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  1. The Mayfield Four is my favorite Myles Kennedy band. There's something their two CDs that just makes me melt. His best vocal styling (and guitar) imo was in the band before that, Citizen Swing. (sick guitar solo at 2:55)
  2. I totally forgot about this. I need to try this song mapping today. It sucks that I still can't really SING one song. Maybe I'm trying songs that are hard.
  3. I think it's subjective like what Steven said. On the Bel Canto website I posted it says "just below the cheekbones". I myself imagine it just below my eyes.
  4. That's a really cool idea. I'll definitely try this tomorrow. What do you think of speeding it up?
  5. Thanks! I'm a little disappointed that this is curbing. I've probably been doing this for months: EE in chest voice with a little squeeze (hold) and lots of support. F4 is the highest I've taken this sound and it's not even consistent. I can't see how people can take this higher without their passagio getting in the way. EDIT: I reread the curbing chapter in CVT. It says curbing often blends into compressed neutral or edge in the high part of the voice. So how high should I pull chest? How do I increase my curbing range without blending it with edge (The second link on this thread is probably edge)? This is very confusing :/
  6. Okay here's my attempt at curbing. This is probably as high as I can take it. Am I doing it right? http://www.box.net/shared/cnd2ctj2zq (I repeat what Matthew Bellamy sings)
  7. Hey, It does feel really comfortable and very loud. Also, the thinner-fold configuration Steven mentioned seems to allow a smoother transition to another mode (dunno what it's called yet). Apocalypse Please by Muse has lots of fairly high overdrive with these vowels so that should be fun to learn. There is some sort of hold in compressed neutral. Assembling the vocal chords and making a click sound (I can't actually do the click sound). Maybe it's that or edge. I'm still not sure on curbing but I'll try what you said tonight.. THANKS! EDIT: eggplantbren: I tried taking the sound higher and it's working... this feels great. It's so effortless and weird I'm starting to think it's not overdrive. This made my week.
  8. I am excited, I was about to give up on singing in that range. And twanging did help THANKS. I think the second one is edge too because I'm using the edge vowels. I'm not twanging though. Maybe there's a hint of twang but I'm mainly using a hold.
  9. One of my favorite singers, Myles Kennedy, says he uses Bel Canto so I was curious. But yeah the only teacher I could find used "Bel Canto" to market himself. I've learned much more from everybody on here.
  10. Thanks for posting. It does feel like something changed one the way down. The thing is I still keep connecting the commonly used terms, chest and head voice. Overdrive is what most men speak in. I've tried these same notes on these same vowels before but strained and failed a lot. This feels different; much easier and more free. I guess I wasn't in the center of the mode?
  11. Hey, http://www.box.net/shared/nl9ddnvpb2 I've never been able to reach F#4-G4 with such ease. I haven't tried other vowels but OE "herb" seems to always work. This feels connected. I can bring it down without feeling a break. I don't think this is curbing since I'm not applying any hold. Here's another mode that I don't know what it is. I'm doing some sort of hold (I stop doing it at "the pain"). I can't do this around E-F4 so it's not curbing because curbing is supposed to get more limited (vowels) the higher you sing? This is the opposite. Anyway here's me badly repeating a line in Grace after Jeff Buckley. http://www.box.net/shared/m6c36p6acc
  12. Hi again... I messed around with my voice trying to get tone from directing the voice, didn't work. Maybe I'm not explaining it right, but thanks Steven that made perfect sense.
  13. Hey, I was reading about Bel Canto and somethings really intrigued me. In Bel Canto you DON'T direct your voice towards the soft palate. Instead you direct it towards the hard palate and teeth for more resonance. Is that just a different way of picturing things? It all seems pretty close to me and you're of course still using the hard palate when directing your voice towards the soft palate. I'm just wondering if I should direct it more towards the hard palate because that would make more sense. Also another interesting stage in Bel Canto is called "the mask". I think it's basically just using your sinus cavities for resonance. Is that the same as the CVT basic principle of always having some twang in your tone? You can read about it here: http://thebelcantotechnique.now-here-this.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=35
  14. Yeah definitely. My throat burns a little when singing in falsetto. It doesn't hurt but it's an annoying feeling and after it my throat clenches and strains for the rest of the song. I usually drink some water and take a break for 3-4 minutes when that happens. I obviously can't do that if I'm singing live so I need to work on this.
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