THE VOICE CONNECTION
SOUND OFF

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: Downward push

Yessir. Since you are "throwing" the high note further the lows will seem like you have more "room" for the breathing in sensation whereas the high notes will be ...like a fishing line when you cast. The note will pull out as much breath as it needs to get to it's destination, you shouldn't have to push or force anything - just let it run.
Lower tones need more breath than highs, but are not breathy, you still want nice vocal cord connection for sound production. For lows imagine the sound still coming up and out of your throat, but then dumping or falling out of your mouth. Even on lows you should still feel your face vibrating along with your chest/sternum - otherwise you "dropped the floor" out of your tone and made it more of a chore to get back up to your mid and high portion of your range without chopping at the break AND with the floor dropped you'll find yourself running out of air real quick. If you end up losing some of you low notes by keeping your "floor" in tact, fear not - work on it during your exercises and you'll get it back but in a healthy connected manner with more resonance and tone than before!

Re: Downward push

Don't push too much or you will kill your voice! If your alignment is right and you voice has room to travel to the resonance chamber, you will only need a little bit of pressure to hit higher notes. Only as you run out of breath, will you feel like you need to push more. Support=how high you sing + how much breath you have left.

Re: Downward push

Oh thats make definitely sense...! thank you guys :)