Patent ID: 8629341

Claim:
A teaching aid for instructing a singer the proper embouchure mechanics of the singer's tongue, lips, jaw, and musculature of the mouth for singing a vocal in a musical work comprising: a substrate marked with indicia of the sounds of said vocal; a symbol of an embouchure home position specifying a starting position of the tongue, lips, and jaw; and symbols of embouchure functions specifying movement of at least one of the tongue, lips, jaw, and musculature of the mouth from said home position for singing a particular sound, wherein said sound indicia, said home position symbol, and said embouchure function symbols are arranged in at least one line across said substrate with said home position symbol positioned near the beginning of said line and with said embouchure function symbols positioned relative to said sound indicia to instruct movement of at least one of the tongue, lips, jaw, and musculature of the mouth from said home position in time with said sound indicia for singing said sounds.