Video: What Parts of the Body Are Used for Singing?

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The parts of the body used for singing include the breath, lungs, diaphragm, larynx, soft palate and vocal chords. Use the muscles in the back of the throat to manipulate the singing voice with advice from a professional musician and actress in this free video on singing.

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This is Athena Reich and I'm a musician and an actor here in New York City and I also coach both music and acting. In this clip I'm going to talk about what are the parts of the body that are used in singing. Well, there's your breath, which is the energy and power behind your sound, which comes through your mouth and goes down your throat and there's your lungs, right here under your ribs. And underneath is your diaphragm, which is a muscle. And when you relax your belly, like that, you just let it out. Then air comes in naturally. Breathe out. So, you're using all your lungs and your diaphragm. Now, there's your vocal chords. There's your larynx. I can lower my larynx and go, "Hey." Or I can higher my larynx and sound like a little muppet. So, your larynx, larynx, which is your Adam's apple goes up or goes down. There's your vocal chords themselves, which is the most important thing and they vibrate. There's the back of your throat, your soft palette that you lift. There's whole bunches, there's different cartilages and muscles around here too that you can manipulate for different sounds. If you want to do, sing opera or you want to sing pop, there's a bunch of different muscles here. There's the thyroid cartilage. There's the cricoid. But, basically the most important is your vocal chords, your lungs. The back of your throat and just sing with an expanse of feeling. This has been Athena Reich in New York City.

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What Parts of the Body Are Used for Singing?

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