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

by Roger Love

It might be easier for you to get an idea of how to do this if you try the following exercise: Write down ten or twelve lines of the next conversation you’ll probably have. Maybe you’ll be talking to your kids or asking someone for a date. Now take those lines and pretend they’re the lines of a song. Forget that you’re not a composer, and without worrying too much about your melody, go back and sing the whole conversation, everything from the “How’s it going?” to the “Now can you take out the trash?” I know that you’re probably muttering “No way,” but I challenge you to try this. No matter how strange the “song,” I know you’ll hear more thickness, more energy, and more pitch variation than you generally put into your regular speech. Once you’ve sung the words of your planned conversation, go back and speak them and see if you can keep some of the same resonances and variations in your speech.