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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: Excercise intervals?

Page 255 of RYV has a 7 week workout plan.

You'll see that week one is VSR, Warm-Up, Falsetto Slides.
Using this example - the Falsetto slides should be done beginning on - say middle C for simplicity's sake - Repeat the exercise on Middle C until you feel confidant in the tone and "feel" of the exercise. Continue up the keyboard preforming the exercise on each Semitone (C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F# - etc.) until you have reached the highest point in your CURRENT range - write it down so you can track your progress. At this point you have two choices, you can descend back down each semitone back to middle C, then continue downward to the bottom of your current range - write it down - OR - You can go from the top, straight back to middle C without "working" down from the top and work your way down to the bottom of your range. Do this as many times as you want to, go top to bottom once - or 5 times, it's up to you. Always remember to SING for as long as you work out. So if you spend 45 minutes in Falsetto Slides - spend 45 minutes singing some songs.

The most important thing to focus on is the QUALITY of the tone and VOCAL PLACEMENT. Don't drop position and put your larynx in your stomach just so you can say you hit "D2" - because you didn't... you faked a D2 in a tone that would never be acceptable in a song, that is completely disconnected from the rest of your voice. Same with the higher end of your range - Quality is MUCH better than quantity - quantity will come with time and practice.