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Start With Simple Sounds:
* Stretch and yawn as you hold the ending "ah" sound. Be sure to relax your throat and jaws.
* Open your mouth, eyes, and face as wide as you can on the last syllable of the phrase "Mumula Mumula Mumula."
* Make the following sounds:
mmmmmmmmmm
zzzzzzzzzz
eeeeeeeeee
nnnnnnnnnn
vvvvvvvvvv
ththththth
mum mum mum

Work on Articulation:
Say the following silly statements starting slow at first and then speeding up. Articulating each phrase correctly is the goal.

Red letter, yellow letter
Eleven benevolent elephants
Good blood, bad blood
Teaching ghosts to sing
The big, black-backed bumblebee
A critical cricket critic
Selfish shellfish
Really rural
Unique New York
The tip of the tongue, the lips, the teeth
To titillate your tastebuds, we've got these tasty tidbits
Hemorrhoidal removal

Cognates:
You should feel a pulse in your diaphram with the following sounds.

unvoiced -> PUH PUH PUH
voiced -> BUH BUH BUH

unvoiced -> TUH TUH TUH
voiced -> DUH DUH DUH

unvoiced -> KUH KUH KUH
voiced -> GUH GUH GUH

If you want more on vocal warmups. Look up some tongue twisters and try to with speed and good articulation.

I like to use this little exercise:

Back in black, I hit the sack,
I've been too long, I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm let loose from the noose,
That's kept me hangin' about
I been livin like a star 'cause it's gettin' me high,
Forget the hearse, 'cause I never die
I got nine lives, cat's eyes
abusing every one of them and running wild

[Chorus]
'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black!

Back in a band,i got Cadillac,
Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack
Yes I'm in a band with a gang,
they gotta catch me if they want me to hang
'Cause I'm back on the track and I'm beatin' the flack,
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now, I'm just a makin' my pay,
Don't try to push your luck, just get outta my way

[Chorus]
'Cause I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yeah, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black!
Let's go!

[Solo]

[Chorus]
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm back! Yes, I'm back!
Well, I'm baaack, baaack...
Well, I'm back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black-ow!

Aww yeah! Let's go!
Keep on goin'! Yeah yeah!
Yeah... aww yeah yeah!
Here we go!

[Chorus]
Well, I'm baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (Well, I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack... (I'm back!)
Baaack...
Yes, back in black,
Yes, I'm back in black...

Outta sight!

here's mine, if it means anything:


You can tell the world you never was my girl
You can burn my clothes when I'm gone
Or you can tell your friends just what a fool I've been
And laugh and joke about me on the phone

You can tell my arms to go back onto the phone
You can tell my feet to hit the floor
Or you can tell my lilps to tell my fingertips
They won't be reaching out for you no more

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man


You can tell your ma I moved to Arkansas
Or you can tell your dog to bite my leg
Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lips
He never really liked me anyway

Oh tell your Aunt Louise, tell anything you please
Myself already knows that I'm okay
Oh you can tell my eyes to watch out for my mind
It might be walking out on me today

But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man


But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man


Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man


Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man

I have to admit Alex, you won.