Not a trick question. Unlocking the resonance center in your head is the key to a voice that is pleasantly not dull.
Welcome to the second week of Total Body Voice. In this lesson I will show you how to develop a voice that is resonant and full of texture.
Some people naturally have very bright and resonant voices, while many others lean towards a dull or hollow sound. The texture of your voice is created by overtones, which are mathematical divisions of the tonic or fundamental pitch. I’ll spare you the technicalities and we’ll just call it resonance.
Resonance is what gives your voice texture and it’s a unique fingerprint of your identity. The reason each person has a different voice has to do with how sound reverberates inside the open spaces of your head and chest. Now I don’t mean this an insult, but there are many open spaces in your head, starting with the bones and especially the sinus.
What is fascinating, is that you can direct the sound towards a specific place in your head. The easiest way to do this, is using the 5 vowels, “ee” “eh” tend to resonant the front of your head, “ah” is pointed upward and , “oh” and “oo” tend to point to the back of the head with and sound hollow.
Here’s how this works. As a resonance chamber, your head is optimized to resonate when you point the sound to a specific location. Imagine that you are aiming the sound from your throat to a specific target. For most people, the sensation is somewhere right behind the nose. It’s a unique place which allows your entire head to resonate with sound creating volume and texture with minimal effort.
Notice as I go through each vowel, allowing the sound to move from the back of the head towards the front, and how at a certain place, the resonance is 2-3x bigger and brighter.
Do this until you find a placement which unlocks as much resonance as possible.
But if you engage the head resonator “ee” you’ll experience a far more dynamic sound with little-to-none effort.
Try it yourself. What does is sound like?