In the next two voice exercise sections you’re going to start linking sounds – moving from hums to vowels and back, and then combining different vowels and consonants – as a precursor to forming words.
The aim is to reach a point where you feel both change and continuity in the exercises: change because the different consonants and vowels make different sounds you can enjoy, but continuity because the overall quality of your voice stays the same.
In the next section you’ll start with a simple sequence (mamamama or nananana) then move on to other combinations of sounds, but still ones that will help you focus your voice in your head.
Then you’ll be working with actual words in a set of nonsense ‘friendly phrases’ based on voice-focusing consonants.
There are also a couple of exercises that introduce moving between singing and speech. The focus of the course for you is developing your singing, but Better Voice is not something you will only use when you sing: it will become the beneficial, safe way to produce your voice whether you are singing or speaking. That will also (as we discuss in Part Two of the course) allow you to take good qualities from your ‘speaking voice’ and incorporate them into your ‘singing voice’, and vice versa. It would be good to at least have a try at moving from singing to speech, but if you feel that establishing your technique in the sung exercises is enough to cope with at the moment, then skip Exercises 22 and 24 for now and go back to them when you feel ready.
In the next two voice exercise sections you’re going to start linking sounds – moving from hums to vowels and back, and then combining different vowels and consonants – as a precursor to forming words.
The aim is to reach a point where you feel both change and continuity in the exercises: change because the different consonants and vowels make different sounds you can enjoy, but continuity because the overall quality of your voice stays the same.
In the next section you’ll start with a simple sequence (mamamama or nananana) then move on to other combinations of sounds, but still ones that will help you focus your voice in your head.
Then you’ll be working with actual words in a set of nonsense ‘friendly phrases’ based on voice-focusing consonants.
There are also a couple of exercises that introduce moving between singing and speech. The focus of the course for you is developing your singing, but Better Voice is not something you will only use when you sing: it will become the beneficial, safe way to produce your voice whether you are singing or speaking. That will also (as we discuss in Part Two of the course) allow you to take good qualities from your ‘speaking voice’ and incorporate them into your ‘singing voice’, and vice versa. It would be good to at least have a try at moving from singing to speech, but if you feel that establishing your technique in the sung exercises is enough to cope with at the moment, then skip Exercises 22 and 24 for now and go back to them when you feel ready.
