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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
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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
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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.
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Problem
Net Payoff
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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
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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