Vocal Exercises

Vocal exercises are important to the art of drama due to how much you use your voice. To make sure you use your voice without damaging the vocal cords (as this can have irreparable damage) there are several ways to stop yourself from damaging said cords.

1. To begin with, you need to have the ability to control your breathing as this is an important ability to help in your projection. Firstly, you must breath in and have your stomach extend and put out as this pushes the diaphragm down and when you breath out this will push the diaphragm up and allow more air to be used, providing projection and articulation.

2. Next, you must focus on how to articulate yourself. To begin with, you must start with pronouncing vowels. Say “oo”,”oh”,”ore.” This will help with all of your vowel pronunciation and assist in articulation. By doing this, you are also warming up your vocal cords for you to be able to do other exercises with ease. Alongside this, you will have the ability to make your lines clearer and closer to your vocal range to be able to hit different pitches which can be used to express emotion and character motivation. this is also used to make you open your mouth further with working the jaw you can make loud and more precise vocal sounds 

3. In this step you are going to be working on consonants the letters c,c,c then g,g,g this needs to come form your throat or to be more exact your larynx you need to repeat this process multiple times while changing the pitch in each different letter which will allow you to have the ability to voice those letters after this move on to the next letters in which a l,n now an important note is that you must say these phonetically and to make sure that you spread the letter and not stutter them as this is referred to as glotta’s. Now try the letters d,t and make sure to use your tongue. Finally say the letters m,p,b,(ah)

4. Now for the 4th step you need to find some poems and just recite them to increase your articulation and projection while speaking the truth in your words.