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Maintaining Your Instrument. Your voice. 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
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Maintaining Your Instrument Your voice
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-BuddaBudda-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 • Aztmondták a hatalmasok: akinek hat alma sok, azmáreléghatalmas ok, hogy ne legyenhatalmasok!
Enunciation: Tongue Twisters • Aztmondták a hatalmasok: akinek hat alma sok, azmáreléghatalmas ok, hogy ne legyenhatalmasok!
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