Inhale for 4 seconds, and exhale for 8 seconds. Do this for two minutes.
That’s it.
Now let’s talk about why that works.
continue readingby Kate DeVore
Filed Under: Being Heard, Breath Support, Myth Busters, Owning the Room, Stage Fright
Inhale for 4 seconds, and exhale for 8 seconds. Do this for two minutes.
That’s it.
Now let’s talk about why that works.
continue readingby Kate DeVore
Filed Under: Being Heard, Myth Busters, Owning the Room, Powerful Speaking, Professional Speaking, Stage Fright
I teach voice and dialects at a training center called Acting Studio Chicago. They recently asked me to turn my blog post Kick “stage fright” to the curb in three simple steps into a 1 minute teacher tip video.
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Filed Under: Being Heard, Breath Support, Myth Busters, Owning the Room, Powerful Speaking, Professional Speaking, Stage Fright, Vocal health, Vocal Injury, Voice for Stage, Voice Therapy
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Filed Under: Being Heard, Myth Busters, Owning the Room, Powerful Speaking, Professional Speaking, Vocal Injury, Voice for Stage
The short answer is: probably not.
When people say they want their voice to sound lower, what they typically mean is that they want their voice to feel more resonant, warm, rich, and potent. Read on to learn how depth and richness are not necessarily related to a lower pitch, even though that’s how it might appear on the surface.
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Filed Under: Being Heard, Breath Support, Owning the Room, Powerful Speaking, Professional Speaking
“Don’t use that tone with me!”
“Your performance is good, but there is an issue with your tone.”
“Did you hear that tone in his voice?!”
We communicate tons of information with the tone of our voice. It’s so powerful that if there is incongruence between the tone we use and the words we say, people will believe the tone over the words. Imagine all the ways someone might say, “I’m fine” in a tone that makes it clear they are not, in fact, fine.
A lot of people find their way to me as a coach because they have gotten feedback about their tone being a problem. Let’s look at what that means and how you might choose to adjust it.
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Filed Under: Being Heard, Owning the Room, Powerful Speaking, Professional Speaking, Voice for Stage, Voice Therapy
It struck me recently like a lightning bolt: I miss live voices. For almost a year, the vast majority of voices I have heard have come through a speaker. Quarantine has resulted in very little in-person conversation for me, even less without the auditory filter of a mask.
While electronic speakers convey enough auditory information for us to comprehend the words, they do cut out some of the acoustic spectrum so we are hearing only a piece of the true voice coming though them. We get the information and lose some nuance. But there is much more to the problem.
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