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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highriser
Nov 6, 2013 - 12:19AM
Sensations in the high range

Hey Jaime and all y'all,
I have a question that I wish I would have thought of before the hangout, but I just thought of it now.

As you go up in your higher ranges with power and volume does it feel like (not what is actually happening but the sensation associated with it) you are allowing more air through the glottis and relaxing up there or do you feel like you are basically holding your breath back with the glottis, in both cases obviously bearing down to support but does it feel like a float or like there is quite a bit of pressure involved and when do you know if it is good pressure or bad pressure.

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Phil Moufarrege
Nov 19, 2013 - 2:19AM
Re: Sensations in the high range

the pressure is good if it isn't locking down yoru throat. you will need some degree of "sound pressure" to keep that nice balance of chest and head mix.

holding back the air is crucial. glottal compression. other systems have different names to it. some call it breath compression, some call it glottal compression, SLS guys call it "crying into the sound" some people think of it as creaking into the sound either way you will notice in all those examples the same thing is happening: least amount of air passing through the cord.

There'd be no way to do that Dream Theatre cover I did on my youtube channel if too much air was passing accross the cord because there are so many phrases back to back you need a good sense of efficiency.

That sustained SSSS exercise is a good way to get the feeling of what it feels like to have that compressed tank of air to sit on.

It can take some practice to get because you absolutely do NOT want to lock downt he throat when you do it.

Phil Moufarrege
http://Grow-The-Voice.com
http://YouTube.com/PhilMoufarrege

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