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Sandro

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  1. Emotional state greatly affects your singing.If you connect with the rhythm,and feel the song,you wont get nervous on how you perform.Just stay relaxed and feel the song,that is the beauty of it after all ;)
  2. In my opinion,try to concentrate on getting rasp without using your vocal chords for it.Try to get while your voice resonates by "pushing" resonance to the bridge of nasality(Im not an ENT or anything and I only know how my own voice works,so you might need a bit of"figuring out"on this)I dont know if this is what Martin wrote(the "rattle"),but you should be able to get that "flipping" raspy voice without the pressure on vocal chords,thus making it what you might call "safe" ;)
  3. Its never just about what you have,its how you use it;) People who do high notes in their chest voice use a different technique and therefore their voice develops differently. For instance,I have that,what you might call "free voice" in my higher head voice(not falsetto),but Its not really "suitable" for my styles of singing(more operatic).So I found a way to belt out those notes,and at first,It was "free" but felt pressed,pushed, but over time got as easy as that head voice.Now,Im aware that many vocal coaches/teachers might disagree with this,but not always taking the risk means necessary damage.So,you can practice belting and get high as those people you mentioned,or you can belt,belt,belt,overdo it and hurt your voice.Just my opinion;)
  4. Done that on a gig,and Im gonna post it as soon as I get that recording stuff(should be in the next few weeks,probly the very next one;) And you exactly described it,multiple tones can be heard,and i assume its high harmonic head with a form of belted chest,and I must say,thank you very much for explaining that to me:) Think Im gonna use it sometimes from now on,could get handy I suppose:)
  5. Recently while singing I found a weird effect where I sing trough both my nose and mouth(at the same time) Ppl who heard me say its a kind of a "haunted" voice,I mean,almost like an echo within the resonators. Could this be damaging,and/or should i keep applying this "effect" while singing?Any opinions?
  6. Tyvm on these explanations guys:) And,1st of all congratulations on being smoke free,I know thats quite hard for long-term smokers And no,I did not smoke that cigarette,just to...well,smoke,just wondered how will it affect my voice in a short term,and it was quite fabulous,really,but back to the topic:) Some of You might aswell recall difficulties of those belted notes when having problems with some form of vocal damage(in my case,laryngitis), and,when I couldnt hit them after an hour of practice,I thought to myself "Well,maybe its just me,maybe somehow my voice weakened or I shouldnt be singing yet" After that cigarette,everything was fine,but i knew I couldnt go along with this for a long time. The very next morning,I skipped my usual practice,and when I came back later,did some vocal exercise and found out that I again hit those notes,with the exact "effects" I want them.I think this just might be a some kind of "post-damage" thing when you cant really coordinate resonating,and it is really only due to a "some time not singing". Oh and yeah,coffe doesnt really have a direct effect on your voice,but it kinda "clears your mind" and relaxes you,so that might be just due to not feeling tense while singing Thanks again :D
  7. Ok...to get to the point,Im pretty curious about this topic in particulary,and thats effect of cigarettes on vocal chords,and larynx itself. Today,i woke up,got some coffe,did some vocal exercises and got on to singing(new gigs just around the corner:)) and,im wth,I realise Ive got some new notes(not really,but they have been unusable because of laryngitis for some time),and then i try singing Out on the Tiles (Led Zeppelin),cuz thats one of the songs were currently covering.And then,i find out that I cant get belted nose in a good "order" to sing this songs with such an effect:(. Then I think "well ok,I havent been singing for some time"(since of laryngitis).Then I try harder and "wake up" the parts I need to use in order to sing the song with such an effect.Its good,but not how it should been,but anyways,not to bore You,I got to singing Dream On by Aerosmith.Now,quite weird;i can belt the notes on that one easily.(that might be due to nasal resonating of Plants voice)Now,I think some time of it,and i feel quite tense at the same time.Then i go make a cup of coffe,and one of my friends come to my house.We try Out on te Tiles again.and while he(guitar) gets it all right,im frustrated cuz of wrong resonating of my voice.Then comes the part when I went for a smoke,and BOOM I can now hit the notes exactly how i want them.So,my friend and I are wondering,how could this be,since cigarettes should (and do) damage voice.Then I realise,for the notes i want to hit,I needed some other effects included,besides vocal chords itself,and since they irritate larynx,I think they might also "awaken" the parts of my voice that I couldnt use this very morning(keep in mind that I have not been singing for a two and a half weeks).So my question would be: Can some people on here,explain this troughly to me,and by that I mean the effects of a single cigarette on a human voice,not the bad effects on health(I assure You that Im quite aware of them really) Srry for a long and I imagine,boring posts,but I felt like I need to explain everything in detail Cheers:)
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