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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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Nikola
Nov 6, 2010 - 2:54PM
Keeping low sounding voice when singing high? Audio of me singing "U2-One" included as example...

I would really like to hear Jaime about this, but everyone's opinion is GREAT to hear ;)

So basically I came up with something that helps me to sing higher notes then I usually could before, so I would like to hear opinions about if it makes any sense and if this technique is any good? :D

Basically when I go higher in key I still generally keep my voice low sounding and take same amount of air as when I sing pretty low. So I:
1) keep my voice very low and full sounding (like when you listen to Pavarotti singing it always sounds pretty low, but it's high infact :)
2) I take a very small amount of air (as described in RYV)

Here is the example (me singing U2-One):
http://www.box.net/shared/i6xnc2kecy

You can see that I always try to maintain that low sounding voice even in higher pitches. This makes it easier to sing because it's easier for me to sing with lower voice then with higher lighter voice. I know it's not perfect yet, but I couldn't hit that part "Love is the temple..." in any kind of way month ago..

So is there a sense to technique where you instead of going higher and higher with your voice, you go lower and more lower (I'm not sure if I can explain that better:).

I hope that what I wrote here makes any sense :D

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oiselle
Nov 6, 2010 - 11:34PM
Re: Keeping low sounding voice when singing high? Audio of me singing "U2-One" included as example..

I think what is actually happening is that you are mixing your voice with a little bit of bass and still allowing some head resonance in as opposed to closing it off by pulling chest as so many people tend to do. That is why it still sound like a low voice to you. Your impression of keeping the voice low could also be that you are relaxing your larynx more allowing the proper space to be created for the vocal cords to be pulled and the voice to resonate. It creates a "fuller" sound. If this "visual" helps you, keep using it!

Val

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ZiV
Nov 7, 2010 - 12:06PM
Re: Keeping low sounding voice when singing high? Audio of me singing "U2-One" included as example..

exactly what oiselle said
plus, man, you got great musical ear.
You got Bono's style down :)
love your sound by the way.
keep on working man :)
your on your way, I ssuggest you'll try working with a teacher once in a while just to make sure you really are still on the right track :)

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McMac
Jun 15, 2011 - 11:31AM
Re: Keeping low sounding voice when singing high? Audio of me singing "U2-One" included as example..

Nikola, your post helped me a lot. Thanks! I still don't understand why it works hehe.

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