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Hello, and welcome to improve your voice. My name is Darren McStay, and today I've gone absolute beast of a video. So if you're looking to improve your voice a hundred percent, then this video is going to go into some detail as to how you can do that. Now, when I say that you can improve your voice a hundred percent or that I'm going to help you improve your voice a hundred percent. I don't mean that you're going to be twice as good as you are now because you might actually hate your voice and to be twice as good might not mean much to you. But what I mean by a hundred percent is that you can take wherever you are now and completely transform 100% into something else that you want to be. The key is knowing what it is you want. So I'm saying, suggesting that in this video, I think I might be able to offer you the tools to take yourself from being a frog into a prince or princess, whichever one you prefer now, in order to break down the voice and improve a hundred percent, I'd like to try to consider 1% at a time.

Now that may seem a little daunting and quite huge and a bit hard to get your head round. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to break down 100, 1% intersections of 10, and we're going to look at 10 different ways that you can improve your voice. And from, for each one of those 10, we're going to break that down into 10 and see how you can change each one of those elements. Just one, just in one small way that will come over at the end, add up to 100%. So if you break these things down and just look at one thing at a time, you will have a hundred percent better voice. If you just concentrate on each one fully. Now, I don't know how long this will take to make this video. I don't know how long this video is going to end up being.
And I don't know how long it's going to take you to actually focus in on each one. Maybe I could suggest doing one a day. And so you might want to revisit this video and all go to my website and pick up the PDF. That's got the details of this. You can find that@vulnerabilities.com and also if maybe you're not interested in going through a hundred days and then want a bit less, my eight week course is perfect. If you want to improve your voice for good and actually find the resonance, the clarity articulation, the projection that you might be looking for. Anyway, the choices around how to break down your voice into 10 areas are varied, but I've done it in a way that I feel could be useful and maybe important and might help you. So this is what I've done. Number one, resonance, number two, articulation and clarity.

Number three, tonality, number four, expression, number five, volume and projection. Number six, ease of effort and fluidity number, accent, number eight, emotion, number nine, intention. And number 10 texture. There may be better ways of doing this and maybe not so better ways of doing this, but that is the ones that I've chosen to be the 10 areas. We're going to break down into another 10 areas. So for each of those 10 areas, we're going to break them down into one knowledge about that specific area. We're also going to break it into research about what it is you want in that area, or finding or researching someone who has what you want to look at to maybe be able to change yourself. Well, also look at the feeling and the connection you have with that area in your body. We'll then look at placement and where in the body and your instrument in your voice you, you currently are and where you could change that to we'll also look at the dynamics and how we can, you know, how soft or hard light strong or, you know, what, what is it that's that that's that you can play with within that?

We'll also look at color. So we're going to use a visual aesthetic to maybe help us reconsider this particular area where each particular area by using visuals. So color is the one that we're going to choose to use in this video. We're also going to go through the intentions or the meanings behind using your voice and how you can for each, you know, for each area. There'll be the idea of intention and you know, your thoughts behind how or what the purpose is and how you're sending the voice out.

We're then going to look at how to find ease of effort in doing this particular area or finding relaxation in this particular area. We're also going to look at maybe doing a meditation, so just not doing, but posing your eyes and considering everything you've done up until that point and thinking about it. And we're also going to then for the number 10 on each section, we're going to journal our progress and what we've learned. So after considering it we'll then write it down. And that's how we're going to break each area. Each of those 10 areas down into another 10 areas. And if you do each one, if you improve on each one, you will find that after you've gone through the 10, 10 in 10 ways, then you will be a hundred percent better. At least that's my theory behind it, that we're doing this together, right.

We're learning. So if we break down to the first area the first area of 10 let's look at resonance, so how can we put this into practice? So if we've got resonance as one key area, and we want to break that down into 10, with the 10 suggestions I made, the first part of that is knowledge. What is resonance? What is it? Well, let's think it's vibration, right? And if you think about a speaker the bigger, the speaker is often the more resonance it creates because resonance is the, that is most like the reverberation of sound from one side to the other and back again. So that's why people often with big booming, basically voices have kind of a big instrument and open channels because that's what makes it sound deeper. It's not the only thing that makes it sound deeper, but that really does help in finding that depth and that resonance, because it's not about projection, it's about depth.

Yeah. So it's like space. And so understanding that residence is about space is the first step. And you might want to do some research on that. If you're going to do this one day at a time to improve your voice 1% per day, then look more into resonance. Maybe you can start that today. You go and look it through my channel and look at videos of resonance or go and search the internet and go on a wormhole of resonance on what it is, especially when it comes to the voice. Okay? So that's your first percent that you can look at it. And it's the first one of the list of number one of number one, number two would be to research. And now I don't mean research on resonance. You've already done that as percentage number one, but percentage number two or to have one is going to be you finding someone who you feel has a resonant voice or a voice that you like the way they resonate.

So it might be, it could be because they say words that you agree with, but it most, most likely be if this is about improving your voice, someone whose voice you like the sound of that actually has a depth or a resonance or a clarity that you really kind of sits with you. And you want to find someone whose voice you like and listen to them, watch them, watch their videos, listen to how they're there, that they are in their body and possibly what they're doing. You don't have to analyze it too much. You just have to be aware of voices that you'd like at this point. And, and by understanding that and looking at them and watching these people, you've improved yourself. You really have. So that's why it's a small thing, but this is going to add up. Remember, so number three in the area of resonance is going to be feeling so once you've understood what resonance is, and you've looked at people who you feel have resonant voices or one that you like, then you can start maybe playing around with the idea for yourself and how you connect to the idea of resonance in your own body.

Knowing that resonancies is vibrations and how it moves and how much space there is for it to move might give you thoughts, our feelings toward playing with it. So maybe we do this by humming. Hmm Hmm. Hmm. And feeling it and your body, where do you feel it? If you hum. Mm. If you maybe go up the scale and down [inaudible] do you put it in your mouth? Was it the front of your lips or is it sitting back in your throat here? Or does it go into your nose or was it in your head or was it in your belly? Mm mm. Is it in your chest? Is it in your back? Where can you feel it? Where is it play with that? Use that because it's very useful to know where it is now. And as you move forward, as you, as you, as you do progress in other areas that will also change.

And so it's really worth just playing and where is it now? How can you feel that resonance? And can you move it around? So that was placement. Our next would be dynamics. So not only will you find out where you can feel those resonances in your body, but also you can play with how much you feel that. So maybe like how soft you can make those resonance, like, mm. And then maybe, mm don't push too hard, but just try and see if you can change the dynamics. Maybe you can not only the place, it not only
the placement, but also how soft or hard, you know, you, you can direct some of those residences around your body and play with it because the body is a whole instrument. Your voice is just locked here. You can feel those things. Can you feel it in your foot?

Can you put it in your foot? Can you feel it in your fingers? Can you feel it in your toes? The resonance is all around me. And so the feeling grows. It was absolutely terrible. If you know that song, if you don't know that song, forget what I just said. Anyway, next we have color. So this is where we bring in like a visual aesthetic to it. If you're, if resonance to you was a color, what color would it be? And if you're thinking maybe harm again, think about humming blue. Mm. And then think about humming red. Mm. Think about yellow. It might do something completely different for you. And in fact it should do it probably will, but this is a visual aesthetic you can use by using the idea of color visually and trying to match your voice to it. You're sort of thinking outside of your body, not, and trying to get out of your head by focusing on something that's visual.

So using your imagination here and in color might not work for you. It might be that you want to see shapes or do something different. But if you can play around with this idea, this is another 1% that you can use in your palette to grow and improve. Next. We have a number seven, which is intention, intention. How can you use the resonance in such a way that it means something so that you have your, you know, you can affect people or your outside world. And it's always useful to think about your voices, something that moves towards others and moves out of you. It's not in you, it's not sitting here. It's something that you use to express. And so by finding intentions behind it, meaning behind your voice, you all then kind of have be better able to you know, consider more and use it in different ways.

But so thinking about your attention of resonance, what is the intention of resonance? How can we change it in order to affect who's listening. If we're talking to a child maybe, and we were telling them off, or, you know, we don't want them to run in front of a car. We don't want to shout at them, but we need them to know we're serious. Do we talk like this to them? Or do we somehow drop our voice and say very clearly and slowly so they understand it's very firm, but that's just my interpretation of it. And that's just how I might do that. And I've got a three-year-old boy and he has almost run in front of cars before. And rather than just shouting, I've taken him aside and been very clear about that. And my voice side note is dropped. And so it might not with you.
And in fact, you might have more impact being higher, but it's not about notes here. It's about how you can use in the resonance of your voice to find different intentions. And it's just a 1%, and this is something you could spend another day on or, or however long, but play with it. It's all about playing with this and keeping it free and just, you know, don't be too serious about it and don't mark it down, but it's just another area that you can improve with. So consider that next is relaxation. So once you've gone through all these other things, you want to find a way that you can do these in such a way that you're not pushing, or you're not straining, or you're not adding anything extra. So if you can completely relax your shoulders, relax your belly, reelection, neck, maybe relax your cheeks, your tongue, your jaw, it'll go and then play relaxation and then play with resonance.

So go through the other things again that you considered and the dynamics and placement Hmm, Hmm. And color, but do it without any physical tension in your body, just do it completely relaxed. See how it changes. See what happens are you, does it open up possibilities? Does it close them off? Does it change the way you feel about it? These are all just things to consider. And again, it's just another, another texture. Another element, another percent that you can improve on by, by doing, and by further understanding how your body's working next would be a meditation. So after going through all these physical aspects and considerations around the voice and using resonance, I want you to just close your eyes, not make any sound and not even resonate, not even making humming, just consider what it is you've done. So if you're doing this daily, this is one day, we'd spend time, rather than playing with your voice.

Just thinking about it, actually consider this is going to improve. You it's will improve you. You've because you've already, you know, you, you've already got more knowledge about what resonance is. You've already practiced. You've researched others and their voice. You, then you've gone practice feeling it. You've practiced placement. You've gone through the dynamics. You've gone through color and visuals. You've worked with intentions and relaxation. Now it's time to just meditate and consider all that because you know, your unconscious mind will allow that. And some of the information to drop in, if you give it space to, and sometimes stepping back and just considering what you've done will, will help with that. So next and the 10th step on the first step in war percent, number 10 maybe would be to journal your progress. So considering what you meditated on and what you've done that over the last 10% or 10 days, just write it down, write down your findings.

What have you learned? What did you like? What didn't you like? What, what works for you? What didn't, what had an impact? What didn't did something connect with you emotionally, do something, get you stuck in your head. What happened? It's going to be different for everyone. So I can't tell you what to write, but just, just write, just don't even consider what you're writing. Just, just write everything that you, you felt down. It might even be that you journal each day after everything before and after. It might be that you journal as at the end of the 10%. But this is another way in which you can further realize your voice and further realize the possibilities of what you are able to achieve and what it means to you. Now, we've just gone through 10 areas, all based on the idea of resonance. And that resonance is only one of 10 areas to consider in my little, you know, this, this little task or this little challenge, or this little theory, if you like, of how you can improve your voice 100%.

So it might seem a bit daunting, but maybe it should. There's a lot of work to consider. So if that was resonance, it doesn't have to be in this order either. But if that was resonance, what could be next articulation and clarity is what I've got on my list. So again, go through this list of 10 for articulation and clarity, first knowledge, what is articulation? What is, what is it to be clear? What is clarity? Think about that, research that look at it, you know, look through my videos and articulation learn a bit more about what the articulators are and what's, what's what muscles and bones and, you know, the teeth, the tongue, the lips the soft palate that, you know, everything that's involved in, articulating weight, everything in your body's involved in that, but consider those specifically and, and how that will help you with clarity of speech or singing or articulating and pronunciation in pronounciating things.

And annunciating, if I can say any of those words myself, that'd be helpful, but to go through this, so you can then have more knowledge about articulation and clarity. And then again, same as before. Number two would be to research others and look at other people who you feel articulate and are clear in a manner that suits you or that you'd like to be like. And so do that research and look at other people and then watch what they do, listen to how they pronounce words and what they might be doing to articulate. This is going to help feed the rest and the other eight in this section. So then you go into feeling and playing with the ideas of clarity and articulation by just, you know, exercising and maybe going through some of the videos you might have looked at on this channel or elsewhere, or through the people that you've researched on how you could articulate things differently than what you currently are.

And so worked through that. And then number four, again, would be placement. How can you change the articulation of words in different ways than you have before? How, if you move your tongue and say something, which is going to sound different, if the tongue is at the top of the mouth and it is at the bottom of the mouth of it's more forward or more back, what if your lips are pursed like this and you speak, or if your teeth are together and you try to articulate, or if you're yawning it every time you're trying to speak, what does this do? Or if you don't know if you're off at all, and you're just like, there's different ways of articulating, right? Some are good, some are bad, but it's all good in your learning. And it's all good practice, and it's all good for your future benefit.

And this is another 1% it's it's placement placing different articulation. So just play with it. Next was dynamics. So can you be very light and articulate in a small way, or must you really over articulate and pinpoint all and every punctuated possible possibility to punctuate. And so, yeah, so like, it can be really hard with that can be very soft with that. What are the dynamics there that you can play with play with there's other ways of seeing it, but I want you to discover it for yourself. So I don't want to tell you too much about what you should be doing, but again, use 1% of playing with different dynamics and then color again, let's bring the visual aesthetic back in again. So color in articulation. What is that? If you can picture color, when you speak of different colors, affect your mood or affect the way you want to sound or start having an effect on the the, the way you send words or the way you articulate, or the clarity that you produce, what happens there when you think about it as color in a different way.

That's another percent, it's another thing to work on next. Let's have a look at intention. So again, putting intention behind your, you know, clarity of words, like with resonance, when I was saying, when I was talking to my boy, my voice dropped and I was being very stern and clear, it might have been a similar thing might happen that if you are trying to put a point across or someone can't understand you, you might want to slow down. And that punctuation creates a different articulation and use of your voice, which makes you clear. So it's not necessarily a different articulation, it's a punctuation, but that's part of the clarity and that's something you can play with. And it's through the intentions of what you're trying to give to the listener, the person you're speaking to. So again, another 1% next is relaxation. So how can we go through all those things again, but completely relaxed, just really without doing it under, do it, take away all the effort and all the, all the workings and trying to do new things and over- emphasizing and articulating and trying to be clear and just drop the tongue, the belly, the shoulders, sigh, relax, just breathe.

And then can you articulate just as well, without putting any effort in, can you make yourself clear and precise and punctuated and understood without having to put any effort in whatsoever play with it, try it, see what happens to see what you sound like and see if it's what you want and then, you know, adjust. And then there's another, there's another 1%. And then again, after doing all those things, you want to spend a 1% of meditation. So looking back through those things on articulation and clarity, and just considering close your eyes, breathe, relax. Just think about what you've done. Think about those things you played with. Think about how it made you feel, consider ways in which you want to move forward with it or what you have learned. And so good. Is it what, you know, again, it's all, it's all going to help you drop down and it's another 1%.

And then again, the last percent number 10, which would be number 20% so far in the list of the other 10 elements that would be to journal it. And then whether, again, you're doing this as you go, or whether you're doing it at the end of this section or any section, write it down, write down your thoughts and feelings towards this particular area. So we've gotten through now we've gone through resonance and we've gone through articulation and clarity. So next was tonality again. The same structure applies. And then after that, we go through expression, the same 10 things apply, go through volume and projection. The same things apply, then go through ease of effort, fluidity, and how I can make it all so seamless and then go through the accent, your own accent and see if that's, you know, you know, go through the 10 elements through accident and then go through emotion and then go through intention and then texture.

So I think that's enough for this video is quite long already. And I've gone through the first two in my list. And like I said, there's a PDF on my website and there's a link in the description box below that you can find a checklist for these considerations for your voice. And and if you've not already signed up to my to my newsletter, then now's a good time to do that because I'm going to be sharing a few more things on there than I have been recently. So sign up and you can, you know, there's some education and some free PDFs. And even like, you can take the first week of my eight week course for free to try it out and see how, how you find it. But I want you to consider as you take these, and as you look at the PDF and you go through these elements for yourself to improve 100%, 1% at a time through different blocks of 10, that it's all about being playful.

And it's all about ease of effort. And that the ultimate idea of this is to, is to take you out of your body. We do this work on ourselves and this consideration and this physical these physical changes in order. So we don't have to, when we use it, when it comes time to perform, when it comes time to speak, when it comes time to sing and to deliver whatever message we are all expressed, whatever message we are trying to with our voice and wherever you are now, and wherever you want to be. It's it's about allowing you the freedom and your body, your instrument, the freedom to be able to do that. And that's the whole purpose of, you know, improving 100%. It's not, it's not, it's not about being twice as good as you are. It's not about being better than anyone else.

It's just, it's about being playful and understanding and forgiving of what you already have. And just knowing through this work, how you can improve and ways in which you can maybe tackle that improvement. And I really hope this has helped someone out. And I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below of, of your considerations, or maybe I've gone into too much detail and you're a bit confused, or maybe I haven't gotten into enough detail and you're still confused. So either way you can leave a comment in the box below and I'd love to chat and see how you all are. And if this is useful, and again, for those people who are really serious about actually working on a plan, because this is one thing, but my eight week course, for example, which is still the flagship course in, in my whole of all the courses it's so foundational. And it is set up to give you tools that you can use for yourself to improve your voice. And it, and it goes through, you know, resonance, relaxation, projection articulation, and all the other areas that I deemed to be important about improving of your body as an instrument to work for you as a voice when and where you need it. So consider that option. Also, if you find that this work helps you, thank you so much for watching I'm Darren McStay. This is improve your voice. And until the next time the golf deal voice.