Tongue Twisters Based on All the Sounds of American English

      I've already told you how important I believe Tongue Twisters are to singing, acting, and presentation skills, in general.  I put these Twisters together to specifically target individual consonant sounds.  We all have different "challenging" sounds.  It could be that as a child you struggled with a speech impediment; it could be that you have a slight over or under bite.  Whatever the challenge, don't take it personally and try to be completely honest with yourself; this is just another wonderful tool for improving yourself.  All of these "tools" need to be viewed that way.  If you can check your ego, you can improve your game, your beautiful voice.  Check out a few of these:
  • Bad boys beat big, burly bears bringing better banjos.
  • Dirty, dingy dingoes down dim-witted dragons dunking donuts.
  • Fat, fruity Fig Newtons found firefighters afraid of pharaohs.
  • Giddy, green goblins give gumdrops great gobs of glue.
  • Heroes have horrible, hiccups here, having hearts hailing hallelujahs.
  • Giant jellyfish jump from jars joining gelatoed jalopies.
  • Cathy couldn’t catch the queen, claiming Carol carried crates caught combing Cox’s Christmas keys.
  • Little Larry laughed loudly, linking loads of laundry, laden with leopards.
  • My Mother made many murky, microwaved mud pies, multiplying millimeters of monkey milk into moldy, mutated mail.
  • Northern gnats near nests of narcissistic knights nail pneumonia-gnarled noises next to funny, knobby nomads.
  • Ming sings swings ching-a-ling, ching-a-ling, bringing Ling Ling twining, gangling, jingling tongues.
  • Happy, pappy, porky pigs pick precious pyro pygmies.
  • Wrong, rich robots write really raunchy Roman rhymes.
  • Silly Sally sought Sarah’s still, small voice to sing soaring silhouettes Saturday’s in Singapore.
  • Tiny Tessie told Tina tall tales talking to terrible, torrid triceratops, towering toward Tucson.
  • Vivica voted for valuable victories, vexed by Vanessa’s five vociferous valiants.
  • Wee Willie walked way west of Williamsburg, Washington.
  • Young yellow youths yanked yards of yoyos, yelling yodeling yoo-hoos.
  • Buzzing scissors cause zebras to zero into xylophones.
  • Treasures in azure jurists measure divisions of genuine allegiance.
  • Chuckie Cheese watches questions of future cheerleaders chanting chewy choices.
  • Short, shifting sharks should shout shaky, shallow signatures of sure future tensions.
  • Theo thought thongs were thick, thorough feathers of thatched thoroughbreds.
  • Ally always asks Alvin around Albuquerque.
  • Every egg has a better edge than leopard friends enjoying bread.
  • Ingrid isn’t building igloos, only sieving busy English myths.
  • Orange swans aren’t honest. 
  • Muddy monkeys munch troubled, flooded doves.
  • Cudzoo bushes could wolf down wooden boots.
  • Jacob Ailey’s baby weighed eight cakes worth of straight snail ale’s.
  • Eli eats electric eels each receiving key people.
  • Heidi flies right over the island night to night, buying pies as she flies.
  • Holy moly, roly poly, bony pony, stony lonely.
  • Who knew June flew new, blue shoes?
  • You few view yule beauties.
  • Oily buoys bounce coins to boys.
  • How now brown, shouting clown cows.
  • Dollar doctor; chauffeur augur; ladder bladder madder hatter.
  • Larry’s ear hair was paired to their square pears by prayer.
  • The sergeant’s heart laughed as the car took its bath.
  • Pearl burned Myrtle’s word journey, turning Earl’s bird purple.
  • Paul called the ball small though it was a war of taunt sauce.
  • My ear steered me clear of the pier.
  • The tourist lured the pure manure, touring carefully through the sewer stew.
     I hope you had lots of fun with these and that you will use them over and over to strengthen your articulation skills.  As I've mentioned before, these also work great with vocal exercises.  Some of them you may need to amend slightly but they're really easy to use with 5-tone scales up and back or with 3-ton3 arpeggiated scales, such as Holy, moly, roly, poly, bowls or for a 5-tone, Silly Sally sought Sarh's still small voice to sing.  As I said, they have to be a little "amended" but they work perfectly in your daily vocal exercise routine.  Very soon, I will be selling some custom recordings, including sets of Tongue Twisters and Tongue Twister Vocal Exercises.  Be on the lookout.  Thanks for reading!  Please be sure to send me any and all questions, comments, and suggestions for future blog post topics.  As always, if you have any questions about my lessons or me, check out my website at www.SingitForward.net.  Otherwise, enjoy your voice!  Keep singing!  Sing it forward!

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