Set Your Voice Free
Roger Love
Pages
320
Year
2016
Difficulty
Easy
Themes
vocal technique, breath control, pitch and range, speaking voice
The expanded edition of Roger Love’s classic guide to unlocking your singing and speaking voice. Love has coached everyone from the Beach Boys and Selena Gomez to Tony Robbins and Jeff Bridges, and this book distills three decades of vocal training into a system any beginner can follow at home.
Why Start Here
Most singing books assume you already know something about your voice. This one starts from zero. Love explains how the voice physically works, then walks you through exercises designed to build breath support, expand your range, smooth out your breaks between registers, and develop consistent tone. The exercises are structured as a daily practice routine, so you never have to wonder what to do next.
What sets this book apart is that Love treats singing and speaking as two sides of the same instrument. If your voice gets tired after talking all day, or you lose power when you try to sing louder, the same fundamentals apply. The book covers both, which means the techniques reinforce each other.
What to Expect
A 320-page guide organized around progressive vocal exercises. Love starts with breathing and posture, moves through chest voice, head voice, and the critical “middle voice” that connects them, and finishes with performance techniques. The 2016 expanded edition includes updated exercises and new material on using your voice in digital contexts. The tone is encouraging and practical. Love writes like a coach, not a professor, and the exercises are designed for people with no formal training.
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