Finding Your Female Voice

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
What you’ll need
What you don’t (necessarily) need
Practice suggestions
Warmup
Exercise schedule suggestions
Daily vocal maintenance
My old voice samples
Voice strategies to avoid
SOUND MECHANICS AND VOCAL ANATOMY
Voice, another spectrum
Tone
The voice is an instrument
Posture
Vocal Anatomy
Testosterone effects
A note on voice surgery
NON-MUSICAL EXERCISES
Throat control
Exercise 1. Yawn
Exercise 2. Look in mirror
Exercise 3. Clear throat
Exercise 4. Get a loogie up
Exercise 5. Gargle
Exercise 6. GUH
Breathing
Exercise 7. Blow on soup
Exercise 8. Warm hands
Exercise 9. Annoyed sigh
Exercise 10. From depths
Exercise 11. HHEE - HHI – HHO
Exercise 12. HHHOW = HHHAH-OO
Exercise 13. HHHAHHH
Adding tone
Exercise 14. HHAH with tone
Exercise 15. Falsetto
Conclusion
TONAL EXERCISES
Pitch: Musical and scientific expressions
Adjusting your pitch
Exercise 16. Finding your break musically
Exercise 17. Finding your break non-musically
Adjusting resonance
Exercise 18. Ah-Ah-Ah!
Exercise 19. Exaggerated buzz (pinched voice)
Exercise 20. Creaky voice
Exercise 21. AH resonance
Exercise 22. EE resonance
Exercise 23. AY resonance
Exercise 24. I resonance
Exercise 25. O resonance
Full-throat vowels with consonants
Exercise 26. Read first column
Exercise 27. Breathy chant first column
Exercise 28. Pinched chant first column
Exercise 29. Alternate chant on each word
Exercise 30. Repeat with other vowels
Tight-throat vowels with consonants
Exercise 31. Read first column
Exercise 32. Breathy chant first column
Exercise 34. Alternate chant on each word
Exercise 35. Repeat with other vowels
Chanting our mantra
Exercise 36. Chant pinched
Exercise 37. Chant breathy
Exercise 38. Chant breathy, then pinched
Exercise 39. Chant pinched, then breathy
Exercise 40. Switch mid-sentence
Exercise 41. Raise your pitch
Speaking our mantra
Exercise 42. Say it as a sentence
Exercise 43. Change inflection
Reading and reciting
Exercise 44. Read quotations aloud
Exercise 45. Longer rote passages
Exercise 46. Cold reading
Exercise 47. Laughing
Exercise 48. Laughing while speaking
Exercise 49. Coughing, sneezing, and other mouth and throat sounds
Real world practice
Exercise 50. Speaking on the phone
Exercise 51. Speaking in person
Advanced exercises
Exercise 52. Singing
Exercise 53. Raising your break
Exercise 54. Using your falsetto
Exercise 55. Speaking in a loud place
Exercise 56. Yelling
Exercise 57. Talking for long periods of time (party, phone, work)
Exercise 58. Waking up
Common questions
A note on the video’s appendices
Conclusion