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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: Zipper technique, any other tips?

Bartok
My chest voice changes into head voice around B4 (used to be A4 some time ago but improved, yeah!) and it's the point where the straining begins if I want to go any higher while keeping the power :(


When you say head voice you mean falsetto? Because using chest voice up to B4 is really hard for most people and will cause huge amounts of strain. Most singers sing in chest only as high as F4-G4.

Re: Zipper technique, any other tips?

Now that you say it, I'm not 100% sure about it, but I think that my A#4 is still chest voice but a little softer than F#4 for example.

When I started singing, A4 was my point where the voice was cracking, I've always thought that it was the border between my chest and head voice. Now I can go from lower notes to A#4 and sometimes B4 without any crack or any change in tone that's why I think it's still chest voice.

And yeah, the problem is that I can't go any higher without straining unless it's a really soft falsetto :(

Re: Zipper technique, any other tips?

Oh, now I realised that maybe all these high notes up to B4/C5 actually IS my head voice and B4/C5 is the highest note my "singing muscles" can take without straining and I can broaden this range by exercising. Well, that might be the point.


It seems like I have the solution now. I'll avoid screaming these D5-G5 notes unhealthily until I'm able to hit them with a full voice.
What I thought was a head voice, was actually a unhealthily distorted falsetto. Or maybe I'm still wrong, I don't know