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

by Roger Love

Throughout the book, I’ll direct you to specific audio samples that I’ve recorded and placed on a special website just for you. The address is: www.setyourvoicefreebook.com. You’ll hear clear demonstrations of the sounds I’m referring to, and you may also be asked to make the sounds yourself. Don’t skip that part! Imagining what you’d sound like doesn’t count—you need to try copying what you hear. That’s where the lights go on and the learning begins to happen in your body and mind. What we’ll be doing is as simple as follow the leader. I’ll make sounds and you’ll copy them. There’s not a lot of complicated theory, just a wide variety of playful experiments. As you follow my voice through the exercises, you will be automatically placing your mouth, jaws, stomach, breath, and vocal cords in positions that make it nearly impossible, over time, to produce weak, strained, or “bad” sounds. This is not an intellectual exercise. All you have to do is be willing to let go of a little fear and self-doubt, and duplicate the sounds you hear. To work with me, you’ll need to listen carefully, copy what you hear me doing, let yourself have a little fun, and give up the misconceptions and bad habits that have kept you stuck in an ill-fitting voice. You may not feel that you’re doing everything right, so just fake it and have a little faith.