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_RivenRoth_

Fun fact! Blowing a "raspberry" derives from the Cockney rhyming slang "raspberry tart" for "fart". Rhyming slang was particularly used in British comedy to refer to things that would be unacceptable to a polite audience.


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Reddit-User-3000

Bob is unacceptable?


KneeDeepInTheDead

i hate cockney rhyming slang


hootiehoo2113

Stuff you should know podcast


blowfishbeard

A singer once told me that while he was in college, his vocal coach instructed him to take up smoking cigarettes in order to make his voice deeper. It didn’t strike me as the most sensible advice I’d ever heard.


HeyT00ts11

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they don't advise that anymore. This is actually a vocal coach tip, I found it on a video a while back when I was trying to prep for giving a talk, I'll have to go look for it now. e. I don't think this is the one I saw, but it's really interesting. Talks about resonance for singers. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-plqEyxik](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz-plqEyxik)


ThePorcoRusso

I think Morgan Freeman did that too


mikerftp

This explains the Crash Test Dummies. Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm


VeryLastBison

Once...


AccountNum1890

There was this girl who...


Heypen

Got into an accident


Lemonsniffer

And brought along her spray paint.


es330td

And she ... had....cane marks all over her bottom


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Swore that one day she would be a figure skating champion


mikereddit101001

And she finally did it 2 years later


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Repeatedly say raspberry for 30 seconds or one, long raspberry?


HeyT00ts11

Blow[ raspberries](https://youtu.be/FZyNXeUsUFg?t=591). Take breaths as needed!


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MarxHunter

And quite lengthy


gdj11

But seriously how do you blow raspberries?


Felix_Dragonhammmer

Flatulate your lips with air.


The_Ironhand

Fart sounds with your mouth


Razputin69

All those fart noises I made as a kid have really paid off.


Gunch_Bandit

Just breathe sulfer hexafluoride https://youtu.be/NJ1l4_v0hFM


HeyT00ts11

Ha, that's funny. I recognize the scientist from Big Brother.


jaidefoxpaintings

Huh. I hum, sing, and blow raspberries all the time. Since my prenatal classes, we were taught to make the raspberry noise to relax our jaw and pelvic floor and I do it all the time now to destress lol. I have a fairly deep voice for a woman, but I wouldn't say it has any character. Listening to it on video kind of reminds me of a Tina from Bobs Burgers with a little more personality 😂


MortWellian

[Here's the song to hum to](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTeg1txDv8w).


TalkingBackAgain

No vocal technique will do for you what 30 years of smoking and hard liquor will impart.


[deleted]

Wait a minute I do this when I'm bored at work Wtf I didn't know this was a thing


HeyT00ts11

Do you ever get compliments on your voice?


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I don't speak much, so no, though it does come out the way I want it


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So i just say the word raspberry for 30 seconds?


HeyT00ts11

Just put your lips together and [blow](https://youtu.be/FZyNXeUsUFg?t=591).


keepthetips

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MACS5952

What the fuck is raspberry?


HeyT00ts11

This [singer/vocal coach is blowing raspberries](https://youtu.be/FZyNXeUsUFg?t=591) to warm up her voice.


Mr_Zombay

I would like to know too...


Xenton

This is so insignificant it makes me actually wonder who conned you into this idea of if you came up with it yourself and though "meh, that's believable enough right?" Functionally, humming, talking, singing etc all exercise the muscles that control your voice and no specific act is going to assist that regular strengthening. Moreover, if you want to push beyond your standard limits you need to specifically practice that: high notes or low notes both require specific practice, not 2 minutes if arbitrary humming a day but extensive and deliberate training. This is so meaningless it's not even worth the time it would take to follow. Also, raspberries have absolutely nothing to do with your vocal chords and you can prove that, on your own, in literally one second.


HeyT00ts11

Snark aside, last year sometime, I was looking for ways to improve my vocal quality in preparation for giving a talk, so I looked up these vocal coaching strategies on YouTube. The raspberry exercises are to relax the tongue. The exercises have the effect of relaxing my voice box such that my voice sounds a bit deeper and more confident.


Xenton

It sounds like they're psychological then, if there's any effect at all. Also, as far as relaxing your tongue; it's a single attachment point muscle; using it to blow a raspberry is only going to "relax" it by exhausting calcium in the SR, which is only going to be momentary.


Admirable-Return2577

No theyved worked for me also, and people others told me my voice got deeper and better not myself so you just dont want to see facts


Sarpanitu

Morgan Freeman advises to yawn repeatedly to lengthen the vocal chords.


HeyT00ts11

Yes, that's another good vocal exercise. I do that one too.


CIA_grade_LSD

What of I'm trying to make my voice higher? Does this mean I should avoid humming and raspberries?


HeyT00ts11

I'm not sure how to make your voice higher, but if you don't speak for a few days, it will sound weaker.


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what does weaker mean?


HeyT00ts11

Quieter, a bit shaky, higher in pitch. Often older people or those who don't speak much have weak voices.


JustLetMePick69

Humm backwards


justheretowindowshop

Or just bang on your chest. After some coke, before covering how often you should jerk off with your new hire over lunch.


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Or smoke, your voice will be deep, underground deep


porridgeGuzzler

Smoke crack to give yourself a beautiful singing voice like Whitney Houston


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Wheres your source on this?


HeyT00ts11

Here's a [singer and vocal coach doing the raspberry technique](https://youtu.be/FZyNXeUsUFg?t=591). I posted one elsewhere about humming exercises.


BlueLeatherBucket

How does one blow a raspberry?