THE VOICE CONNECTION
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.


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Re: Last question I'll have about grit... hopefully.

work on practicing singing more than anything so you can develop your "sound" that you can go "YES that's the style i want".

and yeah you will need to add "loads of support" especially on high notes, the more skill you develop the more you'll be able to back off support without sacrificing the sound quality.

remember it's all about the sound quality, these techniques are here to help you improve the quality and do it in a safe manner without damaging yourself. but if your sound quality isn't there it doesn't matter if it's safe because no one will want to hear you! always ask yourself "does this sound good? would i want to buy this? is this the feel/style/ i'm looking for?" you can quickly become your own teacher this way, because your answer will bring about the necessary adjustments. for me, lately i've been practicing a **** load of scales and stuff, and i feel i've lost a degree of my "rawness" i had with my sound a few months ago, so now i'm gonna just forget about the scales and work on singing, so i can get that "feeling" back, that is an example of what i'm talking about

Re: Last question I'll have about grit... hopefully.

grit is something i'm still having loads of trouble with. I wish, by nature, I was a more angry person :)