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JaimeVendera

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  1. When I am in training for a TV show, whether it's glass breaking and/or singing, I run a minimum of 60 minutes on the treadmill in the morning and aim for as minimum of 3.5 miles/500 calories, which isn't hard to do in 60 minutes. Since I am in training right now, I also listen do Voice RX Lip Bubbles and some VAM warm ups, as well as sing 4-5 songs, all while running on the treadmill. It will kick you arse! Yeah you might feel a bit out of breath, but you'll feel amazing because your lungs will open up and you'll feel this amazing power. I also listen to Vocal Mindset I & II at night when I got to sleep. I am a firm believer in the power of the mind and God. Plus I drink at least a gallon of water with X20 (singerswater.com) in it for vocal hydration and immune health reasons:) I've been in this kind of training for the past week and besides pulling out a box of wine glasses and shattering one yesterday, I've also lost 11 pounds;) Point is, you have to train like a champion to be a champion;)
  2. NOTE: I am NOT a specialist I’d like to state that I am not a doctor or vocal health specialist and the following tea is not intended to treat, prevent, or diagnose, any health or vocal health issue that may be related to your specific situation. It's something I've come up with for my own personal use and thought I'd share it:) It's that time of year rockers. Lots of sore throats and snotty noses, haha. Luckily for you, I am king of the concoction-the legal kind, so don't get too excited:) Here is one of my concoctions to help singers battle sore throats, overall fatigue, and boost their immune system: SINGER'S TEA For singers tea you will need the following ingredients: *Throat Coat Tea, which can be purchased a traditionalmedicinals.com or a local GNC * one bottle each of liquid Zinc, Slippery Elm, Licorice, Ginseng and Stevia (optional) * Packets of orange Emergen-C or orange peels of one organic orange *Packet of X20 (singerswater.com) *Bottle of distilled water 1. Start by adding a packet of X20 to your bottle of water and shaking for 15-20 seconds. Let bottle sit for 15-minutes. 2. Pour water into sauce pan, add one Throat Coat tea bag and bring to boil. Do not microwave! Optional: You can add the orange peels to your water as you boil. Use this option if you are not going to use Emergen-C 3. Once boiling, turn off stove, then pour tea into coffee mug. 4. Add the following to your tea: A. 5-7 drops of Slippery Elm, Licorice and Ginseng and 3-5 drops of liquid Zinc. B. Half packet of Emergen-C if not using orange peels during boiling. C. 5-10 drops of Stevia natural sweetener, but only after you've tasted your tea. If the mixture is a little too tart for you liking, you can simply sweeten it to taste with Stevia. So, what does all this do for a singer? Well, I've been told the following: *X20 and Vitamin C (from orange peel or Emergen-C) helps boost the immune system. *Throat Coat Tea contains Slippery Elm and Licorice. Slippery Elm is a demulcent and will coat the lining of the throat to ease dryness. Licorice is like a natural form of cortisone which will help reduce swelling. By adding liquid Slippery Elm and Licorice, we are super charging the tea. * The Ginseng is an energy/adrenal booster for when you feel worn down. It is much better than caffeine which will dry you out and actually diminish your energy. *Emergen-C or orange peels add vitamin C which boosts the immune system. I elect to only use half a packet of Emergen-C because of tartness, but you can use one full packet if desired. *Zinc is the singer's mineral and help rebuild vocal tissue. *Stevia is a natural sweetener that will not drain your energy like white sugar. There you have it lead screamers. Make you a cup to sip or a batch for a thermos to drink while on stage...Don't forget to drink plenty of water too!!! Jaime Vendera virtualvoicelessons.com theultimatevocalworkout.com
  3. TV show. Remember, I am not a doctor or vocal health specialist and the following drink mix is not intended to treat, prevent, or diagnose, any health or vocal health issue that may be related to your specific situation. Every day right now as I am in training, I simply take a bottle of water, add a few packets of Emergen-C, 10-15 drops of each liquid zinc, liquid Licorice, liquid Slippery Elm, Liquid B-complex and Stevia. After I shake up this mixture I add one packet of X20 (singerswater.com). You can do an Internet search to discover why I use each of these ingredients. For RYV owners, it's all explained in there too;) I don't use this all the time and I am always trying different combinations. But this one works well. My voice feels amazing, my glass breaking power is at an all time high and the Zep tunes I am singing for the German show are solid... Oh yeah, I DO do a lot more than just drink this tea. You got to do your exercises every day, including vocal and cardio. In fact, I do an 60-90 minutes on the treadmill in the morning, and during that time, I do lots of lip bubbles and scales and sing some songs;) Hope this is of some use to someone, just though I'd share:)
  4. Don't use the Waterpik if your sinuses are so full that they are stopped up. If you do, make sure it is on a low pressure. You CAN cause water to go behind your eardrum as the whole area of sinuses and ears are very close together. I have done this before; I could feel the water squirt in behind my ear and then I ended up with lots of dizziness and about 8 hours of serious headache.
  5. I am busting their chops to get it done;)
  6. Go to neilmed.com for your Nasal needs;)
  7. Yost engineering is finishing up my "Vendera Digital Vocal Coach"...Hoping it will be out at the first of the year.
  8. Therein lies the problem, haha, because everyone including myself have their own views of correct terminology. I think voice is the one area where everyone disagrees on so much do to various techniques and terminology that it can make your head spin;)
  9. Hey Blackeyed, falsetto is most definitely a tool to strengthen the full voice because you learn how to move around your range without the extra weight. I was taught this by hands down the greatest vocal coach I've ever met...Jim Gillette. How do you think he learned to hit the Soprano D innthe song Freight Train? By practicing in a very tiny falsetto first...And he learned this from his Opera coach. But, as many have stated on here, it is not the ending. You HAVE to work the full voice as well. That is why I start with falsetto, work to Transcending the tone into full voice, then use very full voiced Sirens. They work very welol together. I even had a kid come down for a couple hours of lessons (my youngest brother actually) who needed to be able to sustain a B below Tenor C in order to get a lead role in his school play his senior year. He could belt out a heck of a G already on his own. So we worked in falsetto for a bit until I had him up to around an Alto F, then we moved on to some messa di voce' and finally full voiced Sirens. Before he left, he was sustaining Tenor Cs and he was NOT belting; in fact he was laughing because he couldn't believe it was him hitting a full voiced C...He practiced every single day and within 2 weeks, he was singing in choir and he held out a Tenor D. His teacher almost passed out. She thought he was a freak of nature. Nope, he just knew how to work hard. I used falsetto to show him how to get there, Transcending tones to begin the serious development and full voiced Sirens to take him all the way. Needless to say, he's now in college and voice is his major:)
  10. Do you mean 2 practice session per day or are you gigging/recording? Winter can make it worse. I went through that about 10 years ago towards the winter. My voice stayed really dry and fry-like I actually thought I had nodes but it was the seasonal affects that played very harsh on my voice. It could possibly be that you are over-woring the voice too. I hope you have a vocal coach near you that you can check with to make sure you are doing everything correctly. Because you might just be causing some bit of fatigue without knowing it.
  11. I don't understand the title of this post? I don't hate falsetto. It's a tool to strengthen the full voice and it allows you to expand your color palate. Listen to singers like Jeff Buckley who uses both falsetto and full voice in the high range. People need to understand that falsetto is a part of your tonal repertoire, but the goal is to NOT be stuck with falsetto alone.
  12. I just use Lip Bubbles, chewbacca exercises and humming slides, but I start in my upper range and work down into my low range.
  13. Cool information to know, but yes, it isn't necessary to know or even at all that important to worry about when talking in general terms of teaching on the Internet.
  14. Harmonics-yes. I am so used to working with singers that itsnthe first thing I notice. You can tell when a singer has a free resonant tone and when they are clamping in the throat and pinching off the sound.
  15. Hahaha hey Chen, did you read my post before I edited the typos? Pretty funny. Don't remember saying it was my brain interpreting because doesn't that really happen in anything we do? And if it is the brain interpretation, then how can I hear when a student is a little flat and not just interpret it as in-tune? Not doubting you, I am just truly interested in this kind of thing. Anything to do with brain function interests me. I think you should just setup and try the webcam thing for yourself so you know if it benefits you. BTW- I probably have such a decent sound because I have an elaborate setup and great webcam for teaching.
  16. I gotta go madittenber on this. You've asked a question to which I don't know if you were really seeking an answer. As far as exact audio frequency, anytime your voice goes through a piece of equipment, it is somewhat affected. I told a student over skype the other day that after a handful of lessons, their lower voice was sounding fuller. So I am pretty sure skype is fine for teaching and the tone isn't affected enough for me to worry about it. Latency? Sometimes there is a little. But I still see fine and I can still play scales, although sometimes a little lagging. Bottom line: if you have the experience teaching, then you will be comfortable enough in any type situation to make the best of a lesson for your student.
  17. Phones are good for consultations in a Q & A format. I have no clue where you get video bandwidth is worse than phone. When I teach online, I csan hear/see the singer very very well. I have great success doing video lessons, although nothing will replace a one on one lesson with student and teacher in the same room.
  18. As Steven says, everyone is different. However, I still have my male and female students focusing to the same spot, although each individual will related to me how they connect to that spot as an individual. My trained pro rocker friends will all agree that if they didn't focus or 'place' their voice to a generally specific spot in the roof of their mouths, that they wouldn't last one tour;)
  19. Judy, I got tons of ideas in my book Raise Your Voice. Email me your address and here in a few weeks when the revised version hits the shelves, I'll send you a copy. But, off the top of my head, if in the past, I felt a cold coming on, I would eat several Calicum capsules and Vitamin C tablets every hour until the sore feelings started to go away. Now, All I do is use X20 every day and I haven't had a cold for almost 2 years now...Well, I had one little cold, when I was out of X20 for a few weeks, but doubled up on my X20 and it was gone in a few days and it never really turned into anything major;)
  20. For me, the 'mask' is a secondary occurance that lets me know my voice is properly placed up out of the throat. When the sound is allowed to leave freely without feeling as if it is 'stuck' down in the throat, things such as buzzing cheeks, nose, eyes, teeth, etc. will occur. But at the same time, I personally feel a slight physical sensation up against my soft palate; sort of a pleasant nudge. If I focus on the feeling of that pleasant nudge, all other buzzing sensations, such as the 'mask' happen simultaneously. So ty focusing your voice into your palate;)
  21. Yes Caesari's books are awesome.. Also check out "Caruso's Method if Voice Production".
  22. Also forgot to mention...Hilary, I am guessing you are a fan of Dr. Emoto? Love his books and the fact that he is proving that you can influence water molecules.
  23. Ya know Darrison, I read somewhere a while back about a study saying the body does adapt if you drink lots of caffeine. I try to deter singers from it, but then again, people are different and what may affect one, may not affect the other. I know when I was staying with Tony Harnell writing our book that we lived on coffee. I must admit that it kept phlegm on my throat but after 3-4 days, it was like I got used to it. Wouldn't want to do it all the time thought. We were just working like crazy;)
  24. Water here in the states is horrible Hilary. Also, speaking from my own personal experience, I have to disagree with you on the elctrolyte additives. Buit that is not to say you are wrong, but that I have to go with my gut and personal experience. I have NOT been sick in almost 2 years since starting X20 and I am endorsed my Pro Tours/Travell Wellness owner Ocea, and I know that she has did extensive studies in holistic health and is at the top of the game when it comes to creating the best vocal products out there. She prides herself on the purity of any product she releases and I know she likes water like SmartWater ™ which is full of electrolytes. SmartWater is becoming popular here in the states
  25. Yes sorry I haven't been around. I am working on a MAJOR new vocal project with vocal coach Michael Rocchio. All will be revealed around the beginning of the year, which is coincidentally the same time Michael, or "Rock" as I call him, will be finished with his new book:)
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