Now there are technically four registers for the human voice. I've listed three of them here, which are the ones that you probably want to avoid. They're not particularly useful if you want to speak in power. The whistle register exists. It's not available to most people, and certainly not available to me. Here's a recording of Mariah Carey demonstrating the whistle register.

I don't think you'll be using that very often, really, unless you're an extremely adept singer. And it becomes useful to you it's a it's the highest register of the human voice. One down from there, but equally not tremendously useful in normal conversation is the falsetto register. Those of you who are Monty Python fans will probably recognize this in the sense of he's a very naughty boy. That's it's a slightly comical register, generally for men to adopt. It is adopted by older women in some societies to stay out of the dominating male traffic lanes.

So I've had elderly relatives who Hello dear, how are you? they'll speak very much in that gentle, soft falsetto way, instead of being in the full power of their voice, specifically in order to appear less threatening or not threatening at all. It's used a great deal in singing it can be very, very useful there. So here's an example. Chris Martin of Coldplay isn't the first person to sing in falsetto. Of course, you think back to the 1970s.

If you remember that far back in the BGS, or even the Four Seasons Frankie Valley in the 60s, there have been great falsetto singers throughout history who have used this to tremendous advantage. Again, not so much if you want to speak powerfully. The Third register the teller mention which I really urge you to avoid is becoming more and more common in the modern world. It's called vocal fry. And it sounds like this. Now, you may not think you'd speak like that ever.

But how many times have you heard somebody talking like this? Yeah, we're really excited about this. And especially unfortunately, coming from the west coast of America, it's become a very common way for people to speak. If you want to research this and give yourself a laugh. There's plenty of stuff on the internet in YouTube showing vocal fry and how negatively it can land. It's not a great way to speak.

If you want to put across confidence or assertiveness. I wouldn't suggest using it in an important conversation. It's lazy, it sounds disengaged. It's also not great for your voice. And I think it's a great shame to hear people speaking like this because it's not the power of the voice. Your voice is this wonderful instrument and you're leaving it in this croaky style.

That's just sad, I think please try to avoid vocal fry. The register that we want to focus on and use generally is called the modal register. It's the one of the four, that's the most useful. You would have heard people talking about head voice, neck voice, chest voice, these are all inside of the modal register. Now you can practice within the modal register, moving your voice, and this is partly cultural. So a lot of cultures tend to speak with a very nasal, you could call it a nose voice if you like.

Here's an example. Okay, hi again, my name is Tomas. I am from Colombia. I learned English. So that's a very have a nasal voice up here, isn't it in the head in the neck, maybe a little bit, resonating very much in the nasal cavities. It's all about where you resonate from.

You have many resonating chambers for your voice in your body. Starting in Your head there are lots of hollows in your head, your sinuses, for example, which resonate sound and change the way your voice comes out. Now the biggest resonating chamber, of course, is your chest, which is a seriously large one, and tends to resonate in a much deeper tone than you could using the nose or the the head. For example, here's a chest voice you may recognize. I looked at like an actor would voice with lip synching, but there was no lip. So I was lucky.

I just watched his his body language and now that's James Earl Jones talking about voicing Darth Vader when the bodybuilder David Prowse was in the suit said nothing and the voice was provided without lips and because he said, but you can hear the depth of that voice. He's resonating in his chest. Now, as I said, this is partly cultural, and you can change it, even if your culture and your background is to speak a certain way. donating in the chest is very powerful. And I would suggest if you tend to resonate in the head like this and speak or speak from the throat like this, it can rather repress your voice, and you'll hear the difference as I move down and start resonating in my chest. Now the best way to do that is put your hand on your chest, and start to feel the vibrations of your voice in your hand.

It's simply about resonating. Of course, your voice is always created by the vocal cords in your throat. But you can intentionally move the place you're resonating from. How do you do that just with practice, just practice, put your hand on your chest and start to feel. Take a deep breath of course and start to feel the voice vibrating your hand. With practice, you'll be able to move your voice to the throat and even up to the nose so you can change the tambour of your voice by where you resonate.

Practice that one