Exercises used to develop the height, strength, and timbre of the voice in preschool children.

Determine your age

Determine your age! Namely, whether your mutation period has ended. After all, at this stage you need to be especially attentive to your voice and not harm it: it will seem that the voice becomes loose, disobedient, for some, on the contrary, it becomes stronger and stronger, and there are cases that the mutation period proceeds very smoothly and goes unnoticed. For girls, this is the age of 11-13 years, but there were examples when the mutation in girls occurred at the age of 20 (years are given relative, everything is individual). In boys, it begins at 12-14 years of age and can last up to 20 years.

Nine Effective Techniques

Diction development

Open your mouth

When speaking, make sure that your jaw is working, not your lips, then your speech will sound completely different. She will no longer be slurred, mumbling, quiet. Try to control this process until one day you develop a habit.

Yawn and stretch

Start stretching and yawning in the morning. After sleep, the muscles are tight because they are numb, so they need to be kneaded. After this, the muscles of the cervical spine will become toned, which will allow for better sound quality, and after yawning, the jaw joints will awaken, the windpipe with a movable tongue and lips will relax.

Develop correct posture

The diaphragm performs a vital function in the pronunciation of sounds. This muscular septum that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity must be free, so it is important to keep your back straight. If you slouch, the diaphragm will be in a pinched position, which will interfere with natural movement.

A movable diaphragm is the key to success in working on your voice. With a straight back, the abdominal muscles will not be tightened, thanks to which it will be possible to draw in the necessary amount of air to pronounce a speech.

To check if your back is in the correct position, squeeze your shoulder blades together and lower until your back is straight. Over time, a habit will develop and you will be able to walk, stand and sit comfortably without returning to a slouched back.

Ensure correct chin to neck position

Raised high, it tightens the neck muscles, making it difficult for sound to escape. And low, over ninety degrees, does the same to the rear muscles, causing the sound to lack air to form and escape.

Engage the resonators

To do this, while you are doing your usual morning activities, close your mouth and say the sound “mmm” or sing a song or read a few paragraphs from a book.

Take small sips

You can awaken your speech apparatus if you drink water in small sips after waking up. This will have a great effect on training the small tongue, thanks to which it will work as much as possible when it rises, which will eliminate the nasal sound.

Try vibration massage technique

Not only the vocal cords are involved in the production of sounds. The voice acquires its peculiarity due to the vibration provided by internal resonators. Do a basic vibration massage, which consists of the following exercises:

Frontal sinuses

Make the sound “mmm”, sending it upward while massaging a point on the frontal sinuses. Imagine that it goes up and becomes thinner, and the vibration appears in the place where the palate ends and the small tongue begins. You will feel the vibration at the level of sensations.

Maxillary sinuses

As in the first exercise, pronounce the sound “mmm”, but lower it, while simultaneously massaging the maxillary sinuses. Closing one nostril, lower the tone, releasing the sound through the open one. When performing the exercise correctly, the wing of the unclamped nostril will vibrate slightly. It is important that the vibration is in the nasal area, so control this moment. Repeat the exercise, alternating nostrils.

Upper lip

This exercise will allow you to learn how to resonate with your upper lip, but for this it must be completely relaxed so that all sounds are pronounced correctly.

Say “vvv” until you feel the point in the middle vibrate. This is where the correct "vvv" sound comes in, as the air leaves the mouth at a forty-five degree angle and hits the middle, which causes the lip to vibrate a little.

Underlip

Do the same with your lower lip, but make the sound “zzz” so that the vibration appears in the middle.

If the middle of the lower lip is pinched, problems may arise with the pronunciation of sibilants.

Chest resonator

Say “zhzhzh”, lowering it to the very bottom of your chest as you exit. This will allow you to lower your voice as much as possible. The ligaments will remain without participation in sound formation, as they will be in a relaxed state, although you can still feel a slight vibration, which is quite acceptable.

To test yourself, place your palm on your chest, below your neck, and see if vibration appears.

Chest resonator training

Although it will be difficult for most people to speak with their chest right away, over time the results will definitely appear.

Place your palm on your chest and say “choo-choo-choo” as you exhale, as if imitating a small train. If performed successfully, the sound should beat from the inside, reverberating into the palm.

Open the trachea

Relax your throat as much as possible, open your mouth and breathe out “ahhh” as you exhale. This will allow you to stretch your lips and jaw, which is very helpful.

This exercise can be used before going out in public when you are feeling stressed. In this state, all the muscles are tense and clamped, so sounds come out with great difficulty.

Determine what type of voice you have

There is a classification of children's voices:

Children's voices:

Soprano (Voice range ranges from A small octave - B flat 2 octaves)
Discount (voice range ranges from C first to A second octave)

It is worth understanding that there is no need to exceed the capabilities of the voice for physiological reasons, since the child’s body is in constant growth and the artificial imposition of singing low notes can only harm the voice

Female voices:

Soprano (up to 1 octave - up to 3 octaves)
Mezzo-soprano (from A small octave - A 2 octaves)
Contralto (from E small octave - F 2 octaves)

Male voices:

Countertenor (E small - E 2 octaves)
Tenor (from small octave to 2 octaves)
Baritone (from A large octave - G 1 octave)
Bass (from E major - E 1 octave)
Bass profundo (F contra octave - up to octave)

The ranges of voices given here are conditional; it is worth understanding that the capabilities of each voice may exceed the limits indicated. There is a working range in which it is most comfortable to control your voice, but with the help of certain techniques, the sound capabilities can be expanded. But! It is worth considering that getting carried away with singing, say, low notes, in an unusual tessitura for your voice type, can completely “erase” and “wear out” your voice. As a technique and decoration at a certain place in a song, it will only enhance the impact of what is being performed.

The key points on the path to developing range are proper control of breathing and resonators. Let's move on to the exercises:

What determines the pitch and timbre of the voice?

Both in singing and in speech, the pitch and timbre of the voice depends on the structure of the organs of the speech apparatus:

length and thickness of ligaments;
volume and shape of resonators;
habitual movements of the muscles of the pharynx, lips, cheeks.

Therefore, it will not be possible to radically change the pitch of your voice and become a tenor from a bass or a soprano from a contralto. However, it is possible for everyone to enrich the timbre with overtones and expand the range of the voice towards higher notes. To do this, you need to be patient and persistent in training.

Exercise 1 (for training diaphragmatic singing breathing):

Lean slightly forward, feet shoulder-width apart, hands on your waist. Start to inhale calmly, you should feel how the abdominal area and lower ribs expand. This indicates that your diaphragm has straightened under the influence of inhaled air, in other words, it has lowered. Those sensations that we must remember. Do this exercise in the same way, taking the tube into your mouth. Inhale slowly and exhale through the straw, this will help you control the air flow at the same time. Repeat the exercise in a natural standing position, maintaining the sensation of diaphragmatic breathing.

How to make your voice higher

It is useless to argue with nature, so no teacher will help you radically “reforge” your voice. However, you can expand the range of your voice towards the higher frequencies. This means that in addition to the usual notes that are comfortable for you, you will be able to confidently play those that are above the current limit. This is achieved through persistent and regular training, again under the guidance of a teacher - otherwise there is a risk of harming your voice.

Lessons can be structured as follows:

chanting, which necessarily includes singing the lower notes of the range - to stretch the ligaments before class;
working on vocal tension associated with uncertainty about successfully hitting a high note;
practicing the “vocal yawn” - to “put” the voice “on support”.

It is important to pay attention to the feeling in your throat during vocal lessons. Pain, soreness - any discomfort can signal errors that harm the ligaments. In this case, you must immediately interrupt the exercise and report your condition to the teacher. This will help avoid serious problems with your voice, which can even put an end to your dream of singing.

Exercise 2 (for training breathing support):

Cover your mouth with two palms, leaving small gaps between your fingers. Inhale through your nose, exhale through your mouth, as if inflating a balloon. The air flow will encounter an obstacle in the palms and this is good, it will create the feeling that you are inflating a difficult-to-blow balloon. The abdominal region should be active. After you exhale, inhale at the same moment. Important! To avoid any remaining air in your lungs when you exhale, learn to “dump” and gain new energy, like a motor.

If, while performing the exercises, you experience discomfort, something hurts, etc., then you should stop practicing and contact professional vocal teachers who can explain to you the cause of your discomfort and help you eliminate it.

Voice production

A beautiful voice is built on three pillars:

correct breathing (diaphragmatic);
proper functioning of the speech organs (aimed at maximizing the use of resonators);
correct posture (relieves internal tension and helps to breathe correctly).

Therefore, work on the voice begins with staging, which includes training in singing posture, articulation and breathing. Out of habit, proper singing may seem awkward for a beginning vocalist, so it is important that this training does not occur independently, but in vocal lessons, under the supervision of a specialist. After all, an incorrect posture is easily reinforced, and relearning is much more difficult than learning from scratch.

The delivered voice sounds strong, confident, and the timbre is rich in overtones.

Exercise 6

Start chanting from a note that is comfortable for you (from the primary tone - the most comfortable sound that does not require effort when singing). In semitones, in the minor third range, start chanting the letter “a”, it will sound like the wind blowing. There is no need to start loudly, give dynamics to this exercise. If you describe it, it should be like “the wind blew and died down.” Watch your larynx! It shouldn't rise significantly. Otherwise, the sound will be flat, pressed, tense. To understand where the larynx is, put your hand on your neck, in the area of the “Adam’s apple”, swallow and you will feel that the laryngeal cartilages have become mobile, this is what is meant by raising the larynx. Be very attentive to this advice, because the position of the larynx will also determine your establishment on a successful path to developing your vocal range.

Exercises for voice development: strength, height, euphony, flight, mobility, tone

Exercises for developing the voice: strength, height, euphony, flight, mobility, tone Development of voice strength Exercise 22. Read the texts, changing the strength of the voice depending on the content: There was silence, silence, silence. Suddenly it was replaced by a roar of thunder! And now it’s raining quietly - do you hear? — It dribbled, it dripped, it dribbled across the roof. He'll probably start drumming now. It's already drumming! It's already drumming! Say the word “thunder” louder - the word roars like thunder! I sit and listen, without breathing, to the rustle of rustling reeds. The reeds whisper: “Shi, shi, shi!” -What are you whispering quietly, reeds? Is it good to whisper like that? And in response there was a rustling sound: “Sho, sho, sho!” - I don’t want to whisper with you! I’ll sing and dance over the river, I won’t even ask permission! I'll dance right next to the reeds! The reeds whisper: - Sha, sha, sha... As if they are asking in a whisper: - Don’t dance!.. How timid the reeds are! Thunder rumbles - boom! Fuck! It's like he's destroying mountains. Silence in fear - ah! - Covers his ears. Rain, rain, rain, rain! I want to grow, grow! I'm not sugar! I'm not a cookie! I'm not afraid of dampness! I’m moving forward (tirlim-bom-bom) - And it’s snowing (tirlim-bom-bom), Even though we’re completely, completely out of the way! But only here (tirlim-bom-bom) Tell me, from - (tirlim-bom-bom), Tell me, from - why are your feet so cold? Exercise 23. Select chants, noisemakers, counting rhymes (folklore or literary), and other poetic works that, in your opinion, can be used to train the power of the voice. Changing the pitch of the voice, that is, expanding its range

Exercise 24. Name the floors along which you mentally climb, raising the tone of your voice each time, and then “go down” down. Exercise 25. Say the phrase with your voice rising towards the end: “Wrath, O goddess, sing to Achilles, son of Peleus!” Exercise 26. Read the poem in such a way that the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice corresponds to the content of the statement: In order to master the chest register, I become a scuba diver. I'm sinking lower and lower! And the bottom of the sea is closer, closer!.. And now I’m in the underwater kingdom! Even though I’m immersed deeply, I can easily control my chesty, free voice. To master the chest register, it is useful to become a scuba diver. Exercise 27. “Draw” with your voice the line of movement of the high jump:

Practicing the euphony of the voice Exercise 28. Achieve a ringing, collected sound by pronouncing the sound M smoothly and drawn-out. Exercise 29. Pronounce the syllables drawn-out and smoothly (as when singing): mi, me, ma, mo, mu, we. Voice flight training Exercise 30. This exercise must be performed together. There should be a fairly large distance between the two people talking (at least 6-10 meters), and you should speak quietly, almost in a whisper, but clearly. The topic of the conversation is not discussed in advance. Before performing the exercise, you must develop a speech situation (for example, imagine that there is a third person nearby who, for some reason, should not know the content of your conversation. Exercise 31. Come up with a speech situation when a conversation between two people should take place on a considerable distance and quietly. Demonstrate this conversation. Developing vocal mobility Exercise 32. Pronounce the words slowly at first, then gradually speed up the pace to a very fast pace and then slow down: “We drove fast, we drove fast, we drove fast... we drove fast... we drove fast.” Exercise 33 Read the sentence with gradual acceleration: Ladybug, Fly to the little patch, Bring us from the sky, So that it will be in summer: There are beans in the garden, There are berries and mushrooms in the forest, There is water in the spring, There is wheat in the field. Exercise 34. Read the poem at a given pace: Barely, barely, barely - - - (slow pace) The carousel started spinning. - - - (slow pace) And then, then, then - - - (medium pace) Everybody run, run, run! — — - (fast pace) Faster, faster, run, — — - (very fast pace) Carousel around, around! — — - (very fast pace) Quiet, quiet, don’t rush — — - (medium pace) Stop the carousel. — — -(medium pace) One, two, one, two — — -(slow pace) So the game is over. — — - (slow pace) Exercise 35. Indicate at what pace the lines of the poem should be read: We are walking in a circle, Look. And we walk together: one, two, three. We gallop along the road, changing legs often. Let's gallop, gallop: Skok-skok-skok! And then they stood up like a stork - and silence! Exercise 36. Read the poem. Choose a speech rate that matches the content of the text: The milk has run away, The milk has run away! It rolled down the stairs, started along the street, flowed through the square, passed a guard, slipped under a bench, wet three old ladies, treated three kittens, warmed up - and back: It flew along the street, puffed up the stairs, and crawled into the pan, panting heavily. . Then the hostess arrived in time: “Is it boiling?” - It's boiling! Exercise 37. Select a work of poetry in which changing the tempo of speech plays an important role in understanding the content. Working on the tone of speech Exercise 38. Say the phrase “What is his profession” so as to express: admiration; sympathy; contempt; neglect; question; envy; question-request; astonishment. Exercise 39. Read the text in accordance with the author's directions: Have you arrived?! I'm scared for you! — — - (with fear) Blame yourself for everything! — — -(with fear) Have you come?! Where's the self-love? — — - (with condemnation) Behind him like a faithful dog everywhere! — — - (with condemnation) You came!? So deceive me! — — - (with contempt) You are not a man, but a weakling! — — - (with contempt) You came?! Here you go, friend! — — - (with malice) You can’t suddenly deceive me! — — - (with malice) She came! Know, so be it! — — - (joyfully) We can’t live without each other! — — - (joyfully) He’s gone!.. Will he come or not? Mystery. — — - (with anxiety) I treated him so disgustingly! — — - (with alarm) Gone! A mountain has been lifted off my shoulders! — — -(with relief) God forbid from these meetings! — — - (with relief) Exercise 40. Combine the characters’ remarks and the author’s words: Replies “Sasha, stop being angry! Forgive me if I offended you...” “And you’re still kidding me? And do you still dare to ask?” “I’m not at all angry with you. I swear." “I’m not to blame for anything!” “Yeah, yeah, you can’t cook porridge with you...” The author’s words, she drawled regretfully. - she said quietly but decisively. - she screamed and even squealed, waving her arms. - she said in a cheerful voice. - she said in a contrite voice. Exercise 41. Determine in what tone the father, stepmother, sisters, fairy, and prince speak to Cinderella. Words for reference: kind, angry, enthusiastic, indifferent, rude, gentle, surprised, scared, sad, official, friendly. Exercise 42. Talk about a student being late for a lecture on behalf of the professor who gave the lecture, the student himself, the janitor. Exercise 43. Come up with a speech situation in which the same event can be told from the perspective of different characters. Pay attention to the tone of speech. Exercise 44. Select an excerpt from a work for children with direct speech of the characters. Analyze what tone you should use to read your remarks. What tools in the test help you choose the right tone of speech?

Why doesn't your voice sound nice?

Everything is very simple. When you were born, nature laid in you the ideal mechanism for your voice. Your first cry is perfect vocals and voice. At birth, this mechanism works and functions ideally and for absolutely every person.

But what happens next is very important. You grow up, learn to speak at the age of two or three, scream every day, try to sing something to a tape recorder if music is playing or imitate sounds in the world around you, train your voice every day and use it 100 percent! If you don’t believe my words now, then go to any kindergarten, you will simply go deaf, the eardrums will fall out of your ears, children scream, talk loudly, run around singing something

In general, the mechanism of their voice works perfectly, and their voices do not get tired at all throughout the day. And you were the same. Remember yourself in kindergarten. You used your voice according to your instincts to the fullest extent possible. Or if any of you have small children, look at them, observe and you will understand everything. It's like a reminder to you of how to actually use your voice. What happens next? You grow up and either your parents or someone else’s uncles or aunts in public places, or anywhere, say to you: “Why are you shouting, shut up!” But in fact, you don’t scream, but speak in a free, beautiful, powerful voice, they no longer have it, but you still have it. As a result of this, you experience a psychological block because you are scolded for this and you understand that it is bad to speak loudly, shout, sing wherever you want, and your entire vocal apparatus begins to work at first at half strength. And not 100 percent like before. And since the voice is a muscular system. What happens when muscles don't exercise? They atrophy, become weak, become covered in fat and have poor oxygen intake.

The same thing happens with your voice. The voice is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day, and in infancy you did so, but then you were told that it was bad. As a result, you stopped doing it. And now an example. What happens if you sit in an office all day for 5-10 years and don’t train your muscles? A person becomes fat, the muscles atrophy, become weak and cannot perform their function at 100 percent of their capabilities, and the mechanism itself breaks down as a whole. It’s the same with the voice, every person should use their voice to 100 percent of its capabilities and train it correctly, if you don’t do this, then by the age of 50 there will be nothing left of your voice, it will be weak and nasty in sound, because weak voice, ugly and lifeless. Now back to that point where your entire vocal mechanism breaks down. This happens at school, right there, and then at the university. You become more and more silent throughout the day and do not sing at all, do not scream with emotion, or do not clearly express your feelings with your voice. You stop communicating emotionally. And earlier, in deep childhood, you did this every day in kindergarten. Our brain is designed in such a way that it gets rid of the function that is not needed.

If you stopped singing in childhood or school, your brain turns it all off, if you stop communicating emotionally, if you don’t recite poems with expression, don’t emotionally read bedtime stories to children, don’t sing lullabies, don’t call someone in an open field. To be heard five kilometers away means this is a signal to the brain that you don’t need it. And he turns everything off. And the entire system of the vocal apparatus, all its potential, simply dies and this happens every day, year, decade. And now you are already 30 or 40 or 45. And you hear everything that is left of your voice. This is the same thing, if you do not train your body for at least 5 years, it will be weak, lifeless and unable to function normally in space. I know what I’m talking about, because I myself haven’t taken care of my body for 8 years, and I was a walking corpse - constant weakness, fatigue, lethargy, weak muscles. I was simply fed up with this condition and went to a fitness club. I bought a subscription and started training with a trainer. After just a month of training, I gained energy, strength, endurance, my body began to transform, and my muscles became stronger. And the same thing happened to me with my voice. At the age of 8 I stopped singing a lot, and after finishing school I completely forgot about it. And when I remembered my voice at 27 years old. He was terrible. In the moments of listening to him on the recording, I was generally surprised at how people communicate with me. He was so disgusting and weak. Five years later I made my own voice. I just really wanted to and did it. Start making your attractive, strong, powerful, natural, natural voice today. published econet.ru. If you have any questions on this topic, ask them to the experts and readers of our project here

Ear for music

Why develop it? Without an ear for music, it is impossible to grasp the motive or sing the correct verse or chorus. That is why it is necessary to develop hearing. Here are some exercises that will help with this:

You will need a musical instrument or an appropriate application on your phone. With its help, you need to reproduce: “do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-do”, while singing them, trying to hit the notes. Play the scales from the very beginning to the end, and then in reverse order: “do-si-la-sol-fa-mi-re-do.” In one approach, this action needs to be done about 30 times in order to remember and feel each note.
An exercise called “Echo”. It is suitable not only for adults, but also for children. Listen to the song and then try to reproduce it yourself. Do it out loud. You can learn line by line. Repeat not only the words correctly, but also the motive. Don't move on to the next one until you get the previous one right. This is done in order to hit each note clearly and correctly.
Musical notation. Learn to read notes, compare their sound with the melody of the song. Then this will help the ear for music begin to develop faster, and the reproduction of sounds will become more meaningful and understandable.
Sing intervals. To complete this exercise you will need a musical instrument. An interval is the distance between two notes. For example, “do-re”, “do-mi”, “do-fa”, “do-sol”, “do-la”, “do-si”. Climb up the note “steps” and then go down them.
Singing adjacent notes, for example, “do-re”, “do-si-do”.
Studying the classics. When we strive to succeed at something, we become more interested in that subject. Interest in the classics will arise just when learning the basics of singing. It happens that a complex chord is much easier to remember if you memorize the motive in which it is contained.

Force

After establishing breathing and exercises to improve the clarity of your voice, you can move on to timbre training. Working on strength will help you train your voice at home and learn how to regulate low and high sounds. The main thing is to carry out tasks, avoiding overstrain of the ligaments, otherwise you can get damage in the future, which will lead to irreversible consequences.

1. During this exercise, you need to give yourself light blows to the chest, as Tarzan did in the cartoon, and at the same time chant a set of any vowel sounds

It is important to pronounce them quite loudly, you can even scream, but you should not overdo it with blows so as not to injure yourself

To improve the power of your voice, it is important to pronounce sounds not only with the speech apparatus or throat, but try to involve the whole body in the work. Thus, the sound is given greater depth and velvety

3. And the last piece of advice: it is recommended to listen to your favorite songs more often and sing along to them, imitating the timbre of the vocalists. Over time, this will allow you to learn to control your voice and change its strength by adjusting the sound.