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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Skullsplitter
Nov 4, 2012 - 10:45AM
Re: Are support and volume mutually exclusive?

oiselle
Volume is also created by resonance. If you haven't dropped your jaw properly and your throat isn't relaxed open to create a wide space and resonance chamber then there won't be as much space for the resonance to carry the sound.



Oiselle,

I think I was confusing him with an earlier post when I was talking about pressing down causing you to sing louder.


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seventhson
Nov 4, 2012 - 1:23PM
Re: Are support and volume mutually exclusive?

as Oiselle told earlier, breath support is only a part of the stuff. It regulates the amount of air flow and pressure on vocal folds. Too little isn't good, too much isn't good too.
It's quite like a car. Breath support is like the motor. You need a motor that gives you the ability to drive at the speed you want. But you'll have hard times driving a car only composed with a motor!

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Alex
Nov 4, 2012 - 9:52PM
Re: Are support and volume mutually exclusive?

Well my question was that, even though you can have the same jaw position, tongue position, and raising of the palate, basically everything that affects resonance, you can still speak with breath support without actually increasing the volume and you can do it actually increasing it.

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Alex
Nov 5, 2012 - 8:15PM
Re: Are support and volume mutually exclusive?

I guess what I wanted to know is if when we speak louder we do something like expel more air or something because clearly it's not only a matter of pressing down.

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seventhson
Nov 6, 2012 - 2:50AM
Re: Are support and volume mutually exclusive?

I'm not a vocal instructor, only a singer, but breath support, what you call "pressing down"... is nothing but controlling your diaphragm. Diaphragm makes air fill your lungs while breathing in, but it also creates pressure with breath support. When you sing you throw an air flow upward to make your vocal folds vibrate (and the more you throw air flow the most you can increase volume) but you also have to maintain a downward pressure (breath support) to make the sound consistent, solid.
There's nothing exclusive or inclusive, air flow and pressure are just complementary to achieve a good tone.

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