Hi it's Elissa Weinzimmer, founder of Voice Body Connection and it is time for
another How To Warm Up video. how to warm up In today's How To Warm Up
video we are going to play with chanting the three primary vowel sounds in
language okay and those three primary sounds are ah oo and ee now we talked
about these a little bit when we got into chanting the sound of ohm but we
can also chant them separately without the ohm there when we use these three
sounds what we're doing is tapping into directionality of energy the ah goes up
and down on the vertical plane the ooo goes front-to-back on the sagittal plane
and the e goes side to side on the horizontal plane so when you make a
vowel sound what you're actually doing is moving your tongue around in
different shapes in your mouth and these three sounds ah, oo and ee are actually
the extremes within your mouth so when you make an ah sound the back of
your tongue moves as low and back as it can which is ah the reason that the
dentist asks you to make this sound when you go see him or her the oo sound is when
you bring the back of your tongue up as high as it will go before it blocks if
it blocks it becomes a consonant but when it's just in there almost all the
way up towards the top oo it makes an oo sound and then of course you have
to add the rounding of your lips as well to make that sound and then finally when
you make an e sound that's the front of your tongue or the blade of your tongue
it's called coming as far for forward in your mouth before it blocks e
so what this actually gets us into is that we're opening the oral cavity and
therefore also the vocal tract as low and tall as we can on an ah sound as
high and shooting forward as we can on a oo sound and as wide as we can coming
forward with the blade of the tongue on an e sound now since we now understand
that an ah is low and back in oo is high and back and in ee is high and forward we
can actually move our head to help us and let gravity
help us with making these sounds so if you tilt your head back you actually
drop the back of your tongue to help you with the ah sound when you come to the
horizon it's easy for the oo for the back of the tongue to come high and then
when you tilt your head forward the front of your tongue wants to come
forward to make an e sound we're gonna use these movements for our exercise so
to do this exercise sit up nice and tall lengthening through your spine and we're
just gonna be really subtle about the movement so you'll tilt your chin up
when we go into the ah sound when you get to the horizon you'll say oo and
when you get down you'll say ee and you're going to play with moving between
these sounds easily breathing when you need to while moving your chin up and
down let's start on the horizon
Oo
ah
Oo
ee
sort of like that now you can do this exercise in a sort of meditative way
where you take your time you breathe when you need to you move really slowly
between the three cardinal vowel sounds as they're called and what you might
find is that you hear other sounds in between them and you start to really
feel the movements of your tongue and the shaping of your mouth creating these
different three Cardinal sounds this warm-up exercise is a fabulous way to
tune your resonance in three dimensions getting into all three planes and having
a stronger more powerful voice with less effort so play with this chanting
exercise I hope you enjoy it you can combine it with the mask resonance loft
resonance or oral resonance exercises too if you want to get more into those
different qualities and make sure that they're coming out in your voice and you
can also then move into chanting the sound of ohm so really you can play with
all of these resonance exercises together I look forward to seeing you in
a future How To Warm Up video and thanks for joining me today how to warm up