THE VOICE CONNECTION
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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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Phil
Jul 9, 2010 - 2:49AM
Re: songs to practice to?

I'll tell you what I do:

Get a program that can transpose audio. My fav songs are too high for me, I transpose them down about 4 steps and they're usually just on my range. You want something that challenges your range but isn't impossible. My realtek drivers have a thing that you can open up on the bottom right hand corner of your taskbar and you can adjust the key of the song down 4 steps or up 4 steps. Sound programs can do it too like soundforge for example. do yourself a favour, don't limit yourself to songs that are in your range. I also like to use the voice cancellation thing, which works to some degree to lower the vocals. Or you can always get a midi track of your song, and transpose the key of the song down and remove the vocal line. Wingroov is a good midi player that lets you turn off and on different instruments and adjust the key.

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TJ Vox
Jul 9, 2010 - 10:01AM
Re: songs to practice to?

I've got Realtek AC97 audio on my PC and I'm running XP. Where can I find this Realtek thing you're talking about????

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Phil
Jul 9, 2010 - 11:07PM
Re: songs to practice to?

Great mate,

on the bottom right down on your taskbar: there should be a blue icon with yellow lines simulating "audio" hover over it and it'll say "sound effect", click on it, go into Sound Effect tab, and use the "key" feature to key down songs 4 steps, or up 4 steps. the voice cancellation is great too

if its not on your taskbar, go to Start>Control Panel. make sure your not in "classic view" and click on "Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices" , then click Sound Effect Manager for the same thing.

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