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- HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -4/+234No wonder no one can hear you, that's not where you put a diaphragm.
- SwissCamel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+180My voice is so sexy the voice recognition program I am using to type this message just came.
- 3dom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+169It's not the sound of my voice that's the problem, it's the ***** that comes out of my mouth.
- jthomp3120, on 10/11/2007, -3/+143this is going to destroy digg! everyone is going to spend too much time with girls to be on the internet
- catfish182, on 10/11/2007, -3/+134/looks up "girl" on wikipedia
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+85"yeeeeeeeeeh"
My roommates are wondering WTF is wrong with me - zeromancer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+81"girl"
those humanoids you fap to. - EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+80Yeah, strange that learning to use your diaphragm correctly can actually _lead_ to parenthood.
- cr4ft, on 10/11/2007, -1/+73I have this kick ass book called "Change your voice - Change your life" by Dr. Morton Cooper.
It's pretty much one of the oldest books on the subject, teaches you how to breathe using your diaphragm and talk through it.
Had a bunch of exercises in it to. To get your "true voice" you can do a mini-test, say "mmm hhmmmm" (the same gesture used to agree), only do it enthusiastically. Apparently when you feel that little buzz near your noise, that's where your best voice comes from.
I can write more but diggers are probably getting bored already :) - Derrekito, on 10/11/2007, -5/+59I never have learned to use my diaphragm, people have a difficult time understanding/hearing me.
- ChromaVita, on 10/11/2007, -1/+53Steven Hawking can't sing.
- kinesis8, on 10/11/2007, -4/+52So how long before I sound like Barry White?
/sarcasm - SultanTravi, on 10/11/2007, -8/+53An (apparently) gay guy told me my voice was sexy on Xbox Live.. does that count?
- AICkieran, on 10/11/2007, -1/+45"Walmart sells Bud light ones for $12"
Is water really that expensive nowadays? - Swift2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+43Back in my student days, I had to teach an actress to sing a song on stage. She said she was tone-deaf. Actually, I could tell that she wasn't. In fact, I'd say that the great majority of people who say they're tone-deaf just haven't paid enough attention to relaxation and voice production. The way most people talk, it's like standing on a ladder to do jumping jacks. You can't do it that way. Hold your chest tight, and try to make your tones with your throat, and not only do you speak ineffectively, but it's going to be impossible for you to hit a note truly.
How to experience what it's like to produce your voice properly? Lie on the floor. Turn out the lights. Relax your feet, your legs, your butt, your back. When you're completely, totally, relaxed, sing a note. It will be perfectly true.
This used to be seen as a vital part of education, training you to sing and speak. It still is, but our schools fail completely.
And the girl sang the song. - gmprunner, on 10/11/2007, -10/+50"everyone is going to spend too much time with girls to be on the internet"
Dugg down for inaccuracy. - D4r7h3v1l, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39I hope Alex Albrecht sees this.
- kcpwnsgman, on 10/11/2007, -6/+37"A girl is a female child, as opposed to a boy, a male child."
you ***** pervert - Birdoftruth, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31Walmart sells Bud light ones for $12
- woojoo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+30apparently the server doesn't like my voice.
- EtherGnat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24@azdak and klept
Don't be such elitist pricks. We understand that becoming an expert in almost anything takes a tremendous amount of time and effort. Nobody is expecting to become Bing Crosby or Don LaFontaine with a few minutes practice. That doesn't mean you can't see a noticeable improvement in something with just a little bit of effort. Suggesting that personal improvement is worthless unless we practice as much as you or have some God-given talent makes both of you a real dick. - violentvinyl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23You can buy beer at Walmart? I live in the wrong state.
- psbpv3o, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21At work we have radios to talk to each other (movie theater) and I'm always afraid of using it because I will sound like a girl and all of the cute girls there will laugh at me....so thanks for the article...
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+26I can make wimmins lay an egg just by saying "Supersize me." at the drive through.
- kidmaninwar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23learned more here than in school, dugg
- Stuntaneous, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21***** yeah, having a low suave voice gets you no where. try chattin someone up in a loud bar, youll be repeating yourself to no end..
- patch6, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19Stephen Hawking -can- sing.
http://www.mchawking.com/
That is, if you consider rap to be music. - mablco, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18i could just picture all the diggers making their "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh" sounds right now.
- wazzledoozle2, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19Another wordpress page bites the dust...
- corsairstw, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17That's exactly right. I'm a singer and one of the first breathing exercises my teacher asked me to do was to lie on my back and take deep breaths. All the air was drawn in and pushed out using my diaphragm, the way it is meant to be. I like to tell people who say they can't sing, "You CAN sing. Everyone can sing. You just need to practice." Breathing is a huge part of not only singing, but as the blogger points out, speaking in general.
Excellent blog post. - svenathon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Twelve bucks? For a six pack of Bud Light? I'm glad I don't live near a Walmart.
- Metatron197, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18My voice is so sexy it crashed the server
- Aloyarc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I'm interested in the 'correct technique'.
Would you ever so kindly record a clip and post it somewhere for my listening pleasure? - Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12"Hell, no." - The Article.
- VillaStraylight, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13"You might want to try an experiment. Say yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh long enough while bringing your voice down from the higher pitch to the lowest tone you can."
Or sing along to the CSI: Miami theme. I don't think this drowning was an accident....somebody got in....too deep. YEEAAHH. - fatejudger, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17Wtf, is up with this, blog poster, and extraneous, commas?
- iDiggIt42, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12@OneAndOnlySnob (#6787260)
I do not, see any problems there? - shaungc, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16Agreed. I find it quite ironic that he blogs about how to be a better speaker, but can't use proper grammar to do it.
- datagod, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14I guess you are a slow learner.
- dimplemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12I'm too sexy for my voice, too sexy for my voice....
- violentvinyl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11@ Ethergnat
Dugg for mentioning Don LaFontaine. He was interviewed by Whoopi Goldberg on a local radio show here and he was awesome, great voice, great personality.
@ klept
"Just go out and meet ppl"
"by girls that only met me on the phone"
In my best singing VOICE: "One of these things is not like the other..." - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12mirror
http://72.14.209.104/search?hs=sUq&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fhappybrainstorm.com%2Fvoice-and-speech-development%2F&btnG=Search - bigwyrm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10@chromavita
You've obviously never heard him as his alter ego: MC Hawking.
edit: beat by patch6 - silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11good exercise for your abs as well
- ceralor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Dunno, but the article reads like Shatner.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+15I can do the movie trailer voice over guy voice really well and women love it. It also makes my friends laugh over xbox live
- iamabe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9this site has the goofiest ***** grammar in the world. "Good Ideas. The Ones that Make You Be the Best."
- OneAndOnlySnob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9Learn to use, commas please!
- Barryke, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8You insensitive cloth! That just doesn't go in harmony with the melody, at all.
- spudnic, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8@azdak (#6786531)
Were you doing 1 minute a day or something? You could have got a degree in less time. -
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