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Easy read

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This book is simple and easy to read. The CD is helpful and important and demonstrates the points made in the book. I guess for me now it is a matter of practice, practice, practice

My review

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Set Your Voice Free arrived within the week and was in very good conditions, it actually looks brand new with the CD intact

good book

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This book is standard if you are looking for a gentle exercise. What I would recommend is `an introduction to singing with style' I came across this book quite by accident on amazon.co.uk and it has helped me a lot. It goes into great depth about how to develop a great singing voice, vocal projection, vocal clarity and this book even tells you what diet to avoid and what food is good for healthy living it's amazing

Best of its class

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I've been through a number of these vocal courses by book and this is definitely one of the best. He gives you really practical exercises throughout, including very task specific ones like finding middle voice, eliminating particular vocal problems or replicating the expressiveness of song in your speaking voice. I've been through a number of those courses that basically just have you singing "aaah" scales up and down and this is definitely beyond that level.

I haven't actually started practicing with them, so I don't know what the long term results would be. After going through more than a couple of these lame courses I have taken to reading the book through first and just testing the exercises before dedicating any significant time to them. I'm definitely going to put these through their paces.

Out of date information. Be careful with this one

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I bought this book second hand. It is full of the sort of out of date information that I sort of expected from the welter of self publication that surrounds it.

There has been an extraordinary amount of voice research published in the last 25 years, and that which does not support the central premisis of this book doesn't surface in the text.

The vocal folds simply do not zip up to provide pitch transitions. I have asked the authors for a reference to stroboscopic evidence of the zipping of the folds and I never got an answer. This is because the vocal folds don't zip up. They elongate to produce higher pitches.

And what is more, the larynx rises with pitch change. It's a natural response to the the pitch - just try it yourself. Put your hand around your throat and say mmmmmm moving the pitch up and down and feel the movement that has happened in your larynx since birth.

Read about it these and other voice issues on the NATS website where there are lots of informed articles on voice. You may decide you want something a bit less personality centred and rather more accurate.