How To Create 100 Distinctly Different Voices

hello again and welcome back to improve your voice my name is Darren McStay and today I'm going to show you how you can create 100 distinctly different voices I know it sounds crazy but anybody can do it I swear to you and by the end of this video you're gonna understand completely how easy it is this is a big one folks so get comfortable because I'm going to blow your socks off so if you're here for this video I'm guessing that you're one of three people you either an old pro currently stuck for ideas and looking for inspiration a newbie who's completely clueless or someone who just stumbled across the video and so happens to be curious about how it all works either way welcome we're gonna be playing with our voices today so I hope you're prepared and warmed up if you're not I suggest going away and doing a warm-up first because we're gonna be using our voices today and I want to make sure that you're ready and limber to go if you don't have any warm-ups check this video out here go away do that come back and watch this video and of course if you can't be asked then fine let's carry on so as promised I'm going to show you how you can make a hundred completely different distinctive voices not only that but these are hundred voices it should be completely unrecognizable from each other that's a bold statement right but you're gonna see why soon are you ready to get started I don't like to mess around so let's just get into it how can you make a hundred different voices first we'll need a pen and paper suppose this video go grab on or get notes up on your phone because we are going to write a check list together so the first thing I do when developing a voice for a character is I look at something that's called larvan efforts la bong comes from the name Rudolf larvan I'm not gonna go into who he was right now but if you want to know more about him and his work then there's a link in the description box below but in a nutshell he was a movement teacher who developed a system of working to be able to describe the action that was being made which acted as a vocabulary between himself and dancers and later actors so basically a way of communicating what you wanted them to physically do I use his efforts as a way to change up the characteristics of the voice I'm creating so you need to use your imagination a bit now why is this useful for the voice well when we start out developing a character or a bunch of characters it can be difficult sometimes to really separate them apart from each other and we can get lost without a checklist to kind of make sure that they are very different from each other and they stand out and it doesn't always sound like you so this list is the first port of call I'd go to to make sure that they're distinctly different now there's eight of these efforts so automatically by following each one you've got the possibility of doing eight different voices so let's talk about what they are you could think of these as physical traits you could think of these as emotional traits however they inspire you and however accurately you're able to make them will give you distinct differences already so if we consider different elements of the voice to be light or strong then this is the weight of the voice and if we think of it as being direct or indirect this is the spatial quality and lastly if we think of it as being sudden or sustained then this is the timing by taking the two different weights the two different timings and the two different spatial qualities we have six things to think about and combining one with the other with the other in different variation gives us eight different outcomes I know it sounds a bit tricky right now but don't worry it's going to get easier so the type of voices we could have is a dabbing voice a flicking voice a pressing voice a thrusting voice a ringing voice a slashing voice a gliding voice and a floating voice you can see these as sort of textures and I already have their own character to them so dabbing is light direct and sudden dabbing is almost like the way Tony Blair used to speak he always punctuates certain vowels he's always looking forward always going forward but it's short sharp sudden words he chops them up and pushes them out one by one as if he's poking as he's speaking so that's dabbing that gives you one characteristic you may do it slightly differently but you get the idea the next one would be flicking and that's similar to dabbing but it's less direct so rather than being on the button it's a bit more flipping and thrown around so it's sudden put in drag a bit less focused and the dabbing a bit more all over the place still light but a bit more less directional and we can sit there something like that to be flicking again you can make your own version up next we can have pressing which is strong sustained and direct if you are speed King directly and sustained and strong notice have not really changed my accent throughout these I'm still just speaking really my own dialect let's try floating now so floating is light sustained but indirect it could be all over and he doesn't really know where it's going it's also sustained but indirect and a little floaty does that make sense we should be starting to see some strong differences now so that's four out of eight possible efforts you could put in when creating your character voice I know you want to get to this yourself and you don't want to be watching me all day so you can try the other four for yourself and just see how precise you can be getting one different to the next have a play with it see what you can come up with I've written these down in the description box below and there's also a PDF on my website now after those eight efforts and eight different types of voice we can now add one of three things in are they nasally they speak up here in their nose or are they throaty really down here in the throat is that where they're speaking from or they speaking regularly with enough with air coming out of the throat and the nose together there's three options if you divide those three by eight you've now got 24 different options to play with you see where this is going this is just ideas this is fuel for when you get stuck okay well we've got 24 possible voices we can do now let's keep going I need to find something to read for you I was a bit unprepared okay I've got something so let's say that nasally might sound like this these strings are known for their bold extra-bright turn and maybe throw T these strings are known for their bold extra-bright poem and then maybe normal these strings are known for their bold extra bright tone look three different voices and if we start adding in some of the elements from before maybe I've throaty and floaty Easter eggs you're paid for their bold extra bright tone already with a very different one too - nasally and Debby for example these strings are known for their bold and extra bright tongue see look two very different voices you can put all those eight with all those three and we have twenty-four voices play with it find out for yourself it's gonna be fun next can also now consider two other elements of a breathy or dry two other different variations so if we have 24 different types of voices we now have two extra options to add in so that's 48 voices already you've got 48 options you could play with I told you you could do it didn't I but there's more because it doesn't stop there I want you now to consider their age range are they young middle aged or old you can break this down as you want but are they a child adult or old person and this is without practicing I'm just gonna try I know I'm not gonna sound like a child because I've got a fairly deep voice I can use me trying to sound like a child as a type of voice whether it like it sounds like a child or not these tunes are known for their bold extra-bright tone then an adult will be like my voice these strings are known for their bold extra-bright tone there may be an old voice strings are known for their bold extra-bright tone again three different possibilities of the way you can do it so we were up to 48 right times 3 because we've got a new three possibilities that's already a hundred and forty four different voices you can create from what I've shown you already but it doesn't stop there there's more I said there was gonna be 100 I lied I'm sorry there's actually a lot more you can do but how well let's consider this are they male or female I'm not saying that you can sound like a female or you can sound like a male I'm saying you can do your version of each one and it just gives you more characteristics these strings are known for their bold extra-bright tone maybe that's my version of a woman I know it's terrible doesn't sound like a woman but different to the way I'm gonna do it because I'm gonna do it like a man these strings are known for their bold extra-bright tone I know they're not brilliant but at least they're clearly different from each other with those two options we now have 288 different character voices we can create and it still doesn't stop there there's more really yes let's consider this are they small are they medium are they large maybe if you were doing the voice of a mouse it would be quite small and if you're doing an elephant it would be quite big or maybe vice versa if you wanted to play around with those roles and maybe medium would be human or bear or shark or something in the middle there's no strict rule for that but there's three different things you can think about maybe if it was small it might speak like this and maybe if it were a museums as creature it might speak like this it might speak like this you see what I mean so 288 opportunities for voices times another three small medium or large that's 864 different voices you have no excuses at this point not to do at least five different voices 864 you have the possibility to do right but there is more there is absolutely more can you believe it I'm getting excited now this is crazy yes there is absolutely more because we haven't talked about tempo are they speaking slow are they speaking medium are they speaking fast are they rattling off words as quick as can be what do they have a regular pace somewhere in the middle see three different ways tempos so right we've got 864 times 3 new ideas that's thousand five hundred and ninety two opportunities to create a character voice and it doesn't stop there bears seriously more things you can do I know I know it's mental I said 100 you're getting more than I bargained for quiet do they speak a medium volume there's something to think about there's another three things times 3 that's 7776 options you can have and what's next well tone attitude what is their attitude what what are they like are they friendly how's it gone did you have a nice day today oh it's lovely to see you I'll be impartial although you know in whatever hi yeah it's nice to see you or are they aggressive that gets three completely different tonality to the voice so we times that by three and this is the number we get yep twenty three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight character voice possibilities you can create starting right now no more excuses I said a hundred and you should easily be able to crack a hundred voices because the options are that high and that is really without even adding in accents what if we picked 10 actions American California American southern American New York Irish Scottish RP cockney Indian Nigerian South African that's ten so we could times that by 10 we've got two hundred and thirty three thousand two hundred and eighty possibilities then there's more to think about maybe they've got a little lift maybe they're hard-of-hearing it sounds about a different way it's also reasonably possible that there are some that w JH there's already three more things to think about times three I'm not gonna go any further than this because we now have six hundred ninety nine thousand eight hundred and forty different character voices that you can produce you only need a hundred you don't even need that you know if you're a voiceover actor you might even do maximum of twenty in your life because people generally get you in for your own voice but if you can master a hundred accents which are distinctly different you'll be working for the rest of your life but all this knowledge and all this information and all these possibilities that are there for you as a voice-over artist creating characters as someone who wants to be professional it's all useless unless you learn to use the instrument to make those voices happen because if you have restrictions or things about your voice that that are really already distinctive that you can't get rid of by choice then that's gonna leave you behind the people who can I know that's unfortunate for some people but the muscles that make up the voice are like any other muscle and they can be trained so knowing all this is one thing but actually possessing the instrument that works for you because you keep it regularly exercised is another and if you want to speak each one effectively and believably you need to be doing daily work like the pros do if you want your voice to change and you want to be able to manipulate it any way you want you need to working daily and if you don't have the tools and you need the tools to be able to develop your voice into a flexible useful instrument for you as a voice actor as an actor as a singer or as a human in general who needs to speak to others to create that resonant articulate powerful flexible voice which can create over half a million voices distinctively different if that's something you want to do if you have a burning desire if you are serious about your voice and bettering it then seriously get your ass over to my online course and start working on it today I've got an eight-week fully comprehensive online voice course the exercises in which you need if you want to progress to the next level okay so get your ass down there now because you've got to get started today if you want to be ahead of everyone else if you don't know where to find my course it's also a link in the description box below look thank you for joining me on this I hope you've enjoyed it I've really had fun doing it my name's Darren McStay this is improve your voice that was how to create over half a million voices even though I said just a hundred thanks for joining me I'll see you soon until the next time drink plenty of water get lots of sleep go Forks in nature and take care of your voice see ya [Music]

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Length: 14min 20sec (860 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 28 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Chefgorilla]

That's a good watch, thanks for sharing!

[u/Remy_C]

A very nice video. Lots to think about. I think this coupled with really analyzing your character and there situation could take a person a long way. Thanks for sharing.

[u/theweirdo02]

Thank you!!!

[u/pocketsnacks]

That is great! Thanks. It's nice kind of having a menu to choose from to build something.