0068 - How To Discover If You're A 'Nasal Whiner'

·        Here’s how to check if you are a ‘nasal whiner’. Lightly pinch your nose at the bridge (the top bony part) and say “Sing a song of sixpence”. When you pronounce the ‘ng’ sounds you should feel a slight buzz on your fingertips. That’s just what should happen when you say this sound. Now say “Ba ba black sheep”. If you can still feel the vibration on the ‘ba’ sounds, then you may potentially have a nasal problem.·        Say “Ahhh, London’s stunning onion dungeon” a couple of times really s-l-o-w-ly. Pay particular attention to the sounds and how you make them and where they come from.o  Now concentrate just on “onion” a couple of times. Roll it around your mouth.o  And now let’s have a laser-focus on the ‘gn’ sound in the middle. Stretch it out.o  Now, in our vocal ‘tower of power’ we have a lift/elevator. So get in with me at the ground floor. o  Now with that ‘gn’ sound, let’s gently ride on it in the elevator, first down to the basement, and the lower basement and the service basement and the car park… and then up to the penthouse.o  Now do the same ‘vocal elevator ride’ with the “ahhh” word at the start of the sentence.·        Say “Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. So, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?” a couple of times really s-l-o-w-ly.o  Pay particular attention to the ‘zz’ sounds and how you make them and where they come from. Linger on them and make them rezzzonate… o  Stretch out your ‘zz’, ride on it, gently riding down then up in tone on the ‘vocal elevator’ a few times.o  NOTE: it’s easier and more comfortable to go down in a tone when doing these exercises before you go up.From BBC presentation trainer Peter Stewart (@TweeterStewart), GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE is a short, daily guide to help you become a stronger voice communicator on radio and TV, podcasts, video, voiceovers and webinars.It's the audio version of the book Peter's writing of the same name, both focusing exclusively on your vocal image on audio and video channels with two main aims:·  To get you a better voice for audio and video channels.·  To show you how to read out loud confidently, convincingly and conversationally.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 musicstations 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.