Over the last few posts, I realized that I have been kind of harsh regarding some of the available information on ventriloquism. The problem isn’t the fact the information is available. The problem is, the information is WRONG.
I had a bit of free time to day and went poking around the Internet again. Must be a glutton for punishment, because I found something else to drive me insane…
When people take my on-line ventriloquism course, I tend to get a lot of emails around lesson twenty- three. Lesson Twenty-Three teaches you how to master the labial ‘P’. You cannot say the letter ‘P’ without using your lips. This means you have to use a sound substitution. In the e-mails, students tell me they never thought they could get a ‘P’ that sounded correct until I showed them the proper method.
As I was browsing through a free ventriloquist lesson web site, the instructor advised students to use the letter/sound substitute “kL”, creating a “guttural sound in the back of the throat”. I’m not sure where they learned this technique that was so freely shared – but it is incorrect.
I kL-ray I never have to sit in an audience and watch that “ventriloquist” kL-erform. I doubt I could sit through the show if they kL-actice what they kL-reach.
Avoid the misinformation. If you want to be a ventriloquist, learn ventriloquism from someone who actually earns their living entertaining audiences as a ventriloquist and Preaches what they Practice…
