Hey guys I'm a 15 year old high school kid aspiring to be a singer. I've been trying to be a good singer every since I was inspired by Michael Buble. For the last month, I've been working on SLS, mostly singing success. After a month, I saw little results and someone told me that Jaime Vendera's techniques would "jump start" my gains in vocal power and technique, so yesterday I bugged my dad into buying me the book.
I've taken a look at this message board already and everyone seems pretty cool, just wondering if anyone has any tips for me off the bat?

BTW, I'm a bass and my highest note is really pathetic like a E3 or something lol. If I put in the effort, will these gains be better than singing success?

Hey Jake. When you get the book, read it over and over and over and over till you have it memorized.
But seriously, when you read the short bio about Jaime in the beginning of the book and read about the range he HAD, you WILL become inspired and see that there is hope to break above the E3 mark.

And while you are waiting for the book, start drinking water, lots of it, unless you are doing that already. That way you will have one issue out of the way.

Hey-

Don't be put off by vocal classifications. I'm a bass too, but that only means that I have a darker timbre and my break points are in different places. My highest note has increased from E4 to F#5 in almost a year. I'm sure that if you put in enough time and effort, you can see great results as well!

Good luck.

Jake the best advice I can give you is to dedicate yourself to doing the exercises correctly. Make sure you look at the videos on this site once you get the book. Also make sure you read the book a few times. Just know your range is there alot of it, you just need to learn to unlock it, theres nothng special about people will very high ranges, its just they figured out how to unlock those parts by doing exercises.

Also if your a bass, remember don't try and make yourself darker and heavier, let the voice float. My biggest issue is that I kept tryign to make my sound very heavy and dark when really I was just singing incorrectly.

Thanks for the input, guys.
The most important thing I'm worried about is my bridge, or breaks between chest and head voice (if there is such terminology in Raise Your Voice). Has anyone seen any improvement in the connection between chest and head? Being a bass and wanting to sing pop and jazz, nearly every song goes through that bridge, so if anyone can tell me about their previous experiences, it would be cool.
On a bright note, I found out it's getting delivered on Wednesday! Can't wait!

Yes. The exercises in RYV focus specifically on eliminating the breaks in your voice, thus strengthening your entire range.

And by the way, Michael Bublé is indeed awesome. I've been trying to learn "Feeling Good" lately... that G#4 is basically the most difficult note in my range, haha.

Jake,

Email me personally through this site and I'll get ya started a little quicker ;)

Jaime Vendera

Hey Jaime I tried to send you an email but it said your inbox timed out cuz it was full? My email address is sweetexperiment@gmail.com if you wanna get me started early! Can't wait till wednesday!