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The Actor's Kit

Try Some Vocal Warm Ups!

What a to do to die today
At a minute or two till two.
A thing distinctly hard to say
But harder still to do.
We'll beat a tattoo at a twenty till two
With a rata ta tata ta tata ta too
And the dragon will come at the beat of a drum
At a minute or two till two today
At a minute or two till two.		 She stood on the balcony,
Inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping
Amicably welcoming him in.		 Amidst the mists
And fiercest frosts,
With barest wrists
and stoutest boasts,
He thrusts his fists against the post
And still insists he sees the ghost.
To sit in solemn silence
On a dull dark dock,
In a pestilential prison
With a lifelong lock.
Awaiting the sensation
Of a short sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper
On a big block block.
A dull dark dock.
A short sharp shock.
From a cheap and chippy chopper
On a big black block.		 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more.		 Plosives and Fricatives
F/V   T/D   K/G   S/Z   SH/J   P/B   TH/TH
Example of Pattern:  
fu fu fu fu fu fu fu fu fu fu...vu vu vu vu vu vu vu vu vu vu
fu fu fu fu...vu vu vu vu
fu fu fu...vu vu vu
fu fu fu...vu vu vu

(u is the "uh" sound)