Notes On Notes

Tongue Twisters

Tongue twisters can be a fun and useful addition to your vocal warm-up, whether you’re a singer or a speaker. They encourage flexibility in your articulators (your tongue, lips and teeth). Flexibility is important because a flexible instrument gets tired less quickly. 

Don’t try to pronounce all the words at lightning speed. Slowly, steadily and accurately is the best way to begin. Then gradually increase your speed without sacrificing accuracy. 

Here are few to get you started:

She sells seashells by the seashore. She’s a sashimi chef. 

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

You know New York. You need New York. You need unique New York.

Irish wristwatch.

Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better. So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better. So ‘t was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood.

How much myrtle would a wood turtle hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle? A wood turtle would hurdle as much myrtle as a wood turtle could hurdle if a wood turtle could hurdle myrtle.

Give me the gift of a grip-top sock, A clip drape shipshape tip top sock. Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock, But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock. None of your fantastic slack swap slop from a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop. Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed knickerbocker sock With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock. Not a supersheet seersucker rucksack sock, not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik’s sock off a hodge- podge moss-blotched scotch-botched block. Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.

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