Introduction -- 1. Your voice (and how it works) -- A scenario : is this you? -- How the body produces sound -- The high and low voices -- Breaks -- 2. All About breathing -- Why squeeze, hold, or push? -- Pitch -- Controlling the flow of air -- Right breathing, everyday breathing -- The four breathing rules -- Mental vs. physical effort -- 3. Right placement -- Speaking and singing are similar actions -- Resonance -- Working with vowels -- 4. Scales -- Scale I : working the registers -- Bad habits -- Going through the break -- Placing the voice -- Keeping the throat open -- Scale II : stretching the cords -- Special needs -- Too breathy -- Too sharp / shrill -- A "trashed" voice -- Scale III : working the break -- Scale IV : bridging the middle -- Special needs -- A weak chest voice -- For advanced singers -- The pharyngeal voice -- 5. Singing songs -- Open up your voice! -- Phonetics : how words sound -- Rewriting your lyrics : a sample -- Emotion & songs -- Closing -- Appendix A. Nodes & your health -- Appendix B. The scales (in all twelve keys) -- CD index.