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Welcome to The Voice Connection Sound Off; a forum for users of books like Raise Your Voice, Melody to Madness, The Ultimate Breathing Workout, and Unleash Your Creative Mindset, as well as a place for Vendera Vocal Academy members to interact.

This message board was created so that singers could come together and "sound off" to help support each other during vocal development and the creative process of unleashing the creative spark that occurs when writing and producing music. Currently, myself and vocal coaches Ben Valen, Ray West, and Ryan Wall are here to respond periodicially to your questions, with new vocal coaches coming soon. But, feel free to help each other too:)

This board is here for you to ask questions about my and my fellow coach's books, videos, and MP3 programs, as well as offer others help with our vocal techniques. You may also post videos of yourself and your band to share your music and ask for critiques.

Please refrain from negative comments, profanities, spamming, and inappropriate criticisms of vocal methodologies, vocal coaches, and singers. All negative posts will be deleted and subject to banning without question. I will not respond to negative posts, because, as Mark Twain once said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” With that said, positive criticism is welcome because that is how you'll grow as a singer during the training process.


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John King
Jun 6, 2010 - 9:55AM
Re: HELP!!! Carrying Chest Voice tone into upper register???

I remember gaining my range and than struggling with that chest voice sound, I still do from time to time. I'm not really sure exactly what you've been doing, so here is a list of things I perfer do(when I am not lazy) and my experience. In no particuler order.

- Sirens and Transending tone over the passiggio and entire range. This is very important as it will bridge the chest and head voice. Making it easier to carry the sound into the head voice.

- Bullfrogs, Bullfrogs, Bullfrogs, tongue push ups, tongue push ups, tongue push ups. This will help strengthen the muscles that control the larynx and everything else. When I first start these non-vocal exersizes, I actually started getting worse at control and my voice thinned out. This was because I was over working the muscles. Once I realized this I rested for a few days and my voice sounded much better and I had better control.

- Warm up first!!

- Lip bubbles and humming. Do scales and mimic songs. One issue with these I ran into was, I was doing them too light. Yes light lip bubbles and humming are excellent warm up tools. But I found myself not putting any effort or focus behind them. When trying to get that note add support behind it and perform them as if you were singing a vowel. Hum AAH EE OO OH and so forth.

- Sing anything and everything. For instance I am male, so I typically sing songs by male singers. Well recently I have been attempting to sing songs by females. The opposite sex have different vocal strengths and weakness'. I can sing Judas Priest, Queensryche or Dream Theater much easier than Heart or Alanis Morsette.

Hope this helps.

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