Smoothing Out the Gravel There’s no mystery about what it takes to keep your sentences from ending on a rough, gravelly note. The cause and cure, as we’ve seen, is air. When you run out of air and keep on talking, your voice simply runs out of gas. Many of you have probably found that your voices become much smoother and much less likely to run aground on gravelly sounds when you’re working with diaphragmatic breathing. But it can be so easy to lose the connection between breathing and speaking that I’d like to reinforce some basics. You know that as you breathe, if you put your hand over your
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