0112 – Six Tongue Exercises – Including The One You Won’t Be Able To Resist Trying

0112 – Six Tongue Exercises – Including The One You Won’t Be Able To Resist Trying

VOCAL YOGA - Peter’s PT for the tongue

These exercises stretch your tongue, releasing tongue root tension to give you a more resonant voice and gain fine control and make the most of the tongue’s ability and agility.

· Stick your tongue out (sorry mum!) Curl it back to touch your chin, then up towards your nose, then left and right. Do this action three times. Then combine all four points in a circle your touch with the tip of your tongue, first in a clockwise direction three times, and then in an anticlockwise direction.

· Take the phrase “here you are”. Open your mouth and place the tip of your tongue behind your bottom front teeth. Say the phrase several times and feel how your soft palate opens up, and there’s a wave effect across the middle of your tongue.

· We all need to get to know ‘Lady Luck’. Say her name a few times, really extenuating the l’s with your tongue curled right back.

· OK now let’s bootcamp the back of the tongue with the help of my friend Inga. With the tip of your tongue behind your bottom front teeth, say her name several times.

· Clean your teeth with your tongue. Really stretch your tongue to the back teeth, then work it around your mouth across the front of all of your teeth and then across the back.

And my favourite exercise to give your tongue a warm-up and a work-out:

· (listen to the episode to find out!)

Through these under-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios.

And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.

Look out for more details of the book during 2021.

Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart

Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.

He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper “Ariel”.

Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.

The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?

This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects.

Music credits:

"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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"Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)