QUICK AND EASY VOCAL WARM-
UPS
ZOUNDS!
* stretch and yawn; hold the ending "ah" sound;
relax your throat and jaws
* chew the letter "N" on both sides of
the mouth
* shake out your face and lips, high and low
* feel
different parts of mouth and nasal passages vibrate with these
different sounds:
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
..
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV
... ThThThThThThThThThThTh...
Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum
Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum
* open your
mouth , eyes, and face as wide as you can on the last syllable
of:
Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula
Mumula Mumula
SILLY PHRASES
* each phrase features different difficult
consonant combinations. Start slow, over-articulating and then
increase speed
Red letter, yellow letter Good blood, bad blood
Eleven benevolent elephants Teaching ghosts to sing
The big, black-backed bumblebee A critical cricket critic
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COGNATES
* Feel a pulse in your diaphram with the
following sounds
unvoiced: PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH
VOICED:
BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH
unvoiced: TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH
TUH
VOICED: DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH
unvoiced: KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH
KUH
VOICED: GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH
TONGUE TWISTER!
* This long tongue twister contains many
buzz sounds and difficult consonant combinations. It is possible to
say all in one breath if you use diaphramatic breathing and
carefully control the volume of air expelled. Articulate every
sound!
What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two,
a
thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do.
for they'll
beat a tattoo at a quarter to two:
a rat-ta tat-tat ta tat-tat ta
to-to.
and the dragon will come when he hears the
drum
at a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two
to two