No one can expect to become a distinguished orator overnight.Experience, practice, and study are necessary to success in speaking, as in every other profession, yet every person can improve and will indeed find it profitable and beneficial to enlarge his conversational powers. Incidentally, I frequently wonder why so few teachers of classes in public speaking [...]

Singorama Singing Lessons

In some consonants, the vocal cords vibrate, making voiced sounds. In others they do not and the consonants are said to be voiceless or breathed. Voiced and voiceless consonants generally are in pairs. For example, b (as in bin) represents a voiced sound of which p (as in pin) is the voiceless equivalent. The sound [...]

In speech, when the escaping breath stream meets with an obstruction formed by the tongue, lips, teeth, or velum (soft palate), the resulting sound is called a consonant. The word comes from the Latin, con and sonare, meaning with sound" or "to sound together.” The dictionary defines it as "an articulate sound characterized by friction, [...]

A. Of the sounds cc (as in see), ay (as in say), B. Of the sounds oo (as in too), oh (as in go),e (as in met), ab (as in calm) a  a metallic, shrill tone. Such habits show wrong use of the resonating column of air. Correction may require extreme measures. By that is [...]

It may help you in the study of vowel sounds to know something about how they are grouped or classified by speech experts. Your attention was directed in a previous chapter to the various ways in which the oral cavity could be modified through adjustments of the articulatory organs. Their position is a basis [...]

Certain words in our language require a linking or fusion of vowel sounds for pronunciation. Such combinations are known as diphthongs or compound vowels. To form them the articulatory organs move from one vowel position to another without making any articulatory break. Therefore the result is a continuous ±r,liding tone. Illustrations of words in which [...]

Learn To Sing
All speech sounds are made by air as it is expelled through the voice box or larynx, the mouth, and the nose. If the air sets the vocal cords into vibration and passes out the mouth without obstruction or hindrance, sounds known as vowels result. Quality, or kind of vowel, is [...]

THE VOCAL INSTRUMENT
The production of voice in speech is a habit and, like most habits, is generally given little thought. Nevertheless the making of vocal sounds requires a mechanism of an intricate and highly developed character. In fact, the voice is without doubt the most efficient sound producer in existence. Since some of you may [...]

Range Many singers who do not understand the principle of "point and focus" in their singing find that high notes elude them. Lacking correct placement, a soprano will often sound like a contralto, a splendid tenor will find it easier to sing baritone parts, even though the quality of the voice makes the [...]