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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: Gritty Falsetto

Ted Neely from JCS

Re: Gritty Falsetto

Oh, him, I'd completely forgotten his name... Awesome singer! Yeah, I could be wrong but it seems to me to be similar to what you'd do for Halford-style screams, reinforced falsetto with as much power as you can get into it, focus it on the palette and play with your mouth and throat shapes to add multi-tonal grit. A smily sort of shape helps for the former, the latter I cannot really explain in any meaningful way, unfortunately, I just figured out how to do it and do it.

Make lots of ugly noises until you figure it out, is my suggestion. Worked for me and Halford-eque screams...! :-P

Just make sure you maintain breath support and the inhalation sensation, it's easy to blow too much air through while experimenting with grit and that'll irritate your voice in no time whatsoever.

Edit: Oh, and for the more gargly falsetto stuff in his older years, I do something similar and it feels a bit like gargling the tone, I think it might technically be a slight vocal fry but I'm unsure. That one is a bit easier to figure out, try to sound like a witch and when you have that down you dial the effect in or out until you have the consistency you want.