Make your message memorable with melody

- Let's start this one immediately with a couple of questions. My first question to you is this. If I gave you a book and I said to you, I want you to recite one page of this book for me, word for word, without getting one word wrong, and I gave you an hour to do this, do you think you could do it? Maybe. But it would be hard, right? A page of the book has 300 words in it. It wouldn't be easy. Now, what if I asked you another question? What if we contrast that with this question here? What if I asked you to recite for me a song? And a song has roughly 300 words too. Now, if I gave you an hour to learn a song and you have to recite it word for word without getting one word wrong, do you think you could do it? You probably could, and it's probably easier to recite a song as opposed to a full page in the book, right? Why is that? Well, it's because a song has melody. This is why, as kids, when we learn the alphabet, we learn it with a melody. ♪ A, B, C, D, E, F, G ♪ It helps us remember it better. For this very reason, when we speak with more melody, what we say becomes more memorable. The moment I take all of the melody out of my voice and I speak like this, do you notice what happens to your brain as I'm doing this? Every single word, after a while, seems the same, and it all just kind of jumbles together, and you don't remember anything. This is why melody and pitch variety is so important. Let's do another thought experiment. I want you to listen to this piano track, and while you're listening to this piano track, just think about what words come to mind. Have a listen to this. (downbeat piano music) (downbeat piano music continues) What words came up for you? For me, I had these words come to mind: sad, nostalgic, somber, reflective. Maybe you can leave some of the comments below about what words came up for you. Let's try another track here. Have a listen to this one and see what words come to mind. (upbeat piano music) (upbeat piano music continues) What words came up for you? I got inspirational, uplifting, motivational, pumped, anticipation, growth. Let me know what words you got. Here's the point that I wanted to make. None of these piano tracks have any words in them, yet look at the world of meaning you were able to extract from melody alone. There's a world of meaning that exists in your voice, and when you speak, there's a melody that lives underneath your words. I'll share with you a self-awareness technique later in this course, so you can discover what melody lives underneath your voice when you speak. One of the most powerful ways to increase pitch variety and add more melody to our voice is what singers call the siren technique. And this is how you practice the siren technique. Grab a book of your choice, and as you start reading the book, start with a really low note, and gradually, you go higher, and for the guys out there, don't be afraid to go into the falsetto. And I know I sound like Mickey Mouse. And then after that, you go all the way back down and really low again. And you continually just go up and down, up and down, up and down, up and down. The reason they call it a siren technique is because you end up sounding like a siren. If you just did this five minutes twice a day, you're going to be able to increase your vocal range and allow yourself to become more vocally dynamic. Remember, your vocal chords are just the size of your pinky nail, so don't overwork them. Just five minutes twice a day, and this is going to absolutely transform your voice.