1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:04,600 When we think of the sound we produce 2 00:00:04,690 --> 00:00:07,410 we must keep this picture in mind 3 00:00:07,420 --> 00:00:09,450 This picture represents us 4 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:13,280 our huge nasal cavity 5 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,490 Is going to provide us with moisture 6 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,250 If our nose does not work 7 00:00:19,250 --> 00:00:22,200 we will always have problems with the voice 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,720 because the nose is the source of water for the vocal cords 9 00:00:26,030 --> 00:00:28,030 Also, we have a tube 10 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,180 that goes from top to bottom, which is the pharynx 11 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,830 This tube, or pipe 12 00:00:32,830 --> 00:00:36,850 ends in a kind of valve 13 00:00:36,850 --> 00:00:41,540 that lets in air but not food 14 00:00:41,540 --> 00:00:44,770 The valve is always open 15 00:00:44,770 --> 00:00:47,990 (fortunately, if not, we wouldn't breathe) 16 00:00:47,990 --> 00:00:52,560 But closes the moment something that is not air enters 17 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,810 This valve is called the larynx 18 00:00:56,810 --> 00:01:00,900 At the back we have another very narrow tube, 19 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:03,310 which can be opened, called the esophagus 20 00:01:03,310 --> 00:01:08,690 The esophagus and the stomach are situated closely to the vocal cords 21 00:01:08,690 --> 00:01:14,200 here is the esophagus and here are the vocal cords 22 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:21,280 We have seen in recent times that a digestive problem affects the voice a lot 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,500 You go to the doctor with a voice problem 24 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:24,460 and they say 25 00:01:24,460 --> 00:01:27,650 "Your original problem is in the stomach, 26 00:01:27,650 --> 00:01:31,570 it is in the esophagus, you have reflux" 27 00:01:31,570 --> 00:01:39,000 The voice is not only the vocal cords, it is many other things 28 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:46,500 But let's not talk just about the voice but more specifically 29 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:52,840 about the voice that moves in a very special way, i.e., singing 30 00:01:52,850 --> 00:01:57,330 What is singing? Movement, movement. 31 00:01:57,330 --> 00:02:00,600 Moving faster or slower but moving 32 00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:04,140 This is vibrating. And what happens when we vibrate? 33 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:07,230 Do we vibrate on our own? NO! 34 00:02:07,230 --> 00:02:11,010 Let someone else do the vibrating 35 00:02:11,010 --> 00:02:14,620 and if there is good communication, 36 00:02:14,620 --> 00:02:16,750 what are we going to get? 37 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,040 We will put everyone in sync. 38 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,940 It is well known, that at a concert of a great singer 39 00:02:25,940 --> 00:02:30,480 there are thousands of people singing, dancing, laughing 40 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:35,690 to the beat of the singer who is giving 41 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:38,290 the rhythm, music and life 42 00:02:38,290 --> 00:02:45,240 Singing is mainly letting something out from inside you 43 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,820 And what happens when something comes out? 44 00:02:47,820 --> 00:02:52,060 This is going to move the body, it is going to vibrate the whole body, 45 00:02:52,060 --> 00:02:54,300 it is going to vibrate the vocal cords 46 00:02:54,330 --> 00:02:57,830 Singing is something very deep, very primitive 47 00:02:57,830 --> 00:03:04,600 Possibly the first words of our ancestors 48 00:03:04,610 --> 00:03:09,070 were "Uhuauhua" and would not be "Hi, how are you?" 49 00:03:12,570 --> 00:03:16,130 They would have been, sounds produced in a singing way 50 00:03:16,130 --> 00:03:21,000 which go way back in the history of man.