Your lips must always be slightly parted in a position that is natural in appearance for ventriloquist speech. Your teeth must be slightly parted as well, so the sound can pass through freely without the feeling that you are forcing the words through your teeth. Leave your lips parted slightly in a position natural in appearance. Now, drop the jaw just enough for your teeth to separate slightly, no more than one-fourth inch.
With your mouth in this Ventriloquist Mouth Position, take a close look at your reflection in a mirror. Look at your lips; feel the position of your jaw and teeth. Make a mental note of these so you can assume this position of your mouth at will. Become conscious of the muscles involved in this so you can begin gaining control of them. The jaw should be held firmly but not rigidly for the Ventriloquist Mouth Position.
If your jaw is rigid, too much energy goes to control the jaw and you will not have proper control of the mouth and lips. If the jaw is completely relaxed, your lips may be motionless but you will lose proper control of the jaw.
If the jaw is simply held firmly you will have proper control. Some ventriloquists are concerned that people will see their tongue move inside their mouth when the teeth are parted slightly. Because of the letter P, those words are impossible to say unless the lips touch on each word. It is time to practice in front of a mirror. This is all of the letters except the labials:. When you see movement of lips or jaw, make a mental note of how that movement felt.
Soon you will be able to determine when they move just by how your face feels. Always try to say the your letters and words as clearly and distinctly as possible.
At this stage you are going for clarity, not speed. Speak slowly and sound out the letters while making sure your lips and jaw do not move. Then repeat the entire exercise.
Continue to practice until you can say all 20 letters without any trace of lip or jaw movement. To gain complete control over these letters you should practice this exercise daily. You must continue to practice every day. Even the pros practice daily. Your lines will start with a V for Ventriloquist. F starts the lines of your Figure or Puppet. Let your lips move as needed at this point.
But keep your jaw still. Keep your voice forward in your mouth and pronounce each word as clearly as you can without jaw movement. Use a mirror or touch your fingers lightly to your chin to detect jaw movement. Stop on any word that caused your jaw to move and repeat the word until you are able to say it without any movement. Practice often, pick up a newspaper, book, your homework or office work and read it aloud using your ventriloquial voice and mouth position.
As you read or talk aloud in your vent voice using the ventriloquial mouth position, you can try to form the words without the use of your lips, but this will be impossible for now on words that contain the labials : P, B, V, F, M, and W.
The goal at this point is to be able to notice how your tongue moves so you can speak easily and clearly in your ventriloquial voice. You want to be understood even when your jaw is held stationary and your mouth is in the ventriloquist mouth position. That can easily be said without moving the lips. For example, say:.
Try it:. That is because the sound of saying the letter includes a B Dou- B le-U. However you will seldom be saying the letter alone unless your puppet is reciting the alphabet, or you are saying names, etc.
For example:. We do that in order to add force to the breath that immediately follows carrying the vowel. It also changes the tone of these unique consonant and vowel combinations. You can do this without puckering your lips and still achieve the proper sound for the word. Say the words slowly and listen carefully to the sound of each word.
We will teach you to deal with these labials by substituting another consonant with similar sound. There is actually a way to say these letters without moving your lips. Trying to teach that here would be extremely difficult. For more advanced instruction we recommend the Learn-Ventriloquism Course.
Some labials have more than one substitute letter so you can experiment and determine which one works best for you. There is no one right or wrong method. If you talk to several ventriloquists, you will find some who enunciate the labials one way and some a different way.
Remember that many words and phrases can be changed from labial-rich to non- labial without losing any of their meaning or effectiveness. Some sources that teach ventriloquism suggest it is permissible to slur the labial substitutes if you cannot say them distinctly. It is NOT recommended. Why slur your ventriloquist speech when clear and distinct diction is possible without the use of your lips?
Ventriloquists who are willing to settle for less than their best in this one area have a tendency to accept less than the best from themselves in other areas of their entertainment performance as well. Learn to say even the most difficult of words distinctly. Remeber that while a word containing one of the labials may be difficult to say alone, it becomes much easier when it is a part of an entire sentence.
You may hear or feel the substitute labial, but most of your audience will not! Your audience hears the intended words. They are not ventriloquists so they do not listen to determine what you are doing to achieve ventriloquist speech.
There are actually several ways to create these sounds, which are very similar. Try it in your ventriloquist voice and mouth position:. Before we cover the letter B, there is an important secret we must tell you up front.
No matter what labial you say, or what substitution you use to say it, always think the letter or sound you are trying to make. Initially you must give very concentrated thought to the alternate letters. But with practice, you will learnto use the substitution without thought. That is when you can begin to listen and think the letter for the sound you are trying to make. It will help improve your diction.
You have at least two choices on how you can say this. You can also mix and match substitutions. Neller was one of the most technically skilled performers of ventriloquism in his day. He had precise diction without a trace of lip movement. And which labial sound? Only eight times is it actually a labial. It will take a lot of work to make these substitutions sound right. To me, they never did. So let me again stress:. You must actually learn to accurately say the labial letter with your tongue.
But you have to begin somewhere when learning to do this, and this is the easiest way. We also recommend you check out the following resources here on the International Ventriloquist Society website:. This entire tutorial, complete with graphics, is available for free download by right clicking the book cover on the left and saving the file to your computer, tablet or phone.
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