YOUR VOICEMaintaining Your Instrument

What is your “voice”

Vocal cords are muscles – like a reed Your whole body is the instrument Small things make a big difference

Listen to yourself & others What you hear when you speak

is not what I hear when you speak Record yourself Compare yourself to others

Exercise 1: Relax your mind Very slow deep breath In through nose – expand diaphragm As much air as you can Hold – slowly exhale - Om Think calm thoughts

2. Relax your body

Release tension: combine breathing & stretching

Feel pain? Stop!!!

Don’t push too far – you know your limits!

Arms, shoulders, back, legs Feet shoulder width apart – eyes

closed Arms over head – reach for ceiling Stretch through fingers Bend at waist, touch floor

3. Neck

Relaxed neck -> relaxed vocal cords & throat

Slowly! Pain? Stop! Breath slowly Tilt forward – Chin to chest Rotate left & right – Ears over

shoulders

4. Arms

Convert locked-up nervous energy into productive energy

Moving your body: important part of getting into the “flow”

Hang and shake Conductor

5. Face

A relaxed face can express more – vocally Adds sparkle & Depth

The speakers best tool Practice in a mirror Scrunch – 10 – Open – 10 Increase blood flow - invigorate

6. Lips

Horse lips Front Left Right

7. Tongue

Tongue can get tense too Best done in private Stick out your tongue as far as you

can Down Left Right Up

Grab it – “Haaaaaa”

8. Yawning

Streches and relaxes throat Relaxes and oxygenates whole body

& brain

9. The Sweep

Expands range & improves resonance

Vocalize “Haaaaa” Low to high High to low

10. Cork

Amazing results Cork between front teeth Read anything – speak slowly and

distinctly Emphasize every vowel, consonant,

sylable Don’t cheat

Enunciation: Letter sounds Gudda-Budda Budda-Gudda Peachy-Weachy-Leachy-Neachy Feh-Sma, Sma-Feh (Smile-Open) Lip-Sips, Sips-Lip Tee-Tee-Tee, Dee-Dee-Dee Pee-Pee-Pee, Bee-Bee-Bee Ka-Ka-Ka, Gee-Gee-Gee Ja-Ja-Ja, Cha-Cha-Cha Vee-Vee-Vee, Fee-Fee-Fee…

Enunciation: Short Phrases Flippantly simpering statistics, the

specifically Spartan strategic spatial statistics of incalculable value

She stood on the stepsOf Burgesess’s Fish Sauce ShopInexplicably mimicking him hiccuppingand amicably welcoming him in

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters Something in a thirty-acre thermal

thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty-three year old thug thought of that morning.

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters The thirty-three thieves thought that

they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters I wish to wish the wish you wish to

wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters Luke Luck likes lakes.

Luke's duck likes lakes.Luke Luck licks lakes.Luck's duck licks lakes.Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters How much wood would a woodchuck

chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck all the wood that a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters Láttam szőrös hörcsögöt. Éppen

szörpöt szörcsögött. Ha a hörcsög szörpöt szörcsög rátörnek a hörcsög görcsök.

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters Azt mondták a hatalmasok: akinek

hat alma sok, az már elég hatalmas ok, hogy ne legyen hatalma sok!

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters Azt mondták a hatalmasok: akinek

hat alma sok, az már elég hatalmas ok, hogy ne legyen hatalma sok!

Enunciation: Tongue Twisters Von Spinnen versponnene Spanier

spachteln Speisen mit spitzen Spaten. Mit spitzen Spaten spachteln von Spinnen versponnene Spanier Speisen.

Der Eifersucht is eine Leidenschaft die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schaft.

Do! Drink water, juice Eat a green apple Get plenty of rest Be prepared Have fun

Don’t! Smoke Consume

Dairy Caffeine Alcohol

Eat much Ignore pain