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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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What are the differences between falsetto & a neutral airy headvoice?

Hi to everyone!!
I feel and listen this two coordinations like a different thing but i dont know exactly why and how can we experiment with this,
i mean, it is possible for example to make a mid-high note like A4 sustained on full compressed neutral head voice and then, while sustaining the note, to change it to airy full neutral head voice, then to falsetto and then come back again to the airy head voice and then the non airy head voice?

I think that be able to do something like this could give us a lot of freedom and improve the coordinations of head voice so we could do it more relaxed. But i am not sure!

And another question that i have about to this topic is, why jaime vendera gives so much importance to the falsetto? i think that the airy neutral head voice is so much better in quality! It wouldnt be better to do a trascending tone exercice between an airy head voice and a compress head voice instead of falsetto to full head voice?

Thank you very much!!




PS:

I made this sample video to show the 3 different coordinations that i am speaking of, and i try too to go from one to another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfJ51FfzddM&feature=player_embedded


Thank youu!!

Re: What are the differences between falsetto & a neutral airy headvoice?

The airy neutral head voice would be described as falsetto. Falsetto is basically an airy sound, but the way Jaime teaches is to eliminate that breath and use as little air as possible.
And to accomplish the transcending tone exercise you need to do it extremely slow. You won't be in falsetto one second and then immediately transfer into full voice. You will slowly go into full voice You have to gain control of your voice first. If it breaks or anything start over and go slow. Really slow;)

P.S. If I'm wrong on any of this someone corect me please :D

Re: What are the differences between falsetto & a neutral airy headvoice?

thank you!! this is very useful!!
i think that falsetto is different to a fullvoiced airy sound but i thank you for the response and because it explains the RYV's point of view of this topic which is very interesting to me

Re: What are the differences between falsetto & a neutral airy headvoice?

I'm not a specialist, but for me, a full-voiced "airy" sound is accomplished by using a too big amount of air, which from what I've learnt in RYV is not a good thing to achieve the best sound. For a given pitch, you've got to control the right amount of both air flow and air pressure.
Jaime don't give such an importance to falsetto as a main way of singing as he prefers full-voice and says you should build full voice and not being only able to sing high notes in falsetto, but he uses it in his exercices as a tool to work range, to eliminate vocal "breaks" and to achieve a "one voice only" through the range. It's more a tool for work than a way to sing all your songs.

Re: What are the differences between falsetto & a neutral airy headvoice?

Seventhson you're right. You can just be blowing too much air and not be in falsetto.
The TT is all about resonance, cord closure, and the right amount of air. As well as learning to use the different tonal qualities of the voice: falsetto, mix, full..
Which all are important.