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Interview with professional musician and singing teacher: Matt Peach- Part 2

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Interview with professional musician and singing teacher: Matt Peach- Part 2

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Interview with professional musician and singing teacher: Matt Peach- Part 1

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Interview with professional musician and singing teacher: Matt Peach- Part 1

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'The soft palate is the posterior muscular extension of the hard palate which together, with the soft palate,  make up the palate of the oral cavity and the floor of the nasal cavity. This article will discuss the soft palate in detail including its borders, its function, its general anatomy, its musculature and its possible pathology.' 'The soft palate is multi-functional and aids speech and the pronunciation of velar consonants along with the dorsum of the tongue. When swallowing, it rises to close the nasal passages and prevent any food or liquid from entering into the nasal cavity.'  (The Editors at Voice and Speech Source, Sieroslawska, A)

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'The hard palate is the horizontal bony plate that makes a subsection of the palate of the mouth. It makes the anterior two-thirds of the roof of the oral cavity.' 'It is also essential, along with the tongue, to create certain phonetic sounds. When a person has a cleft palate for example, they are either unable to pronounce these sounds or they do but with a distinct nasal vibration which makes their diction very unclear.'  (The Editors at Voice and Speech Source, Sieroslawska, A)

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'The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.' The hard palate provides space for the tongue to move freely and supplies a rigid floor to the nasal cavity so that pressures within the mouth do not close off the nasal passage. The soft palate is composed of muscle and connective tissue, which give it both mobility and support. This palate is very flexible.' (The Editors at Voice and Speech Source)

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'The fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.' The tongue is important for speech because it's the articulator of speak for humans and helps us say words with more than one syllable. (The Editors at NAA, 2016)

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There's lots of consequences for having poor breath habits, one of these is the nervous system becomes unbalanced, and this 'results in a tense body and much higher levels of stress', additionally your airways get tighter and blood vessels constrict which in turn means less energy gets produced. There are 5 simple ways to proper breathing so you can have the correct breath pressure and everything functions the way it should these 5 ways are;
1. Breath through the nose- as your nose refines and prepares the air coming in which helps your body use it efficiently
2. Breath with your diaphragm- it helps your lungs with gas exchange, 'massages' your stomach, liver and intestines, good for the immune system, decreases pressure on chest and belly which in turn the chest becomes more relaxed
3. Breathe Relaxed- just try to be relaxed when breathing as it helps your health, means you have more energy and its easier to be happy from a relaxed state of mind.
4. Breathe Rhythmically- 'The hormones in the body follow our natural rhythm. One example is melatonin that is released when you’re going to sleep. Optimal breathing is no different: When everything is in tune, your body functions at it’s very best.'
5. Breathe Silently- Making noise when you breath isn't a good thing as it means irregular breathing and puts strain on the body, furthermore for actors if you are doing radio work or voice overs you need to learn to breathe silently so it's not picked up on mic.

Now its just about remembering to implement all these things everyday and fix your breathing if it is irregular, to do this just learn to analyse your breath by see when you do different things in the day does your breath chnage and how it does then by just closing your mouth, inhale through your nose for 3 seconds then exhale for 3 seconds then pause for 3 seconds then repeat and just correct your body posture and relax. (Dzeube, 2019)

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'1. Work on your posture.
Practice getting into a Neutral Spine Position. This is when the pelvis, rib cage and skull are aligned on top of each other, preventing overload at any one vertebrae in the spine. When you're in this position, every movement from it activates the core muscles. When we're in alignment, we exert the least amount of energy to initiate and maintain movement, we have more balance, and there's less stress on the shoulder, hip, knee and spine joints.'
2. Do exercise that promotes stabilization.
There is a series of exercises you can do to help with your posture and strengthen your core muscles, back and abdomen and help you get to neutral posture easier, these exercises are; squats, push-ups, planks, and lunges.
3. Yoga
Yoga helps you get a healthy spine and effective movement, it also prevents back pain and injury, as in yoga you balance your muscles that flex and extend your hips, furthermore for specific muscle groups that support the spine it strengthens them.
4. Maintain a healthy weight
'A healthy weight is essential for so many good things in life. When it comes to proper alignment, keeping your weight down can have benefits', 'If you are moderately overweight, there will be increased stress on joints and muscles that are already misaligned and dysfunctional. It's important to note that although extra weight can make things worse, even if you lose weight, the problem will still be there if the alignment is not corrected'.
5. Consider chiropractic care.
'The best first step to achieving proper posture is to address the very thing that is causing the problem in the first place: spinal alignment. A chiropractor will be able to diagnose and correct alignment issues in the spine and give you the starting point for achieving better posture.' Other treatments you could are Pilates and massaging these also are good for spinal alignment. (The Editors of Iowa Chiropractic Clinic and Edblad, 2017)

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'A series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the small of the back, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen; the backbone.' '

Cervical - the top seven vertebrae which make up the neck

Thoracic - the twelve vertebrae connected to the ribs

Lumbar - the heaviest five vertebrae which support the torso

Sacrum - a large, dish-like bone, made up of the sacral vertebrae, which have fused solidly together to make up the connection of the spine to the pelvis

Coccyx - the vestigial tailbone is made up of 3 to 4 fused vertebrae'

The spine links to alignment as if the spine, head, neck, ribcage and pelvis are all aligned properly breathing is easy and nothing is in the way of it but if you are scrunched up into a ball then breathing because harder because these elements are aligned. (Pandit, 2018 and The Editors at Step to Health, 2018 and The Editors at Voice and Speech Source)

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'Each of a series of slender curved bones articulated in pairs to the spine (twelve pairs in humans), protecting the thoracic cavity and its organs.' 'The rib cage assists with breathing by using a pair of muscles located between each rib known as the internal intercostals and external intercostals.
The external intercostal muscles raise the rib cage and help with inspiration, or breathing in. The internal intercostal muscles lower the rib cage and help with expiration, or breathing out.' (The Editors of HealthLine, 2015)

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An exercise you can do to test this is lie on the floor with your knees up and then raise your pelvis and breath in and out for 4 then 8 then do 'ahh' or 'ooo' and see how everything is aligned and then lower your pelvis and try to keep your back straight and see the difference and then slowly lift your legs in the air till you are just on your upper back and see how hard it is to breath now, then lower your side on your side and scrunch up into a foetal positions and see how hard this is to breath, it should be harder to breath as the parts of your body you need to be aligned, aren't aligned and this effects your breathing and how much breath you can take in

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An exercise you can do to test this is lie on the floor with your knees up and then raise your pelvis and breath in and out for 4 then 8 then do 'ahh' or 'ooo' and see how everything is aligned and then lower your pelvis and try to keep your back straight and see the difference and then slowly lift your legs in the air till you are just on your upper back and see how hard it is to breath now, then lower your side on your side and scrunch up into a foetal positions and see how hard this is to breath, it should be harder to breath as the parts of your body you need to be aligned, aren't aligned and this effects your breathing and how much breath you can take in

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'The vocal cords, which are also referred to as the vocal folds, are situated within the larynx (voice box), which is placed on top of the trachea (windpipe). The muscles from the hyoid bone (U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue) support the larynx, enabling it to move up or down. The larynx consists of 3 paired and 3 unpaired cartilages. One of the unpaired cartilages is the thyroid cartilage. In some men, the front section of this cartilage is quite pronounced. This section is referred to as the 'Adam's apple'. The other two unpaired cartilages are referred to as cricoid cartilage and epiglottis. The epiglottis is a flap-like cartilaginous structure. When we swallow, the epiglottis folds down over the glottis and the larynx moves up, thereby covering the entrance to the trachea. This allows food or water to go down the esophagus (food pipe, which lies behind the larynx and trachea), and protects the vocal folds and airways by preventing food or water from going down the airways or the windpipe.' The difference in male and female voices comes from the vocal chords because men's vocal chords are larger and thicker than women's because these grow during the rise in levels of testosterone in puberty. True vocal cords are the ones that allow us to breath and make sound production as they open and close and the flase ones just protect our lungs and Larynx from the stuff we drink and eat. (Thomas, 2018)

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'Hum any note at a comfortable pitch.

1. Shift the pitch slightly lower. You should pay special attention to how your chest feels.

2. Hold the note and continue to hum until you can feel the vibration in your chest.

3. Try to increase the intensity of the humming vibration

4. Next, move the pitch slightly two octaves higher and pay special attention to how your head feels.

5. Feel the vibration in your head and chest and try to increase the intensity of the humming vibration

6. Open your mouth and hum until you feel the vibration in your tongue and lips, behind and above your mouth.

7. Continue humming until you can feel the differences. Try to increase the vibration intensity.

8. Refocus your concentration to the vibrations in your chest once more.

9. Repeat this exercise 5 times, remembering to end the exercise with the focus on your chest in order to develop a full, vibrant sound.

Special note: avoid forcing air when you are humming. Also remember to breath frequently. Stop if you get light headed.' (The Editors of Sound Phyisics.com and Matthew, 2010, The Editors at The Voice Foundation)

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The hallow cavities we have are; throat, mouth, chest and nasal cavities, the difference in size of these cavities is why people's voices sound different. This why when you get cold your sinuses get blocked so your voice can't resonate as well.

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Vocal resonance is usually referred to as the quality of someone's voice, Sound is created by the vocal chords and the resonance of that sound is determined by the cavity in which these air vibrations take place. A violin and cello are to similar instruments, they have a similar string structure but the major difference is the cavity in which the sound made by the strings vibrates over, as a violin is very small and has a small cavity so it sound quite high pitched, whilst a cello has a very large cavity so it sound very low pitched and deep sounding.

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'a particular quality or intonation of the voice'
'any sound thought of in terms of its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc'
'quality of sound' (The Editors at WordReference.com, 2019)

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Your mouth is very important part of the body when it comes to your voice and your vocal projection you should try this exercise, humming this is an exercise you can do anytime and keep practising this, you should feel this vibrating in your cheeks and your nose this will help you control the amount of breath you are using. Another exercise you can do is the lip roll this will help you increase your vocal tone and vocal quality, I would recommend doing this before shows and in a show week as you use your voice more than usual at these times

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'Practise doing short mini laughs with a breath in between – “Ha”, breath, “Ha”, breath – this makes sure the stomach is going in & on the breath going back out. Also, practice this in slow motion to help develop better control of your breathing. Think of squeezing a tube of toothpaste from the bottom up to keep that steady flow. You can use a count, to keep track of your progress and even out that flow, both in and out.' (Thomas, 2018)

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'Make sure your shoulders are not rising when you breathe. If they are this indicates shallow breathing. As a result, you’ll likely get an initial blast of volume followed by very little else as your breath quickly runs out. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Your breathing should start much lower down with your stomach & diaphragm muscles expanding like bellows
Breathing properly is also excellent for your overall health and wellbeing. And if you’re healthy and well, your voice will be stronger and more resilient too.' (Thomas, 2018)

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'Articulation is the process by which sounds, syllables, and words are formed when your tongue, jaw, teeth, lips, and palate alter the air stream coming from the vocal folds. When an individual cannot produce or distort an age-expected sound/s, it draws attention away from the speaker’s message. Articulation disorders are motoric errors that can occur among people of any age; however, they are most common in children whose articulators have not developed properly.' The best vocal exercise that targets articulation specifically are tongue twisters, these are good because they help you pronounce syllables of words and help you use all of your tongue, teeth and lips as these are three of main features that go into articulation. The best way to go over tongue twister is to learn it slowly then speed up as you know it as the faster you say it the harder it is, an example of a tongue twister is 'Articulation is a form of gymnastic between the tip of the tongue, the teeth and the lips'. (The Editors at Dictionary.com and Reinstein, 2010)

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When breathing there can tension in the muscles that are important for this, so it is important to able to control the amount of tension you put on them, this links to the correct breath pressure as if you do everything listed there then your breathing patterns will be regular and the tension in the muscles won't be there. It is not a good thing to have tension in your muscles as it puts a strain on them and then that puts a strain on you its like if you sleep in a certain way your neck hurts the next day, its the same if you breathe in a irregular way, so follow the steps I have gone over to prevent any tension.

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The external intercostal muscles raise the rib cage and help with expiration and breathing in. The internal intercostal muscles lower the rib cage and help with expiration, or breathing out.' They are important because they help form and move the chest wall, the main purpose of them is to help expand and shrink the sizer of the chest cavity and this in turn helps accommodate breathing as it is involved with the mechanical aspect of breathing. (The Editors of HealthLine, 2015 and Edblad, 2017)

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'The diaphragm is a sheet of internal skeletal muscle that extends across the bottom of the thoracic cavity. It serves to separate the thoracic cavity, containing the heart and lungs, from the abdominal cavity, and performs an important function in respiration: as the diaphragm contracts, the volume of the thoracic cavity increases and air is drawn into the lungs.' 'The diaphragm increases abdominal pressure to help the body get rid of vomit, urine, and feces. It also places pressure on the esophagus to prevent acid reflux'. Additionally there is a phrenic nerve that runs from the neck the diaphragm and controls the movemnet of it. (Ernst, 2018 and Edblad, 2017)

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This means that you need to 'breathe in a way that is physiologically optimal for your body', you were never taught this but you are designed to breath this way. Most people will have an issue with their breathing but they won't even know it these issues could be anything from; 'over-breathing, chest breathing' to just holding your breath for too long. These habits can lead to a shortage of oxygen and energy which causes on your body. 'The solution to these issues is to become acutely aware of the way you breathe and then consciously reshape the way you breathe.'

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'Total lung capacity refers to the maximum amount of air a person’s lungs can hold, about four to six litres (4000 to 6000 cm³) for the average human. Only a third of this capacity is used during normal activity, but this fraction increases during strenuous activity when the body requires more oxygen. On average, males have a 20-25% higher capacity than females, and tall individuals have a greater capacity than short people.' 'Those who live in higher altitudes also have a higher lung capacity than those who live at sea level. This is because air is less dense at high altitudes, and thus the concentration of oxygen is lower. Lungs, therefore, have to inhale a greater volume of air to extract the same amount of oxygen than they would have to at sea level', furthermore asthmatic people often have a smaller lung capacity than others so have to work on breath control and general breathing more than others and when doing workouts have to really train themselves to get the right amount of oxygen to carry on. (Edblad, 2017 and The Editors of WiseGeek)

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'The large bony frame near the base of the spine to which the hindlimbs or legs are attached in humans and many other vertebrates. The part of the abdomen including or enclosed by the pelvis.'

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the part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body.

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the upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

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'1. Work on your posture.
Practice getting into a Neutral Spine Position. This is when the pelvis, rib cage and skull are aligned on top of each other, preventing overload at any one vertebrae in the spine. When you're in this position, every movement from it activates the core muscles. When we're in alignment, we exert the least amount of energy to initiate and maintain movement, we have more balance, and there's less stress on the shoulder, hip, knee and spine joints.' (Braglia, P. 5 Tips To Help You Maintain Proper Alignment)

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'A series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the small of the back, enclosing the spinal cord and providing support for the thorax and abdomen; the backbone.' '

Cervical - the top seven vertebrae which make up the neck

Thoracic - the twelve vertebrae connected to the ribs

Lumbar - the heaviest five vertebrae which support the torso

Sacrum - a large, dish-like bone, made up of the sacral vertebrae, which have fused solidly together to make up the connection of the spine to the pelvis

Coccyx - the vestigial tailbone is made up of 3 to 4 fused vertebrae'

The spine links to alignment as if the spine, head, neck, ribcage and pelvis are all aligned properly breathing is easy and nothing is in the way of it but if you are scrunched up into a ball then breathing because harder because these elements are aligned.

(Pandit, 2018 and The Editors at Step to Health, 2018 and The Editors at Voice and Speech Source)

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'Each of a series of slender curved bones articulated in pairs to the spine (twelve pairs in humans), protecting the thoracic cavity and its organs.' 'The rib cage assists with breathing by using a pair of muscles located between each rib known as the internal intercostals and external intercostals.
The external intercostal muscles raise the rib cage and help with inspiration, or breathing in. The internal intercostal muscles lower the rib cage and help with expiration, or breathing out.' (Pandit, 2018 and The Editors of HealthLine, 2015)

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'Each of the pair of organs situated within the ribcage, consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed. Lungs are characteristic of vertebrates other than fish, though similar structures are present in some other animal groups.' 'Your diaphragm is the muscle that contracts to help expand your lungs. A slow, deep breath will give you more breath to work with. You can use this breath to produce a low-volume, long-duration sound or project a loud sound for a shorter amount of time.' Your lungs of course links with breath and how to control it but a vocal exercise that helps with this is just to take a deep breath in and do a 'ahh' or 'ooo' for a long as possible until you run out of breath as to keep this going along time you will need a good control of breath. (Pandit, 2018)

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'A large membranous tube reinforced by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes and conveying air to and from the lungs; the windpipe' 'The main function of the trachea is to deliver air from the mouth to the lungs during respiration.' If humans didn't have a trachea we wouldn't get oxygen to our lungs and we would die. (Pandit, 2018 and The Editors at Reference)

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It usually points upwards allowing free passage of air into the trachea and larynx. During eating and swallowing, the Epiglottis shuts itself this then blocks the opening into the trachea. then after this it opens up again allowing normal breathing.

'The Epiglottis function in swallowing is a very important one. While swallowing food and water, it draws itself back to cover the entry point of the larynx which prevents food and drink from going into the windpipe. These edible substances enter the esophagus and directly go into the stomach. When the swallowing action ends, the epiglottis moves up once again making normal flow of air into the trachea (windpipe).'

Epiglottis is made of elastic cartilage. Cartilage is a tough elastic tissue. 'It is made of small bundles of fibers that are highly elastic', because of this it is tough but also quite flexible. 'The cartilage tissue in the Epiglottis is coated with mucus membranes. This makes it hard enough to form a barrier before the trachea while swallowing. At the same time, it is soft enough to fold itself once the action is done.' (Pandit, 2018)

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These are folds of tissue that are located in the Larynx(voicebox), they have 3 main functions these are; 'To protect the airway from choking on material in the throat, to regulate the flow of air into our lungs, the production of sounds used for speech.' The front two-thirds of the vocal fold is made up of muscle covered by a thin layer called mucosa. The back one-third is made up of cartilage called the vocal process which is also covered by mucosa. When we speak muscles in the larynx bring the vocal cords together. As the air rushes from our lungs out through the larynx, the from portion of the vocal cords vibrate, producing a sound. The upper portion of our throat then modifies this sound to produce speech. When we breathe, one pair of muscles spreads the vocal folds apart so that air can easily enter into the lungs. (Pandit, 2018, The Editors at EVMS)

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'The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.' The hard palate provides space for the tongue to move freely and supplies a rigid floor to the nasal cavity so that pressures within the mouth do not close off the nasal passage. The soft palate is composed of muscle and connective tissue, which give it both mobility and support. This palate is very flexible.' (Pandit, 2017 and The Editors at Encyclopaedia Britannica. (1998)

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'The fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of a mammal, used for tasting, licking, swallowing, and (in humans) articulating speech.' The tongue is important for speech because it's the articulator of speak for humans and helps us say words with more than one syllable. (Pandit, 2017)

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The prolongation and intensification of sound produced by transmission of its vibrations to a cavity, decrease of resonance is dullness, increases is flatness. The word resonance comes from the Latin word 'resonare', which means 'return to sound'. 'Resonance literally is an induced vibration in an object and means to sound and resound, like a echo.'
A sound wave is created from an object vibrating this can be anything from a violin string to your vocal chords. (The Editors at The Free Dictionary, 2003).