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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Update/Reminder

Hello all.

I haven't been online lately b/c internet's been down at my house for over a week, so I can only get online at my friend's house.

Anyways, I just thought I'd let everyone know that I've gone 2 months w/o a cigarrette now. I still have cravings, but they're typically fewer and farther in between, and I have much more control over them now.

Jaime promised me a while back that he wouldn't comment on my voice until 3 months after I had quit smoking. One month from today will be that day. I already told him on myspace that the first thing I'd like him to comment on are the videos that I've put on this board since the very first one that had me smoking in it.

If anyone has not seen these videos of me singing, and would like to, just search for these 3 bulletins with my name.

1. "I'm on YouTube!"

2. "I'm on Youtube...AGAIN!"

3. "I hope everyone on this board has a sense of humor."

Take care folks, and thank you to EVERYONE that has supported me through overcoming this addiction that would have one day assuredly cost me my voice. You all mean more to me than you know.

Brandon Selvey

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Fuck yeah Brandon. You can DO EET. Go the rest of your life without smoking. It'll be good for ya!

And. Cover Tool.

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Haha. Me and the guys have played a couple TOOL songs during practice before. Even though I like the sound of my voice, I don't honestly think I could do Maynard true justice except for a few songs, most of which are APC instead of TOOL anyways.

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but thats why covers are cool... because they're different... i hate covers that sound exactly like the original

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I agree, Jordan, but I still don't think I could do a good enough job of a TOOL song to be proud of it. Regardless, I'm flattered that you all think I'm good enough to be requesting songs from me. Haha. It really does make me feel pretty good about myself.

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HEY THERE ! great to hear from you Brandon... I have not been home in a while so it´s been some time since I last read the message board.. It´s awesome that the non smoking thing is still going strong.. in time you will not pay any attention to those cravings :D...


and yeah ... post some tool songs :D


good luck

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Keep it up!