Post by duffyweber on Feb 1, 2017 10:05:11 GMT -8
Hi everyone! After hearing from a few people (Rebekah Amber Clark , Brittany Ann Phillips , and a couple others come to mind) I was curious as to the vocal warm-ups you all find most effective for getting a good, clear, versatile command of your voice before recording.
Different exercises work for different people, and for different sorts of voice-overs, and I was hoping to get a collection of suggestions here to help people find something that works for them.
As such, it's not fair for me to ask you guys to help out without sharing my own.
Since I do character voices, and have to hit weird ranges as a result, to warm up, I run scales from as low as I can possibly get to as high, and back down again. Repeat 5 to 6 times, more as needed. That's... about it! heheh.
So what do you guys like to do, and what sort of voiceovers are you doing that your exercises help prepare for?
It'd be awesome if you guys could not only describe them, but also post links to your own recordings of your own warm-ups as examples.
And since I know that's REALLY embarrassing, I'll go ahead and link mine (which I assure you is even more cringe-inducing than yours. If you listen to the end, it DOES get a LOT better, which is really sort of the whole, entire point, heheh.) ^_^
Don't worry - it doesn't go on forever I've cut down the first three repetitions to highest/lowest version, and the last round (which starts to become a sort-of decent sounding one) I've still trimmed out lots of ones that just go a half-step up. I figure you guys didn't wanna listen to this crapola for 20 minutes. ; )
hulahulamoocow.com/Scales_Fun_Presentation.wav
You'll notice #1 and #2 are NASTY-awful, which is why YOU NEVER VOICE SOMETHING COLD. #3 is mildly terrible, and the range at the end is much better, although, remember I still edited out a lot of the in-between, sooo I could kinda pick and choose. Notice how the highest AND lowest notes on the full sample scale at the end don't sound forced or terrible anymore?
Well, now that I've embarrassed myself, it's NOW YOUR TURN! Give us a good warmup routine, and thank you, THANK you for being brave enough to do it. XD
Cheers all!
-Duffy
P.S. If I need a lot of heavy, precise, articulation, or am doing a foreign/second-language read, I'll also do tongue-twisters and articulation exercises: "a mismatched mish-mash" "she sells seashells by the seashore" "the sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick" "peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, if peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did peter piper pick," etc.
Different exercises work for different people, and for different sorts of voice-overs, and I was hoping to get a collection of suggestions here to help people find something that works for them.
As such, it's not fair for me to ask you guys to help out without sharing my own.
Since I do character voices, and have to hit weird ranges as a result, to warm up, I run scales from as low as I can possibly get to as high, and back down again. Repeat 5 to 6 times, more as needed. That's... about it! heheh.
So what do you guys like to do, and what sort of voiceovers are you doing that your exercises help prepare for?
It'd be awesome if you guys could not only describe them, but also post links to your own recordings of your own warm-ups as examples.
And since I know that's REALLY embarrassing, I'll go ahead and link mine (which I assure you is even more cringe-inducing than yours. If you listen to the end, it DOES get a LOT better, which is really sort of the whole, entire point, heheh.) ^_^
Don't worry - it doesn't go on forever I've cut down the first three repetitions to highest/lowest version, and the last round (which starts to become a sort-of decent sounding one) I've still trimmed out lots of ones that just go a half-step up. I figure you guys didn't wanna listen to this crapola for 20 minutes. ; )
hulahulamoocow.com/Scales_Fun_Presentation.wav
You'll notice #1 and #2 are NASTY-awful, which is why YOU NEVER VOICE SOMETHING COLD. #3 is mildly terrible, and the range at the end is much better, although, remember I still edited out a lot of the in-between, sooo I could kinda pick and choose. Notice how the highest AND lowest notes on the full sample scale at the end don't sound forced or terrible anymore?
Well, now that I've embarrassed myself, it's NOW YOUR TURN! Give us a good warmup routine, and thank you, THANK you for being brave enough to do it. XD
Cheers all!
-Duffy
P.S. If I need a lot of heavy, precise, articulation, or am doing a foreign/second-language read, I'll also do tongue-twisters and articulation exercises: "a mismatched mish-mash" "she sells seashells by the seashore" "the sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick" "peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, if peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did peter piper pick," etc.