Rhythm is gonna getcha.

This past week I've been working on rhythm and speech speed.
The first thing I did was create a beat-count, like a metronome for the archetype. It helps me to match the reading's speed and not instinctively go for the song's rhythm. I'm a percussionist, so I do tend to think in rhythms and beats. Once I had a tempo set, it really helped me stay on track.
The second thing I worked on was practicing reading along with the recording. The first dozen run-throughs showed me the trouble spots, the places where I always, always got off rhythm and the places where I had no trouble at all. Green is good to go, yellow is some trouble, red is where I keep messing up.

I
Buhi sa kanunay
Ug di ko hikalimtan
Sa hilom gibati ko
Ang kamingaw ning dughan

II
Bisag giyam-iran, bisan pa’g gitamay
Molambo ug molipang 
kay ang gugmang matuod di mamatay

Refrain:
Tuhoi intawn ako
Salig sa gisaad ko
Gugma kining way pagkalaya
Bisa’g ibanlas sa luha

III
Kon ang kasing-kasing ko
Sa palad sakiton
Didto sa kalangitan
Ako kang paabuton




https://soundcloud.com/murikakari/rhythmakp

Once I'd identified the trouble spots, I practiced listening to the recording and just chiming in on those spots. I spent a full session on the yellow. The next session worked on saying the yellow and green. Once I had the yellow mostly down and incorporated into the full text, I practiced on just the red. So far, I've managed to usually get the first and last syllables correct for the red lines, but find myself rushing or slowing mid-line time after time. Part of it is what I intend to spend the week after next working on, the change over between coda and initial consonants g-g folowed by g-m followed by ng-m then d-d. 
There's also this week's work- vowels. two or three sequential separately articulated vowels all of which are not quite where my mouth wants to place them. o-u o-i-in, u-o. It's easy enough when they are the same/similar vowel, as in gisaad in Line 9 or paabuton in Line 15, but the quick change between low and high causing problems. I'll be spending some time with those vowels in Praat this week, trying to analyze, exactly what's different about my vowels and Barbie's.