Welcome to Better Voice Part Two. 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 bring it into both your singing and speaking.

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 realise 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.
• 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 have when you speak that you are not currently using when you sing (and vice versa).
• Produce voice effects that can be safely added on to your Better Voice as needed.
• Practise in ways that will both develop your Better Voice technique and contribute to better performances.

There is also advice on different aspects of effective voice use.

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