Expressive voice. Exercises for voice development. how to develop a beautiful voice on your own

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For the safe and beautiful performance of works, proper use of the vocal apparatus is important. Lack of sound production skills and incorrect singing can lead to injuries, which will make themselves felt for a long time. Special vocal exercises for the development of voice and hearing, used both by beginning singers at home or at a music school, and by stage stars, will protect you from unpleasant consequences and help improve your vocal abilities.

How to add a voice yourself? Can this be done at home? Yes, although much less effective than with a teacher. If you work hard enough, you can quickly master the basics by watching an online course. On our website of Maria Deeva’s music school, a site for beginner performers contains best exercises for singing and vocals - video clips and text descriptions. Lessons are grouped by topic. It’s easy to find a suitable vocal and vocal cord technique that will help you develop your own potential. Exactly following the recommendations and hard work with your voice will help you to start singing well in.

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Simple exercises for a beautiful voice On sound concentration. These techniques for improving vocals are suitable for children and beginner adults

• , faced with the problem of dull, ruined singing.
• Closed lips on the syllable "M". It is necessary to take a sharp breath through the nose, while making sure that the larynx is lowered. The sound “M” is sung while exhaling with the mouth closed. The larynx should still remain down. Lower and relax your lower jaw: your teeth should be open and not touching each other. The lips are closed, but not compressed, and the tongue should not be tensed either. It is necessary to obtain a long and even sound. You can start the exercise with any note convenient for you, gradually moving up a semitone;
• “M-I-E-A-O-U-O-A-E-I.” Here it is important to achieve a uniform sound, so that each vowel sounds in the same singing position and with similar articulation. Try to get a sharp sound, hold your breath. There must be support, otherwise there will be wheezing and breathing, which spoils the sound. It is important to concentrate it on the tip of the front teeth for good resonance.

Voice exercises to give strength, depth, and improve the timbre of singing. The lessons are recommended for all beginning vocalists seeking to improve the quality of their singing skills. The presented methods for controlling the voice allow you to eliminate trembling, nasality, add power and drama to the song, and enhance vocals.

• “RO-O-O-O-O-O.” Feel free to open your mouth wide and lower your lower jaw. This is what will give the necessary volume to the vocals. Relax your lips to get a sound halfway between the articulation of “O” and “A”. Use a mirror to control - when pronouncing “R”, the larynx should be slightly raised, and when singing “O”, lower it slightly.
• Pretend to yawn, feel it. The sound should rise from the chest;

"RO!O!O!O!O!" A sharp staccato on the exhale and then an equally quick inhalation. As you exhale, watch your abs - the muscles should contract sharply and strongly. This method of singing is called the “active exhalation technique.” The higher the rise, the deeper the sound becomes. We do not close our mouth, leaving the neck and jaw in a relaxed state.

The vocals become like a groan, as if the singer continues to sing this exercise through force.

How to learn to sing voice exercises with maximum benefit? Working on your voice, exercises and training for singing at home, and video clips for watching are convenient because you don’t have to travel anywhere and spend money. But even if you are sincerely ready to daily improve your singing level from scratch, you will not always be able to adequately compare and evaluate the results of your work, check intonations, and clearly understand the assigned tasks. Much more effective training will begin with the advent of a professional trainer. Exercises to open, warm up and strengthen your voice will not only be understood and performed correctly. The teacher will offer an optimal set of vocal exercises for beginners to suit your needs for elaboration and development. weak spots, will give

In the previous article we talked about the basic laws or principles of singing, and today we will continue the conversation about how to learn to sing and offer you a series of exercises with which you can independently develop your voice at home.

I have been dealing with this issue professionally for quite a long time, and I have taught this art great amount people, and also see how this practice affects their lives, or rather, their improvement. So I hope that this information will be useful not only for beginning (or “continuing”) singers, but also for people who have to speak publicly or even just speak a lot and convincingly.

Why do you need proper voice production?

Many singing people often wonder: is my voice well-positioned and how correctly is it done? And beginners simply ask why they need correct positioning vote.

There are a great variety of approaches to this issue, along with a variety of styles of music and, accordingly, vocals. Voice staging, according to most experts, can be academic, opera, pop, etc.

How to determine whether you are singing correctly and whether you have any voice production?

How can I determine if my voice is correct?

Initially, of course, you can determine whether your voice is good by the sound. If your voice (not just the sound of notes, but your own timbre) flows freely and you can be heard by a medium-sized audience - yes, you have achieved certain results in the field of singing (through your tireless work, if you put some effort into it, or your natural abilities, when your muscles themselves function correctly and you can sing well without much effort).

At the same time, in order to determine how correct your voice production is and whether it exists at all, it is not enough to listen to some period of your performance (although for professionals, of course, this is enough).

An important factor that can help us in this difficult task is the health of your vocal apparatus, which is determined, for example, by how long you can sing without stopping (if it’s a 2-hour concert, then bravo!), whether your voice shrinks after exercise and can you even lose it?

If such problems and difficulties occur, we can conclude that not everything is in order with your voice production, some muscles are not working correctly, somewhere in the body there are tensions that need to be gotten rid of.

Of course, another indicative element of voice production is your natural timbre. Very often you can speak in one register and sing in a completely different register, and this is not always wrong.

It is possible that your range is quite large, but you speak in the part of it where you are most comfortable. At the same time, when you sing, your voice does not sound depleted.

If everything happens the other way around, that is, ordinary life you speak with your natural timbre, but sing not with your (impoverished) voice, your production is probably incorrect, since it does not take into account your natural data, which has a very unpleasant consequences for your voice.

This leads to the conclusion that we made in the previous article that singing and speech are very similar concepts.

Acquiring vocal support skills

So, voice production begins with finding and acquiring the skill of vocal support and the correct functioning of the muscles of the musculoskeletal and articulatory system (tongue, palate, facial muscles, etc.). These muscle groups, unlike some other (for example, internal) muscles, can be trained.

Before I give you a list of necessary exercises, which, by the way, is not closed (you can search for yourself best options training for the development of vocal muscles), consider the concepts of support and articulation in more detail.

Vocal support. Let's start, perhaps, with the most important thing. In order for the voice to sound correctly and our ligaments to close painlessly, it is necessary to support the air correctly. Figuratively speaking, you need to create an air column that will “support” the ligaments.

Correct breathing for singing

The beginning of the column, according to our feelings, should be in the stomach - that is why correct singing (and in general in life) breathing is breathing from the stomach. Notice how our children breathe or, for example, how a person breathes when he sleeps.

It follows that at the very beginning of developing a voice for singing at home, you need to learn how to breathe correctly.

The singing inhalation is no different from the natural one (living inhalation), but the exhalation when singing is not at all the same as in life. The exhalation phase here is much longer, when, as in a normal situation, it is equal in duration to the inhalation phase. It is at a uniform optimal flow air, a singing support is built.

In order for our voice to rest correctly, active work of the muscles of the press, back (lumbar region), neck, etc. is necessary. This muscle group must be trained. Trained muscles during singing should be in good shape - not tense or relaxed (we talked about this in our first article).

Such a skill free work muscles are necessary for those would-be singers who, in search of support, tighten the muscles of the abs and neck, which creates tension in which the voice stops flowing freely and may even sit down.

So, how can we learn to use our voice correctly on our own?

Exercises for vocal support

• We pump the press: (slow lifts of the torso, legs, plank). We do it until the muscles get tired.
• We pump our back (boat, plank, sit-ups while lying on our stomach and placing our hands behind our heads). We do it until the muscles get tired.
• Exercises for anchoring the neck (lie on your back, raise your neck parallel to the floor, watch your chin so that it does not lift up) – 2 approaches. We do it until the muscles get tired.

These and other exercises (there are a great many of them) need to be done once every 1-2 days, gradually increasing the time the exercises are performed.

2 more words about how to feel the support of your voice while doing physical exercises: in the correct plank position, your voice will be supported.

The plank is very similar to the push-up pose. Here it is important to pay attention to a straight back, no arching of the lower back and raised neck at the same level. In this position, it is necessary to sing fragments of a song or some kind of chant. After you stand up, try to musclely replicate the feeling of a plank.

If your abdominal, back, and neck muscles are toned (they are warm and functioning freely), begin to train your breathing.

Breathing exercises for singing

Breath. Naturally inhale with your stomach and exhale slowly and evenly on some sound (for example, o, ooh) and in a range convenient for you. In such exercises for training breathing for singing at home, it is better not to overexert your breathing. Act within reason.

How to develop articulatory muscles for voice production and singing

The work of the articulatory apparatus. Perhaps there are those who would not call the work of this muscle group necessary for voice production and singing, but I want to say that without proper functioning articulatory apparatus, all our support and the sound of the voice will come to naught, since the transmission of sound occurs, to a greater extent, due to the articulatory muscles.

We will include the most basic ones - these are the muscles of the tongue, palate, jaw, “mask” (that is, the facial muscles that make us smile). Proper work articulation will contribute to the entry of sound into the resonators, regulation of sound frequencies, not to mention the basic formation of sound by the tongue and other muscles.

How to train them?

Exercises to train articulation at home

• Language- quick movements from side to side, Toothbrush– we pass along the teeth in a circle; chants and tongue twisters (only slowly) with the tongue out (or the middle part of the tongue, when the tip rests on the lower teeth), etc. Work until your muscles get tired. The main skill that needs to be acquired is to raise the root of the tongue so that it does not fall down, and this happens. correct formation sound.
• Smile. Raise the facial muscles and hold until exhaustion. After rest, we repeat the exercise with the jaw lowered, the tongue outward (its middle part).
• Jaw– we practice the freedom of movement of the pubescent jaw, moving it a little in order to remove a possible clamp.
• General tone of facial muscles and emotional warm-up– we make faces until our muscles get tired.

Let us remind you once again that the law of 2 days is also applicable in this case - you need to train as rarely as possible, every other day, in order not to lose the skills you need.

The last thing I would like to talk about in this article is the search (for those who have lost) their own timbre.

As we have already said above and in more detail - in (which you'd better read if you haven't already): You need to start developing your voice at home with your speech.

Watch yourself and your muscles

To summarize all that has been said, we would like to remind you of the importance of constantly monitoring your physical condition, in order to prevent tension or, conversely, flabby muscles.

The most important thing in singing is health, and, by the way, not least good mood. Therefore, we wish you, as a portal of learning and self-development, to always be healthy and reach new heights both in vocals and in other areas of your life. And of course, to do this, visit our portal more often and read our other articles about singing, voice training and other creative self-development.

Hello, dear friends!

Many of us love to sing or would like to learn this siren skill. A correctly delivered voice is mesmerizing, the notes are intoxicating and have colossal radiation and temperament of the owner.

Of course, not everyone has enough confidence in their own abilities to go to a vocal teacher. Many are held back by a lack of time, a thought that often comes to men’s minds: “What will people think?” and of course the biting financial component of this issue.

That is why we hone our skills wherever we have to: in the bathroom, in karaoke, at a corporate party, in a duet with a cat or with friends in the kitchen. But how to train your vocal cords at home? Without harm to health and at the same time getting a small profit?

Exercises for warming up and pumping the “voice muscles” can and should be performed at home, having previously decided on the mission. Do you want to become a professional performer and devote all your free time to this craft? This is one path vector.

In case you want to shine at parties by performing famous hits, noticing the jaws of the listeners hanging with delight - this is a completely different path of development. But what unites these similar paths of development is the approach to the work ahead, desire, and systematic implementation of exercises.

People who did not delve into the essence of " how it works?» may initially experience discomfort or unusual sensations in the throat area. There is no need to be afraid of this, but you need to approach the beginning of your experience as an expert in the field of theory and, directly, practice right away.

Learning to sing beautifully instantly is impossible. I am not talking now about innate and non-human capabilities. I would like to give an example of the average person taking vocal lessons.

Firstly, most likely, in childhood, he personally or his parents noticed a tendency to sing along to songs from cartoons and successfully hit the notes. This was followed by the path to the teacher, testing the child for hearing, an “entrance” aptitude test and the beginning of learning with a perspective.

Secondly, many people who are already listening to the finished product in a recording on the radio, or a file posted on the Internet, forget about the preliminary work. And also about the efforts made by the performer and the techniques that made it possible to understand the basics of the skill and apply them in practice.

The benefits of training

How to put a voice? - You ask. I’ll answer this: even if you don’t see yourself opera singer After five years or a superstar on the big stage, rehearsals can improve your speaking technique. Organically pure speech, without obvious flaws and the habit of muttering to oneself, is extremely important, both in the work field and in everyday, everyday affairs.

In order for you to be able to speak clearly and distinctly, as well as have a clear and pleasant voice, you need to resort to articulation training. What does it mean?

IN oral cavity located a large number of muscles that provide high-quality sound extraction from the upper and lower registers using ligaments and sends. And since these are muscles, they certainly need development and exercise!

In order to warm up your speech apparatus in a short time, I will advise you to use these proven exercises. The time that should be allocated to work through each of them should not be less than 2-3 minutes. Remember important rule. Your body position should always be vertical! Sitting, lying down, upside down is a bad option, due to blocking access to the diaphragm and poor quality air intake.

And one more feature. Strive to take air with your lower abdomen, and at the moment of supplying it, strain the muscles of the process, following the example of “pushing out”.

Exercises

1. Before you begin to make sound from your throat, I will mention the need to do it alone at first, so that no one bothers you to give yourself completely to the process.
   So, imagine the process of rinsing your mouth. Only instead of throwing your head up and taking a mouthful of water, you need to slowly turn your head from left to right with a characteristic, resonating sound.
2. Take a deep breath, pause, hold your breath. With your lips closed, you need to open your jaws and slightly round your mouth, as if you were going to say the letter “o and m.”
   As a result, you should get a mooing sound and at the same time, you need to do light palpation of the nostrils and the area of ​​the maxillary sinus (barely perceptible tapping)
3. Similar to the second, only instead of tapping on the nostrils, manipulate the nasolabial wrinkles (facial wrinkles).
4. Pronounce the sound “would-would-would-would-would” as you exhale. The second time, add palpation of the upper lip.
5. Pronouncing the sound “we-we-we-we-we” or “se-se-se-se-se”. With the second approach, add palpation of the lower lip.
6. Take a deep breath through your mouth. Prepare your fist to lightly tap your chest from left to right, while chanting the sound “aaa-ooo-oooo” in the lower register.
   The sound should be even, a little quieter than usual, since lower notes are used. Don't rush to use up the air. Do the exercise smoothly.

What to exclude?

For singing, it is very useful to use taboos on certain foods before starting a rehearsal, practicing exercises, or public speaking.

Namely, you should refuse:

Instead, I will recommend chilled, non-sweet herbal teas, as well as clean water room temperature. Sometimes adding a teaspoon of honey to it is helpful.

In our modern world, you don’t have to have a live instrument at home, you just need to download an application or install a program with ready-made pieces for playing.

As for what's important. The music industry is full of confusing terms and names that you will encounter.

There are 3 types of resonators in the human body with which we produce sound:

• thoracic (lungs, bronchi and trachea);
• head (mouth and nasopharynx);
• central (larynx).

The main problem for people who have just started working with sound is that they use exclusively the head resonator.

Try to sing and speak using your sternum. The sound will be more voluminous and holistic.

Again, without preliminary warming up, these manipulations are strictly forbidden. Since nodules can form on the ligaments, which are dangerous for further activities. A non-sparing approach to your voice will ensure you go to a phoniatrist.

Friends, be healthy and explore new horizons and fields.

I sincerely wish you victories! Subscribe to my blog updates and recommend it to your friends to read. In the comments, tell us about your proven ways to train your vocal cords.

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The voice is a natural gift given to us from birth. With its help, we communicate with others, convey to others necessary information and state our needs. For successful communication It is important that this “tool” serves us faithfully. The role of verbal communication cannot be underestimated: the impression made on the interlocutor and our image as a whole depend on the correctness, beauty, and persuasiveness of speech.

Thus, a properly trained voice is necessary not only for singers, actors and television announcers. A politician giving a speech to voters, a businessman conducting business negotiations, a teacher or lecturer speaking for a long time in front of a large audience - they all need a strong, convincing, well-trained voice. We need a beautiful, pleasant voice to make an impression when applying for a job or simply to please someone.

How many of us are happy with our voice? Alas, there are only a few of them. Very few people have naturally outstanding vocal abilities, while the majority have to struggle with various shortcomings of their own speech: a lisp, burr, a weak and thin voice, a sharp unpleasant timbre, etc.

How to develop a voice? It's about, first of all, about diction. This concept means the ability to clearly and accurately pronounce sounds with correct articulation. Ours is the mechanism by which we make sounds. Its violations (congenital or due to past diseases and injuries) lead to poor quality of diction.

One of the main reasons for poor diction is insufficient mobility of the lower jaw and the inability to open the mouth to the required width, while words sound “crumpled” and muffled. Serious measures are required to combat this deficiency. Basically solving the question "How to develop a voice?" comes down to a set of exercises to improve function speech apparatus. This can be done on special courses or at home on your own. Systematicity, persistence and careful execution of all exercises are very important in such exercises.

The strength of the voice depends, first of all, on the correct speech breathing. To train it, take a comfortable position (standing, sitting or lying down), place one hand on your stomach, the other on the side of your chest and take deep breaths through your nose, followed by smooth exhalations (hands control the rise and fall chest and abdomen). Another exercise is to inhale briefly through your nose, then hold the air in your lungs for a couple of seconds and exhale smoothly through your mouth.

Or: inhaling briefly, while exhaling smoothly, pronounce (a, o, y, and) and their various combinations. You can count on one exhalation (initially up to 3-5, gradually increasing to 10 or more), and also count down. “In one breath” you can pronounce all kinds of tongue twisters, which in themselves are an excellent way to improve speech.

How to develop a voice using settings? It’s no secret that our state of mind and inner mood. Indian yogis, with the help of special practices, master the art of controlling the voice and can make its timbre deep and rich. Here are some simple exercises:

Standing in front of the mirror, exhale, inhale, then draw out the vowels “i”, “e”, “a”, “o”, “u” as long as possible (in that order). Pronouncing them one after another activates the circulatory system of the neck and throat, chest, heart, and abdomen.

The Tarzan exercise not only develops your voice, but also prevents heart attacks. Standing straight, exhale, inhale deeply, then beat yourself on the chest with your fists, while shouting all the vowels in turn as loudly as possible. This energizes and clears the bronchi of mucus.

How to develop a voice with the help of exercises for the development of articulation (i.e. direct mobility of the lower jaw, you should try to lower it, achieving a gap between the teeth two fingers wide. You need to draw out vowel sounds and their combinations with an open mouth; pronounce proverbs and sayings with big amount vowels, read poetry.

To develop lip mobility, you should stretch them in a smile without exposing your teeth, then exposing your teeth, stretch them out with a tube, and round them. In all these positions, you should try to pronounce vowels, as well as consonants, with your lips tightly closed. When reading poems, proverbs, sayings, you should monitor the correct articulation in the mirror.

To improve the mobility of your tongue, you should stick it out and move it up and down, to the sides, in a circle, “clean” your teeth with your tongue from the inside and outside, make it narrow, wide and “cup-shaped”.

Classes should be held every day for 10-15 minutes, and it is important to ensure that each exercise is performed correctly.

A beautiful, ringing, low voice always attracts the attention of other people to your person. Such a person with well-developed vocal cords only needs to say a few words for other people to pay attention to him. People around him are simply interested in learning about the owner of such a wonderful voice. Sounding in a low voice, first of all, should be possessed by men. Then women will pay much more attention to him and will strive to talk to him (read also - ?). After all, you must admit that it’s nice when, being in a restaurant and saying something to the waiter or the person with whom you came to this establishment, all the women, and men too, look at you in fascination. People are not born with a developed voice - they acquire it. Just as muscles are trained for their growth (for example, in order to be better developed they are constantly trained), so the voice should be trained. Sometimes, in order to have a well-trained voice, you can do without special training. But he doesn’t just come. All the same, a person somehow develops it - for example, he constantly communicates and monitors his diction, or often sings songs with a guitar. That is, he systematically trains his vocal cords without realizing it.

Developing a voice is useful not only for singers, people performing on stage with their speech, but also ordinary people. There are some exercises that will change your voice better side. And you will definitely gain a greater advantage in the market. People are unconsciously drawn to and show more sympathy for the person who has a beautiful and developed voice. And this is no coincidence. After all, we live in a society where we constantly have to communicate with other people.

A person who has a developed voice can not only become a popular singer, but also easily find business partners; he is more likely to be accepted for any job related to communication or pronunciation of words. Takeoff by career ladder provided for such people.

How to develop (develop, train) your voice at home?

Deep and low tones of voice inspire confidence. People pay attention to such a voice and it’s nice to hear it. Therefore, if you have a high voice, then you need to give it more expressiveness and develop it. The lower a person’s voice, the more its owner gives the impression of a serious and balanced person.

Exercises for voice development

It is advisable to perform the exercises proposed below every day, preferably in the morning, so that from the early hours you can recharge your energy with the help of these exercises for the whole day. With these exercises you will not only develop your voice, but also improve your general state health.

Stand in front of the mirror. Inhale and as you exhale, pronounce each sound individually until you have enough breath. So, take a breath and begin:

1) sound – AND –

2) sound - E -

3) sound – A-

4) sound – O –

5) sound – U –

The sequence of these sounds is not random. " AND" is the highest frequency at which you begin the voice development exercise. If you place your palm on your head while pronouncing this sound, you can feel a slight vibration of the skin. This indicates improved blood circulation. Sound " E» activates the throat and neck area - by placing your hands on your neck, you can feel it. Sound " A» has a positive effect on the chest area. Pronouncing the sound " ABOUT"increases cardiac blood supply, and the sound " U"has a beneficial effect on the lower abdomen. One by one, slowly pronounce these sounds three times in a row. If you want your voice to be deeper and lower, then you need to pronounce the sound “U” more often during the day.

Further activating the abdominal and chest area– to do this, pronounce the sound “m” with your mouth closed. Do the exercise for the sound “M” three times. The first time very quietly, the second time louder, and the third time as loud as possible so that the vocal cords tense. If you place your palm on your stomach, you will feel a strong vibration.

Close attention should be paid to the sound “R”, as it gives energy and strength to the voice and helps improve pronunciation. Carry out preliminary preparations to relax your tongue: raise the tip of your tongue to the sky behind your front upper teeth and “growl” like a tractor. Exhale, inhale and start growling: “rrrr”. After growling, pronounce the following words emotionally and expressively, emphasizing the letter “r”:

- lilac

- and others.

Final "Tarzan exercise" which is also a good prophylaxis against myocardial infarction and colds (for example, to,). Stand up straight, first exhale deeply, and then inhale deeply. Clench your hands into fists. Say the sounds from the first exercise loudly (-I-E-A-O-U-) and at the same time beat your hands on your chest, as Tarzan did from the famous movie. Start with the sound - I - and beat yourself on the chest, then the sound - E - and so on. When you finish the exercise, you will notice how your lungs are cleared of mucus, your breathing becomes freer, and you are recharged with energy. Clear your throat thoroughly, ridding your body of everything unnecessary. The Tarzan exercise should be done only in the morning, as it has an energizing and stimulating effect.

After three months of performing these voice development exercises, compare your results with those at the beginning of training. To do this, before starting the exercises, record your voice on a tape recorder or other sound recording device. You will find that your voice has changed significantly during this time. It has become more powerful, which means you can speak more convincingly and better influence other people through your words.

As a result of voice development training, not only your voice, but also your thoughts become deeper and calmer. The lower and deeper the voice, the deeper it settles in the mind, which means the greater the impact your words have on other people. Never stop working on your voice - it is, in a sense, yours. business card. If you stop working on it, it will wither, just as muscles wither if an athlete stops pumping them.