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Roger Love

Roger:

said would you please I've got a headache. They

just let me sing.

I’m ready and stop... What an introduction. I'm in

the back and I am growing by two inches taller, three

inches taller; I think that now I may be able to pursue

my real dream of playing in the NBA. Please sit

down. I want to be the oldest and the shortest guy

in the NBA.

One of their huge mistakes was they bought me a

toy holster, gun and cowboy hat when I was about

four years old. Then I truly realized the power of

holding people hostage. Because, whenever they

would have any kind of people over I would come

out in my full gear, keep people at bay, sing every

song I knew and a whole bunch of songs I didn't

know that I was making up the words to.

As he said I'm a voice coach. Most people have no

idea what to expect when they're about to be spoken

to by a voice coach, but my philosophies are very

simple.

This lasted quite a while until they realized I had

blanks. I did not have real ammunition and then

they were like maybe this isn't perfect, but I always

knew I wanted to sing.

I believe that success in life and one's ultimate ability

to influence someone else is directly linked to the

sounds that come out of your mouth. At best some

of you are making sounds that are holding you back

in life and at worst some of you are making sounds

that are potentially ruining your lives.

I would sing anything. I had this beautiful life,

singing and singing, and then I had a little bump in

the road. At 10 years old I was diagnosed with a

thing called osteomyelitis, which are tumors in my

leg.

When you were young, it was just a few minutes

before dinner and you really wanted that cookie that

was in the jar, you reach your hand in to get that

cookie and your mom sees you and she says - get

your hand out of the cookie jar Roger, and you say I

want it, and she says it isn't going to happen.

Back then in the dark ages of medicine what that

meant is I started having surgeries and then I was in

a wheelchair for over a year in a non-walking cast

for over a year, in a walking cast for almost a year

and I didn't stop limping and get use of my right leg

until I was in high school.

I would like, if I have the permission, to teach you

today why I believe with all of my heart you didn't get

that cookie and how from now on you are going to

get that cookie.

Now it's probably nothing, but then it was a big deal

and they didn't know what it was, so I ended up

having to go to a handicapped school because I

couldn't go to regular school.

When I was very young, there was no question what

I wanted to do with my life. I was always singing. I

was going to be a singer no matter what, you could

not shut me up. Luckily my parents weren't the kind

of parents that looked at me in the back seat and

I was pulled out of my lovely safe singing all the time

environment. I gained a lot of weight, I couldn't keep

in contact with my friends, I couldn't have play dates

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and I was going to a handicapped school on the

phone every day.

At that point, I'm thinking I could own the market and

not make $75 an hour. I was like I'm in. I'm 16 ½, I

get driven over to the studio because I don't even

think I was driving at that time, and my first day as a

voice coach.

When I was 13 or 14 and starting to relearn how to

walk, I could only walk in a pool a number of hours a

week, but I was looking for some way to regain the

power I already felt from the time I was four or five

years old to the time I was 10, because I thought I

was the luckiest person in the world and I still think

I'm the luckiest person in the world.

By the way, did I mention I had never been taught

how to be a teacher? I was a good student, but he

didn't bother spending any time teaching me how to

be a teacher so I knew nothing about teaching, zilch.

My way to regain power in my life was literally

singing. That was my ticket. I was lucky enough to

be given just enough talent that people didn't say

shut up and I used that, rebuilt my life and kept

singing and then I eventually lost the weight and

went back to high school.

I never thought I'd be a teacher, God bless you -

God bless us all. I was not trained to be a teacher.

My first day here's Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys,

here are the Jackson’s, here's Luther Vandross,

Stevie Wonder, Bette Midler, Madonna - this is my

first day.

When I was 13 and a half I had begged my mother

and father forever to give me singing lessons, take

me to a voice coach. Yes, I can sing but I'm sure

there's so much more I could learn.

Can anybody say out of your limits? Out of my

mind? I am way out of my comfort zone. I have no

idea how to teach any of them anything. I know the

exercises but I can't even play them all the way up

and down. The exercises went something like this.

They did some research and took me to a voice

coach in Hollywood who absolutely was the most

famous voice coach in the world, an amazing man

who had all the stars- Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra,

Bette Midler, Madonna, everybody and I started

studying with him at 13 and a half.

There was a really difficult exercise that goes like

this and all I could play was…

You're on your own. That's a long way to be leaving

people on their own. I couldn't even play the

exercises. I'm like okay, I'm freaking out. I'm

thinking; what can I do to pull this off?

My mother had to get a full-time job up until that

point she was an amazing housewife and a

wonderful mother. She had to get a job and work all

week to give me two voice lessons.

Here is a 16-year old guy, all these people are super

successful, they're all driving up in fancy cars, and

they’ve all got multi-platinum albums, what could I

possibly give them? I thought the first thing I could

do was instead of being just a 16-year old, I'd just

pretend to be my voice coach who had this big

booming powerful voice, lots of volume, melody and

bigger than life. He was a cartoon character in my

book.

I think at that point that might have been $70 a

lesson, it was so long ago I don't remember, but she

had to work all week and she was so glad. She

never complained once. She worked all week so I

could do two voice lessons a week.

By the time I was 16 my voice teacher said I've got

to go away to Canada and there's nobody to take

over the studio. Do you want to come over after

school? I said; do you want to tell me how much I'm

going to pay you?

I thought, they seemed to like him, what if I just

sounded like him? I immediately just pretended I

was him and started making the sounds of his voice.

I started speaking louder. I started adding more

melody. I started paying attention to how fast or

how slow I was speaking and that seemed to be

good.

He said I'm going to charge $150 an hour, of which

you can keep $75. This is a good deal I'm thinking.

I'm not thinking about his half, I'm thinking $75 an

hour. I could never make that as a box boy.

They at least weren't leaving in the middle of the

lesson. Then I thought well I know I can sing so I'll

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just do a lot of singing and I'll pray to God that they

hear something in my voice that they want. I started

signing and they're like wow that sounds good

Roger. I'm like really you like that? Why don't I

teach you how to do that?

business and there was so much to learn. It was

wonderful, every day was Experts Academy.

Every day people were coming in. They knew so

much, I taught them a little bit about what I know and

they would teach me so much about what they

know. Year after year after year it became so

positive and I still, like I said before, I am the luckiest

person in the world.

So in the beginning it was imitation. I would make

sounds, they would hear something they liked

because literally I did find I had an ability to go very

low to very high and do it very evenly without any

pressure or any straining, I could do things with my

voice that were pretty cool, and they heard that.

You never know who's going to call that day.

Sometimes it's an easy job - sometimes they're like

hey, do you want to give live in Ibitha and vocal

produce Def Leppard in the hey day, you know, 15

years ago?

All I had was I'm imitating the way my voice teacher

sounds, I can play the exercises at least up, and I

can sing well enough that maybe they'll hear

something they can't do and that's where I started.

Sure, I've never been to Ibitha, it sounds nice, it

sounds like there's an ocean. There is an ocean,

there's a view; I'm in. Sometimes the jobs are easy,

sometimes the jobs are hard, like he told you about

Walk the Line.

Six months later when my voice teacher came back

every single one of his students said they didn't want

to go back to that voice teacher they all wanted me

to be their teacher. Surprised the heck out of me.

What he didn't tell you is that Reese Witherspoon

and Joaquin Phoenix had hired a voice coach and

had been working for months and months to do this

film and 3 ½ weeks before they had to go and

actually film it neither of them could sing.

He said; do you want to come in as a junior partner?

I said of course, I do, so I joined at 16 ½ years old

and became the second in command of the most

successful voice studio in the world.

Some would say handed to me on a silver platter

some would say it seemed like a paper plate and I

had to figure out how to put beautiful things on that

paper plate.

Reese was done with the picture and walking away.

First off, when she was hired for that picture they

told her she would not have to sing. That's not nice,

not nice at all. She is not a singer. Joaquin is even

more not a singer.

I still continued to do everything I wanted to do with

singing, going to college, moving on with all the

aspects of my life and I would teach all afternoons,

all evenings, and all weekends.

Three and a half weeks before they have to go to

Nashville and start actually filming the scenes where

they're supposed to be singing, Reese calls me and

says I am desperate. I cannot sing. I’ve been

wasting my time with another voice coach can you

help us?

I learned very early on that I absolutely love to

teach. I love to teach. I love to sing, but I love to

teach. I'm not one of those people who teaches

because they can't sing. You know those who can

do, those who can't teach?

She came in that day and we worked together that

one day and then she brought in Joaquin the next

day. We worked together for 3 ½ weeks and in that

time I had to teach them how to sing, teach them

how to sing like the character.

No, I'm one of those people that believe that a

teacher learns a certain amount from his teachers,

but an amazing teacher learns an incredible amount

from his students.

I had to produce all of the singing for the film and the

soundtrack, all the songs - get them all recorded

because T-Bone Burnett who did the music he's a

genius, but he doesn’t really do vocals.

Here I was in the position of working with the most

incredible people in the world in the entertainment

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That was a tough gig. The hardest part was for the

first week and a half every day with Reese she's

incredibly talented but an unbelievable perfectionist

and at the end of every day she'd say I'm not good

enough and I'm going to be embarrassed so I'm

leaving the picture.

body and we think we're powerful. Then somebody

else is like what why are you whispering?

We speak and we think we're omnipresent and they

say are you sick? Do you have a cold? How're you

feeling? You're like what? So we don't know what

we sound like. I say it's time we all took

responsibility for the way that we sound.

Not only did I have to do my work so I had to spend

all of this time convincing Reese Witherspoon not to

leave the picture. When she left the money goes. It

was only being funded because she was in it. Are

you with me?

I say that since the '60's there were incredible

ground breaking studies that basically tried to prove

when I speak to you, what is it that makes you

believe the things I say?

My job was 50% voice coach and 50% shrink.

Thank God, I've spent so much time with Tony

Robbins and John Gray. Thank God, I don't just

think of myself as a voice coach because I would

have no idea what to say.

I'm sure you've all heard these statistics, but I'm

going to bring them more to life today. The statistics

that you've heard say that when someone speaks,

only 7% of the words they use count for effective

communication. What does that mean?

I had to keep her in that picture. My magic in the

outcome of that movie wasn't the singing part, my

magic was keeping her in the film and making her

believe, that in the end I promised that she would

sound good, Joaquin would sound good and I would

do anything that I needed to do to make that happen

and she believed me. That to me was the magic.

We live in a world that is consumed by that 7%. If I

knew exactly what to say then I could achieve this

result. I want to get a raise. I've made a long list of

all the things I'm going to say to my boss. I'm going

to go in with my list memorized because I stayed up

all night memorizing.

You know, I believe that most people hate the sound

of their own voices. I believe that most of us don't

know what we really sound like. In the olden days

when we used to buy answering machines and we

would record our message, you know where this is

going - I'm going to record a message, I've got a

couple minutes here before I leave.

I only take 58 minutes for lunch every day. I bring in

my own paper cups every day instead of wasting

your paper cups. It's a huge long list. I present my

list knowing full well that he's not only going to give

me a raise he's going to make me a partner in the

company. He tells me I'm sorry, we're going to have

to let you go, we're downsizing.

Hi, this is Roger Love I'm a nice guy. I really am -

don't you want to leave a message? Beep. I listen

back - boring, nasal, disgusting, why would anybody

call me? That's not good.

Why, I had such good words? Look at my list. It's

double spaced. I prepare all of these words I'm

going to say to someone I'm so excited about going

on a date with. I think about her, I get butterflies and

I'm so excited, I've written out a list of the

conversation topics so I don't run out.

I'm going to do that again because I still have a

couple minutes. I'm going to do it again. Who is

that person on that tape? That's not me. I'm way

taller I'm almost in the NBA already. You hear

yourself back and you're like, I didn't know I sounded

like that because we don't know what we sound like.

Clearly, I don't have to do that, I've been married for

20 years to the same woman who I still love. It took

her the first six or seven to realize if she had any

interest in me after we were married but now it's all

good.

Some of us know what we sound like with sound

leaving our bodies and hitting other people, but

we're not in the habit of listening back to what we

sound like. We speak, we feel the vibration in our

Seven percent - why are we wasting so much time

worrying about content? Maybe Brendon's content

is worth more than 7% because it's some good stuff,

but the statistics still say the words we use are 7%.

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Thirty eight percent– the part that kind of interests

me because I'm a voice coach, is tonality. The

sound the voice makes aside from the words. So

you're like okay, that's cool but what's tonality? I say

that's what I have spent years and years trying to

figure out.

That's how it started, because nobody was thinking

hey, I want to speak with more melody, they were at

the bottom. Like Brendon said, they were at the top

but at the bottom in that moment. My voice sucks

and I've got to speak to 500 people. That's the time

I better figure out what I'm doing wrong.

What is tonality and how can I teach tonality and

break it down into some very simple elements that

we all have control over? Tonality, if it's going to be

responsible for almost 40% of all communication; I

need to know how to use it, and don't you think it

would help if you knew how to use it?

I say it would've been great if they would've all

figured that out during the process while they were

gearing up to be famous speakers and famous

singers but it doesn't always work that way.

In the beginning, I would say absolutely not I am a

singing coach that is what I do. I would recommend

a vocal therapist and voice doctors.

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Do you know how loud to get? No, who is

teaching you how to get loud?

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Do you know how much melody to use? I

don't know.

Then after a while, I started thinking I should monitor

the success of these people that I'm sending away.

When people would call I would say no, that's not

what I do. I would very much like you to call this

doctor and then I would like you two months from

now to call me back or email me back and say what

your progress is.

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Do you know how fast or slow to speak?

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Do you know how much air to speak with?

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Do you know how much nasality and how

much bass?

There are all these aspects of tonality that nobody

talks about. This idea that I'm just going to stand up

on stage and pretend everybody is naked doesn't

work for me. Most people don't look that good

naked, that makes me nervous.

What I noticed after a couple of months is their

progress was very slow. I started thinking that

whatever was out there for speakers to become

better speakers and understand their instrument

maybe wasn't enough.

I only have a small brain so I really need to break it

down into little bits that I can focus on and

understand. For 17 years I stayed with that partner,

that teacher. It was easy. I didn't have to get any

business, I just had to be a point and shoot

awesome voice teacher.

At that point, I spent years trying to figure out if I

could do the same thing for singers, what could I do

for speakers? I studied and I studied and worked

started taking clients because you have to have

somebody to work on, right.

I thought I was getting good, although now I think I'm

getting good. Back then I was getting a little cocky,

but now I realize that my best teaching is still years

from now and we should all think that way.

I started working and I started trying to build

methods. As I tried so much to gather information

and concoct incredible intricacies of giving them new

techniques I realized it all comes back to simple

again. Guess what, there's no difference between

singing and speaking.

We're as good as we are tomorrow. We're not as

good as we are today we're as good as we're going

to be tomorrow.

When you are singing your brain and body do

exactly the same thing as when you are speaking.

It's the same function physically.

So I stayed for 17 years and I only focused on

singer’s that's it. I didn't consider myself an

influence expert or a coach who worked with

speakers. What happened is I would get calls from

famous speakers and they would say look I'm having

problems with my voice.

When you're singing the brain thinks you're speaking

and is kind of wondering why you're stretching out

the words and why there's so much melody going on

that wasn't happening a minute ago, but everything

else - what your body does, what your breathing

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