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  1. The book "The New Voice" by Alan Greene has some really good exercises to release tension in the tongue. Definitely worth getting.
  2. Amy Lee Tarja Turunen Christina Aguilera Pink Charlotte Church Angela Gossow
  3. I think Daniel Gildenlow should have been a bit further up the list. Number 11's not bad though, considering how relatively unknown he is in the western world. He should definitely be in the top 5
  4. Videohere: Totally agree. The Zen of Screaming DVDs could easily have been put onto one DVD if she removed the clips of people talking about how awesome she is. The first DVD in particular, is pretty bad for this reason. About 2/3 of it is metal singers kissing her ass. One big problem is, however, that a lot of these singers don't even use her screaming techniques on stage. There's just too much padding. I actually had to rip both dvds onto my computer and edit out all the crap so that they were actually usable as vocal workout dvds. There's some good information and some useful exercises for developing vocal fry screams, but very little on other types of screams. I can't help but feel a bit ripped off. I just wish I'd bought Rob's Four Pillars, Jaime's RYV and CVT first.
  5. Actually, I just got my account activated. Until after I posted that message, I didn't know I had to send an email to activate my account. Once I did, my account was activated. I didn't get a response either. Try and log in. If you sent an email to the right person, it should be active. He says he deletes them after a week if they're not activated, so you should be able to keep your user name, even if you have to register again. Hopefully I'll see you in the CVI forum too. :)
  6. I would have posted this on CVI's own forum, but I've been waiting over a week and I STILL haven't had my account activated! Anyway, I was wondering if anyone who's fairly knowledgeable in CVT could upload a clip of themselves singing in neutral without air from the bottom to the top of their range? I'm having some trouble co-ordinating the area between G# and high C and an audio sample could really help me.
  7. I'm no expert, so it's hard to say, but judging from my own experiences, I think there is. Or at least there's an area of difficulty that I have in neutral without air between the G# below tenor high C and tenor high C itself. I can go through this area with neutral with air, or curbing, quite easily. I mean this could be a passagio, or maybe it's just a sign that I need to work on my twanging around that area. But the fact that about 95% (pulled that statistic right out of my ass) of male singers have problems at the same area, makes it hard to believe that there isn't a passagio, but then that doesn't explain total freaks of nature like Jens' friend :P
  8. Nathan: I totally agree. He was a great singer, but he had Louis, so he was doomed to fail. He knows NOTHING about rock music and had no idea what to do with him. The closest thing to rock that Louis Walsh knows is probably Robbie Williams. Videohere: You're probably right. He does have a bit of an arrogant vibe, but maybe that's just the way he performs. Ronws: I'd usually use overdrive to hit that note. It's just bugging me that I can hit the note fine in every mode other than neutral without air. I've realised that I can also do neutral without air above the high C. It's just the area between G# and high C that's pretty shaky. I suppose it's just a matter of closing the gap. I'm wondering if it might be an issue with my twanging. Maybe I'm lacking the control needed to close that gap right now. Anyway, I'll keep at it.
  9. Hey. This is a question mainly aimed at those familiar with CVT. I was just wondering if I'm right in thinking that most of this performance (starts at 1:20) is done in neutral without air with creaking or (a very light) distortion. I'm not entirely sure which. I'm currently having a bit of trouble with getting above a G# below high C in neutral without air. For some reason I can go an octave above that in either curbing or neutral with air, but not neutral without air. Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Sykotix
  10. I'm not sure it's a good idea to buy CVT second hand. To access the audio samples online, you need to type in a code that's in the book, and register it to your account. The trouble is, I think these codes are unique, so you won't be able to access the samples. Having a singing book with no audio is like having a car with no wheels. The 1st edition comes with a CD instead, but I'd definitely recommend getting the 2nd one. There are far more samples, including a male and female one for each reference in the book.
  11. I recently saw Zen of Screaming 2, and in it, Melissa makes the claim that false cord screaming isn't a good idea for tenors, and can ruin your vocal cords, but it's ok for baritones and basses. I'm rather skeptical about a lot of the things she said in the dvd, but this has quite serious implications, as I'm somewhere between a natural baritone and a natural tenor myself. and has left me with 2 questions. 1. Does anyone know whether there is any truth in this? 2. Are there any appreciable biological differences between a baritone's and a tenor's vocal apparatus that might explain this? I'm hoping this is just a myth, because I'm aware that almost every facet of the voice can be trained. I've also heard that engaging the false cords while using the vocal cords is bad for your vocal cords too, but this doesn't make much sense to me, because you can't scream on pitch without using your vocal cords, surely.... Sykotix
  12. Wow, you're good at that! This could be really useful, thanks.
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