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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Chris W
Apr 13, 2016 - 11:22PM
Hey Jamie, can you give me a good falsetto sliding exercise?

Hi Jamie,

I'm just starting to get back into good health again and am making a tack to take back my dynamic voice. One area I am struggling with at the present moment is sounding good while sliding in falsetto. I'm trying a song that combines the aspect of a "haunting" voice with a part of the song that has wide-range sliding falsettos. Can you give me an exercise that will help me obtain better and "more fluid" control of wide-range slides in falsetto? My natural range is Eb2 + ~3 octaves, so I sometimes struggle with higher range songs and actually prefer to not go into falsetto singing them, but this particular song sounds much better in falsetto. Thanks for your help — I intend to get all of your books soon. Right now, I just have the original Raise Your Voice book.

Best,
Chris

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Kev
Apr 14, 2016 - 12:59PM
Re: Hey Jamie, can you give me a good falsetto sliding exercise?

There are good falsetto exercises in RYV, Chapter 20 ;)

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Jaime Vendera
Apr 15, 2016 - 9:00AM
Re: Hey Jamie, can you give me a good falsetto sliding exercise?

Kev is correct. SOunds like you need to go back into the book;) As well, the free Ultimate Vocal Warmup audio at VenderaPublishing.com has several falsetto exercises. Bottom line, you don't need a new improved falsetto exercise. You need to dedicate yourself to doing the ones from the book. I've even had coaches tell me, "Hey Jaime why don't you add the new and improved modern vocal technique and exercise?" And I reply, "I've been fixing singers for 20 years with the same exercises with great success so why should I try to fix what isn't broken?" Dedicate yourself to 6 days per week of ALL THREE Isolation exercises if you want a better voice:)

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