Make Your Voice Heard: An Actor's Guide to Increased Dramatic Range Through Vocal Training

An poorly written book that lacks information and ideas about what has to be done. I don't recommend it for anyone who is looking for ideas ao what drills ect to do. It reads like an advertizing brochure for the author.

A must read, must-have guide for any actor. I discovered it at my local library about 15 years ago - had photocopied some pages from it (for the exercises) and it's been a staple of my training ever since. Thought it was finally time for me to invest in a proper copy of my own and I recommend it to anyone who fancies themselves a serious actor or singer... A guide to proper voice technique, but especially to vocal HONESTY

Had it for years and use the exercises all the time. Sure, there isn't a chock full of exercise but he gives you what counts to include the hows and why's. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in vocal production or just wanting to improve their expression.

I'm a director always looking for ways to improve (especially young) actors' voices. This book has good advice (mostly related to relaxing and creating a habit of vocal exercises.) The first 30 pages are just talking about why you should do vocal exercises. Then about 30 pages of the exercises (6 of those pages being the short review and the truncated reminder). Then the last 80 pages are more tales to tell you how important voice training is (along with a couple extra exercises).I don't argue that Chuck Jones' exercises are bad, or even that an actor necessarily needs more than these (I'm NOT a voice trainer, so don't pretend to comment on his approach), it's just that you need to know you aren't getting 140 pages of detailed and wildly varied vocal exercises or "tricks." I dare say Jones would argue (and I would agree) that you don't need tricks, you need to exercise the basic skills. These are the musician's equivalent of scales - use them as such, and I don't doubt you'll improve your voice. BUT, I can't say that this is "the single best treatment of voice training I've ever read." It may be the truth of the success of simple exercises applied regularly, and I look forward to seeing more people who've put the exercises to the test review the book - that's where the rubber meets the road.

I did not feel there were enough exercises. Instead, there are a handful dubbed "The Daily Workout" which, so it claims, if done daily for months and months, will improve the quality of your voice. The rest of the chapters amount to the message "Relax and don't try to control your voice or use a 'stage voice'."I wanted to see exercises that dealt with placing emphasis on different parts of speech or demonstrated tricks like voice cracking. Instead it's a bunch of "Ah's and Ooh's".I must say I have seen an improvement of my voice by way of the exercises, primarily simply by improving air-flow and force. Overall, like I said, I wish there had been more.