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| Set Your Voice Free: How To Get The Singing Or Speaking Voice You Want | 
 enlarge | Authors: Roger Love, Donna Frazier
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (55 reviews)
Sales Rank: 24586
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0316441589
Dewey Decimal Number: 783.04
EAN: 9780316441582
ASIN: 0316441589
Publication Date: August 15, 2003
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 If I can do it, so can you, and it's so incredibly cool! May 31, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm 45 and recently decided to pick up my guitar again and start performing solo after a 15 year break. I never was much of a singer - always strained my voice on the few songs I'd sing with the band - but now, going solo, I really needed to start over and learn good vocal technique.
I'm glad I'm not a quitter, because after 4 months of frustrating voice classes, I quit and looked for another perspective. I found Roger Love's book at my city library with the CD for hearing examples of what he's talking about in the book.
Roger explains the concept of your "middle" voice with regard to how it manifests itself physically - something no-one in all of my years of helpful hints or even voice classes ever mentioned. Roger gave me a tangible idea I could focus upon.
I had heard once that most popular music was sang in your "falsetto" or "head voice", but could never understand how people were able to get the full vocal sounds they got doing that. Roger gave me valuable insight into this ability with both words and audio tracks and corrected misconceptions I had from listening to, well, everyone else.
Roger gave wonderful helpful advice and stories of other students who'd had the same difficulty I was having, saying "don't give up, your middle voice is in there somewhere". After two weeks of not giving up, I just found my middle voice. It's so incredibly liberating. I see the light at the end of the tunnel. I think I'll be able to do those songs I wanted to do but couldn't because they were out of my range.
I wish I could write Roger and thank him personally for getting me past this hurdle. If you want to sing well and are having conceptual difficulties like I was, you simply must read this book. Maybe your friends or your voice coach will cover this material without it, but mine sure didn't, and it made all the difference.
L-O-V-E This Book! March 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
SET YOUR VOICE FREE... is a wonderful book for anyone who wants to learn how to improve their voice. Whether you want to sing or speak better, author Roger Love will show you how to get there.
Ok so you might not become the next Sinatra or Streisand, but the book does explain how your vocal cords make sounds, how to practice, and how to breathe properly. The book never gets too technical or boring, so it's easy to understand.
The book comes with an instructional cd that's over one hour long. On it, Love demonstrates what the various types of voices--like nasal-gravel-breathy etc. that he describes in the book--sound like. He also provides examples of what chest, middle, and head voice sound like and vocal excercises for both male and female voices.
It's almost like having an instructor there with you. I can't tell you how helpful the cd is. Love also provides examples and two excercises that will help you, almost instantly, identify what true vibrato feels and sounds like and helps you create it.
There's also a brief section in the back of the book that provides Q & A with people who work in the music business for those who want to pursue a professional singing career.
I don't want to be a singer, I just wanted to be able to carry a tune because I love singing. And SET YOUR VOICE FREE... has helped me do just that. I may not sound like Josh Groban and I still have trouble getting to middle voice, but my voice has become clearer and stronger.
Great book! February 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is one of the best vocal exercise book's I've read. It is very practical and explains everything clearly. Roger Love does a great job of 'demystifying' the voice and how to get it to work for you. The vocal exercise CD that is included is invaluable. If you want a strong middle singing voice, or a great speaking voice, this book is for you.
Set Your Voice Free December 13, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Threw out my whole life I've always wanted to sing and I thought it took "Years of practice to sing".I have been using this book for a month and Im already on the process to singing, I already found my middel voice and I can actually hold a tune singing from going up and down clearly and GOOD!!
This book by Roger Love is incredible, just about a month ago I was tone deaf and I sounded so so so so bad at the beginning of this book and now I listen to myself, its like I stepped threw another time portal and Im a whole new person.Roger Love gives you great breathing Excerices, gives you confidence no matter what and never puts you down always incourgaes you,gives great vocal excercises and most of all tips that would cost you thousands.
This book is incredible and its worth every cent and trust me, before starting vocal lessons and spending an arm and a leg, first buy this to find your voice and you can do it at you own paste and PRIVATLY till you feel comfortable to take lessons.
 It Does Help November 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The few lessons on the included cd are worth having and really help to both get a better feel for singing more naturally and work great as a warm-up for practice, recording or shows.
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