PRACTICE TIME FOR BEGINNER AND AMATEUR VENTRILOQUISTS
A beginner Ventriloquist may want to know how long should they practice every day. let me be clear, practice is not rehearsal, let me be clear a amateur Ventriloquist do not need more practice as they did when they were a beginner, what a amateur Ventriloquist need is more time on rehearsal time. as a beginner Ventriloquist you need about ten to twenty minutes of practice time in front of a mirror, this practice time is for lip control and voice control. The next time you practice on is manipulating your Ventriloquist puppet or dummy. practice on voice control first, voice control is changing your voice and your puppet voice as if two people are talking, then you practice lip control, speaking with out moving your lips. then practice both together lip control and voice control with your little helper in front of a mirror.. manipulating your Ventriloquist dummy is another beginners lesson that you want to combine with your lip control practice. practice up to twenty minutes a day. When you're not practicing as a beginner Ventriloquist, the other thing you should be doing is studying, you should study the art of ventriloquism at least two hours a day, when I was a beginner Ventriloquist my studying was twenty four seven so your studying can be unlimited, your rehearsal can be unlimited but practice time has to have a time limit.
First practice: voice control: voice control is speaking with your very own natural voice and a voice you create for your little helper or Ventriloquist puppet or dummy or character or Ventriloquist figure. in this practice you want to practice on changing your voice to the character voice smoothly. Your character voice should be totally different from your very own voice. When practicing voice control you can move your lips, voice control is all about voices, it's all about sound and it's all about you listening to the pitch of the voice and all about animating the tone. I would like for you to practice voice control with creativity also as in having your little helper voice say something you would not say such as we ain't got no money, then you would correct your little helper by saying, that's not good grammar, you don't "have" any money, I don't "have" any money, we don't "have" any money, do you understand? then your little helper says yes I understand, we're going to Starve!!!
if you hear someone speak in a tone of voice at your school go home and practice that tone of voice with your little helper, let your little helper do the tone of voice. voice control is for you and your character or characters to develope as separate personalities. This is why I suggest that you practice voice control before lip control, so when you do practice lip control you and your little helper can learn to speak separately and this is the true magic of a ventriloquist.
A practice comedy Ventriloquist skit below Ventriloquist vann and charter Sammy..
vann: I want to talk to you about your grammar...
Sammy: what you say?...
vann: your grammar...
Sammy: YO MAMA FOOL!.. I ain't gone let you talk about my momma and get away wit dat!!
vann: I didn't say yo mama...
Sammy: I heard you wit my cute soft little ears, LIAR!!
vann: I am not a liar...
Sammy: yes you are, liar liar liar pants on fire, look behind ya!..
vann: (turn around to look behind him)..
Sammy: GOT CHA!! (start laughing silently).
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As you can see in the "yo grammar skit" how the Ventriloquist tone of voice is nice and gentle, the character voice is up and down in volume, even the character voice at the end with laughter is voice control because the voice is a silent laugh. This voice control practice skit is for mostly the beginner Ventriloquist because the amateur Ventriloquists should be on this level already but the amateur can use this skit for a exercise. This practice skit will also teach about acting so the beginner will know what to do when they become a performing amateur Ventriloquist. You need to practice on the character lines in this skit as your voice rise up in volume and then switch down to a middle volume tone with a gentle vocabulary then your voice rise up in volume with a not so good educated vocabulary, then your voice at the end with voice volume completely down, your little helper will end the skit with pantomime.