
    • Concentrate on the sensations you feel, particularly when breathing in.
    • Do you feel cool air in your nose and the passageways beneath your eyes?
  • • Having read James Nestor’s book, I’ve adapted my coaching, increasing the focus on nasal breathing whether speaking or singing.
    • His research resonated with my own thoughts and feelings.
    • For many years I’ve tried various methods to help stop me snoring. Shortly after reading James’ book, I was made aware that I had actually stopped.
  • • James suggests some simple means to help ensure a bedtime-mouth-closed process.
    • Its successful implementation requires an understanding, some explanation, coupled with nasal breathing practice.
    • I’d be pleased to help you.
    • Thank you,
  • • More winds inflicting pain upon a ravaged border land,
    • centuries of countryside fails nature’s force withstand,
    • hear its noises, feel its biting, fresh in pow’r and strength,
    • left, visual devastation to see and sigh at length
  • • Etched upon the near horizon,
    • vivid bathed, clear morning light.
    • Home for terns to nest unhindered,
    • lighthouse proudly tall and bright.
    • Ever on the eye compelling,
    • Coquet, such a favoured sight
  • • The pen is mightier than the sword
  • • The pen is mightier than the sword
    • contemplate & focus & say it from the heart
    • & verse a concise art,
  • • With fine black heads and flanks a-noir,
    • grazing ‘cross near fields afar,
    • long tufted tails that blithely sway,
    • each broadly Belted Galloway.
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Coquet as you reach the sea
    • what is it that you deem to be -
    • force of nature, source of strength.
    • fisher’s friend in breadth and length?
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Look me straight fine ag-ed tup
    • your horns three roundels coiling up -
    • defiantly you stand your ground
    • ol’ master over all around.
    • Tho faded fleece, your age ensures
    • that youth must prove supreme to yours.
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Vocal Coaching:
    • Volume & projection - known as... resonance
    • “Our head is our amplifier”
  • • Focussing the sounds we make, enabling them to resonate within our heads, is how we amplify our vocal sounds.
    • It’s my understanding that the quality of our cranial structure dictates our vocal qualities.
    • This is of crucial importance when developing vocal projection.
    • ~
    • The power and the energy that propels our voice comes from correct, strongly supported breathing.
  • • The practice process goes like this:
    • • Breathe in through your nose, pause and… speak slowly - slower than ‘normal’.
    • • Breathe in, allowing your lower abdominal muscles and intercostal muscles to expand - wait, feel the expansion.
    • • It’s these lower muscles that will create the necessary pressure to propel and project your voice.
    • • Exhale - like a yawn - making a strong ‘aaaah’ sound.
  • • • Repeat - getting used to the feelings and the sound.
    • • Speak and be aware of the shape inside your mouth - a raised soft palate.
    • • An enlarged cranial area - a yawning sensation.
    • • This is the area in which your voice is amplified, using head resonance.
    • • Read out loud, paced and with energy - the energy being lower muscular contraction to sustain the breath.
    • • Increased muscular pressure will increase volume.~
  • • I’m endeavouring to communicate things abstract… principles that may need clarification.
    • Practice… focus and feel, make notes and get back to me for further explanation.
    • Thank you,
    • Charles
  • • Use the 4P’s
    • Be the ONE they will remember
    • It’s all spoken words
    • People forget 70% within 20 mins
    • Remember they cannot #Read & #Listen at the same time If you want them to listen don’t show them lots of words
    • Don’t use your industry Jargon & acronyms
    • Use fewer words A weekly presentation should be 100 words or LESS
    • ‘WORD of Mouth’
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Use the 4P’s
    • Be the ONE they will remember
    • It’s all spoken words
    • People forget 70% within 20 mins
    • Remember they cannot #Read & #Listen at the same time If you want them to listen don’t show them lots of words
    • Don’t use your industry Jargon & acronyms
    • Use fewer words A weekly presentation should be 100 words or LESS
    • ‘WORD of Mouth’
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Use the 4P’s
    • Be the ONE they will remember
    • It’s all spoken words
    • People forget 70% within 20 mins
    • Remember they cannot #Read & #Listen at the same time If you want them to listen don’t show them lots of words
    • Don’t use your industry Jargon & acronyms
    • Use fewer words A weekly presentation should be 100 words or LESS
    • ‘WORD of Mouth’
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • One more image, short to say,
    • of all that has been stripped away,
    • close, horizon. all behold,
    • near nature’s story, starkly told
  • • Cast a fly and gamely wait,
    • hold your stance with steadfast gait.
    • cast a-more whilst hopes arise,
    • come first fine brown, yet young in size.
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • encompassing at will, all that lay around:
    • impossible to stop, unyielding in it’s strength,
    • invisible in essence, wild progress viewed at length.
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Nature brings such inspiration,
    • northern breezes, hour by day,
    • clean the air with sharp horizons,
    • beauty on each sense to play
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Languid clang of centuries, repeated on the hour
    • tolling days and histories, from medieval tower.
    • All Saints, like many others, it’s tale in chimes recites,
    • a solemn tonal melody, repeated days and nights.
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Reminds me of Gray, 'Elegy at Parting Day',
    • to prevent my weary recitation,
    • I'm practicing Charles' breathing Education...
  • • A sixty seconds presentation, is a most succinct oration,
    • highlighting ones attributes and how a service contributes.
    • A formula to brief express and message make without excess -
    • goes just like this, so please attend some moments more to comprehend.
    • One-forty words - a minutes speech, is how your audience to reach.
    • A sentence most of twenty words, is clear, devoid of the absurd.
    • That’s seven sentences to say, your cream ‘preferral’ on the day.
    • So twenty, timesed by seven makes the perfect sixty - no mistakes!
    • As vocal coach I’m pleased to teach, just how an audience to reach.
    • So luxfordvocalcoach.com is where you’ll find me coming from
    • 60 Seconds Success
  • • Two snowys and a barn owl accompanied the way -
    • homeward, in the twilight towards the close of day.
    • Across my path with evening’s catch, beside the second flew,
    • at rest, on post, with knowing eye, the barn admired the view.
    • A surfeit rare of strigiformes, such privilege to see,
    • fine hunters of The Cheviots, not one, not two, but three!
    • ExplainerGuy
  • • Natural devastation contrasting man's destruction
    • as vanity plus hubris, shapes arrogant dysfunction,
    • reason fails un-compromised, desires lie deep in souls,
    • as hopes a-shared are crucial, to salve sad heart-felt goals.
    • ExplainerGuy