pitch

Examples of pitch in the following topics:

• Pitch

  • That is, "high" pitch means very rapid oscillation, and "low" pitch corresponds to slower oscillation.
  • Attitudinal: high declining pitch signals more excitement than does low declining pitch, as in "Good ↗morn↘ing" versus "Good morn↘ing. "
  • Avoid monotony, speaking with one pitch tone or little variety in pitch.
  • The higher pitch sounds move up the treble clef and the lower pitch sounds move down the bass clef.
  • Define pitch and describe how pitch changes can change the meaning of sentences

• The Psychology of Persuasion

  • Each individual is persuaded by different things over different time-periods, so to be effective each pitch must be customized.
  • Therefore, persuasive speakers should be cognizant of audience characteristics to customize the pitch.
  • Make your pitch: People need a solid reason to justify a decision, yet at the same time many decisions are made on basis of intuition.

• Defining a Persuasive Speech

  • An example of a persuasive speech is a sales pitch.
  • During a sales pitch, the speaker is trying to convince the audience to buy his or her product or service.
  • However, salespeople understand that just because someone does not make a purchase after the first sales pitch does not mean the pitch failed.
  • People may need multiple persuasive pitches and a lot of outside information before they are ready to accept a new view.

• The Importance of Language

  • From gesture, force, and directness, to the pitch, tone and inflection of your voice, it's important to consider the complete package that you're delivering to your audience.
  • Speech contains nonverbal elements known as paralanguage, including voice quality, rate, pitch, volume, and speaking style, as well as prosodic features such as rhythm, intonation, and stress.

• Additional Notes on Preparing and Delivering Impromptu Speeches

  • You might have a special project or interest that you want to pitch to others.
  • An elevator pitch is a short summary used to quickly identify what you do or what project is important to you in about 30 seconds, or the length of an elevator ride.
  • So, when someone asks you what you do for a living, you can quickly and seemingly without preparation give an impromptu pitch or description.

• Dialect and Vocal Variety

  • Speakers may use many different English dialects to change the pitch, rate, volume, and use of pauses to achieve vocal variety.
  • You achieve vocal variety by using any or all of the features of vocalics: the rate, pitch, volume and pauses you use to change the way you deliver your message.

• Persuasive vs. Informative Speaking

  • A sales pitch is one example of a persuasive speech.

• Rate

  • Rate is part of the paralanguage of speech along with loudness and pitch.

• The Ethics of Persuasion

  • Fitzpatrick and Gauthier developed a series of questions that must be honestly answered to determine how ethical a pitch is:

• Noise and Interference

  • It could be your microphone feeding back through a speaker, causing that ear-splitting high pitch squeal.