In this article you will find exercises, after which you will begin.
To open your voice
Your voice may not actually be yours. The reason is due to tension or an incorrect way of speaking (for example, using only the ligaments). The exercises below will help you overcome these issues and discover your true natural voice.
Sound engineer
First, understand how others hear you. To do this, you can simulate a recording studio. Your left palm will be the earphone - press it with a “shell” to your left ear; the right one will be a microphone - hold it near your mouth at a distance of several centimeters. Start trying: count, say different words, play with the sound. Do this exercise for 5-10 minutes for nine days. During this time, you will understand how it really sounds and will be able to improve it.
Q-X
To open your voice, you need to free your throat and transfer the main work to your lips and diaphragm. To do this, pronounce the syllables “qu-ix”. On “Q”, round your lips, on “X”, stretch them into a wide smile. After 30 repetitions, try making a short speech. You will feel that the ligaments are less strained, and your lips follow your commands better.
Yawn
The easiest way to relax the muscles of the larynx is to yawn well. Do this simple exercise for 5 minutes a day and you will notice how blocks and tension in your voice disappear.
Exhale-moan
This exercise will help you discover the natural sound of your voice. Its essence comes down to voicing your exhalation.
Position: feet on the floor, jaw slightly open and relaxed. Start inhaling air, and as you exhale, make any sound. Do this without any effort - if everything is correct, you should get a groan.
When the exercise is performed correctly, the sound comes from the solar plexus. It is from there that you need to speak so that your voice is voluminous and expressive.
To make your voice pleasant
Three smiles
This exercise is performed in the same way as the previous one, but observing the rule of three smiles. Smile with your mouth, forehead and imagine a smile in the solar plexus area. After this, begin to exhale with sound. Just 5 minutes a day - and your voice will begin to sound more pleasant and trusting.
Yoga exercise
This training is practiced by Indian yogis to achieve a deep and beautiful voice.
Position: standing, feet shoulder-width apart. First, take a few calm inhalations and exhalations, then exhale sharply with the sound “ha-a.” The exhalation should be as full and loud as possible. In this case, the body can be slightly moved forward.
Long syllables
Take a deep breath, and as you exhale, say protractedly “bom-m”, “bim-m”, “bon-n”. Draw out the last sounds as long as possible. Ideally, vibration should occur in the area of the upper lip and nose.
A similar exercise can be done with the syllables “mo-mo”, “mi-mi”, “mu-mu”, “me-me”. But in this case, first pronounce them briefly, and only then protractedly.
Both exercises are best done every morning for 10 minutes. They will not only make your voice more pleasant, but will also help strengthen your vocal cords.
Long tongue
Stick out your tongue. First, point it down as far as possible, trying to reach your chin. Maintaining this position, tilt your head down. Then stretch your tongue upward, trying to reach the tip of your nose. At the same time, raise your head as high as possible.
To make your voice stronger
Sounds “i”, “e”, “a”, “o”, “u”
Exhale, then take a deep breath and on the second exhale say a long “i” sound. Do this freely as long as you have enough air. Do not force the air out of your lungs. Pronounce the remaining sounds in the same way: “e”, “a”, “o”, “u”. Perform three repetitions.
The sequence of these sounds is not random: they are distributed in height. Accordingly, “i” is the highest (activates the upper area of the head), “u” is the lowest (activates the lower abdomen). If you want to make your voice lower and deeper, practice the “u” sound more often.
Tarzan Exercise
Complete the previous task, only now beat yourself in the chest with your fists, like Tarzan. The exercise is designed to fill your voice and clear your bronchi, so if you feel like clearing your throat, don't stop yourself.
Moo
This exercise activates the chest and abdomen. Exhale and inhale. On the next exhalation, begin to pronounce the sound “m” with your mouth closed. Perform three approaches: first moo quietly, then at medium volume and finally at very loud volume.
Growl
Raise your relaxed tongue to the palate and begin to pronounce the sound “r”. It should turn out “r-r-r”, like a tractor. Repeat the exercise three times, then expressively read about a dozen words that contain the sound “r”. Be sure to accompany the reading with a rolling “r”.
Chaliapin's exercise for tuning your voice
The great Russian singer Fyodor Chaliapin also began every morning with a growl. But he did not perform it alone, but together with his bulldog. After training the sound “r”, Fyodor Ivanovich began to bark at his pet: “av-av-av”.
You can repeat Chaliapin’s exercise or, if you can’t relax your larynx, replace it with a villainous theatrical laugh. This is done simply. With your mouth open, as you exhale, you laugh evilly: “a-a-a-a-ha-ha-ha-ha-a-a-a-a.” The sound should come out easily and freely. At the same time, you can jump and beat yourself in the chest with your hands. This exercise will instantly clear your voice and prepare it for work.
Important to remember
When performing all exercises, you need to maintain the correct one. The stomach should be relaxed and the chest should protrude forward. However, if you keep your back straight, these areas of the body will automatically take the correct position.
With your voice, whether euphonious or loud, you involuntarily create a pleasant or difficult atmosphere around you. The meaning of the words you speak has almost no effect on this; the real information is contained in the music of your voice. Unfortunately, very few people listen to their voice, its tone, timbre and intonation; not everyone sets themselves the task of making their voice beautiful.
A natural voice is a free and natural voice that maximally reflects a person’s inner world. By nature, everyone is given a strong and beautiful voice (just remember any baby), but most people use only 5-10 percent of the capabilities of their voice.
A pleasant voice is a voice whose timbre contains all frequencies - from low to high. If the voice is natural, then it is usually pleasant. Especially if the owner of a natural voice is a pleasant person. After all, the voice is inherently an indicator of a person’s personality.
There are two reasons:
a) internal tensions (clamps) that prevent the voice from sounding freely. This impoverishes the timbre, depriving it of both low, rich colors and high, sonorous colors. This reason is the most common.
b) if a person is essentially deceitful, vile, etc., then all this is reflected in his voice, and his voice, of course, will not be particularly pleasant.
A lot of things. You can judge a person’s character, his level of health, and his mood by his voice. Also, from the voice you can understand whether it is worth dealing with a given person or whether it is better not to do so - you can hear the true intentions of people in the voice, as well as the level of their development.
5. Experts say that you can “speak with your mouth”, “speak with your throat”, “speak with your chest” and even “speak with your stomach”. What is it about?
It's about involving the body in the sound process. By nature, a person’s entire body sounds (resonates), from head to toe (this happens in babies). But due to internal tensions (clamps), vibrations from the voice stop passing through the entire body and remain only at the level of the throat (“speaking with the throat”). This, of course, greatly impoverishes the timbre.
“Speaking with the chest” means filling the chest with vibrations from the voice. “speak with the stomach” - fill the stomach with vibrations.
6. Why are both men and women on the Internet interested in how to deepen their voice? Don't men like soft female voices?
Because it is precisely the low colors that give tenderness to the voice. Low frequencies also make the voice more velvety and rich. But this, of course, is the case if the voice has medium and high overtones.
This is approximately like a well-tuned audio system (equalizer):
– if low frequencies predominate in the voice, it will sound rough;
– if the voice is dominated by high frequencies, it will sound squeaky;
– if the voice is dominated by mid frequencies, it will not be perceived by ear at all.
It makes sense for every person to adjust the natural harmonious balance of the sound of their voice.
Yes, posture certainly has a strong influence on the voice, because... good posture- the key to good breathing. And good breathing is the key to a good voice.
A lot also depends on how well you sleep. Many Mariinsky soloists note that if you go to bed before midnight and wake up before 10 am, your voice sounds noticeably better that day!
But this does not mean that if a person begins to artificially slow down his speech, his voice will become richer. Therefore, it is better to learn to enter a state of inner calm, relaxation, and at the same time remain cheerful and alert! Then the voice sounds as good as possible, and the speaking speed is natural.
A pleasant voice is a necessary thing. Not only to sing, have phone sex and represent your country at Eurovision, but also, oddly enough, for other work. If during important negotiations or presentations you keep hearing: “What, what? Could you repeat it, please!" - or suddenly you start wheezing, wheezing, wheezing and looking for a glass of water, it obviously wouldn’t hurt you to take a few simple steps.
How to make your voice pleasant
Step #1. Get treated and get treated again
- It is not enough to get rid of colds, laryngitis and other misfortunes associated directly with the throat; the voice is an insidious thing, and absolutely all diseases affect it, except, perhaps, childbed fever:
- Problems with the digestive system lead to insufficient hydration of the vocal folds, which causes a sore throat and a cough.
- Problems with the cardiovascular system reduce the mobility of the diaphragm - appear fast fatiguability voices and pain in the larynx.
- Diseases of the pulmonary system make the voice tremble and cause shortness of breath.
- Spinal curvature and osteochondrosis interfere with proper breathing and sound production and cause hoarseness.
- Mental disorders make the voice tense, too (or not enough) emotional and depriving it of timbre colors.
- Psychological constriction and suppression of emotions interfere with clear articulation.
Step #2. To make your voice more pleasant you need to eat right
Avoiding spicy, salty, fatty, too cold and too hot may make you a karaoke star, but it will deprive you of many other worldly joys. Therefore, we will set achievable goals: it would be nice to include in your daily diet foods that contain vitamins B and C (cabbage, oranges, spinach, liver, eggs, rice), and the day before an important speech it is advisable not to eat nuts, seeds and tomatoes.
Step #3. Learn to yell
You can’t live without this useful skill these days! If people at work and on TV are full of idiots, and the referee at a match is the very word that can no longer be uttered because of the law against the promotion of homosexuality, the ability to shout correctly will clearly come in handy. And the main thing here is not to restrain yourself. If you start yelling, do it as you should - with your soul and with all your strength. Only such an inspired cry will normalize the pressure on the vocal cords, which means that the risk of hoarseness will be much less than with an intelligent scream in a low voice. In addition, this is also a good prevention of mental disorders (see Step No. 1).
Step #4. Know tuxedo
Here, as with nutrition, everything is entirely on your conscience (and vocal cords). On the one hand, the Ministry of Health warns that smoking causes the voice to deepen and due to loose closure of the ligaments, an unpleasant hoarseness appears. On the other hand, Frank Sinatra and John Lennon smoked like steam locomotives and didn’t think about it how to make your voice more pleasant. And one more good news: alcohol does not greatly affect the way we speak (rather, what we say).
Step #5. Breathing will help make your voice pleasant and beautiful.
If you are healthy, don’t smoke or eat any nasty things, and your voice still can’t decide who it wants to be like - Vitas or Louis Armstrong, it’s time to work on your breathing. There are a great variety of techniques and gymnastics now, but you can start with this:
- Take a deep breath and exhale sharply, as if you were blowing out a candle. Then, blow out three candles with three short exhalations, then five. A couple of weeks of training and you can easily blow out the candles even on your mother-in-law’s birthday cake.
- Take 4-5 noisy and long breaths through your nose, as if in front of you is a bottle of your favorite perfume (or whatever you like to smell), and exhale the same number of times through your mouth.
- Imagine that you are riding in an elevator and announcing floors: the higher it is, the higher your voice, and vice versa. You can start with a ride in a nine-story building, gradually reaching the Empire State Building.
Step #6. Your voice will become more pleasant and beautiful if you work on articulation
Good articulation is needed in order not to swallow words, but to speak clearly and clearly in any situation: from work negotiations to explaining to the bartender what kind of cocktail you want. The exercises are best done in front of a mirror to control your facial muscles, and at the same time look at your beautiful self once again:
- Imagine your tongue is a paint roller. Paint the hard sky with it as carefully as possible, like an excellent painter.
- Imagine that you are a horse (this is an exercise not only for articulation, but also for a rich imagination) and snort a little. The teeth are closed, the lips are relaxed, and air passes through them with a characteristic “Frrrr!”
- Pull your lips forward and slightly outward and, without moving your head, draw pictures with them - from an apple or pineapple to early Van Gogh. For the correct technique, you can turn to your daughter’s classmates who have duckface on their avatars on social networks.
If your voice is an instrument, for example you work in marketing or often speak in public, then it is very important that your timbre is convincing. According to research, a low voice is associated with calmness, impressiveness and leadership qualities, while a high voice is associated with self-doubt and weakness. In addition, a high timbre is more difficult to listen to for a long time.
It is very important to have good diction. People should understand you without making an effort. If you slur your words or slur your words, even your most revolutionary and mind-blowing ideas will not be received well by the public.
To make your voice more beautiful, be prepared to constantly work on it. In addition, be aware of how you speak during everyday interactions. Try to use words clearly and in order. Try speaking a little lower. Communication - The best way train your voice and hone your speaking skills.
Exercises for the voice and tongue muscles
The beauty of your voice cannot be achieved without performing special exercises. Doing them every day will not take you much time. It is especially useful to do them in the first half of the day, when the facial muscles still feel “sleepy”. What exercises are there to improve diction?
Start by lowering your lower jaw and moving it to the sides. Then move forward and backward. Perform the exercise very slowly and smoothly.
Now start warming up your tongue muscles. Smile and open your mouth slightly. Move your tongue in different directions. Only the tongue should move, not the lips or jaws. You should also not run your tongue across your lower lip.
In the same position, run your tongue over your upper lip, from one corner of your lips to the other. Now on the bottom. Do not make jerks, move it at an even speed, work only with your tongue, everything else is motionless. Now make a full circle. Repeat several times. Then run your tongue over the upper and lower teeth in the same way, slowly, as if counting all the teeth with your tongue.
Now close your mouth and lick your upper and lower teeth alternately without opening it. Then tense your tongue and direct it to the left cheek, and then to the right. Repeat with your mouth open.
The starting position is the same. Stick out your tongue, make it wide. Raise it to your nose, then lower it to your chin. Don't narrow it, let it be wide. Work only with your tongue. Then alternately place your wide tongue on the lower and upper alveoli (the tubercles in front of the teeth).
To improve your voice tone, do the following exercise. Stand up and fold your arms across your chest. Now lean forward, exhaling and pronouncing long sounds “o” and “u”, and your voice should be as low as possible.
Also, to improve your diction, practice pronouncing tongue twisters every day; they should sound quickly and clearly.
For some reason, people often underestimate the power of a beautiful voice. They work on their body, take care of their face and hair, take care of their clothes, but their voice often remains out of attention.
The source given to us by nature is not a sentence. If we can fight extra pounds, skin blemishes, health problems, poor condition of nails and hair, then why can’t we fight for a more pleasant voice melody?
We not only can! We must do this, especially considering the importance of a pleasant voice in all aspects of our lives!
There are at least three good reasons to make your voice beautiful:
2) Personal life.
You may be a luxurious, well-groomed beauty or a stylish, pumped-up macho, but if your vocal cords produce a disgusting sound, your chances of winning your loved one will decrease.
3) Leisure.
While this may not be the most compelling reason to start working on your voice, it shouldn’t be completely discounted. People with unpleasant voice melodies will not be able to sing karaoke, participate in amateur performances, or recite poetry.
— How to make your voice pleasant
Step #1. Get treated and get treated again.
1) It is not enough to get rid of colds, laryngitis and other misfortunes associated directly with the throat; the voice is an insidious thing, and absolutely all diseases affect it, except, perhaps, puerperal fever:
2) Problems of the digestive system lead to insufficient hydration of the vocal folds, hence the soreness in the throat and a cough.
3) Problems with the cardiovascular system reduce the mobility of the diaphragm - rapid fatigue of the voice and pain in the larynx appear.
5) Curvature of the spine and osteochondrosis interfere with proper breathing and sound production, causing hoarseness.
7) Psychological constriction and suppression of emotions interfere with clear articulation.
Step #2. To make your voice more pleasant you need to eat right.
Avoiding spicy, salty, fatty, too cold and too hot may make you a karaoke star, but it will deprive you of many other worldly joys. Therefore, we will set achievable goals: it would be nice to include in your daily diet foods that contain vitamins B and C (cabbage, oranges, spinach, liver, eggs, rice), and the day before an important speech it is advisable not to eat nuts, seeds and tomatoes.
Step #3. Learn to yell.
The main thing here is not to restrain yourself. If you start yelling, do it as you should - with your soul and with all your strength. Only such an inspired cry will normalize the pressure on the vocal cords, which means that the risk of hoarseness will be much less than with an intelligent scream in a low voice. In addition, it is also a good prevention of mental disorders.
Step #4. No tuxedo.
On the one hand, the Ministry of Health warns that smoking causes the voice to deepen and due to loose closure of the ligaments, an unpleasant hoarseness appears. On the other hand, Frank Sinatra and John Lennon smoked like locomotives and did not think about how to make their voices more pleasant. And one more good news: alcohol does not greatly affect the way we speak (rather, what we say).
Step #5. Breathing will help make your voice pleasant and beautiful.
There are a great variety of techniques and gymnastics now, but you can start with this:
Take a deep breath and exhale sharply, as if you were blowing out a candle. Then, blow out three candles with three short exhalations, then five. A couple of weeks of training and you can easily blow out the candles even on your mother-in-law’s birthday cake.
Take 4-5 noisy and long breaths through your nose, as if in front of you is a bottle of your favorite perfume (or whatever you like to smell), and exhale the same number of times through your mouth.
Imagine that you are riding in an elevator and announcing floors: the higher it is, the higher your voice, and vice versa. You can start with a trip to a nine-story building.
Step #6. Your voice will become more pleasant and beautiful if you work on your articulation.
Good articulation is necessary in order not to swallow words, but to speak clearly and clearly in any situation: from work negotiations to explaining to the bartender what kind of cocktail you want. The exercises are best done in front of a mirror to control your facial muscles, and at the same time look at yourself once again.
If you (professionally or even at an amateur level) sing, then you just need to know how to make your voice more beautiful.
You can easily achieve this if you listen to useful tips and you will perform special exercises.
Tips to help you make your voice beautiful are extremely simple. Nothing supernatural is required from you. And if the stake is as high as a beautiful alluring voice, then you can give up several bad habits.
1) Eat right: eat more foods containing vitamin B (cabbage, eggs, greens, liver, etc.), and eat less spicy, salty, smoked, icy, sour, and also seeds.
2) Stop smoking.
5) Protect your throat with at least a gauze bandage when working in dusty, polluted areas or with harmful substances.
6) Master breathing exercises so that in moments of particular nervous tension you can relax. For example, it is very effective to exhale forcefully, as if you were about to blow out many candles.
7) Take several singing lessons so that you can sing in the right key for yourself and at a safe volume, and not uselessly tear off your vocal cords.
— Is it possible to restore the natural capabilities of the voice and make it beautiful?
Every person is endowed with a sonorous and beautiful voice by nature; you just need to learn how to reveal these capabilities. According to modern psychologists, there are two factors that prevent our voice from sounding good - physiological and mental. The main cause of physiological problems is most often diseases of the upper respiratory tract, throat or vocal cords. To solve these unpleasant issues, you need to consult a doctor who will detect the problem and tell you how to deal with it.
The second factor - psychological - is most often caused by the human fear of speaking in front of an audience, communicating with strangers or unfamiliar people. In this case, you need to love your voice, learn to use it correctly, and eliminate speech defects that lead to fear and uncertainty.
It is enough to devote ten minutes a day to special exercises and the sound of your voice will significantly improve. First, try recording your voice on a tape recorder, listen to the recording and analyze the pronunciation features of vowel sounds, exclamatory and interrogative sentences, complex sound and word combinations. Notice what you don't like and try to correct these problems with exercise.
Friends, I have been asked many times how to make your voice beautiful and pleasant. In fact, many people are naturally given an ordinary voice, without much beauty. That’s why I want to improve it, make it more beautiful and more harmonious. This is not a problem, your voice can be improved! Polina Gagarina and the methods of vocal teachers will help us.
This is training and the most important thing here is, first of all, regularity and striving for success. Do the exercises below daily and you will be pleased with the results. Next, read the complex for improving your voice, and watch the video. In total, these recommendations will definitely help!
Pronouncing consonants
Stand in front of the mirror. Exhale, then inhale and say each sound until you have enough breath. So, take a breath and begin:
- and-and-and-and...
- uh-uh...
- ah-ah-ah...
- oh-oh-oh-oh...
- wow...
This sequence is not random, you start with the highest frequency sound - “i”. Say all the sounds slowly one after the other three times. If you want the timbre of your voice to be lower, and your voice to be deeper and more expressive, then pronounce the sound “u” repeatedly throughout the day. This is especially useful for men who want to deepen their voice.
Moo
Now you need to activate the chest and abdomen area, and to do this you need to pronounce the sound “m” with your mouth closed. Do exercises on the sound “m” three times. Once very quietly, the second time - louder and the third time - as loud as possible so that the vocal cords tense.
Growl
Roar like a running tractor. Exhale, then inhale and start growling: “rrrr.” After this, say the following words expressively and emotionally with an emphatically rolling “r”:
rrrroll - rrrrul - rrrring - rrrruble - rrrrhythm - rrrris - carpetrrr - cookrrr - fencerrr - cheeserrr - goodsrrrr - trrrrava - crrrrrylo - sirrrrren - morrrroz- words are possible repeat several rounds.
Tarzan Exercise
Stand up straight, exhale, then take a deep breath. Make fists with your hands. Say loudly the sounds “i-i-i-i...” and at the same time beat yourself on the chest with your fists, as Tarzan did in the famous film.
Then do the same exercise with sounds:
- uh-uh...
- ah-ah-ah...
- oh-oh-oh-oh...
- wow...
Indian yogis are known for their deep, beautiful voice, which is achieved with the help of this simple exercise.
Stand up straight and place your feet shoulder-width apart, take a few calm breaths in and out, then draw air into your stomach and exhale one sharp breath, accompanied by the sound “Ha-a.”
The exhalation should be complete and the sound as loud as possible. It should be audible in neighboring houses :) In this case, you can slightly bend the body forward.
Exercises to strengthen the vocal cords
Well, the following exercises, in addition to training your voice, will also help strengthen your vocal cords, and will also help increase your resistance to cold and various types of infections. The exercises themselves are simple. But it will require patience and regular repetitions. Do them in the morning. The time is approximately ten minutes. Perform in front of a mirror.
Question intonation
Inhale, and as you exhale, without opening your lips, say mmmmmmm with a rising tone at the end, as if asking mmmmmmmmmmmmmm? You should feel a slight vibration in the area of your upper lip and nose.
Exhale forcefully
Take a deep breath and then exhale forcefully, as if you want to extinguish a burning candle located a meter away from you.
Bomm, bimm, bonn
Inhale deeply, and then as you exhale, pronounce bomm, bimm, bonn. Pull out the last letters as long as possible. Until you feel vibration in the area of your upper lip and nose.
Mo-moo, mi-mee, mu-muu, mee-mee
Inhale deeply, and then, as you exhale, say first briefly, and then with a drawl, mo-moo, mi-mii, mu-muu, mee-mee.
Tongue extension
And finally, the last lesson from Polina
Repeat the exercises regularly and practice. Only practice will allow you to improve your voice, sing songs, copy your favorite performers, and before you know it, you will charm those around you with your vocals and speech.
