How to Project Your Voice

Video Transcript

"This is Athena Reich and I'm a musician and an actor here in New York City and I also coach both music and acting. In this clip I'm going to talk about how to project your voice. It's easy. Everyone can do it. All you got to do is pretend that somebody is about to steal your car. What would you do? You'd say, "Ay!" That's it. That's belting and that's projecting your voice. "Ay!" So, if you just talk like this, "Ay! What are you doing? Oh my gosh I'm going to the store. How are you doing?" That's one way to speak really loud. To kind of almost call, "Ay. Come over here." Or yell, right? But, say you want to project your voice, but you want to be quiet. That's more about making sure you have a good strong breathing and diaphragm going, but also that you're resonating. You have an open back of your throat and you're resonating in your head. So, that's another way to project your voice. So, it's about being grounded in your body. Using your breath and using the resonation. Opening the back of your throat so that the vibrations have more room to vibrate in. But, an easy way if you want to just like yell or belt, "Ay! Give me my car." There you go and you're completely belting right there. But, getting a good voice teacher, even if you're an actor and you don't want to sing, but you want to learn how to project. A good voice teacher, he or she can teach you how to use your breath and how to resonate in the most efficient way possible. This has been Athena Reich in New York City."