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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Re: Concerns and questions about exercises

Just keep working on it, work up to volume level that is below your straining point and stay there for a while, then try to move up in volume and pitch. Remember, what you are doing is learning to use the muscles in your throat correctly. I had tons of bad vocal habits and took a while for me to learn to switch gears. I was notorious for raising my larynx when I sang high, and I could go fairly high and be quite loud, but I was doing it incorrectly. Plus, I had a big gap in the middle of my range, right above C4, from 20 years of smoking a pack a day of cigarettes.




Tim

Re: Concerns and questions about exercises

Yeah, I guess I do try and push myself to the limit a lot. I'll work on being more gradual and see how it goes. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Concerns and questions about exercises

Yes, it is a gradual building of muscle. We singers ALL want it right this instant! Slow down;)

Re: Concerns and questions about exercises

My larynx also starts to rise at around Tenor C. Should I worry about this to the point of doing bullfrogs?

Re: Concerns and questions about exercises

Yes you can do bullfrogs, tongue pushups, platysma pullups, etc. to build the surrounding muscles so that the larynx doesn't lift too high.

Re: Concerns and questions about exercises

Okay thank you. I also have been doing TT for a couple of days, and noticed that I would have to push harder in order to reach the same pitch in full voice and that sometimes swelling a note would raise the pitch of the note, not the volume. What should I be doing differently?