QUICK AND EASY VOCAL WARM-UPS

ZOUNDS!
* stretch and yawn; hold the ending "ah" sound; relax your throat and jaws
* chew the letter "N" on both sides of the mouth
* shake out your face and lips, high and low
* feel different parts of mouth and nasal passages vibrate with these different sounds:

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN...
VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV... ThThThThThThThThThThTh...
Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum Mum
* open your mouth , eyes, and face as wide as you can on the last syllable of:
Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula Mumula

SILLY PHRASES
* each phrase features different difficult consonant combinations. Start slow, over-articulating and then increase speed

Red letter, yellow letter

Good blood, bad blood

Eleven benevolent elephants

Teaching ghosts to sing

The big, black-backed bumblebee

A critical cricket critic

Selfish shellfish

Really rural

Unique New York

The tip of the tongue, the lips, the teeth

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Hemorrhoidal removal


COGNATES
* Feel a pulse in your diaphram with the following sounds

unvoiced: PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH
VOICED: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH

unvoiced: TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH TUH
VOICED: DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH

unvoiced: KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH KUH
VOICED: GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH

TONGUE TWISTER!
* This long tongue twister contains many buzz sounds and difficult consonant combinations. It is possible to say all in one breath if you use diaphramatic breathing and carefully control the volume of air expelled. Articulate every sound!

What a to-do to die today at a minute or two to two,
a thing distinctly hard to say but harder still to do.
for they'll beat a tattoo at a quarter to two:
a rat-ta tat-tat ta tat-tat ta to-to.
and the dragon will come when he hears the drum
at a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two