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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Support in singing

When we sing, does are stomach muscles must be tight all the time when we taking a micro breaths (i mean on entire lenght of the song), or should we tight are muscles for each micro breath and keep them tight, and loose them when we take a new breath.

Re: Support in singing

relax everything in-between breaths so that tension doesn't bind you up.

You tense the belly only as you need to when going upscale to hit notes.

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

Re: Support in singing

Thanks

Re: Support in singing

You must maintain a consistent downward pressure at ALL times when vocalizing. However, that pressure may vary. It's usually more stomach tension on high and gritty notes.

Re: Support in singing

Support: how high you sing + how much breath you have left in your lungs. In other words, if you start singing on a high note and your lungs are full, you will only need little support. But if you finish a sentence on a high note and you are running out of breath you will need to push down quite energetically.