1. Maintaining Your Instrument

2. What is your “voice”  Vocal cords are muscles – like a reed  Your whole body is the instrument  Small things make a big difference

3. Listen to yourself & others  What you hear when you speak is not what I hear when you speak  Record yourself  Compare yourself to others

4. 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

5. 2. Relax your body  Release tension:  combine breathing & stretching  Feel pain? Stop!!!  Don’t push too far – you know your limits!

6. Arms, shoulders, back, legs  Feet shoulder width apart – eyes closed  Arms over head – reach for ceiling  Stretch through fingers  Bend at waist, touch floor

7. 3. Neck  Relaxed neck -> relaxed vocal cords & throat  Slowly! Pain? Stop!  Breath slowly  Tilt forward – Chin to chest  Rotate left & right – Ears over shoulders

8. 4. Arms  Convert locked-up nervous energy into productive energy  Moving your body: important part of getting into the “flow”  Hang and shake  Conductor

9. 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

10. 6. Lips  Horse lips  Front  Left  Right

11. 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”

12. 8. Yawning  Streches and relaxes throat  Relaxes and oxygenates whole body & brain

13. 9. The Sweep  Expands range & improves resonance  Vocalize “Haaaaa”  Low to high  High to low

14. 10. Cork  Amazing results  Cork between front teeth  Read anything – speak slowly and distinctly  Emphasize every vowel, consonant, sylable  Don’t cheat

15. Enunciation: Letter sounds  Gudda-Budda Budda-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…

16. Enunciation: Short Phrases  Flippantly simpering statistics, the specifically Spartan strategic spatial statistics of incalculable value  She stood on the steps Of Burgesess’s Fish Sauce Shop Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him in

17. Enunciation: Tongue Twisters  http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/  http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

18. 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.

19. Enunciation: Tongue Twisters  The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. Enunciation: Tongue Twisters  Láttam szőrös hörcsögöt. Éppen szörpöt szörcsögött. Ha a hörcsög szörpöt szörcsög rátörnek a hörcsög görcsök.

24. Enunciation: Tongue Twisters  Azt mondták a hatalmasok: akinek hat alma sok, az már elég hatalmas ok, hogy ne legyen hatalma sok!

25. Enunciation: Tongue Twisters  Azt mondták a hatalmasok: akinek hat alma sok, az már elég hatalmas ok, hogy ne legyen hatalma sok!

26. 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.

27.  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