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: Question about the "break"

WOW, that explanation was awesome. He's very correct. There is nothing at all wrong with your approach. It's a stylistic choice. If you are singing pop, or light rock like Train of Matchbox 20, then that is the route you should go. But, if you are wanting to sing harder stuff, such as Shinedown, or Aerosmith, you'll have to keep working. You see, the Transcending Tone exercise will take you from falsetto, through mixed, and into full voice. Think of falsetto as open cords, mixed as half closed cords, and full as cords that are firmly pressed together. It is just different coordinations for different tonalities and styles. i would prefer that you keep working until you can do all of your notes up to at least an F or G above Tenor C (higher if you want) in all coordinations-falsetto, mixed, full-so that you have the choice to choose and not have vocal limitations:)

JV

Re: Question about the "break"

Thanks for the explanations guys, but I think I've already understood the difference between vocal cord tension and registration. My only question is, can I use my mixed voice to gain high notes in full voice as well?

Re: Question about the "break"

Most definitely. That's why we do Transcending Tones. You can also approach the Siren in mixed and slowly add more weight as you get used to hitting those high notes. You can even try falsetto Sirens to gain range in full voice. You are simple teaching the cords what position they must adjust to to hit the notes, and then you are adding volume, vocal cords tension, resonance, etc...

JV

Re: Question about the "break"

OK, thanks alot!