Part One of the course gave you the basic toolkit for changing your voice into a Better Voice. Hopefully, with practice, you have got to know what your head-focused voice feels and sounds like, and are starting to use it.  

We hope you are also more aware of how your body affects your voice, in particular the positive effects of natural breathing and posture. Maintaining and building on these improvements will help both your voice and your general health. 

The voice exercises in Part Two will take your Better Voice to the next level, so that you can add interest to your voice and realize more of its potential. Here you will learn how to: 

• Maintain your Better Voice technique over a larger range of notes and jumps in pitch. 

• Add interest to your voice by developing a more musical and varied delivery. 

• Smooth over breaks, those areas of your voice where you experience a gear change in the sound quality. 

• Quite possibly extend your vocal range by moving beyond breaks that you have felt are a floor or a ceiling to your voice. 

• Identify and learn how to integrate into your voice sound qualities you are not currently using when you speak. 

• Develop voice effects that can be safely added on to your Better Voice as needed.  

Each unit also includes a section on effective voice use at work, covering how to: prepare for the day, be heard better, cope with difficult environments outside the classroom, command attention, and give successful presentations. All these sections are designed to improve the learning environment for both yourself and your learners.  

Q: What are you most hoping to achieve from Part Two of the course?