SOUND OFF
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.
But man the best singer live who did the most crazy things was the singer from H.E.A.T
this is comming from me whos the biggest jorn and heiman fan ever :P So if you ever get the chance to see H.E.A.T dont miss it the singer is a ******* monster
Im not close but could not hold myself ;)
http://www.speedyshare.com/files/22964432/daniel_heiman_skrik.asf
Hey I'm wathing that guy, and I must say he's really good but nowhere near powerful and pitched in screaming as Heiman, as I was expecting
Hey Jens are you from Sweden?
Pop background ey? ok what if I said Britney Spears sucks then! HUh! Huh! Not so funny now ey? 
Heiman is truly a beast, I love his work in Lost Horizon, and maybe even more in Heed. Their demo was brutal, the guy even learned to growl pretty sweet while still maintaing that clean, high-pitched voice of his.
He's currently in a band called Lavett, a band that completely wastes his vocal talent, in my opinion.
But if that's what he wants do to, all respect to him. You should do whatever it is that makes you motivated and passionate.
All you Heiman-fans out there, make sure to check them out. Just because I really don't care for their music doesn't mean that you won't like it. Surely, a lot of people do.
http://www.lavett.net/
Wow someone is oblivious.. Apparently you have only been listening too Judas Priest most recent albums. You know, the one's in which he is in his 60's and has been pounding his vocal folds for nearly 40 years, not to mention the drug addictions. Too say he is the worst let alone overrated is just plain delusional. Oh wait maybe it's due to the fact I know nothing about the voice that's why I like Rob Halford's singing, yeah that must be it. I guess I'll take my nearly 3 and half octaves and sulk in the corner because I know nothing about the voice. I'll make sure I let my vocal coach know she and her years opera and being a musical coordinator can take her 4 octaves and shove it.
There are so many great singers and talents in todays and post-80s metal scene and I still can't believe that people are so limited to this so called singer instead of expanding their horizons with real talents.
In the 80's context refer to real idols such as: Jeff Scot Soto, DIO of course, Steve Grimmet, Kai Hansen, Michael Kiske, Michael Sweet, Mark Boals, Tony Moore, Tate etc.
This made me laugh. First of all no one is saying that Halford is there limit; second your saying how you don't understand how someone does not expand there horizons with real talent. Well I'm not saying any of those mentioned are talented; they just all have the same talent. With the exception of DIO and Tate you could have someone who has never heard any of them before and not tell the difference between them. Hell two of them were in the same band.
As for DIO and Tate, neither one of them kept there voice past the mid 90's. Sure they can still (DIO could..
) sing, but Tate's tone quality is nothing compared to what it was and he can't sing consistently high anymore. DIO's tone never really changed much, but he sure wasn't singing Don't Talk To Strangers in the same key. Does this make them any less of an icon? No. Back when they were in there prime, they were powerhouses and the same goes for Rob Halford. Sure he uses a lot of falsetto now, but in the 70's, 80's and a good chuck of the 90's, he was clean, gritty, full and used his full range nearly every night. I get it though, you like singers with a specific sound anything outside the little box is terrible to you. Don't worry you'll expand your horizon someday.
Everything is in your will and faith to achieve something in life!
