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: Please enlighten a simple mind on some matters

Ok, so after a few days of practicing the F4 is starting to become less elusive. But I have another burning question:

Is it possible to extend my falsetto range at all as well? So far I can only go up to about an F5 in falsetto. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm probably a bass as my lowest note is a C2

Re: Please enlighten a simple mind on some matters

Yes you can extend your falsetto range. All it takes is time.

Re: Please enlighten a simple mind on some matters

FamiliarStranger
Ok, so after a few days of practicing the F4 is starting to become less elusive. But I have another burning question:

Is it possible to extend my falsetto range at all as well? So far I can only go up to about an F5 in falsetto. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I'm probably a bass as my lowest note is a C2




Don't be in such a hurry.
Rome wasn't built in a day.

LOL

It took me 5 months to lose 80lbs. Think about that. 5 months of almost no carbohydrates.... and now I'm bench-pressing 200lbs 100 times per day.(It's called German Volume Training for those interested. 10 sets x 10 repetitions. It was developed by the coach of the German Olympic team in the 70's. You only raise the weight at the beginning of each week, and then you use that weight for an entire week.

Keep in mind, I'm 6'2" 280lbs and at one point was squatting right at 700lbs.... but that was a lifetime ago.

Man I hope I get that inch of height back.. I'm missing being 6'3". LOL

After a bout of serious depression... my fiance and I split up and I spent almost 18 months downing in sorrow... I had an epiphany, and it kicked my butt right into high gear.


Just keep training.

Do it slow, drink warm singer's tea while you're doing it.... or just warm tea. My experience has been the slower you train, the more progress you will have. It is just like lifting weights. Go slow and you incorporate (activate and use) more muscle fibers. So do your slides between pitches s-l-o-w-l-y. Once you build them up and can hit the notes strongly, then you can speed it up a bit, after all, you want your voice to be extremely flexible and fluid so you can "skip around" and hit any note in your range at any volume.


But as Jim Gillette says,"PRACTICE!!! PRACTICE!!! PRACTICE!!!"



Tim

Re: Please enlighten a simple mind on some matters

But I wanna be a rockstar now! XD
Thanks for all the advice everyone I'm sticking at it.

Re: Please enlighten a simple mind on some matters

FamiliarStranger
But I wanna be a rockstar now! XD
Thanks for all the advice everyone I'm sticking at it.



LOL
So be a rockstar now, and that means you need to train like a rockstar.
Just remember, the way to build muscle is regular training, and time under tension. It doesn't matter which muscles you are training - it all works the same. you'll get there, just keep at it.