Hello voice Impressionists and Nintendo fans
My name is Brendan ho deck and this is voice breakdown the show where we teach you how to imitate some of the most iconic
voices
today we are continuing our Nintendo series with...Wario!
Wario has been Mario's longtime rival
He is voiced by the incredible Charles Martinet who also voices Luigi, Mario and many other Nintendo characters
In our last video we covered Luigi's voice
Luigi and Wario have many similarities
Once you learn Luigi, you can definitely progress to Mario but for Wario
We are going to need to get a little more sinister as he is. Not the nicest of characters
We will see how he will shift some of these components to sound a little more mean
Let's break this voice down component number one the vocal chords
We want Wario's pitch to be relatively neutral
Sometimes he can be a little bit on the lower side
but this fluctuates
We certainly want to be in our chest voice and not break into head voice or falsetto
One of the things that makes Wario sound so sinister is the distortion present in his voice
In fact, you can imagine that he is like Luigi's voice, but with some distortion and a little more brightness
more on that later
Be sure to check out voice breakdown episodes 2 with Miss Piggy
Episode 7 with jigsaw and episode 9 with Gilbert Godfried to see other voices that have Distortion
There are many different types of distortion that we can do
But for sure one we want to learn for Wario's voice is use of the false vocal folds
We noted that we can get the false vocal folds to engage by trying to clear our throat
Then if we add the rest of Wario's voice to that false vocal fold vibration
We sound like angry Wario have a rotten day
There is also another type of distortion Wario uses that is called aryepiglottic
Distortion
Be on the lookout for a video about all the different types of distortion in the future, but for now
Let's keep this as simple as possible
We've talked about twang in previous videos
This is a coordination that makes the voice brighter when I'm talking with twang
For Wario, we definitely want to use twang if we squeeze that twang a bit more
We this area epiglottitis torsion
This is the kind of distortion used by ac/dc for example
Wario uses it as well have and a
component number to the lyrics
We definitely want to raise the larynx for Wario even a bit more than we did for Luigi as Wario has a brighter
whinier voice in Luigi
Raising the larynx will help make the voice even more rough around the edges with that excessive brightness
component number three the tongue
Too much to worry about with the tongue for Wario
We can raise the back of the tongue slightly to help with some of the brightness for Mario's voice
Otherwise this component can be normal
Component number four the soft palate just like with Luigi
We want to add a good amount of nasal residence for Mario's voice
So lower that soft palate to allow sound enter into the nasal cavity
Articulation just like Luigi Wario also has a pen thesis in his speech
We defined a pen. 'this this as inserting sounds where they typically don't belong
For Wario. This tends to be vowels such as a and uh
Sometimes Mario also rolls his arm. So when he says have a rotten day it is have a rotten day
Component number six prosody for our Inferno series. We've been doing this component a little bit differently
Since the Nintendo characters don't typically say more than a few words at a time
The best way to get their melodic and rhythmic tendencies down is simply to learn some of their most famous catchphrases
Listen to these a few times and see if you can copy the pitch and rhythms of the phrase
Welcome to LA real world. Ah, alright
Here we go. Ah
I'm not on the way in them. Yeah. Oh
and Anna rotten a
If you are trying to speak longer phrases like Wario try to make your speech sound a bit angry and malevolent
Let's add a GABA
Component number one the vocal cords Barrios pitch is relatively neutral
We do want to add some distortion to his voice by utilizing either our false vocal cords or the aryepiglottic
distortion
Component number two the larynx we want to raise the larynx fairly high so that we can add some brightness to our a voice
Component number three the tongue we can raise the back of the tongue slightly
Component number four the soft palate we want to lower the soft palate and allow the voice to resonate in the nasal cavity
Making his voice even more bright and white
component number five
Articulation, we want to make sure to have a pen thesis in wiring of speech and add bowels where they don't belong
Additionally we want to enroll our arse on occasion
Component number six prosody for our Nintendo characters. They typically just have short catchphrases that they say
Listen to these catchphrases numerous times and see if you can memorize the rhythmic and melodic pomp in general
Wario will sound angry and malevolent. Ah
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