Voice Training
I confess that I
didnt run this through a search first.But I dont think this has been explored.
Other than one-on-one
training, what would you guys recommend for voice training? I hear over and over that a deep sexy voice is
extremely powerful and I want to train myself for this. I have read some Ebooks on it, but its hard to follow when
you cant hear what they are talking about.
Is Vocal Coach something you guys recommend for this? I think its
more for singing, but they mention that its for speakers too. Thanks.
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If you learn to speak how a
good singer would sing I'd think it would help. I'm taking vocal lessons and have noticed a difference when I use
good technique. It's mostly breathing from down low and relaxing your throat. I think 4 lessons from any decent
coach and a month of practice would mke a difference. You can just ask local singers who to see.
DrSmellThis (creator of P H E R O S)
That's a shameOriginally Posted by CollegeStudent
I confess
that I didnt run this through a search first.
because there was a good conversation about it several weeks ago.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
Thx Pancho, I was part of
that discussion. But no mention of any online lessons or CD that you could buy, only one-on-one. I wanted any
recommendations on online stuff, like Voice Coach.
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I was just posting what Bel
was talking about. There was another thread speaking about voice training, but it didn't seem relevant. It just
talked about warming up your voice and making it deeper or something.
College Student,
The issue here
is not that a search would or would not have provided you with the answer that you seek. The issue is that if you
HAD done a search you would have found an appropriate thread in which to post your question rather than begin a
thread which is redundant and only tangentially appropriate to the forum in which it's posted.
Oscar
Yes. For singing and speaking.
If a guy's a cocksucker in his life, when he dies, he don't become a saint. - Morris Levy, Hitmen
Holmes' Theme Song
Someone did recommend online
resources in the previous discusssion, including CD's, because I remember checking them out.
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DrSmellThis (creator of P H E R O S)
*cowers in the corner*
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I found the following book
helpful:
The Fine Art of Erotic Talk
ISBN 0-553-37396
Not only wording, but exercise that help you train
your voice.
Some women prefer a tenor voice,
so a deep bass voice ain't the cats meow. In some African cultures a high voice--soprano range--is considered way
macho.
"I'm just a dirty hornytoad" -Gegogi
My range is exactly the same
as Johnny Cash's, so I guess I'd be SOL in Africa.
DrSmellThis (creator of P H E R O S)
Thx Ill check that out.
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non verbal sexual cuing also has
some voice training. i'm not sure how good it is though.
NVCS is good enough to remind you
how to approach your voice -- if -- (a) you've already spent a fair amount of time behind a dj mic (b) you've had
a fair bit of voice coaching, or (c) you've been fortunate enough to have a sexy voice that you've not spent time
learning how to use.
If none of these apply, NVSC MIGHT convince you to go take a few lessons...
-Bass
somewhere between amused and obsessed...
sounds stupid but how do i figure
if i have a sexy voice? my voice is kinda deep with a stuffy nose sound. i asked a few people and they said my voice
is neutral.
It's not so much the voice itself as how you use it.
If a guy's a cocksucker in his life, when he dies, he don't become a saint. - Morris Levy, Hitmen
Holmes' Theme Song
I haven't tried this, but I've
heard about it.
http://www.altfeld.com/mastery/products/voicetapes.html
I should probably clarify this - I'd been into the Merlot when I wrote it.
NVSC has
a pretty good description of why you would want to work on your voice, and a bunch of exercises. Its biggest problem
is that if you just bought the ebook, you don't have anything to compare yourself to. I personally don't think it
would have been enough to get me past the horror of hearing myself on tape for the first time :-)
I found it
very useful in reminding me of things to pay attention to, but I've had speech therapy, voice lessons, and have
spent hours listening to myself through headphones both speaking (I do voice-overs) and singing.
That all said,
the recorded course might be better - but I just bought the ebook, then scammed the text into a voice synthesizer so
I could record it and listen to it in my car.
-Bass
somewhere between amused and obsessed...
is that program free?
For the voice synth, I used TextAloud MP3 from nextup.com. It's shareware.
It's non-trivial to
get the text out of the protected e-book, tho.
-Bass
somewhere between amused and obsessed...
I managed to find an unsecured
PDF of NVSC.. Granted, it looks like it was printed out of IE to PDF, but that doesn't really matter if all you're
doing is dumping it to a speech synth.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetetive electronic music." --Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989
Yup. I printed it to a pdf then saved the pdf in
rtf format and opened it in Word. What a pain. The format was a mess but it worked ok for the synth.
I've
listened to about the first third of it. Interesting book. Mostly stuff I'd already sort of figured out - the
voice, the half smile (he calls it walking smile), the eye contact stuff. But it was worth the $40 to have it all
together in one place to remind me.
somewhere between amused and obsessed...
Here's a bit of
synchronicity, or as Deepak Chopra might say, "SynchroDestiny." As I have mentioned here several times, I have
bought several Nightingale-Conant courses and have recommended the company to others. One thing I like about them is
once you're an established customer, they offer select courses on a free trial basis. In the six years or so that
I've been dealing with them I have only returned one.
I received a letter from them In tonight's mail,
offering a 30 day trial on their audio program, Vocal Power: Speaking with Confidence, Clarity and
Conviction. Here are excerpts from the letter:
On top of the free trial offer, there's a chance to "earn $1000 as a paid professionalYour level of achievement, happiness, and
satisfaction in life is directly related to the outcomes of your communications. If you want them to be as
successful as possible, it is vital that you gain control of the one factor that, more than any other, determines
communication success, your voice.
<snip>
Roger Love will teach you how to truly
understand the power of your voice, maximize its pluses, and minimize its flaws. You'll exude confidence and
charisma every single time you speak, and when you do, your "audiences" - Clients, colleagues, your kids, your
spouse, and all the people you encounter through the course of the day - will hear exactly what you want them
to hear.
voice talent for Nightingale-Conant." (Plus airfare and accomodations in Chicago.)
With all this talk here
about vocal training recently, I don't think I should pass the offer up. Who knows, I may be on the way to a new
carreer as a voice over actor.
If I do order it, I'll report back here on what I think of it.
One serious
question. Will vocal training help, or hurt my yodeling ability?
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