Imagine you see, from some distance away, someone trying to break into it your parked car. Instinctively you shout loudly: ‘No! What are you doing with my car!’ Try it now if you can.
It’s likely your voice sounded very different from your normal speaking voice. But the tone quality of any sound you make can, with practice, be incorporated into your voice for speaking or singing: it’s yours to use as you want.
The exercises here will help you first discover those hidden qualities and then start to be able to use them when you sing, or speak.
Later you can try the same thing with other qualities you’ve identified.
The following exercise takes you on to the next stage of using those qualities.
An enjoyable way of experimenting with your expanding palette of sounds is by reading aloud. Choose:
Get inspired by listening to good actors, and to audiobooks read by masters of the art of character voices, such as Miriam Margolyes or Martin Jarvis, and to singers in a range of styles who use their voices in very different ways.
Once the new quality feels more familiar you can use the exercises in Section 4.2 to transfer it into a sung sound and then expand it over a range of notes.
Developing a palette of sung sounds to convey a range of emotions will take time, but just enjoy the process. If you have a little time on your own, it’s always fun to experiment with what sounds your voice can make. Most of us use only a tiny fraction of our voice’s potential.
Imagine you see, from some distance away, someone trying to break into it your parked car. Instinctively you shout loudly: ‘No! What are you doing with my car!’ Try it now if you can.
It’s likely your voice sounded very different from your normal speaking voice. But the tone quality of any sound you make can, with practice, be incorporated into your voice for speaking or singing: it’s yours to use as you want.
The exercises here will help you first discover those hidden qualities and then start to be able to use them when you sing, or speak.
Later you can try the same thing with other qualities you’ve identified.
The following exercise takes you on to the next stage of using those qualities.
An enjoyable way of experimenting with your expanding palette of sounds is by reading aloud. Choose:
Get inspired by listening to good actors, and to audiobooks read by masters of the art of character voices, such as Miriam Margolyes or Martin Jarvis, and to singers in a range of styles who use their voices in very different ways.
Once the new quality feels more familiar you can use the exercises in Section 4.2 to transfer it into a sung sound and then expand it over a range of notes.
Developing a palette of sung sounds to convey a range of emotions will take time, but just enjoy the process. If you have a little time on your own, it’s always fun to experiment with what sounds your voice can make. Most of us use only a tiny fraction of our voice’s potential.
