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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:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 10582
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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| Customer Reviews:
 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.
 Handle with care! Please! May 27, 2007
41 out of 46 found this review helpful
I am dismayed by reading all of the praise for this book! Coming from the perspective of a voice teacher and professional vocalist, I am concerned at the number of people following blindly into the potentially damaging advice in the book. I have an old one from 1999, along with instruction CD's, and Love demonstrates his glottal action (which is the technical term for his "gluggs" that he tells you to do). I think I rated as low as I did simply to attempt to lower the overall rating and get people to pay attention to the potential danger.
It is true that glottle action helps to develop a more forward voice, and that is why songs with glotal emphasis can be valuable. However, to spend as much time doing these exercises as Lov recommends, can cause permanent damage. As the vocal folds are repeatedly slapped against one another, the abrasion will quickly cause fatigue and irritation within the vocal apparatus, particularily the delicate vocal folds. Over time, your skin will become calloused and you will not feel the abraision anymore, but that's only because of the long-term damage that has occurred.
Rather than this, I recommend The Vocal Coach by Chris & Carol Beaty (published by Star Song). They have a wide range of instructional tools, and a phenominal daily workout series for all voice types.
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