How To Have A Deep Voice

hello I'm Caroline Gordon I'm a voice coach public speaker and the author of the star qualities and we're here today in the Piccadilly Theatre because I'm going to be passing on some top tips for confidence speaking well and making a really great impression how to have a deep voice now a deep voice is the word for deep for a voice is not quite right because when you think of a deep voice it's this kind of thing that you sometimes hear in the House of Commons and that's not actually a good voice what we hear is a deep voice is really a rich relaxed voice and the good news is if you want to work on your voice that everybody has a good voice inside them it's what voice coaches call your natural voice and really the principle is that if you learn to stand well and if you learn to breathe in a relaxed way and if you learn to use your voice well that we all have a good round relaxed voice everybody in fact it's what you're born with so how to do it is really important and it's this people don't like this in a way it's a bit like going to see a personal trainer if you want a good if you want a good body if you want to be fit you go and see a personal trainer and they give you exercises that you do every day voices are the same you go and see a voice coach they'll give you things to do and you really need to do them and I'm going to share with you a few tips that will help the big thing to know about getting a good voice is that you have to learn to breathe and to relax I had a client recently who didn't like his voice at all it was quite a nasal sound it was up in his nose up in his throat and he went away and every day he did voice exercises and within about three months he had people saying to him wow you've got a really great voice so I know from seeing real people do exercises that you can get a good voice quite quickly if you do the work first thing you've got to do is really work on your posture most people have a bad voice because there's something going on postural e that's not helping them and usually this is an extreme example but they're sticking their head forward and they're putting a lot of strain on their larynx your voice is just like a guitar your body is the shape of the guitar the frame of the guitar and your larynx is the string and air comes out of your lungs that hits your larynx and that produces your voice so you've got to create a good support for your sound and that's first your posture then your breathing then actually the production of the sound so go to see a good Pilates teacher do some Alexander Technique do yoga really make sure that you're standing well and that your shoulders are relaxed and that your knees and feet are grounded all of those things create a good boys the next step is to do some really gentle voice exercises now simple things that you can do and I often get clients to do this is in the morning at humming is a really nice way just to get your voice warm and it works a bit like this you put a hand on your stomach you breathe out first you wait for the breath in and then you just do a very relaxed hum and you can move your face around looks a bit silly but what you want to do is to start to get the lips buzzing with sound like you've got bumblebees sitting on your lips and you can do that for about five minutes and you start to notice that your voice is doing what's called placing forward at the front of the face so just do that one more time breathe out let the breath come in MMN you can open it up into a ma and if you do that at home in your kitchen in the morning if you do it for about 10 minutes then what you'll start to feel is that your voice is nice and warm and it has a lower resonance and that is a really nice round sound that's a more of a deeper richer sound another thing to do is just to tap your diaphragm which is a big sheet of muscle that sits right at the base of your lungs in your ribcage you just tap your tummy and just do a MA ah then you notice that your sound starts to feel a bit more powerful a bit deeper and if you did that every day in the morning you would go to work with a much deeper richer voice another thing that's actually kind of fun is just to sing you know if you drive to work or if you're in your house in the evening and you've got some good music on sing along to it with all your heart and really use use your hands use your face and that creates a nice powerful rich committed sound which if you do every day will really help your voice so those are three exercises that you can do at home what I would say is if you can go to acting classes or if you can learn to sing or if you can even go and see one-to-one a good singing teacher or a voice coach a couple of sessions will really make a difference there are also some good books online as well so it's worth just looking for how to use your voice or voice books and you'll find some good tips there too so that's how to have a deeper voice

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Length: 5min 39sec (339 seconds)

Published: Tue May 01 2012