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: Compressed voice

yep that is compression. but just saying "hold your breath" doesn't guarantee you'll do it right. because if you do it wrong you'll actually just close off the sound in the throat whcih we don't want.

The easiest way to set it up correctly is with two exercises.

1. staccato AH AH AH grunts like in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1kjffaEdX8

Replace the UGH sound I do with a bright AH vowel (this was a very very old video of mine).

You are looking for a big resonant sound that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the throat. It should feel pretty easy to produce.

Now what you want is to go AH AH AHHHHHH on the piano, then siren up the octave.

2. another way to get it working is with the sustained SSSSS exercise Jaime has in the book. That teaches you to keep the chest expanded while producing the tone with the least amount of air (this is compression).

The basic concept is that you want to keep your chest expanded (this will happen if the air is being held back)

When you are doing the siren exercise you are compressing. When you do the falsetto slide that's with NO compression. that's the difference.

Hope that helps

Phil Moufarrege
Grow-The-Voice.com
Youtube.com/PhilMoufarrege

Re: Compressed voice

Thanks Phil!!

That helps a lot! :) My native language isn't English so sometimes I get confused about those terminology. :/