How's the quality of your singing from chest to head voice? Can you do it easily without straining, cracking, breaking or breathiness? In this video I demonstrate three vocal exercises to use for fast success!
Master thnx u so much for this exercises I really need to get better my head voice to get better on my mixed voice haha. I always thought that I was doing head voice and sometimes I did falsetto with power. And obviously my vocal chords felt the impact when in did falsetto instead the head voice. One more time thanks you. One question do you advise do this exercises daily or how?
Sure...daily is fine. If you want to do more exercises, get your vocal type by taking this test and then do the exercises for your vocal type. vocalsingingtype.com/
Would You be so kind to give detailed info about ranges (pitches) for theese 3 exercises? For example, bubble lips for man start at B3 but there is no guide about highest note (arpeggio tonic)
Men 1. Start on B2. Top note is 1 and 1/2 octave higher which is F#4. 2. Start 1/2 higher at C3 The high note is G4. 3. Start 1/2 step higher at Db3. The high note is Ab4. Women is the same intervals. Their starting note is F#3 and the top note is C#5.
@@PowerToSing I understand. I didn't make myself clear enough (english is not my native language). How "far" upwards should we go with thise arppeggios to mantain voice protection? For example, first one starts at B2. What would be the last tonic in series upwards (the highest), B2, C3, C#3,...? Hope I have cleared my question now 😂
@@joskomestrov-uroda4012 I would say if you can go as high as the f#3 (tonic) you will safely get much benefit if you are a Baritone or Bass. Many tenors can easily go to the A3 (tonic)
@@PowerToSing Thanks for the tip. For what is worth, I am pulled chest/high larynx/flip falsetto type. My chest register is clearly baritone (range wise and colour/timbre), but my passaggio is C4. But, when fully warmed up, well hydrated, I can sing breafly around C5 (with tiny head voice/reimforced falsetto). So, I guess A3 as a tonic would be o.k. Is that "standard" range for baritone, or some "mixed" "fach"?
Hi Mary...the exercises will help. You may also be challenged by the particular word (vowel) you are singing. You may want to check out this video for extra help: www.powertosing.com/ep-25-how-to-sing-high-notes-vowel-modifying-hacks/
Hi, Mr Gilmore, shoud I practice those exercises with singing low notes exercises or singing with vibrato, run and riff, in a separate time of a day, in the morning and the afternoon? I'm confused. Hope you answer and thank you so much !!!
I would practice the exercises first, then the vibrato exercises, then the runs and riff exercises at the end of the session. I would practice them at least once a day, at a time of the day where it feels best on your voice.
@@anhdays1415 they would be part of the exercises you do first. I don't recommend doing low note exercises by themselves. Always exercise your voice from low to middle to high whenever you do the exercises.
Chuck, I love the way you talked and demonstrated!! I just find my situation a bit odd. I am a 20ish female and my chest voice breaks at A4. Many vocal coaches suggest female chest voice can hit C5 or higher... Could you please advise? ... :'(
Hi Yue: You are hitting the first bridge of your voice where it is beginning a transition into head voice. This is where you begin to feel head and chest voice vibrations together and you should not just keep pulling up the chest voice. Watch these videos and do the exercises. They will help you learn to mix in the bridge.www.powertosing.com/pulled-chest-high-larynx-2/
You only have one voice: one set of vocal folds inside one larynx. The two-voice model is merely a pedagogical approach for linking the sound quality that you hear to your ability to phonate in different registers. Many singers, though, benefit from a three-voice model: chest voice - mid voice - head voice. In this way of thinking, the mid voice is the entire middle part of your voice (about an octave in most female singers, about a fifth in most male singers). One advantage of developing a "mid-voice awareness" is that you don't have to separately learn how to thin the top part of your "chest voice" as you prepare to mix. The idea of a "chest voice with less mass" is implicit in developing mid-voice awareness. There's no way to diagnose the problem without listening to you sing through your whole vocal compass, but the break you describe is very typical in someone who has never developed a proper mid voice. They instead push their chest voice into the mid-voice register by incrementally raising their laryngeal position and over-blowing to overcome the tension (inaccurate pitch in this particular register is one big indicator that this is happening). Developing a mid voice when you have an established habit of pushing your chest voice up instead can be a major remediation project. You have all this muscle memory associated with the doomed technique and when you stop doing that you may find that you have no form of phonation in the tool box to replace it with. It's often best to build mid voice with exercises that work the voice from the top down, rather than from the bottom up.
@@stevebismarck5878 Damn dude, this is probably the highest quality comment I ever saw on YT. Kudos for taking the time to write that concise and incredibly valuable answer.
Hi Chuck. When I am having difficulty singing with balance in a song, I will replace the lyrics and use the Lip Bubble in the melody of the song. It puts me in a perfectly smooth coordination.
NAy nay is difficult for me because when I go higher I make breathy voice, I am flipping to falsetto. So it feels like I have to force my vocal fords at high pitches to connect and then sound becomes not clean. Even though I can lower down my larynx during high notes it still feels like falsetto, what can be reason?
It's common for guys to feel like head voice is falsetto because they resonate in the same place...in the head. They both can have a feeling of release too. We also don't speak with head voice....we speak in chest which is also lower in pitch. So Falsetto and head voice are easy to confuse at first. As you go higher with the ney's you must maintain the exaggerated sound, otherwise your voice does exactly as you described.
@@PowerToSing Yeaah I get it, I watched your video about falsetto vs head voice and I kind of get distinction. I am doing falsetto flip exercises and as time goes I improve, thank you :)
How old are you Dan? Only do it firm enough and loud enough that it stays connected. And if you do it like I demonstrate with that witch sound, you will not hurt your voice. You may tire it...like a workout tires our bodies, but it should get easier and easier.
@@cursedaccount6067 This is almost always caused by the larynx going higher...which is a major challenge for us guys going through the vocal change...which you are in the middle of right now. It can be done, but be patient. This series of videos may help: th-cam.com/play/PLc6YT-50Ji8HOB7VSpjcPMEV6IKiNB5Gz.html
@@russelltodd2833 The larynx is coming up and it makes us feel like we are at the top. Start here Russ and see if this will help. Watch this video and follow the directions: th-cam.com/video/d0Ob8WGmvPc/w-d-xo.html
Hi Jayden! You'll get it. Concentrate on not over tightening your lips, prop up your cheeks to take away the weight of the cheeks from the lips so they are nice and floppy and then let the air do the work. You can do it!
I just can't do it..when i do it..i don't go to my head voice..or falsetto but the voice like a girl..which comes while the voices crack.. it's been years and haven't found it till now...help me i am 15
Be patient with yourself Krish. This is the hardest time for singing for us guys. And your voice is still changing and will be for several more years. Meanwhile you can do a lot to get out of chest voice and into head voice. Watch this one: www.powertosing.com/ep-14-how-to-sing-high-notes-teen-boys/ and I recommend doing exercises for pulled chest high larynx vocal type: www.powertosing.com/pulled-chest-high-larynx-2/ Hang in there, Krish. You'll get it!
@@wahabadebanjo8650 The only problems I've seen coming from mix to chest is coming in too hard or bringing head voice down too low. Let the chest voice come in gradually by degrees as you descend, so that the bottom note is all the way in to chest, but it doesn't slam into chest because you allowed it to come in note by note. This will also solve pulling down too much of the head voice. See if this helps.
I think all the octaves said are lower by 1? A vocal monitor shows all of it as 1 octave higher than said. Is this another notation for vocal range or it's a mistake?
I can get to head voice but can't sing on it...my voice gets cracked everytime I try to🤦🏻♂️ sometimes it shifts to falsesetto....having so much difficulty to get to head voice🤦🏻♂️
First of all I'm not able to do the scale correctly and I'm too light on the top note then I plunge down into my deep chest voice which is not the right note
@@wahabadebanjo8650 Exactly what you are doing right now watch videos and learn as much as you can. You can also buy courses for more specific guidance. Or you can schedule voice lessons to make faster progress. Or all of these.
@Power To Sing .. Wish i could !! I can't even do them. Years ago, I figured out finger placement, so I could do them bt when I tried, the other day., nadda.. Lord willin, if I keep moving my fingers around, I'll prob find it again.. I do like your exercises, tho.. I'm trying to bookmark most of them, so I can work my way thru them.. Tks. Have a good evening !
Power To Sing I know! I’ve been a little too stretched for time - but these short vids I’m all over! Can’t thank you enough for how much your lessons have helped me over these past few months. I watch the recordings of the services I’ve been a part of and I don’t cringe and die of embarrassment anymore! I’m making progress! I’m not where I want to be but I’m not where I used to be so I’m very happy, and thankful! Still working on the differences between in ear monitors and stage monitors. That still throws me.....anyway, thanks so much for all you continue to do for all of us warblers out here!!!!
@@TimmyJoGiven Experiment with it. Try saying Knee instead of ney and see if it helps you get a mix going sooner and takes some compression off the voice.
@@PowerToSing Hey there, just FYI, I can sing connected with ooh, oh, ee (not dopey) going up and down scales but have trouble singing entire songs with a connected voice because, of course, there are lots of vowels and consonants. I think I need to learn how to add other vowels and words without losing the connection. Thanks.
@@TimmyJoGiven If you haven't seen this video, there is a PDF you can download to help. www.powertosing.com/ep-25-how-to-sing-high-notes-vowel-modifying-hacks/
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How's the quality of your singing from chest to head voice? Can you do it easily without straining, cracking, breaking or breathiness?
In this video I demonstrate three vocal exercises to use for fast success!
i realize it's quite off topic but do anyone know of a good site to watch new tv shows online ?
@Greyson Kingsley Flixportal :P
@Lennox Travis Thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I appreciate it!
@Greyson Kingsley no problem :D
I enjoyed all three exercises. Thanks Chuck, God Bless you
Lip trills ..my all time favourite as it is so easy for me
2:09 ( 20 sec ) 10X
3:50 ( 15 sec ) 14X
6:57 ( 15 sec ) 14X
Thanks!
Hi Mr. Gilmore, please give us some exercises to reduce tension/pressure/stiffness/anything you call it, in tongue root and jaw. Thanks a lot.
Here's several videos with exercises that will help: www.powertosing.com/?s=tension
Thanks for teaching how to sing high head voice
My pleasure 😊!
Chuck, the nays and gees are the most helpful to me. Thanks for this.
Great! Thanks Jo. 🙂
Should I practice bubble lips first before going through the next stage ney?
Yes
Chuck, thanks and Happy Easter !
2 of these exercises I’ve already been doing from the lowering larynx video but I did notice there at some point in gee gee it moves to head voice
Awesome. Sounds like you're doing it right!
Master thnx u so much for this exercises I really need to get better my head voice to get better on my mixed voice haha. I always thought that I was doing head voice and sometimes I did falsetto with power. And obviously my vocal chords felt the impact when in did falsetto instead the head voice. One more time thanks you. One question do you advise do this exercises daily or how?
Sure...daily is fine. If you want to do more exercises, get your vocal type by taking this test and then do the exercises for your vocal type. vocalsingingtype.com/
Would You be so kind to give detailed info about ranges (pitches) for theese 3 exercises?
For example, bubble lips for man start at B3 but there is no guide about highest note (arpeggio tonic)
Men 1. Start on B2. Top note is 1 and 1/2 octave higher which is F#4. 2. Start 1/2 higher at C3 The high note is G4. 3. Start 1/2 step higher at Db3. The high note is Ab4. Women is the same intervals. Their starting note is F#3 and the top note is C#5.
@@PowerToSing I understand. I didn't make myself clear enough (english is not my native language).
How "far" upwards should we go with thise arppeggios to mantain voice protection? For example, first one starts at B2. What would be the last tonic in series upwards (the highest), B2, C3, C#3,...?
Hope I have cleared my question now 😂
@@joskomestrov-uroda4012 I would say if you can go as high as the f#3 (tonic) you will safely get much benefit if you are a Baritone or Bass. Many tenors can easily go to the A3 (tonic)
@@PowerToSing Thanks for the tip. For what is worth, I am pulled chest/high larynx/flip falsetto type. My chest register is clearly baritone (range wise and colour/timbre), but my passaggio is C4. But, when fully warmed up, well hydrated, I can sing breafly around C5 (with tiny head voice/reimforced falsetto). So, I guess A3 as a tonic would be o.k. Is that "standard" range for baritone, or some "mixed" "fach"?
@@PowerToSing Hm, now that I tried those arpeggios, tonic F#3 finishes on C#5? That would be reaonable limit for me, I guess
Hey Chuck, great video as always. Are you going live again tomorrow?
Yes....sorry didn't get to this before!
Get to live 😂😂😂💀💀 as in live or die
I’m in a show where the songs are really stuck in my break area. Should I sing through them using these exercises? Will that help?
Hi Mary...the exercises will help. You may also be challenged by the particular word (vowel) you are singing. You may want to check out this video for extra help: www.powertosing.com/ep-25-how-to-sing-high-notes-vowel-modifying-hacks/
Hi, Mr Gilmore, shoud I practice those exercises with singing low notes exercises or singing with vibrato, run and riff, in a separate time of a day, in the morning and the afternoon? I'm confused. Hope you answer and thank you so much !!!
I would practice the exercises first, then the vibrato exercises, then the runs and riff exercises at the end of the session. I would practice them at least once a day, at a time of the day where it feels best on your voice.
@@PowerToSing Thank you, Mr Gilmore, now I what to do with my day
@@PowerToSing But what about low notes exercises?
@@anhdays1415 they would be part of the exercises you do first. I don't recommend doing low note exercises by themselves. Always exercise your voice from low to middle to high whenever you do the exercises.
Chuck, I love the way you talked and demonstrated!! I just find my situation a bit odd. I am a 20ish female and my chest voice breaks at A4. Many vocal coaches suggest female chest voice can hit C5 or higher... Could you please advise? ... :'(
Hi Yue: You are hitting the first bridge of your voice where it is beginning a transition into head voice. This is where you begin to feel head and chest voice vibrations together and you should not just keep pulling up the chest voice. Watch these videos and do the exercises. They will help you learn to mix in the bridge.www.powertosing.com/pulled-chest-high-larynx-2/
You only have one voice: one set of vocal folds inside one larynx. The two-voice model is merely a pedagogical approach for linking the sound quality that you hear to your ability to phonate in different registers. Many singers, though, benefit from a three-voice model: chest voice - mid voice - head voice. In this way of thinking, the mid voice is the entire middle part of your voice (about an octave in most female singers, about a fifth in most male singers). One advantage of developing a "mid-voice awareness" is that you don't have to separately learn how to thin the top part of your "chest voice" as you prepare to mix. The idea of a "chest voice with less mass" is implicit in developing mid-voice awareness.
There's no way to diagnose the problem without listening to you sing through your whole vocal compass, but the break you describe is very typical in someone who has never developed a proper mid voice. They instead push their chest voice into the mid-voice register by incrementally raising their laryngeal position and over-blowing to overcome the tension (inaccurate pitch in this particular register is one big indicator that this is happening).
Developing a mid voice when you have an established habit of pushing your chest voice up instead can be a major remediation project. You have all this muscle memory associated with the doomed technique and when you stop doing that you may find that you have no form of phonation in the tool box to replace it with. It's often best to build mid voice with exercises that work the voice from the top down, rather than from the bottom up.
@@stevebismarck5878 Damn dude, this is probably the highest quality comment I ever saw on YT. Kudos for taking the time to write that concise and incredibly valuable answer.
Hi Chuck. When I am having difficulty singing with balance in a song, I will replace the lyrics and use the Lip Bubble in the melody of the song. It puts me in a perfectly smooth coordination.
What word or words are problems?
@@PowerToSing I'm not sure I understand what you are asking me.
Sorry...misread it. I thought you were still having a problem. :)
The Nay Excercise Is More Easier & Comfortable For Me & My Chest Is Not Pulling When I Do It
Yes...it thins the chest voice and deepens the upper voice.
When I First Started Doing It My Chest Would Pull & Now I’m Starting To Hear The Difference When I Sing, It’s Definitely Working
NAy nay is difficult for me because when I go higher I make breathy voice, I am flipping to falsetto. So it feels like I have to force my vocal fords at high pitches to connect and then sound becomes not clean. Even though I can lower down my larynx during high notes it still feels like falsetto, what can be reason?
It's common for guys to feel like head voice is falsetto because they resonate in the same place...in the head. They both can have a feeling of release too. We also don't speak with head voice....we speak in chest which is also lower in pitch. So Falsetto and head voice are easy to confuse at first. As you go higher with the ney's you must maintain the exaggerated sound, otherwise your voice does exactly as you described.
@@PowerToSing Yeaah I get it, I watched your video about falsetto vs head voice and I kind of get distinction. I am doing falsetto flip exercises and as time goes I improve, thank you :)
What you play on keyboard while practicing. And for vocal perfection
Look through these: the-bridge-sls.firebaseapp.com/#/
But when i do the nay it hurts in my throat, is it ok chuck?
How old are you Dan? Only do it firm enough and loud enough that it stays connected. And if you do it like I demonstrate with that witch sound, you will not hurt your voice. You may tire it...like a workout tires our bodies, but it should get easier and easier.
Sir, please tell the pattern of notes in scale that you have played@2:30
A standard 1,5 octave scale: 1-3-5-1-3-5-4-2-7-5-4-2-1
Played for example here th-cam.com/video/nQKRVqWzh9o/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Piotr!
when i go to the higher notes while maintaining the dopy sound only air comes out, no audible note. please help. thanks.
Tell me how old you are and are you a guy or girl?
@@PowerToSing i am a guy and im 17 years old
@@cursedaccount6067 This is almost always caused by the larynx going higher...which is a major challenge for us guys going through the vocal change...which you are in the middle of right now. It can be done, but be patient. This series of videos may help: th-cam.com/play/PLc6YT-50Ji8HOB7VSpjcPMEV6IKiNB5Gz.html
@@PowerToSing ill give it a watch, thanks.
I can’t get my bubbles or nays near that high. I can’t figure out how to access the higher tones. Maybe I’m at the top of my range?
Hi Russell, how old are you?
@@PowerToSing a young 55, lol
@@russelltodd2833 The larynx is coming up and it makes us feel like we are at the top. Start here Russ and see if this will help. Watch this video and follow the directions: th-cam.com/video/d0Ob8WGmvPc/w-d-xo.html
@@PowerToSing will do!
Bubble lips is incredibly difficult for me for some reason, as evidenced by our little lesson on Wednesday. lol
Hi Jayden! You'll get it. Concentrate on not over tightening your lips, prop up your cheeks to take away the weight of the cheeks from the lips so they are nice and floppy and then let the air do the work. You can do it!
@@PowerToSing Thanks for the motivation! x3
@@RosieSapphireMusic You are welcome!
please teach me Sir to reach the highest note
th-cam.com/video/ZLzU9wUAEI4/w-d-xo.html
bubble!!
bblbblbblbblbblbbl
I just can't do it..when i do it..i don't go to my head voice..or falsetto but the voice like a girl..which comes while the voices crack.. it's been years and haven't found it till now...help me i am 15
Be patient with yourself Krish. This is the hardest time for singing for us guys. And your voice is still changing and will be for several more years. Meanwhile you can do a lot to get out of chest voice and into head voice. Watch this one: www.powertosing.com/ep-14-how-to-sing-high-notes-teen-boys/ and I recommend doing exercises for pulled chest high larynx vocal type: www.powertosing.com/pulled-chest-high-larynx-2/ Hang in there, Krish. You'll get it!
Bobble lips is a legend😂😂
I can't sing very medium notes ( F4 ) without Falsetto 😭 just can go to C3 D3 😓
Watch the video I recommended to you on the other comment. It will help with this.
I find it hard to transition back to chest voice, what do I do about it?
1. Transitioning from what? 2. What happens that's making it hard?
@@PowerToSing mix to chest probably because I go down too low into my chest trying to push the mix lower it goes
@@wahabadebanjo8650 The only problems I've seen coming from mix to chest is coming in too hard or bringing head voice down too low. Let the chest voice come in gradually by degrees as you descend, so that the bottom note is all the way in to chest, but it doesn't slam into chest because you allowed it to come in note by note. This will also solve pulling down too much of the head voice. See if this helps.
I think all the octaves said are lower by 1? A vocal monitor shows all of it as 1 octave higher than said. Is this another notation for vocal range or it's a mistake?
Hi WW: Middle C on the piano is C4. The F# below middle C is F#3. The B just below middle C is B3. An Octave below that is B2. Hope that helps.
How to sing higher notes so it sound sweet
Hi Babu: Watch this video and follow the directions. th-cam.com/video/d0Ob8WGmvPc/w-d-xo.html
I can get to head voice but can't sing on it...my voice gets cracked everytime I try to🤦🏻♂️ sometimes it shifts to falsesetto....having so much difficulty to get to head voice🤦🏻♂️
Watch this video and follow the directions. th-cam.com/video/d0Ob8WGmvPc/w-d-xo.html
@@PowerToSing Thank you for the video sir😊🙏🏻
First of all I'm not able to do the scale correctly and I'm too light on the top note then I plunge down into my deep chest voice which is not the right note
That's good Wahab, because you are aware of your problems. Many singers are not. Now you can address each one and correct them.
@@PowerToSing how do I?
@@wahabadebanjo8650 Exactly what you are doing right now watch videos and learn as much as you can. You can also buy courses for more specific guidance. Or you can schedule voice lessons to make faster progress. Or all of these.
Neigh & Gee.. both ok & do-able Bubble..NOOOOO -can not even make the bubble vibrations.. much less, adding sound !! Will keep trying, tho .
Just do the bubble lips without the sound. Then add the sound as you maintain the bubbles.
@Power To Sing ..
Wish i could !! I can't even do them.
Years ago, I figured out finger placement, so I could do them bt when I tried, the other day., nadda..
Lord willin, if I keep moving my fingers around, I'll prob find it again..
I do like your exercises, tho.. I'm trying
to bookmark most of them, so I can work my way thru them.. Tks. Have a good evening !
@@DeneFrancis You'll get it!
😎
Hi Smoochy Pooh! Haven't heard from you for a while! 🙂
Power To Sing I know! I’ve been a little too stretched for time - but these short vids I’m all over! Can’t thank you enough for how much your lessons have helped me over these past few months. I watch the recordings of the services I’ve been a part of and I don’t cringe and die of embarrassment anymore! I’m making progress! I’m not where I want to be but I’m not where I used to be so I’m very happy, and thankful! Still working on the differences between in ear monitors and stage monitors. That still throws me.....anyway, thanks so much for all you continue to do for all of us warblers out here!!!!
@@smoochypooh7700 Thanks!
The bubble lips and the dopey gee (and dopey goo) keep me connected, but I lose connection on the nays...
Hi Tj: Sooo interesting. Usually it's the opposite. What happens if you double down on the witchy-bratty coordination?
@@PowerToSing I will try it and see how it goes. Maybe the diphthong (a to e) on "nay" is throwing me off ...
@@TimmyJoGiven Experiment with it. Try saying Knee instead of ney and see if it helps you get a mix going sooner and takes some compression off the voice.
@@PowerToSing Hey there, just FYI, I can sing connected with ooh, oh, ee (not dopey) going up and down scales but have trouble singing entire songs with a connected voice because, of course, there are lots of vowels and consonants. I think I need to learn how to add other vowels and words without losing the connection. Thanks.
@@TimmyJoGiven If you haven't seen this video, there is a PDF you can download to help. www.powertosing.com/ep-25-how-to-sing-high-notes-vowel-modifying-hacks/
I cannot follow the tune when doing the exercise
Yes...it's important to be able to keep the tune. Otherwise, people don't care how good your voice is if your pitch is off.
@@PowerToSing what should i do ?
@@jhailorenzo1295 Search for ear training programs the internet. There are free programs you can use to work on ear training. Good luck!
The nay is easier
Great!
Ney was better, bubble lips was hard
They get easier and they are a great warmup you can use forever.
This guy is trying so hard to look like Seth Riggs
I not really trying that hard.