Long Tongue Twisters

Video Transcript

"And, of course, last but not least. If you don't feel like your warm at this point, or you want to do a little bit more, or perhaps you have just a fancy for tongue twisters. There are numerous lengthy tongue twisters that are available for you to say. And, it might not be a bad idea, maybe you do your whole vocal warm-up before your presentation, or before your audition, or before you go on stage. But you have a little time in between that warm-up time and when your actually speaking, you might want to run a few tongue twisters our loud. And, tongue twisters, as you know, are lengthy phrases that utilize a specific consonant over and over again. And, they're especially good to use and consider if you're having trouble with one specific consonant. Like, you might want to do, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers then where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?" That's one of your choices. But there are numerous others that are readily available. If you don't know any or you can't find any, just do a Google search on the Internet and you'll be able to pull up a lot of them. That is one specific one. Another excellent one to work on is "How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?" And that one goes on even longer, but that's an excellent one to work on. So, if you do all of these things and follow it up with a tongue twister, you should have a very warmed up voice which is what you want prior to any speech, or audition, or any kind of acting activity."