Accents & Voice Impressions - From Beginner to Pro

Do you always find yourself trying new accents and impressions? Or just enjoy impressions and wondered how people get started? Then this may be the class for you! I’m here to help you along the way and formalise the process a bit so you can take it to the next level!

Who am I?

I’m Charlie, nice to meet you! An Impressionist, voice actor and standup comedian with over 390,000 subscribers over on youtube. Handily, I am also a fully qualified maths teacher with 2 years of experience in the classroom. So I know how to break quite complex skills down into manageable chunks.

In this class you will learn:

• The 5 fundamentals to any impression.
• Techniques for deconstructing any voice and how to recreate the building blocks with your own voice.
• How to manage your practice and motivation effectively.
• Adding layers of polish and little tricks to really give your voices the ‘wow’ effect.

You’ll be working on an impression of your choice as the class project and at the end you’ll have the opportunity to upload it for some tips on improvement. I look forward to seeing you in the project space!

• Introduction
• Collecting Assets
• The Art of Listening
• The 5 Basics: Pitch
• The 5 Basics: Accent
• The 5 Basics: Rhythm
• The 5 Basics: Body Language
• The 5 Basics: Defects
• Exercise 1: Dissecting the voice
• Exercise 2: Facial expressions
• Advanced 1: Mouth Shape
• Mixing targeted and untargeted practise
• Practise with and without visuals
• The Top up
• Spaced repetition & 'The Marination'
• Following the clues
• Impersonation vs Impression
• Talent vs 'Circumstantial' advantages
• Muscle memory and actionable sub skills
• Working out your range
• Choosing starter words and phrases
• Hardware beginner
• Hardware intermediate
• Branching out
• Looking back with a critical eye
• Finding the Impression hook
• Advanced 2: Adding the laugh
• Advanced 3: Going conversational
• Technique 1: The jump
• Technique 2: The trigger
• Technique 3: Layering up an impression
• Technique 4: Voice first, character after
• Advanced 4: Drawing on emotion
• Mastering the base
• Pitfall 1: The changing voice
• Pitfall 2: Presenting too early
• Deep dive: David Attenborough
• Deep dive: Gandalf
• Deep dive: Morgan Freeman
• Conclusion