Let's do a short vocal warm up and this is going to be really helpful to get your
voice ready if you are about to do some public speaking, perhaps you have a
presentation and before we jump into it I want to say a huge thank you to
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link in the description box below. Now let's warm up. When you start your
vocal warm up make sure you're alone, somewhere private where people cannot
see you so that you do the exercises in full. Firstly we're going to stretch and
squeeze the muscles of the face. Stretch them out wide, raising the eyebrows and
stretching everything, and then squeeze everything, and stretch
and squeeze. One more time stretch and squeeze. Good now completely relaxing
those lips I want you to just blow through your lips like a horse.
And again if you are able to do that do it one more time. If you're struggling
place the fingers at either side of the lips place on a little pressure and try
again. If you can't do it, don't worry not everybody can. Next we're going to
warm up the tongue. The tongue is a huge muscle and is very important for
speaking so we're going to do tongue bootcamp. This is cleaning the teeth with
the tongue, six circles in each direction. Okay keep the lips closed here we go.
Good if you've done lots of these types of exercises then you might find it very
very easy in which case increase the number of
circles that you do with the tongue. Now we're going to stretch the tongue out.
Place the tip of the tongue behind the bottom teeth and push the body of the
tongue forward, really stretching out the back of the tongue and relax. One more
time and relax. Good now we're going to make a hum sound the hmm will
eventually open up to a ma sound and what we're doing is warming up the
resonance in the chest, the nice low vibrations. So I want you to beat your
chest waking up all the muscles on a hum follow me. Hmmmmmmmmm
Pat the ribs. Open up to a Maaaaaaaa
Good now in good public speaking you should be engaging the diaphragm in
order to project your voice so let's warm up that diaphragm muscle. Place one
hand on the diaphragm which is just below the rib cage and you're going to
give me lots of short sharp SH sounds. You'll feel the diaphragm bounce. We're
going to do ten of these and then one long one and when you give me the long
one I want you to squeeze your tummy muscles as tight as you can until you
have no air left in your body. Okay here we go.
Follow me hhhh hhhh relax good. Right the face is awake the body is awake
let's do some articulation to make sure our mouths are fully working follow me.
We're going to be saying B D G again and again and again really fast here we go.
And now we're going to try P T K
And now we're going to try M L W ready
let's finish off this warm up with some
tongue twisters. Here some famous ones
Finally three very simple words make sure the
tongue comes out for the th
Very well done. Remember it's important to warm up your
voice every time that you're speaking publicly, giving a presentation, or a talk.
By warming up your voice you protect your voice but also you make sure that
you're performing at your best so you can project and your voice is strong and
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until next time very best of luck with your presentation
take care and goodbye. :)