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Teaching the Mechanics of Breathing · Gabi’s Speech and Drama Podcast

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  Hello everybody,
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  today I want to talk to you all about the mechanism of
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  breathing.
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  This will be really useful for you if you are doing Grade 6
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  Lambda Acting or Grade
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  6 Verse and Prose or Grade 6 Speaking in Public because all of
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  those will have
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  questions that are related in some way to breathing techniques
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  or voice production
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  and in order to understand those things you have to understand
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  how we breathe and
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  SPEAKER_00: the connection between our breath and our voice.
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  I'm going to explain it really slowly in the hope that you
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  understand the process
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  and then I'm going to show you how you can condense that
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  because the examiner won't
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  want a long drawn out explanation but they just want to know
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  that you understand it
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  so I'll show you how you can condense that down in an exam
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  situation so first of
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  SPEAKER_00: all
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  SPEAKER_00: There are two muscles that are involved in breathing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Both of them are really important.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have the diaphragm.
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  SPEAKER_00: The diaphragm is the dome-shaped muscle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So think of the top of an umbrella or a mushroom,
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  SPEAKER_00: that dome shape,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it sits underneath your rib cage here,
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  SPEAKER_00: like that.
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  And when that contracts,
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  it goes from a dome shape like that to a flat shape like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other set of muscles are the intercostal muscles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't call them the intercostal muscles.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lots of people make that mistake.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is intercostal muscles.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they are bands of muscle that go in between your