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DrewG
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at my school we have "I AM" speeches that make up about 95% of your grade final semester as you must give information like a autobiography, verbally about that person.

anyway, without intoxification, does anyone know how to make your voice sound raspy, or something like that? I am doing mine on Wild Bill Hickok.

Thanks, since it seems most forumers here know about this type of stuff...
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Jeku
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Yah... you talk in a raspy voice.

There's no physical way I can think of automatically making your voice raspy, as I presume you don't have a couple decades of smoking on your belt. Or you can go to a hockey game and shout for 4 hours straight. Your voice will be pretty raspy afterward.

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Nicholas Thompson
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I've heard that an extended period of shouting/screaming can sort of "damage" your voice to make it sound raspy... Problem is, you might sound a little loony just randomly screaming before hand... Plus if you get it wrong you might lose your voice.

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DrewG
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Quote: "Yah... you talk in a raspy voice.

There's no physical way I can think of automatically making your voice raspy, as I presume you don't have a couple decades of smoking on your belt. Or you can go to a hockey game and shout for 4 hours straight. Your voice will be pretty raspy afterward."


Alrighty, that should work.

Quote: "I've heard that an extended period of shouting/screaming can sort of "damage" your voice to make it sound raspy... Problem is, you might sound a little loony just randomly screaming before hand... Plus if you get it wrong you might lose your voice."


Yeah, I've done something like that before. I know Marine Corp Drill Instructors have a similar problem, for obvious reasons.
Anyway, Hickok would probably have a raspy voice, from what I've read.

Thanks.
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Matt Rock
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This will sound painful and uncomfortable, but you could gurgle hot sauce. I don't remember where I heard that, but I seem to remember hearing someone say that about making the voice sound raspy.

I did a comedy radio show for a pretty long time, and we had alternate characters and all that, so I got pretty used to emulating certain people's voices (pretty horribly, lol). I used to do the Gary Busey voice, always the funnest to perform because it had that raspy, groggy, "my neck was just raked like a pile of leaves" sound. To get that going I wouldn't drink anything for two hours before the show and then I'd slam a few cigarettes down. The problem with that, though, was that I'd have to kick off the show with the Gary Busey impression, then run off to drink a few cokes to get my voice back to normal, and I couldn't do that very often because it hurt like crazy. And yes, cokes... water doesn't do a dang thing for recovering rapidly from a raspy voice. Something about coke (maybe carbonation?) can get your voice back extremely fast.

But then again, you're doing a character who was performed "clean" on the show Deadwood. You should head out to the video store and rent the very first season of Deadwood and hear how that guy played him to get some ideas... as I remember it, his voice wasn't too raspy and he mainly just had that southern sound to his voice, and I thought he did that character extremely well. Just a few ideas


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Cash Curtis II
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Quote: "does anyone know how to make your voice sound raspy"

Drink acid and hope you survive to tell your raspy tale of weirdness.

Seriously though, if you don't have the voice for it you'll just sound absurd. You'll be Mild Bill the Big Dork. Try it now. Record yourself trying to sound raspy and hard core and upload it here and see what happens.


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Benjamin
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It should sound like this.

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Haha That's perfect


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Yea, Microsoft Sam rocks.

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scream and yell a lot before the presentation.


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Quote: "This will sound painful and uncomfortable, but you could gurgle hot sauce. I don't remember where I heard that, but I seem to remember hearing someone say that about making the voice sound raspy.

But then again, you're doing a character who was performed "clean" on the show Deadwood. You should head out to the video store and rent the very first season of Deadwood and hear how that guy played him to get some ideas... as I remember it, his voice wasn't too raspy and he mainly just had that southern sound to his voice, and I thought he did that character extremely well. Just a few ideas

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Thanks, I'll try that.


Quote: "Seriously though, if you don't have the voice for it you'll just sound absurd. You'll be Mild Bill the Big Dork. Try it now. Record yourself trying to sound raspy and hard core and upload it here and see what happens."


I am hardcore, somewhat, but I'll see if I can rasp up my voice, and I may post it up here.

Quote: "It should sound like this."


Yeah, but nah.

Quote: "scream and yell a lot before the presentation."

I thought about that, but last time I did heavy duty screaming, I wasn't able to do much of loud speaking the next day, so hot sauce and yelling may be my plan. Either or.

Thanks for the tips.. I appreciate it...
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Generally you just listen and try to imitate the voice and imagine how they're using their voice when their speaking, perhaps look in the mirror with your underwear on trying to impersonate Robert DeNiro...wh I say that I don't know, some reason I think of that as soon as I think of impersonations, I must have seen it somewhere...

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Say something in a whisper, but a loud whisper so it sounds like a hiss. Now lift the back of your tongue to touch your pallet slightly, like when your saying the letter "K"... just the "ke" part.

The loud whisper combined with the air forced through the small gap between your pallet and your tongue should create a hissing/raspy voice.
Remember don't touch your pallet with your tongue, just create a smaller gap.

Now to gain a raspy voice combine the above with a more stronger speech.... less whisper.

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Quote: "Say something in a whisper, but a loud whisper so it sounds like a hiss. Now lift the back of your tongue to touch your pallet slightly, like when your saying the letter "K"... just the "ke" part.

The loud whisper combined with the air forced through the small gap between your pallet and your tongue should create a hissing/raspy voice.
Remember don't touch your pallet with your tongue, just create a smaller gap.

Now to gain a raspy voice combine the above with a more stronger speech.... less whisper."


What's a pallet, and I don't think I'm sounding correctly, do you have any other ideal steps. Thanks for that bit of info though, it was informative.

And I think Hickok had a raspy voice because of his drinking nature, and so that would give me an idea of why I'd want to sound raspy. Not that I will ever drink, since that stuff kills your pancreas, but because of his uberness with a rifle/pistol/ et cetera, et cetera.

Thanks everyone.
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Quote: "Not that I will ever drink, since that stuff kills your pancreas"

Drinking kills your liver. Your pancreas can shut down from too many carbohydrates, then you get diabetes.


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Quote: "What's a pallet, and I don't think I'm sounding correctly"

Sorry i spelt it wrong. Its actually "Palate" Its the roof of your mouth.

Really force the air between the gap. If you do it softly it would sound too hissy.

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