Post by RMO on Sept 9, 2010 23:28:55 GMT -5
There are two things that are instantly changeable about your physical appearance. Your hair and your voice. being teenagers our voices are not quite as big of a deal, like acne most people accept it has a natural short coming in society.
I was told a few years ago that my voice was sort of robotic, bored, unenthusiastic, since that point I have gone out to learn as much as I can about voice. There are three seprate points I would like to go over.
First off there is the 'how to develop a sexy booming voice' article forwarded by resident PUA beast Andrew,
highschoolpuas.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=blanguage&action=display&thread=991
in simple terms it is a voice actor who explained where all the vocal centers, and where your sound should be coming from. The article is kind of confusing, but it offers a good basic exercise. Check out the article if you want more clarification.
The second is a technique of strengthening your neck muscles to deepen your voice. Unconsciously we hold our voice-boxes taunt with our neck muscles, this is just a bad habit developed by years of not knowing any better. This exercises strengthens your neck muscles and influences the thought patterns involved in holding your neck up, you naturally begin to loosen up your vocal cords and your neck becomes larger bettering your image. The exercise is simple:
find a flat raised surface, like a bed, and hang the upper half of your body, shoulders should be hanging off, turn your head to one direction, and only using your neck muscles lift your head to your chest. Try as hard as you can not to use your abs, now do 15 reps on one side, turn your head and do 15 more reps. You should do 3-5 reps a day for a few weeks, you will notice a major difference in your voice.
Finally I have some advice I picked up from my Roger Love vocal course, I highly recommend that you pick yourself up a copy, totally worth it. The first step is having a correct breathing pattern.
Proper breathing is breathing in through your nose into your belly, like you're filling a ballon, then breathe out your mouth slowly. Thats it, just keep your breathing like this and you will be able to not only project your voice but keep your tempo of speaking.
Next is speaking vastly slower then you are, and speaking less, the less you speak, the moments that you do speak people will really listen to you. also it gives you time to breathe and you dont force all your words out as fast as you can and wheeze out in the end. It also gives you a moment to choose your next words carefully without appearing like a moron.
I have seen whenever someone asks for advice on this forum involving vocality they say their voice is boring. They have difficulty with inflection. This is the process of attaching emotional stigmas to your words, giving them character and personality. I want you to write a paragraph of a common interaction you have on a day to day basis.
Go ahead take a break from my long winded article and write it down.
Now sing it.
You got the melody in it? you feel the way your voice changed? now try to speak it, while keeping the melody. Now your words sound more personable right?
the next step of voice is volume
I want you to take that piece of paper and turn towards a wall and say as loud as you can, not yelling, projecting from your diaphragm, each sentence, making sure to breathe and space it out. Imagine your words are a pure beam of color, and it comes right back to you twice as strong. Dont be afraid to project, figure out how your voice comes from your body, if you can properly project, you dont need to be a loud person to draw attention.
Exercises
1. Andrews times three exercise
“Glottals Times Three : Ed Is An Odd Egg Up On An Eve”
Okay, you see that weird phrase up there that starts with “Ed” ? I want you to only use the vowels in each word. Sustain this sound, and resonate it three times, stopping briefly between each sound. Huh? I’ll demonstrate:
a. “Ed” would be said as: “Ehhhh…Ehhhh… Ehhhhhh”. Make sure you feel your belly resonating. Do not take an inhale between each one. Do it all on one breath, pausing briefly between each one, and sustaining the breath in the same position. Some of you may notice you are jutting your belly out, and your sound comes out choppy or forced. Keep doing this until it comes out smoothly, almost like a song.
b. “Is” would be “Ihhh…Ihh… Ihhhhhhh”. Remember to sustain the last one longer than the first two.
c. “An” : This is what is called a “flat” a, as in “Apple” or “Aveue,” or “Alpha”. It is not the same “A” sound as “Apartment”, “Always” or “Also”. You notice this because as you watch the formation of your mouth you will see the shape inside your mind’s eye changes. Try it. Feel where your mouth changes inside.
d. “Odd” This vowel sound sounds like “Awe”. Like the ‘o’ in God. You will see it’s easy to access the lower resonators here. Try this sound, as well as the “O” sound in words like ” Owe” and “Over”.
e. “Up” This sound is “Uhh.. uhhh.. uhhhhhhhhhh”.
f. “An”. Notice this vowel sound? It’s the exact opposite as the one I spoke about in ‘c.’
g. ‘Eve’ - (the stage name of my ex-girlfriend who’s a stripper.. hehe). Notice this “E” sound to be totally different from the ‘E’ sound in ‘Ed’. This resonator will resonate higher, more like in the chest.
2. Neck strengthening
Do 15 reps on each side for neck lifts, 3-5 separate exercises a day. after a few weeks results are noticeable
3.Roger Love Vocal Power exercise.
Deep voice.
say mum, like yogie bear, in rising tone, hard to translate to text, but think increasing keys on a piano, only with your voice.
do the same with the words goog, and gug, minus the yogie bear sound.
these give a good approximation of you range.
practice projection and inflection in your speech, experiment.
I don't do the program any justice, I recommend checking it out for yourself.
4. Personal exercise
mines simple. Read aloud. Practice your inflection, speed, tonality while reading anything you damn well please. This is a good way to test your voice with an audio recorder, as well as a build a better vocabulary.
Vocal Fitness
Now practicing is good but you have to keep a few things in mind with your voice to keep it healthy.
1. drink lots of water, 8 glasses of water daily, this will not only help voice but if your exercise or want to increase sleep quality then I recommend drinking lots of water, your piss should take on a fairly clear consistency eventually.
2. get good sleep, I will delve in other articles on cool sleep tricks, but make sure you get restful sleep.
3. if your voice is hurt, dont whisper, it puts more strain on your voice then normally talking, it dries out your vocal cords, if your doctor told you to not speak, by a white board and dont speak!
On a final note the way I fixed my voice was i learned out to sing. This really helped me get a great voice, girls are always telling me how my voice is really sexy and smooth, and people who barely know me say I could be an actor, politician, or salesmen just on my voice alone. Combined with natural PUA and NLP my voice is my most powerful asset.
There is plenty I don't have on this article, if you have something you want to share or criticize, feel free.
I was told a few years ago that my voice was sort of robotic, bored, unenthusiastic, since that point I have gone out to learn as much as I can about voice. There are three seprate points I would like to go over.
First off there is the 'how to develop a sexy booming voice' article forwarded by resident PUA beast Andrew,
highschoolpuas.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=blanguage&action=display&thread=991
in simple terms it is a voice actor who explained where all the vocal centers, and where your sound should be coming from. The article is kind of confusing, but it offers a good basic exercise. Check out the article if you want more clarification.
The second is a technique of strengthening your neck muscles to deepen your voice. Unconsciously we hold our voice-boxes taunt with our neck muscles, this is just a bad habit developed by years of not knowing any better. This exercises strengthens your neck muscles and influences the thought patterns involved in holding your neck up, you naturally begin to loosen up your vocal cords and your neck becomes larger bettering your image. The exercise is simple:
find a flat raised surface, like a bed, and hang the upper half of your body, shoulders should be hanging off, turn your head to one direction, and only using your neck muscles lift your head to your chest. Try as hard as you can not to use your abs, now do 15 reps on one side, turn your head and do 15 more reps. You should do 3-5 reps a day for a few weeks, you will notice a major difference in your voice.
Finally I have some advice I picked up from my Roger Love vocal course, I highly recommend that you pick yourself up a copy, totally worth it. The first step is having a correct breathing pattern.
Proper breathing is breathing in through your nose into your belly, like you're filling a ballon, then breathe out your mouth slowly. Thats it, just keep your breathing like this and you will be able to not only project your voice but keep your tempo of speaking.
Next is speaking vastly slower then you are, and speaking less, the less you speak, the moments that you do speak people will really listen to you. also it gives you time to breathe and you dont force all your words out as fast as you can and wheeze out in the end. It also gives you a moment to choose your next words carefully without appearing like a moron.
I have seen whenever someone asks for advice on this forum involving vocality they say their voice is boring. They have difficulty with inflection. This is the process of attaching emotional stigmas to your words, giving them character and personality. I want you to write a paragraph of a common interaction you have on a day to day basis.
Go ahead take a break from my long winded article and write it down.
Now sing it.
You got the melody in it? you feel the way your voice changed? now try to speak it, while keeping the melody. Now your words sound more personable right?
the next step of voice is volume
I want you to take that piece of paper and turn towards a wall and say as loud as you can, not yelling, projecting from your diaphragm, each sentence, making sure to breathe and space it out. Imagine your words are a pure beam of color, and it comes right back to you twice as strong. Dont be afraid to project, figure out how your voice comes from your body, if you can properly project, you dont need to be a loud person to draw attention.
Exercises
1. Andrews times three exercise
“Glottals Times Three : Ed Is An Odd Egg Up On An Eve”
Okay, you see that weird phrase up there that starts with “Ed” ? I want you to only use the vowels in each word. Sustain this sound, and resonate it three times, stopping briefly between each sound. Huh? I’ll demonstrate:
a. “Ed” would be said as: “Ehhhh…Ehhhh… Ehhhhhh”. Make sure you feel your belly resonating. Do not take an inhale between each one. Do it all on one breath, pausing briefly between each one, and sustaining the breath in the same position. Some of you may notice you are jutting your belly out, and your sound comes out choppy or forced. Keep doing this until it comes out smoothly, almost like a song.
b. “Is” would be “Ihhh…Ihh… Ihhhhhhh”. Remember to sustain the last one longer than the first two.
c. “An” : This is what is called a “flat” a, as in “Apple” or “Aveue,” or “Alpha”. It is not the same “A” sound as “Apartment”, “Always” or “Also”. You notice this because as you watch the formation of your mouth you will see the shape inside your mind’s eye changes. Try it. Feel where your mouth changes inside.
d. “Odd” This vowel sound sounds like “Awe”. Like the ‘o’ in God. You will see it’s easy to access the lower resonators here. Try this sound, as well as the “O” sound in words like ” Owe” and “Over”.
e. “Up” This sound is “Uhh.. uhhh.. uhhhhhhhhhh”.
f. “An”. Notice this vowel sound? It’s the exact opposite as the one I spoke about in ‘c.’
g. ‘Eve’ - (the stage name of my ex-girlfriend who’s a stripper.. hehe). Notice this “E” sound to be totally different from the ‘E’ sound in ‘Ed’. This resonator will resonate higher, more like in the chest.
2. Neck strengthening
Do 15 reps on each side for neck lifts, 3-5 separate exercises a day. after a few weeks results are noticeable
3.Roger Love Vocal Power exercise.
Deep voice.
say mum, like yogie bear, in rising tone, hard to translate to text, but think increasing keys on a piano, only with your voice.
do the same with the words goog, and gug, minus the yogie bear sound.
these give a good approximation of you range.
practice projection and inflection in your speech, experiment.
I don't do the program any justice, I recommend checking it out for yourself.
4. Personal exercise
mines simple. Read aloud. Practice your inflection, speed, tonality while reading anything you damn well please. This is a good way to test your voice with an audio recorder, as well as a build a better vocabulary.
Vocal Fitness
Now practicing is good but you have to keep a few things in mind with your voice to keep it healthy.
1. drink lots of water, 8 glasses of water daily, this will not only help voice but if your exercise or want to increase sleep quality then I recommend drinking lots of water, your piss should take on a fairly clear consistency eventually.
2. get good sleep, I will delve in other articles on cool sleep tricks, but make sure you get restful sleep.
3. if your voice is hurt, dont whisper, it puts more strain on your voice then normally talking, it dries out your vocal cords, if your doctor told you to not speak, by a white board and dont speak!
On a final note the way I fixed my voice was i learned out to sing. This really helped me get a great voice, girls are always telling me how my voice is really sexy and smooth, and people who barely know me say I could be an actor, politician, or salesmen just on my voice alone. Combined with natural PUA and NLP my voice is my most powerful asset.
There is plenty I don't have on this article, if you have something you want to share or criticize, feel free.
