Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want

by Roger Love

Use flip-flopping to build on the sounds that are most comfortable for you. What’s flip-flopping? It’s a technique of substituting sounds that are easy for you in the vocal exercises for sounds that are difficult. There are a couple of ways to do this, and I suggest that you try them and see which way works for you, listening to the demonstrations on audio 25 on the website. 1. Substitute the sound you like for the syllable I’m singing on the audio example when you get to the high notes. In the one-octave set, we do a pattern of sounds that ends with a high note repeated four times. In a gug exercise, my student Ryan would sing gugs until he reached the repeated high notes. He’d sing the high notes as mums, which were easier for him.