Singers sing language. We tell stories, we have lyrics. So how you pronounce those words has a lot to do with the style you're singing in and of course whether or not we can understand you singing which usually we'd like to do. So we're going to talk for a second about the consonants. Now, those are the k, p, t, ts, n, parts of the words that usually if you're singing it, since the timbre of the voice is the vowel, you would lose a lot of the sound. But sometimes we use consonants as part of the style, say as in jazz. So let me take you through a couple of examples. If I'm singing, and I want the text to be very crisp, this would be me singing very exaggerated. Most contemporary styles aren't going to do that. If I mumble too much, this is me mumbling. It's really hard to know what I'm saying. That's kind singing like that. Be careful about under supporting. A lot of people talk like that. Now I'd be singing like that. That's really hard to sing. So it also depends on what you're singing and the style you're singing. So for example, the classic Sondheim song, "Anyone Can Whistle" from the musical, Anyone Can Whistle. I'm going to start it in sort of traditional musical theater slash cabaret style, which has very crisp diction, it's the original key which is high. I also could do it in a jazz style, so we'll compare those. Anyone can whistle that's what they say, easy. Anyone can whistle any all day, easy, it's all so simple. Relax, let go, let fly. You get the example, you get the idea. So that's really not contemporary unless I'm doing musical theater, a stagy thing. If I was going to do this in the jazz key, I probably wouldn't do it this high. Anyone can whistle that's what they say, easy. I made it a little breathy. I made it a little more like that. This example, maybe I'll do, "Anyone can whistle that's what they say, easy." So now my diction is a little bit more relaxed and laid back. Even though the tempo is the same, the melody is the same, that should give you an idea. Let me give you another example. Some styles I want to have that percussiveness to give the rhythm. So for instance, if I'm going to [inaudible] or hey, I know I am doing sort of short and the diction may be part of how I'm going to sing the words. Perhaps I'll sing, "Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby." I'm sure you can understand me, but I'm singing the diction softly. So this is something to really pay attention to. One last tip. Somewhere over the rainbow. So what I was saying earlier, sometimes you want to close the consonant, which brings you into a humming sound. You tend to hear that more in jazz or maybe in a software singer-songwriter style. Definitely, you won't hear that in pop.