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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Jaime Vendera
Jul 9, 2006 - 11:11AM
Re: My journal

14 hours of sleep 1 night will night does not make up for lost sleep. It will take several nights to recover, especially since your body goes through specific sleep cycles via brainwaves. I will be discussing this more in a new book I am writing with Tony Harnell from TNT.

JV

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James Fater
Jul 9, 2006 - 5:25PM
Re: My journal

lol, it's funny you say that. I just slept for around 15 hours...Awful. I didn't intend to. I went to sleep at midnight so I could wake up early.

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James Fater
Jul 9, 2006 - 11:41PM
Re: My journal

July 9th, 2006 - Day 5

Woo! Good day. Hardly any phlegm, I felt good. I am so happy with myself. My head voice becomes more and more accessible every day. I only practiced for an hour today so I didn't get to do as much as usual.

My transcending tone exercises in the C4-E4 range have "clicked" today, and I hardly crack at all transcending on E4-F4. I did some sirens and it's easier to get over my break and into my head now. But what I am particularly happy with is that when I hit a G4 now, it's much fuller, and my D-F4 range is lighter.

I am focusing this whole week coming up on perfecting transcending on A4 and bringing more chest resonance into it. I've been doing falsetto exercises before going to bed the past 3 nights and I'd wager that's having an impact on things too.

I am devoting about 10 minutes to throat singing and screaming from now on too.

highest note full voice: C5
highest note falsetto: A5
lowest note: G2
Bullfrogs: 200
Water consumed: 1 and 1/2 gallons

I'm doing 100 situps and 50 pushups along with doing 300 jumping jax every morning. I might start doing yoga in a few weeks.

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