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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Re: Hate my tone...

Tony and James, thanks so much for your help!!! I tried to record a newer version, I focused on all that advice and was trying to tone down the nasality but I don't think it worked too well...

http://www.geocities.com/rx88v/greensleevesv2.mp3

Frankly, I just can't seem to keep any sort of resonance going without sounding very nasal. The only way to completely eliminate the nasality for me seems to be to stick my tone way back in the throat, and I know that's not good.
Another problem also came up...when I tried to eliminate the nasal feeling, my breath support totally fell apart. I seemed to run out of air every 5 seconds.

Blech, I feel like a total lost cause when it comes to singing. It almost makes me want to give up, but I've spent so much time practicing aleady it would really suck to see all that time go to waste.

Re: Hate my tone...

I dunno, it's still not so much your tone that I don't like, but your pronunciation seems very narrow, very unnatural. Your tone definitely isn't going to make anyone sick though. It's nice, imo.