Hey – couple of overdo updates:  I’ve been doing some voice coaching with a client who is struggling with nasality and a pronounced pitch pattern, and I have discovered some interesting material on vocal pitch patterns.  This is a special interest of mine – if you listen to any number of voiceover commercials - it’s pretty easy to discern a pitch pattern at play in the voice artist.  If it’s consciously applied for a reason – great – but many pitch patterns are simply habitual, and if it is really pronounced – it can make the listener tune-out.  So I’m reading a book SET YOUR VOICE FREE by  Roger Love and in it he quotes an experiment a student of his did on vocal patterns.  After listening to the pitch sequences of a random sampling of people, this guy could accurately guess which profession the person belonged to – simply by gauging the pitch range!    He determined this by converting the speaking voice into actual notes on a scale – so bankers had a pitch variation of 1, (the distance of say, middle C to the next note – a D) while artists and singers had a span of notes that comprised a 5th or a 6th (from middle C to G or A).  It’s an interesting concept to play around with – try an experiment next time you’re in a group of strangers and see how close you come to determining something about a person based entirely on their pitch range…..

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