The Voice Mistakes Holding You Back with Vocal Coach Roger Love

Really? What's the trick? Well, the trick is most people, when they speak, they're doing a couple of things that is, first of all, making their vocal cords unhappy, dry, red, puffy, and swollen.

One of the things that people do is they breathe in through their mouth.

Okay.

They take breaths thinking that I've got a mouth, it opens, I can get a lot of air in.

Yeah, I was going to say, is that what we're supposed to do? No,

actually, every breath you take in through your mouth dries out your throat and dries out your vocal cords.

What you're supposed to do and what babies do, and we were all born doing, was breathing in through our noses.

Because when you breathe in through the nose, It goes through filters called turbinates, and those filters are always moist.

So every breath you take into your nose, when the air gets to your throat, to your vocal cords, it doesn't dry it out.

Let's do a little test right now on everybody that's listening.

Okay.

Take a big breath like me.

I'm gonna do this.

I'm gonna go.

Take a big breath like that, go.

Did you feel the dryness in your throat when you did that? Yes.

Do it again, so you remember.

Feels dry in the back part of throat.

Now close your lips and breathe gently into your nose.

Do you feel any dryness?

No, you don't feel it in the back of your

throat.

No. Yeah.

So that's 50% of diaphragmatic breathing.

You're supposed to breathe into your nose.