Vocal Warmup Tongue Twisters

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Vocal Warmup Tongue Twisters

These exercises are more than just fun.


Always warm up all aspects of your vocal instrument
including "the lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue."

These first two are my overall favorites. M and N


They are particularly good for achieving
a crisp, frontal placement of consonants Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue,
the tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips. She stood upon the balcony, inimically mimicking
him
A box of biscuits hiccupping while amicicably welcoming him in.
A box of mixed biscuits
And a biscuit mixer Any noise annoys an oyster,
but an noisy noise annoys an oyster most.

S and SH you know New York


you need New York
Should saucy sharks seek shelter soon? you know you need unique New York

The sixth sick shiek's sixth sheep's sick. Bobby Bibby bought a bat
Bobby Bibby bought a ball
She sits and shines shoes With his bat Bob banged the ball
And when she sits she shines all day Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldy Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
A skunk sat on a stump.
Boo! cried Bobby, Bad luck, ball!
The skunk thought the stump stunk.
Bad luck, Bobby, Bad Luck ball.
The stump thought the skunk stunk.
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bibby's blowing bubbles.
Sister Suzy's sewing shirts for soldiers
Such skill at sewing shirts
Black Bart was a smart marksman.
my shy young sister Suzy shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Saying they'd sooner sleep on thistles Tip-of-the-Tongue R  and TH
Than the short serge shirts for soldiers
shy young sister Suzy sews. Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran

Sister Susie went to sea Rosco the rum runner rubbed out Rudy the rat
To see the sea, you see. for ruining his rum running receipts.
The sea she saw was a saucy sea,
A sort of saucy sea saw she. Thistle sticks sixty six thousand and six thistle
sticks
Crisp B and BL
Theophulous Thistle, the thistle sifter
Barren Beacon Beckons Bacon Baron
thrust a thousand thistles through the thick of his
Good Blood, Bad Blood, Good Blood, Bad Blood, thumb.
etc.
Red Blood, Blue Blood, Red Blood, Blue Blood, Just Plain Fun
etc.
A big black bug bit a big black bear My dame hath a lame tame crane.
and the big black bear bled blood. My dame hath a crane that is lame.
Oh gentle Jane, doth my dame's lame tame crane
This black bug bled blue-black blood leave and come home again?
while the other black bug bled blue.
What a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to
Better Botter bought some butter two;
But she said this butter's bitter A thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do.
If I put it in my batter For they'll beat a tattoo, at twenty to two
It will make my batter bitter A rat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tattoo
So she bought some better butter And a dragon will come when he hears the drum,
Put it in her bitter batter At a minute or two to two today, at a minute or
And it made her bitter batter better two to two.

When tweedle beetles battle About Socks


With paddles in a puddle Give me the gift of a grip-top sock,
They call it a tweedle beetle puddle paddle A clip drape shipshape tip top sock.
battle. Not your spinslick slapstick slipshod stock,
Dr. Seuss But a plastic, elastic grip-top sock.
None of your fantastic slack swap slop
From a slap dash flash cash haberdash shop.
Consonants with Vowel Shadings
Not a knick knack knitlock knockneed
knickerbocker sock
I carried the married character over the barrier. With a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top
clock.
The foreign authorities put Dorothy in an Not a supersheet seersucker ruck sack sock,
orange forest. Not a spot-speckled frog-freckled cheap sheik's
sock
Yes, she is pure, but so is Mrs. Muir. You're just Off a hodge-podge moss-blotched scotch-botched
unsure. block.
Please do not lure me with your unsure cure. Nothing slipshod drip drop flip flop or glip glop
Tip me to a tip top grip top sock.
The leath police dissmissith us, and that Dr. Seuss
sufficeth us.
"Will you walk a little faster," said the whiting to
Subtle Difference Between W and WH the snail.
"There's a porpoise close behind us
Which witch whined when the wine     and he's treading on my tail.
was spilled on the wailing whale? See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all
advance.
They are waiting on a shingle;
"I don't care a whit for your wit or whims,"
    will you come and join the dance?
said Warren Wharton.
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you
Will you join the dance?
Whether the weather be cold Won't you, will you, won't you, will you,
Or whether the weather be hot Won't you join the dance?"    
Whatever the weather we'll weather the Lewis Caroll
weather
Whether we like it or not.

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