Not all career fields need a warm-up routine, but in the world of Voice Over work I certainly do. It's very difficult and ill-advised to open up the first audition script of the day, click "Record", and just start reading.
No. That's how mistakes and frustrations start the day.
So, typically, I'll rehearse the script several times first to get my voice warmed up in addition to reciting monologues from memory. One trick to help with diction is to read the lines with a pencil in my mouth (learned that from my days on stage).
Recently though, I had a nostalgic memory of a song I hadn't thought about in over Forty years... (Yeah, I'm dating myself here...
