I'm curious, why do people need to learn how to sing?

The difficult thing about learning to manipulate the vocal mechanism

is that there are no instructions.

And you can't see how all of the things function.

So much of vocal science is trying to figure out the way that all these acoustical phenomenon

and breath posture

and the way that our body naturally works.

How to harness all of that and make Gough from Curiosity.

Today we're going to learn about the science of singing.

Every week we explore what we don't know because curiosity makes

you smarter. This is the Curiosity Podcast.

Do you like to sing or do you like to speak? Well then this is the podcast for you.

Turns out the human voice is a lot more complicated than just using your vocal cords and calling it a day.

And to learn more, who would make a better teacher than an opera singer.

My guest today is a highly educated and experienced opera singer who gets into what makes a person's

voice distinct and even how to train your own voice to sound a certain way.

Oh and the best part, his sheer passion for opera singing.

You'll see what I mean.

You can follow along with an interactive transcript of this episode on Greta.com. That's G R E T T T. A.

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I am here with math and ring black classic musician opera singer. your and many other places around the world you're quite the performer oh yeah man that's what we're shooting for right so you're a good singer

well I try very hard to be a skilled talented and accomplished singer you wouldn't say you're a good singer? You know it's always so strange

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