Why don’t HR invite applicants for an interview after the first phone conversation? Sometimes people are rejected because they speak slowly, slurred, or uncertainly. Or, for example, public speaking. Even the most interesting lecture is not attractive if it is delivered by a gasping speaker. Listeners are distracted, paying attention to his imperfect “r”, constant woofing, breathing problems - the information fades into the background.
In order for you to sound at full capacity and be at your best in any situation where you need to speak and win over your voice, we turned for recommendations to Svetlana Vasilenko, an expert consultant on speech technique and rhetoric, author and presenter of talk-projects of the Kiev 98 radio FM".
Svetlana has been working in voice for 20 years and is sure that speaking beautifully and clearly is not a gift, but just a skill, as well as the skill of presenting correct information. This is how she developed her own method of teaching speech techniques, based on personal experience and the techniques that she tested in the process of drawing up her own program.
Why We Sound Wrong: Three Key Reasons
Incorrect position of the vocal apparatus. Almost 90% of people need to work with speech. Adults often do not pay attention to the pronunciation of some of their sounds. Imperfect sounding occurs due to physical nuances - the tongue is not positioned as it should, the lips are not relaxed at the right moment, etc.
Laziness. One of the common reasons for incorrect sounding is simple laziness. We are too lazy to open our mouths, so we don’t use our jaws – they are motionless when we speak, only our lips move. Figuratively speaking, sounds come out with the help of air, and their quality depends on how wide we open our mouth
How sound is born
Sound is produced when air passes between the vocal cords. When we produce voiced sounds and vowels, the glottis formed by the cords closes, and with dull sounds it diverges. Frequent speaking, i.e. Constant tension of the vocal cords leads to the fact that the initially thin cords thicken, become less flexible, and the voice “overgrows” with hoarseness, loses pitch and flight.
Have you noticed how teachers lose their voice after only 45 minutes of lecture and switch to a hoarse whisper? Typically, teachers speak at three times the normal rate, which means they are using connectives to their maximum capacity. A large load on these muscles leads to the appearance of knots or, as singers say, calluses, which can cause the voice to disappear. These nodes can only be removed surgically, but it is not a fact that you will sound as good as before the operation.
Therefore, professional lecturers, trainers, consultants, teachers, in order to preserve the voice and cords longer, learn to speak using a chest resonator, “excluding” the cords from the process as much as possible. Roughly speaking, they speak “with their chest”, not with their throat.
Ten exercises to improve your speaking technique
1. Love yourself
Often those who have problems with articulation are confident that they love themselves. But in fact, for a person who loves himself, the sound is born deep inside, and the person wants to be heard. So he speaks louder and clearer. To create a feeling of self-love, praise yourself in the morning in front of the mirror for 5 minutes, constantly thank yourself for being such a great person, take time for yourself during the day.
2. Open your mouth
When pronouncing words, physically open your mouth wider, work your jaw. If a person is worried, nervous, afraid of being uncomfortable, then he does not open his mouth while speaking, moving only his lips. Therefore, his speech is quiet, barely intelligible, as if under his breath. It is unlikely that an employer, colleague, listener, etc. will appreciate this.
3. Yawn and stretch
In the morning, instead of jumping up and shouting “I’m late! / I overslept!” stretch and have a good yawn. Most of the problems in speech technique are also due to the fact that all the muscles are tight: they become numb in the morning after sleep, and then in the office we sit, slouched and without warming up.
By stretching, you release all the muscles in your neck, which allow you to better hear sounds. By yawning, we “wake up” the jaw joints, relax the lips and the windpipe with its small movable tongue. It is he who influences the way we speak - by “releasing” sounds through the mouth or through the nose. Many speak nasally precisely because they direct air and sound through the nose, without training this part of the articulatory apparatus through yawning and relaxation.
4. Keep your back straight
The diaphragm, a muscular partition that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity, plays a huge role in the appearance of sound (conventionally, its border can be drawn along the lower edge of the ribs). By slouching and straining, we squeeze the diaphragm, preventing its natural movement.
A good speaker has a “pumped up” diaphragm, i.e. very mobile, so she can quickly change her position. With a straight back, our abdominal muscles are not tightened, which means we can take in as much air for speaking as necessary.
Check whether you are sitting correctly - bring your shoulder blades together, lower them to the level when your back becomes straight. At first there will be slight discomfort from being unaccustomed to it, the main thing is that you can calmly stand or sit in this position. By the way, standing up straight makes you look more confident.
5. Place your chin perpendicular to your neck
One girl defined her voice in everyday life as “the creaking of an ungreased door,” but at meetings with friends after a glass of wine, everyone admired her amazing chest voice. And to the question “What’s wrong with my voice?” a very simple answer was found - she raised her chin high, straining the muscles of her neck near her throat, and the sound could not come out normally. And in a relaxed state, her chin fell into place, air appeared - and her voice sounded as it should. If the chin is lowered lower than 90 degrees, then the back muscles of the neck are pulled and the sound does not receive enough air to appear.
6. « Wake up"resonators
While doing your morning chores, hum - sing your favorite song, a random melody with your mouth closed, try to read a couple of paragraphs from a book with your mouth closed, or, easiest of all, say the sound “mmmmm”.
7. Always drink in small sips
Gastroenterologists advise drinking warm water with lemon in order to wake up the body. The same water helps awaken the speech organs. In the morning, drinking a glass of water in small sips, you train your small tongue. As it rises, it “works” to its full potential, and your nasal tone disappears by itself.
8. Do a vibration massage
As we have already said, sounds are not created by the vocal cords alone. Our voice becomes special, receiving a beautiful vibration thanks to internal resonators. Basic vibration massage techniques are performed on the frontal sinuses (these are the voids in the center of the forehead, at the point where the eyebrows meet), the maxillary sinuses, the upper and lower lips, as well as the upper chest. The exercises below will reveal to you the subtleties of this massage at the indicated points.
Frontal sinuses. When massaging a point on the frontal sinuses, pronounce the sound “m” and send it upward. Imagine that the sound goes somewhere upward, above the top of your head, becoming thinner. In the place where the palate ends and the tongue begins, vibration appears. Nothing physically vibrates, but the very sensation of vibration will be there. Massage helps the resonators wake up - and the body as a whole gets used to the correct sound of all sounds.
Maxillary sinuses. When massaging the maxillary sinuses, “lower” the sound “m” completely into the nose. Close one nostril and pronounce the sound “m”, while lowering the tone, releasing through the open nostril. If you perform the exercise correctly, the wing of the open nostril vibrates a little. Monitor the execution - it is important that the vibration remains in the nose area and does not go to the teeth or tongue. This will not happen right away, but this task can be easily completed by those who are used to speaking through their noses.
By releasing sounds alternately through different nostrils, you can massage the points at the wings of the nose. You are probably familiar with the effect of this massage. Often, when we need to speak with a stuffy nose, we intuitively rub three points near the maxillary sinuses, reducing swelling, clearing the airways, and accordingly we sound more clearly, especially when pronouncing sonorant sounds, including “m” and “n”.
Upper lip. Vibration massage is aimed at teaching the upper lip to resonate - it must relax for the correct pronunciation of all sounds. To do this, pronounce the sound “v”, trying to feel how the middle of the upper lip works. The correct sound “v” is born precisely at this point: the air, leaving the mouth, hits the middle of the lip at an angle of 45 degrees and vibrates a little. By doing this exercise, you will feel how the area itches. Add massage to the point above the upper lip.
Lower lip. For the lower lip, use the same principle as for the upper lip, only using the “z” sound. The sound “z” is born in the same way as “v”, only the air is directed to the middle of the lower lip. The massage is done on the point below the middle of the lower lip. Due to the tightness of the middle of the lower lip, problems may arise with the pronunciation of “sh”, “sch”, “zh”. If it seems to you that your lips are not involved in the appearance of “v” and “z”, start massaging the indicated points and physically feel the vibration.
Chest resonator. To vibrate the chest resonator, pronounce the sound “zh” and, as you exhale, send it as far down the chest as possible. This way you lower your voice as much as possible. In this case, the vocal cords do not take part in the production of sound, since they are completely relaxed, although physically you can feel their slight vibrations.
Check to see if it's done correctly - place your hand on your chest, below your neck. And it is in this place that you feel the vibration, but not in the neck, where the ligaments are. The voice becomes lower.
9. Always train your chest resonator
Place your hand on your chest and as you exhale, say “chug-chug-chug” as if you were a little train. Ideally, you should hear a sound hitting your palm from inside your chest with each “chug.” It’s difficult to speak “with your chest” right away, but over time it will become the norm.
10. Open the windpipe (trachea)
Open your mouth and make the sound “a” as you exhale. At the same time, try to relax your throat as much as possible. In addition, by doing this you warm up your jaws and lips - an additional beneficial effect.
A person under stress shrinks all over and sounds have difficulty making their way out through his throat. Try to strain your throat, you will immediately understand what we are talking about. Therefore, every time you need to relax your throat before a public speaking, presentation, interview, take a couple of minutes for this exercise.
Articulation gymnastics
To speak clearly and quickly, to confidently argue, you need to quickly and clearly work the muscles of your lips, jaw and tongue. The exercises below will be useful to you to develop the muscles of the speech apparatus. In addition, this simple gymnastics will solve the problem of most sounds once and for all.
Each muscle group is worked separately, but always in combination. Even if you feel like you can't do an exercise, just do it - you need to train muscles that you haven't used before. Perform each exercise 3-5 times. Also, when working one specific muscle group, relax the remaining muscles as much as possible.
Lips
"Duck." Pull your lips together as if you were saying the letter “y,” and then stretch your lips, exposing your upper and lower teeth as much as possible. You can enhance the effect by making circular movements with your “ducky” lips in different directions.
"Mask". Open your mouth wide and pull your lips inside your mouth as much as possible. This is a good massage for the lips and jaw. Finish the exercise with a big smile. “Mask” is good if you don’t have time for full articulation gymnastics.
"Jar of jam." Remember how you lick the jam from your lips with your tongue. Extend your tongue and, straining your muscles, slowly move it across your lips. Here the muscles of the tongue and lips are simultaneously activated. You can enhance the effect by running your tongue behind your lips.
"Rabbit". Without using your hands, lift your upper lip up, i.e. pull it towards your nose. Try not to wrinkle your forehead and relax your face.
Language
"Horse". Click your tongue like you did when you were a child. This is especially good for those who have trouble with "r" and "l" sounds. When done correctly, you should experience a vibration between the roof of your mouth and the middle of your tongue. This exercise trains the middle part of the tongue to work.
"Artist". The exercise is especially suitable for correcting the sounds “r” and “l” in those with a short sublingual frenulum. Imagine that your tongue is a brush, with which you draw a straight line from the teeth across the entire upper palate to the movable tongue, pressing the tongue tightly against the “canvas”.
"Sword". For working out cheeks and lips from the inside. Tighten your tongue like a mini-skewer and lick the inside of your lips - slowly running your tongue along the upper and lower jaw. The tension “turns on” the tip and base of the tongue.
"Boat". Helps correct the pronunciation of the “ch” sound. The lateral muscles of the tongue rise and the tongue protrudes from the mouth. There is no need to pronounce the sound - this way you make the “lazy” muscles of the tongue, which have not previously participated in speaking, jump. It has been noticed that 90% of people who cannot say “ch” do not know how to make a boat.
Jaws
"Nutcracker". Open your mouth as wide as possible. Do it very slowly. Then slowly close your mouth.
"Shifts". Move your jaw forward without straining your lips. Then separately to the right and separately to the left. Aerobatics is to make a retractable circular movement of the jaw clockwise and counterclockwise. To begin with, try to make a movement along the square, gradually turning it into a small oval.
To minimize all injuries, because... your jaw is not used to stress, perform all exercises with your mouth open or slightly open.
When there is no time
If you need to work on articulation when you don’t have time, in the morning before an important meeting, then do the following exercises.
1. Write all the consonants of the alphabet in a row and choose any word starting with the letter “b” (or a word that is difficult to pronounce for you). For example, "barrel". Then say this word, changing the first letter: “barrel, barrel, barrel...”.
And if you want to additionally say goodbye to nasality, then close your nostrils with your fingers, inhale through your mouth, and opening your mouth as much as possible, say the same thing. This way all the air will come out exclusively through the mouth.
Go through the alphabet back and forth. You will immediately sound different and better - you will wake up your speech apparatus, and almost all sounds will sound correctly.
2. Substitute all the consonants in turn for the vowels “i”, “e”, “a”, “o”, “u”, “s”. Run through the alphabet and you'll sound much more convincing in your morning meeting.
Breathing technique
The ability to breathe correctly is the most important thing in speech technique and oratory. Breathing is practiced in parallel with the production of sounds and pumping of the muscles of the lips, tongue and jaw.
How to breathe correctly
You need to inhale only through your nose, exhale only through your mouth. It is ideal if sounds are born along with the exhalation.
As you inhale, completely relax your abdominal muscles and diaphragm. Remember how children breathe while sticking out their bellies? Do the same without tension - and a relaxed stomach will become a container for the air that is so necessary in the speaking process. In such a stomach, the muscles of the diaphragm easily bend and let in air.
As you exhale, pull in your stomach, thus arching the diaphragm in the other direction and thereby releasing the air. Otherwise, you take in air, tense up, quickly say what you need to say, and only then exhale - which is completely wrong.
Always remember: inhale on a relaxed stomach, exhale while tightening your stomach.
Working on inhalation and exhalation
There are a huge number of breathing techniques, and they are all based on working the diaphragm. And their common key point is that after doing any inhalation exercise, you must also do an exhalation exercise.
When starting to practice breathing techniques, always take water with you to prevent hyperventilation. If you don’t feel completely comfortable, or feel dizzy, just drink water and breathe calmly.
Inhale. Imagine that there are three bags of coffee in front of you. You were allowed to smell them all and choose one. You need to understand what kind of coffee you like best and be completely satisfied with its aroma. Take one forced exhale, and then inhale sharply three times so that your chest tightens. The stomach is relaxed, remember! Then, tightening your stomach, exhale calmly.
Exhalation. First, prepare for the execution - to get rid of excess air on the previous inhalation, i.e. hyperventilation, you need to exhale forcefully. With sharp movements, like a pump, exhale the air along with the sound “f”, sharply drawing in your stomach with each movement.
Now you can do the exercise: take a deep breath through your nose and, as you exhale, divided into three, tightening your stomach, sharply blow out three candles on an imaginary cake. Each candle with a separate portion of air. The trick is to leave a little more air in your lungs so that you can take a gentle breath instead of gasping for air. Some people can divide one exhalation into 12 parts.
General relaxation. If you are nervous, take a deep breath, taking in small portions of air for 4 counts, and smoothly, in one movement, release the air. Then inhale deeply in one movement, then, breaking the exhalation into 4 counts, push the air out in small bursts.
1) Don’t rush to do everything quickly so as not to harm yourself.
2) Look at yourself in the mirror while doing the exercises. Monitor the correct execution until it becomes automatic. The brain always draws its own algorithms for performing a particular task, so you can do it incorrectly without knowing it.
4) Don't be afraid to articulate. Vowel sounds not only begin to sound louder, but also gain strength if you open your mouth wide.
5) Regularly pronounce patters for different sounds. Or, for example, collect your favorite tongue twisters into one multi-tonguer and learn it. Pronounce it slowly - this way you will improve your speech apparatus, learn to pronounce words clearly.
6) Don’t strive to get results in one day. The muscles need to be trained, and this will take at least 21 days.
Resonators are the nasal cavity, maxillary nasal cavities, frontal sinuses, oral cavity, larynx, pharynx, trachea, lungs and bronchi. These are air-filled spaces that transform sound vibrations. It is the resonators that give the voice strength and timbre. If when using the upper resonators it becomes sonorous, then when using the lower ones it becomes stronger and more timbre-colored. To master the chest voice, vocalists learn to sing “on support” - not through vocal tension, but through the correct use of resonators. Singing or talking "on a support" involves breathing using the diaphragm or breathing from the stomach. To practice this type of breathing, lie on your back, place a book on your stomach and breathe - the book should rise and fall.
Place your hand on your chest and draw out any vowel as you usually speak in English. If at the same time you feel a vibration in the chest, then you are talking to the chest voice, if you don’t feel it, then the main resonator of your body is not involved. Each person has his own characteristics, his own thickness and length of ligaments, etc., so each voice is individual and has its own unique recognizable timbre. Everyone has their own breast range, but in any case it exists. On average, the chest range is two octaves.
Perform exercises for the lower resonators: pronounce vowel sounds in a drawn-out manner, leaning forward (from a standing position); pronounce in a drawn-out manner while exhaling. Use the technique that vocalists use when singing: sing a vowel or syllable from bottom to top, then from top to bottom. At the same time, keep track of when the chest resonator is activated, how it connects to the head resonator, and how you switch to the head resonator. Then try using the chest resonator in . Read excerpts from works. The more often you practice, the sooner your chest voice will become natural to you.
Practice relaxing your body - muscle tension interferes with beautiful sound production. Only the diaphragm muscles should tense. The jaw and lips should also be relaxed for good articulation.
Try to develop a speech rate characteristic of a chest voice - smooth and measured. It's hard to speak low voice quickly and sharply. Measured speech helps to influence the psyche of listeners, creating in them a feeling of confidence and security. It is easier for such a person to make the right impression and convince the interlocutor of something. Psychologists especially often use chest voice in their work.
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It is believed that men love low female voices. That's what the statistics say. However, a small survey conducted among my friends suggests that a low voice is different from a low voice. So, despite the obvious advantages of Elizaveta Boyarskaya’s appearance, her voice attracts few people. Moreover, most men would make their choice not in favor of such a woman precisely because of her unattractive voice. So what should a real woman sound like?
Psychologists believe that a woman’s voice can tell a man a lot about her character and personality. This is not always true, but a certain image nevertheless emerges. What can a woman's voice say to a man?
The low female voice comes in different forms. There are women with problems on the vocal cords or simply smoky voices. Men definitely don’t like these guys, simply because they sound just like men. However, if a woman has a velvet voice, then she can consider herself truly fatal. After all, such a voice speaks of the self-sufficiency, strength and self-confidence of its owner. It is difficult to possess such a woman, so a man’s hunter awakens and he begins to actively pursue her.
I like it very much men have so-called “wet” voices. It is impossible to speak loudly and quickly with such a voice; it sounds beautiful only with slow, quiet speech, even in a whisper. This voice is truly feminine, it excites and lulls at the same time.
Also to seduce a representative of the stronger half of humanity maybe a breathy voice. Such a voice tells a man that he is desirable, that the woman is committed to close relationships, that she is ready for sensual love. This is a voice with sexual overtones that cannot be unpleasant for a man.
Not every woman is blessed with a high-pitched female voice. And not every man is ready to accept such a voice. Indeed, for many, a high voice is subconsciously associated with youth and immaturity, and therefore unpreparedness for adult relationships. However, if a man is determined to communicate with an infantile girl and is ready to take responsibility for her, then a woman with such a voice will evoke only positive emotions in him.
Loud, harsh, abrupt voice does not evoke positive emotions in anyone. For example, psychologists claim that panic in a crowd can be caused by children's and women's voices, which are loud and harsh. This is exactly how a man perceives a woman with a loud voice. It is impossible to relax with her, you cannot find peace, she does not evoke passionate sexual desire. So if you're not too lucky with your voice, it's worth working on it.
How to develop a voice that will become your faithful companion in conquering a man?
Speech technique teachers advise doing a few simple exercises in order to develop a beautiful voice.
For starters, it's worth work on your body– after all, it is his stiffness that causes the tightness of the vocal cords. Tense shoulders and neck, poor posture, chronic diseases - all this prevents your voice from breaking out. Don't forget the importance of physical exercise - simple daily stretching exercises will help you relax your thoracic spine and the pressure on your vocal cords. All this will allow your voice to sound softer and more sensual.
Sing! After all, singing not only helps you overcome accent and speech problems (stuttering, for example), but also perfectly releases your true voice. If possible, take a few vocal lessons - an experienced teacher will show you breathing exercises. And don’t forget to start every day with a song - this way you will “cleanse” your speech apparatus, “wake up” your ligaments, and you won’t have to clear your throat before starting a conversation all day long.
Read good books out loud. Voice over the lovers' dialogues, trying to breathe life into them and your understanding of love. Alone with yourself, you will be able to bring into reality your idea of the ideal voice, of how, in your opinion, a true declaration of love should sound. And only then, having practiced, it will be much easier for you to reproduce all this in reality - including in your own relationships.
Adjust the volume of your own voice. Do not speak too quietly - this is considered a sign of bad taste and disrespect for the interlocutor. At the same time, speaking too loudly will alienate your counterpart and will not give you the opportunity to create the necessary intimacy and trust. So you should pay attention to the volume at which your interlocutor is speaking and try to adapt to him. However, it is still better for a woman to speak a little more quietly than a man, making the conversation pleasant and smooth.
Each has its own approach
Each man is unique and requires a separate approach. You are unlikely to be able to charm different men in one way, so take a closer look at your potential companion.
A weak woman can please a strong man- this is logical, because opposites attract. And your voice will help you appear weak - speak quietly, smoothly, making pauses. Do not use obscene language, try not to raise your voice in any situations. Whispers, quiet iridescent laughter, kind words - all this cannot help but be a truly strong man.
A soft and flexible man requires a completely different approach. It makes him feel calmer to feel that he is nearby. a woman you can trust who can take care and provide support. In this case, it is worth acting in contrast - if he speaks softly and smoothly, a woman needs to be able to clearly formulate her thoughts, not be afraid of specific expressions and power in her voice. With all your behavior, show self-confidence, emotional stability and harmony with the world around you. In a word, don’t be afraid to show your maternal instinct, there’s actually nothing special about it, because no one is forcing you to become his real mother, just be prepared to meet the needs of the man you care about.
In a word, if you don’t want to become a chronic disappointment for your man, or for a man you deeply like, work on your own voice - let it be a powerful weapon in the matter of seduction.
The voice is an instrument with which a person can achieve a lot. Yes, that's true - it's not about what you say, but how you say it. Imagine a person who speaks in a squeaky, squeaky voice - he is unlikely to inspire respect or respect in you, you will not think that his opinion is really important. Naturally, if you get to know a person more closely, you can be convinced that he differs from the idea that was formed about him. However, the first impression is always a very strong one, and it's not just about appearance. The chest voice is a much more impressive instrument that can give you so much more. Many people mistakenly believe that it is impossible for them to speak unless you were born with it. In fact, you can work on yourself and develop exactly what you would like. In this article you will find basic exercises and techniques that will allow you to develop your chest voice.
What kind of voice is this?
So, do you want to make your voice sound more powerful, influential and overall impressive? If yes, then the tall and squeaky option is definitely not for you, as it does not make people feel good about you. A chest voice is exactly what you need. It sounds deep, booming, velvety, and literally penetrates the interlocutor’s head, making him feel extremely positive towards you. Accordingly, it is precisely to acquire it that you need to aim. Many people will immediately ask the question: “How can I get a chest voice if I don’t have one?” It turns out that this is possible, so the assumption that a person can live his entire life with only one vocal variation is erroneous. You can directly influence how your speech sounds. Why does this happen? Now you will know about it.
Voice change
In his life, almost everyone has most likely met a person who has a pleasant, deep chest voice. And its sound is actually captivating, making you dream that you have it too. But the time has come to stop dreaming and get down to business - in this article you can learn techniques that will allow you to master your chest voice to perfection. Does this seem impossible? Now you will find out why this is possible.
To do this, it will be easiest for you to compare your body to a musical instrument. Which instrument sounds the most powerful? A big pipe, of course. In most cases, it is the size of the instrument that determines the power of its sound - the same goes for your body. No, this does not mean that the chest voice will only be available to large people - we are talking about the space inside the body that is used during the conversation. Simply put, the vast majority of people breathe exclusively through their lungs, without thinking about the muscles that are responsible for their speech. This is the simplest way to speak, and you will use it automatically, that is, you will not even think about the process of sound production itself. However, you can control the process by increasing the volume your body uses to process air.
You can often hear about “belly breathing” - this is the key to success. Due to this, you can increase the volume of the “instrument”, thereby influencing the sound that you can make during a conversation. Now you have to learn in detail about how to speak in a chest voice. There are several exercises that you should pay special attention to.
Belly breathing
You may already understand that the most important criterion is breathing with the stomach, and not just with the chest. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a woman’s chest voice or a man’s voice, the first step should always be the same. You need to learn to breathe not from the chest, but from the stomach. This is not as easy to do as it seems, but everyone can learn how to do it. In this case, you will gain greater control over your vocal abilities, as well as a greater supply of oxygen, which is useful, for example, when singing - which is why all singers first learn to breathe with their bellies. However, breathing alone will not be enough - it is also about the muscles. How to develop a chest voice? To do this you will have to try hard.
Soft palate
Everyone has a soft palate - it is located at the base of the throat and is most often in a completely relaxed state, but gets a little tense when you start to speak. Training your chest voice will require complete control of your palate. At first glance, this may seem impossible, since tensing this muscle seems like an impossible task. The reason for this is that people speak automatically, and the soft palate almost never tenses beyond the required level. To change your voice, you will have to learn to contract this muscle - due to this, the outlet from the throat to the mouth will expand, and this will provide you with a deeper and lower sound.
Muscle clamps
As you already understand, a lot in this case depends on the muscles, and the main one among them, naturally, is the vocal cords. It's time to compare the human body to a musical instrument again. If you've ever played a guitar, you know that the tighter a string is, the higher the sound, and if it's relaxed, the lower the sound. This is exactly what needs to be achieved in the matter of chest voice - the muscles responsible for producing sound must be relaxed. You can relax them on your own, but you still won’t achieve the desired result. Why? The fact is that in the human body muscle tension is formed on its own, that is, some muscles are constantly in a tense state. As a result, even if you try to relax them, nothing will come of it and your voice will remain high. Now you will find out what you can do about it.
Stretching
The first thing you need to do is stretch. Simply tilting your head in all directions is enough, during which muscle tension will subside. If the effect is unnoticeable, you can help yourself with your hand, tilting your head more strongly in one direction or another.
Relaxation
It is also necessary to relax the neck muscles in natural conditions - this can be done in different ways, but the easiest way is to bend forward, relaxing the entire upper body. Your arms and your neck should hang freely, it is imperative to feel that your neck is completely relaxed. To do this, you can periodically rock your torso so that your neck does not strain during the process. If you strain your neck muscles, you are doing everything wrong and will not be able to achieve the desired effect.
Sound development
If you try to make a sound in a relaxed state, without particularly straining your throat, it will come out clear and low. This is exactly what you need to achieve. Therefore, it is necessary to constantly train - find the position in which the muscles of the neck and back will be relaxed and in which you will be as comfortable as possible. You can use the position from the previous exercise, or you can choose another one - for example, lying on the floor. While relaxing, make a long, low sound, trying to achieve maximum clarity. Make sure that your muscles do not tense up, and then you can gradually master a low chest voice.
Not only singers, artists and teachers are required to have a beautiful, confident voice; more and more professions are emerging, whose representatives are also required to have a beautiful sound. Consequently, people want to comprehend the technique of sound birth, know its main theses and exercises for its formation.
Correct breathing during speech should be diaphragmatic. When we inhale, the air expands the chest evenly with the support of the diaphragm.
If the diaphragm is immobile, shallow breathing occurs, in which every surface of the lungs cannot be used.
What organs are involved in sound production
There are three centers that contribute to the formation of sound:
- lungs, which provide the air needed to make sounds;
- muscles of the chest and abdominal cavity involved in creating air flow;
- phonetic unit (this is a vocal organ), the one located in the larynx.
The task of this part of the speech system is to create a sound wave or phonation. The larynx begins to form in the womb. When we come into this world, we already have a formed vocal unit, one that we develop on the basis of reflexes. The larynx also serves for breathing.
Within this system, hearing is a supervisory organ, one that is responsible for acquiring and delivering appropriate sound signals to the cerebral cortex, as a result of which we can control them and influence vocalization.
Correct speech and singing requires coordinated cooperation of all organs. Wrong actions of each one entail other violations. Each of these mechanisms requires a push from the brain. It is he who controls the tension of the ligaments, which affects the chest voice.
Sound improvement work includes:
- exercises;
- the need to change negative habits;
- fixed posture;
- way of breathing;
- way of producing sound.
How to positively develop your chest voice?
It does not require great physical strength. To do this, you need to meaningfully control your respiratory function. In order to prolong the exhalation phases, during which the process of sound extraction occurs, you need to learn to breathe together, using the diaphragm. As a result, our speech becomes beautiful and resonant.
Correct positioning of the body and head
The position of the body is also significant. It should be fairly straight and relaxed. It is impossible to slouch during a conversation; this affects the deterioration of respiratory function, and an extremely vertical position unfavorably increases muscle tension.
Equally important is knowing how to hold your head, as this affects the position of the larynx during conversation. Excessive extension of the head forward, backward or tilt to the side negatively affects the function of the larynx.
The strong and loud chest sound is produced by the typical action of the diaphragm, our main breathing muscle. In order to speak well in a chest voice, you must breathe well, filling all your lungs with air.
Why do women have problems with breast sounds? Even little girls often hear that they need to pull in their tummy so that it doesn’t stick out.
This contributes to tension in this part of the body, the abdominal muscles are immobilized and, as a result, breathing becomes more constrained. Is it allowed to change this? Speech therapists and experts emphasize that many women have a quiet voice, are hesitant and timid. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out exercises in order to improve sound, resonance and strength, and prevent diseases of the vocal organ.
Exercises for developing chest voice
Above all, you owe it to yourself to know your personal voice. Many of us, when we hear our voice recorded, experience a feeling of amazement; it seems to us that it sounds unusual. Start by recording and listening to your sound. By exploring his vocal range and tone, we can experiment. By directing the sound from the chest and belly, we will get a low voice, weighty and velvety.
By experimenting, we will get different sound options, including a louder voice, more edgy.
dose. Try to keep the chest position when exhaling the same as it was when inhaling.
Exercises for clarity of speech
Try to speak measuredly, without rushing, such a voice will sound more confident and convincing.
