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From the Ted Talk by Claron McFadden: Singing the primal mystery

Unscramble the Blue Letters

For example, there are different colors and each color gets a different type of singing — pop, country and western, opera, jazz — and you just have to be consistent with that color. You see there are different lines. You choose in your own tpemo in your own way to follow the line, but you must respect it, more or less. And these little dots, these repnerset a sort of snuod that's not a vocal, not a lyrical way of eixssenrpg the voice. Using the body — it could be sneezing, it could be coughing, animals —

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For example, there are different colors and each color gets a different type of singing — pop, country and western, opera, jazz — and you just have to be consistent with that color. You see there are different lines. You choose in your own _____ in your own way to follow the line, but you must respect it, more or less. And these little dots, these _________ a sort of _____ that's not a vocal, not a lyrical way of __________ the voice. Using the body — it could be sneezing, it could be coughing, animals —

Solution

  1. tempo
  2. expressing
  3. represent
  4. sound

Original Text

For example, there are different colors and each color gets a different type of singing — pop, country and western, opera, jazz — and you just have to be consistent with that color. You see there are different lines. You choose in your own tempo in your own way to follow the line, but you must respect it, more or less. And these little dots, these represent a sort of sound that's not a vocal, not a lyrical way of expressing the voice. Using the body — it could be sneezing, it could be coughing, animals —

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

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claron mcfadden 2
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Important Words

  1. animals
  2. body
  3. choose
  4. color
  5. colors
  6. consistent
  7. coughing
  8. country
  9. dots
  10. expressing
  11. follow
  12. jazz
  13. line
  14. lines
  15. lyrical
  16. opera
  17. pop
  18. represent
  19. respect
  20. singing
  21. sneezing
  22. sort
  23. sound
  24. tempo
  25. type
  26. vocal
  27. voice
  28. western