Complete Voice and Speech Workout

Janet B. Rodgers

Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002 - Performing Arts - 170 pages

(Applause Books). Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them! One of the constants that any actor, director or theatre teacher needs is a strong vocal warmup. This valuable, first-of-its-kind resource contains 75 exercises for both solo and group work, contributed by some of the best professionals in the world. There is a brief description of the history and purpose of each exercise followed by the exercise itself. The Voice & Speech Workout comes with a training CD that will be especially helpful to the student or theatre professional working alone. Here master teachers run through each exercise in real time (leaving enough time for response). Among the contributors are such important voice teachers as: Frankie Armstrong, Mary Corrigan, Marian Hampton and Dorothy Runk Mennen. The exercises are divided into nine different areas: Getting to Know Your Voice; Stretching, Centering, Releasing, Aligning; Breathing and Supporting; Making Sound (Resonance and Articulation); Exploring Pitch; Projecting and Calling; Integrating Voice, Breath and Text; Integrating Voice and Movement; Exploring Character Voices and Dialects. Editor Janet Rodgers is past president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and an associate professor of theatre at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Contents

• How To Use This Book: 1
• Getting to Know Your Voice: 3
• Sign In: 4
• The Voice Speaks: 5
• The Name Game: 6
• Tell Me About the Time You: 7
• Stretching Centering Releasing and Aligning: 9
• Neck Stretches: 10
• Rest Position: 13
• Side Stretches at the Barre: 16
• Advanced Triangle Pose: 19
• Balance and Alignment Using the Wall: 21
• Twelve Step Program for Release of Neck Jaws and Shoulders: 23
• Tennis Ball Torture: 25
• Breathing and Supporting: 27
• Breath Exercise: 28
• Breath Journal: 30
• Gentle WarmUp for Breath and Body: 31
• Legs on the Chair Breathing Exercise: 32
• The Hey Breath Exercise: 33
• Straw Work: 35
• Breath Flow: 37
• Awareness in the Sitting Position: 39
• Resonating: 41
• The FrontBack Glide and OpenClose Slide: 43
• Throat and Neck Release on Sound: 49
• Combining Nasal Resona with the Creative Impulse: 51
• Healing Touch: 54
• Giving Voice to Your Hunger: 57
• Gliding and Sliding: 59
• To Glottalize or Not to Glottalize: 61
• The Wailing Routine: 63
• Honing the Toning: 65
• Hum and Chew Versions One and Two: 67
• Improvisation from Primitive Sound: 69
• Vocal Mirrors: 71
• Woo Woe: 73
• The Ha: 75
• The Wizard of Oz: 77
• Articulating: 79
• The Medial t: 80
• Tongue on Wet Part of the Lower Lip: 81
• Consonant Conga: 82
• The Joshua Steele Exercise: 85
• Quick Articulator WarmUp: 86
• Moving Sound: 87
• Exploring Pitch: 89
• Inflection Exercise: 90
• Pitch Stretching: 91
• The Anaconda: 93
• Sirens: 95
• Singing Exercise: 97
• Projecting and Calling: 99
• I Cant Hear You: 100
• The Speaker Exercise: 102
• The Mommy Exercise: 104
• Integrating Voice Breath and Text: 105
• The Deal and the Truth: 106
• Dueling Choruses: 107
• Painting the Text: 109
• The Voice Outdoors: 111
• Building a Wall: 113
• The Glove Game: 114
• The Stupid Exercise: 115
• The Conduit: 116
• Breathing Out the End of the Thought Phrase: 124
• Key Word Ball Toss: 125
• ListeningBreathing Transition to Text: 127
• Lessacs Consonant Orchestra Scenes: 131
• Act Every Word: 135
• Core Belief Exercise: 136
• Integrating Voice and Movement: 139
• Gossip Hoeing: 140
• Voice Leading the Body: 142
• Connections: 143
• Jog and Sound: 144
• Elephant Walking Chant: 145
• Chewing Gum Bubble: 147
• Across the Floor: 149
• Emotional Flow: 150
• Exploring Character Voices and Dialects: 153
• The Mendlshon Twins Exercise: 154
• Timbre Through the Animal Matrix: 155
• The Portrait Project: 158
• BoxerBriefs: 160
• List of Contributors and Exercises: 163
• Appendix: 165
• Biographies: 167

About the author

Janet Rodgers is past president of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and is head of Voice and Speech Training at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she is an Associate Professor of Theatre.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Complete Voice and Speech Workout; Volume 1 of The Complete Voice & Speech Workout: The Documentation and Recording of an Oral Tradition for the Purpose of Training and Practices
• Editor: Janet B. Rodgers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002
• ISBN: 1557834989, 9781557834980
• Length: 170 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning