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

The Sound of Gravel

Great speaking and singing is not about being the best. It’s about being unique. It’s about expressing who you are and what’s particularly special about you.

How Do I Sound?

A high larynx is one of the most common problems affecting speakers and singers, but it’s very simple to get the larynx to its proper position with a series of low-larynx exercises.

1. Stay in touch with your desire to improve your voice. 2. Be willing to play, and to fake it till you make it. 3. Be willing to put yourself first—even if it’s just for a few minutes a day.

The human voice is set up to speak or sing twenty-four hours a day without getting hoarse or strained or creating any physical problems.

The average (not the exceptional) person should be able to sing smoothly through two and a half octaves with no breaks, squawks, or squeals in his or her voice.

Your Best Voice

correct. Simple changes in how you breathe, which we’ll cover in the next chapter, will give you almost immediate relief.