The 5 Vocal Foundations of Great Communication | Vinh Giang on UNSTOPPABLE

the first thing is your rate of speech a lot of people put no thought behind their rate of speech but if again for those listening to this if i get stuck in a consistent rate of speech now and i stick to this right of speech and i don't vary from this rate of speech what happens to you as a listener yeah it starts to get boring right so we have to modulate it we have to vary our rate of speech and if i sometimes go quickly and when i'm going quickly it shows passion but then

when i slow down cohen i'm saying nothing important here but it seems so profound nothing important has been said yet it seems profound right so rate of speech is its own beast the second thing is volume volume shows confidence authority that you believe in what you're saying so if i switch off my volume let's say i speak like this now and i come in but i'm truly an expert in what i'm talking about it doesn't seem like i believe in what i'm saying doesn't seem like i'm confident in what i'm saying it's a shame most

people speak at a volume that is a bit too quiet and then when you tell them to a rating from one to ten they usually speak at about a three you tell them to speak at a five they go oh i think i'm being too loud you know each year i coach three ceos right now i'm coaching the ceo of orange theory fitness dave long massive shout out to dave awesome human being but he speaks at a level three volume i tell him to speak at level five what we're doing now and he goes oh

van i think i'm being too loud okay dave that's crazy you're not you're losing out on a huge amount of authority charisma energy confidence and authority because you don't speak at a level five volume third one is pitch pitch is fascinating because for the listeners who are listening right now think to a book you've read maybe you can even think to a book you've read cohen a book you've read more than 10 times right have you got one that you've read a lot yes maybe not tensions but let's say you know i've got like many

of you got one yeah if i asked you to recite for me a page in that book word for word could you do it no good otherwise you'd be a freak [Laughter] now let me ask you another question is there a song that you sing quite often that you enjoy there's a song that my son loves to play right over and over again yeah right but if i asked you to recite for me word for word that song could you recite the song oh and there's not one song in the world that i know the

lyrics to oh no okay so you're a terrible example for this but for the listeners you totally ruined my example thank you kevin but for the listeners for listen surely you could think of a song that you love right yeah and generally most people can watch i can think of one song that i actually know the words of okay you never close your eyes anymore when you're the top gun top gun right right yeah of course yeah no no why can't okay so a song has roughly 280 words right a page and a book has

roughly 280 words yeah right why can you recite a song yet not a page in the book that's so interesting music has melody so if you speak with more melody what you say becomes more memorable what you say becomes more memorable whereas most people use two notes when they speak whereas i use the philosophy and i use the mindset of each person every one of you that's listening to this right now you've got you've got a piano of 88 keys right and most people speak with a couple of keys and i remember my first singing

teacher when i met her and i didn't do this to become a singer i did this to become a more effective communicator when i walked into a room i remember this she didn't even look at me and she'd play one key over and over and over again for three minutes it was like something out of the exorcist and they should stop and she'd go how do you feel young man i'd say i i don't know this is kind of scary awkward nothing and then she played this beautiful song called romance three minutes unless you turn

around she goes how do you feel young man is that actually quite sad to be honest that was quite a sad song she goes vin most people go through life speaking like this one key i'll teach you how to speak like this wow melody so melody right so again melody third foundation because because here's the thing let me give you this example too you could hear a piano song and feel sad you could hear a piano song and feel happy you could hear a piano song and feel inspired you could hear a piano song and

feel scared there's no words how do you know how to feel so there's a backing track underneath every voice there's a backing track under every voice when people say oh when this person walks into the room lifts the energy of the room what is that that's the backing track of their voice there's people who walk into a room and you feel incredibly heavy like i come in and i talk ah cohen it's it's monday can't believe it's five days till friday and there's a backing track behind that so melody that's melody that's pitch the fourth

one is tonality and tonality is the emotion that lives underneath your words without without realizing and this is where the world of theater and the word of singing come together but body language your face is the remote control for the emotion that lives underneath your words and most people without knowing are walking around with what is otherwise known as a resting face and if you've got a resting face you've got a tone so if you just slightly smile it brings more melody into your voice because a smile controls the emotion underneath your words and again

if i make a disgusted face for no reason i'm not talking about anything disgusted but i sound disgusted the six core human emotions you got happy sad disgust fearful angry and surprised you've got to be able to show those six tonalities at least if you want to be an effective communicator most people don't most men don't most men neutral face and as a result neutral tone most people are afraid of a monotone voice yet do not know that a monotone voice comes from a monotone body and your face is a part of your body so

this is a huge one in my classes when i teach just to get men and women in the corporate world who are so stoic in their facial expressions just to break out of their mouth and show me some emotion damn it and when they do they come alive and authenticity is now radiating through them so that's that's the big one and the fifth one is pausing just this and for the listeners who listen to this just as we pause it's so powerful it gives them time to comprehend what we're saying it gives us as communicators

time to listen and to process and these are important foundations when you're playing your instrument and if you listen back to this podcast or any great speaker these are the five things they're modulating and any speaker who you deem to not be a great communicator they're just not modulating one of these things and they've stuck they get stuck in a default volume stuck in the default rate stuck in a default pitch stuck in the default tonality you modulate these five things you master these five things now you play beautifully with your instrument yeah it's just

these five things mate that you've nailed it there you have it guys thanks for tuning in to unstoppable with me your host cohen ray and please do not forget to subscribe to our youtube channel we get to see all of these interviews in the flesh share this podcast with your friends i would love to hear what you guys think thanks for joining us