Vocal Games – Back
1. Counting from 1 to 10
Read any passage with no emotion. Keep your voice the same level.
Now count from one to 10 (out loud!) in these different ways:
- As if you were an angry parent who said, “I am going to count to 10 and if you’re not in the bedroom by the time I get to 10, you’re in big trouble.”
- As a very little child just learning to count
- As if you were very sad because you thought everyone had forgotten your birthday, but then you walked into your living room and saw 10 birthday presents sitting on the floor. How would you count them?
- As if you were a referee for a boxing match and you were counting someone out.
- As if you were telling someone a telephone number when the phone was not working right.
- As if you were counting pennies as you dropped them into a piggy bank.
2. Fairy Tale Warm Up – vocal resonators/ unique voices
3. Pass the Word – Pitch, Volume, Pace
4. Tongue Twisters for Diction
Can come up one at a time with a stage voice. Or stand in a circle saying with a different emotion.
She sells seashells on the seashore.
How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
5. Zip, Zap, Zop
