As the title of the chapter, “Owning Your Voice,” I expected to be taught how to really take command of my voice.. and I was! ..Just in a little bit of a different way than expected. This chapter discussed how there are nine ingredients that go in your voice:
- Tempo - your voice in time - is your speech fast, slow medium or variable?
- Rhythm - your drum beats - How do you attack words and how do you stress them?
- Articulation - shaping sound - how precisely, carefully, and crisply you speak each sound in a word.
- Pronunciation - standards, regional, eccentric - there’ s an accepted way to saying anything in person;
- Pitch - notes on your sheet music - pitch is determined by the size of the vocal folds.
- Volume - filling space
- Quality- creating the sound core - the most important single ingredient
- Word choice - your own lingo - word choice can show a huge amount about the toilet paper.
- Vocal nonverbals - snap, crackle, and pop - Nonverbals are sounds that are not worms.
I liked learning about the different things that your voice goes into which was amazing! It’s interesting to think about whether you were the same before college compared! Looking back on videos of me singing as a child. It’s interesting to think about the many layers of our voice and how little we think about what goes into using it. After reading this excerpt, I’ll definitely think about what I’m doing while using my voice a little more. This way I’ll find myself engaged and aware of where my voice is going, why it’s going there and what it’s doing. I’m interested to see how adding this small change in my every day will affect my voice and how I use it. I’m hoping some kind of break through will occur and I’ll always be able to slip into second circle vocal energy at the drop of a hat.
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