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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Layne Staley

does anybody know what kind of training Layne (singer of Alice in Chains) had? I wonder, it seems very natural for him but in all of his concerts (that I've seen) he sounds perfect so it's hard to believe in doing all of those high pitched screams that he'd never harm his voice. Especially since he was big into drugs...

haha... sorry for the random post but I'm curious.

Re: Layne Staley

I don't know how he trained and if he was technically perfect, but I love his voice, he had a great grit and was very intense, we'll miss him...

Apart from this it would be a good idea to analyze on this forums the voices from famous singers, I think it would help students understand how to obtain certain effects and how correct (and not correct) styles sound.
It would be a good addition to ryv audio files (which are great).
Frank

Re: Layne Staley

layne studied with the late maestro david p kyle. Roberte Lunte over at voicecouncil.com is carrying on kyles methods, as he was one of his students as well. He has a stuio called TVS in Seatle and a singing program that supposedly contain some of kyles exercises.

Re: Layne Staley

Yes TVS uses all of Kyles exercises that Stayley used. Mainly major scales with basic phrases;)