I'm with Jeremie - in falsetto, it feels like a whole different voice in my body with its own range whereas head voice feels like an extension of my chest voice and requires more breath. My lower falsetto notes (where my secondo passaggio starts) feels as comfortable and easy as my lower chest (my normal tessitura) so I don't have to utilize as much breath.
As someone who trained and performed as an operatic mezzo soprano (with a voice that went through female puberty) and then transitioned into a "male" voice via HRT, I have to heartily agree with Jeremy. The head voice that I had with a "female" voice just doesn't exist in the "male" voice. There's chest, mix, and then falsetto, and the differentiation between them is really obvious on the inside, even if it's not readily heard on the outside.
falsetto and head-voice are both within M2 (laryngeal vibratory mechanism #2) and Jeremie is basically demonstrating levels of cartilaginous aDduction in M2
As a male I find head voice and falsetto to be different. Falsetto lacks power, proper chord closure, dynamics and vibrato. Whereas head voice has all of those things. With the right teacher I believe everyone can learn to access head voice, male or female.
as a very lowly trained high tenor, he is absolutely right. Chords are open and not connecting, but you can push the sound around into the front of your face if needed.
I agree with this man 100000%!!!! And he’s examples are exactly me!!! . I’ve strengthened my falsetto for months but forgot how to unlock it. This video was literally a falling domino that connected EVERY FOR ME! I can sing (Most of) Jordan Rakei, (Most/Some) Daniel Caesar, and (A good amount of) Ariana Grande now! . The part where you explain that your falsetto is where you vocal cords don’t touch helped me the most! For a while I’ve been pulling up my chest voice not understanding or unlocking my truest potential! You guys rock!
Here's what I have recently learned. This is based on the old definition of the 70s apparently : Falsetto is something soft and breathy with a back placement. Reinforced falsetto is the same thing but it has twang to give it some strength. Head voice is a falsetto that has compression added to it. Apparently what is considered a falsetto for men is what is called ahead voice for women, so women don't really have to worry about all this stuff. That could be why Tara thinks that falsetto and head voice are the same.
I feel like Falsetto is a vocal range unique to each singer and that head voice is a technique used to help get you into the lower end of your falsetto range.
The best definition I’ve found is that chest/head voice refers to resonance, and falsetto refers to cord closure. As a guy, it’s possible to sing in a low, chesty falsetto, or a high, head-y cords closed voice (although of course naturally, it makes much more sense to sing with head resonance in falsetto and chest resonance in non-falsetto). From what I can tell, that’s not at all the case with women though. I hope that clears it up a bit 🤷♂️
I like that kind of distinction too. Falsetto is kind of breathy, no matter where in range it is. I've heard some vocal coaches also demonstrate female chesty falsetto. The second definition that resonated with me was "head voice is when you can connect it to chest"
@@timnguyen885 nope, I havent even found my mix yet. The best way I can explain it is that falsetto for me sounds like a breathy, light, weaker pop sounding head voice. And head voice is like female soprano opera head voice.
@@danielordonez4308 same mate. Headvoice is more powerful and more forward than falsetto which is like a lazy singing for me. Falsetto works in the neck and Headvoice is in the head , I guess lol
As a singer myself, I have a head voice and falsetto. Being such a massive fan of Beyoncé, and a little bit of Whitney Houston, it made it very clear to me. However, I will say that I do agree with Tara, there are times when head voice and falsetto are synonymous. I always feel head voice in my nose, it’s so forward.
For Mitch Grassi: his high notes are more head voice. For Kevin: his high notes are more falsetto. I think Jeremie is right because I have a falsetto and I think I have a head voice from making a nasally tone (something like Mitch’s)
Jeremy Garcia I need your help. My high notes (Highest is A5) and they don’t sound airy or flat, they sound full and they have power. So what do I call them? Head voice or falsetto?
@@mxgrant25 If it has a more nasally tone in your voice and your throat is more closed than a "low" falsetto then it's most likely a head voice. But I don't know for sure .Hope this helps.
Thank you for acknowledging the confusion between head and falsetto. A long time ago I realized I don't understand the difference and I spent so long trying to find the answer
This would be an interesting topic to discuss, although I’m a few months out of the loop. But I’m terms of the registers, I believe there are three distinct registers: chest, head, and falsetto.
Falsetto and head voice feel very different for guys. I didn't feel his demonstration did it justice though. Doing a strong or weak falsetto is very easy- it's connecting to produce a head voice that takes effort. Everything about falsetto is easy but doesn't mean head voice is louder; that might be why is hard to hear the difference. It's easy to produce an extremely loud sound in falsetto (ex: if you hear a guy cheering "woo-hoo" he's using falsetto because it takes less concentration.) But even though falsetto can be powerful, it doesn't sound good that way because it's sounds very different from the rest of the voice (chest mix and head voice) because it's literally disconnected from them. Also, to make it more confusing is that male falsetto sounds almost like a female head voice. I think it's harder to tell when a girls voice is connected through because it sounds so similar 🤷♂️. Good video once it got to the tutorial part.
Falsetto is a disconnected sound but it's still part of the head voice , think of this , without falsetto , the male range would have a few notes after the mix ,but then going higher ,you connect the mix to the base head voice into the falsetto ,
Exactly, I'm a male and.. as a kid I remember I used to had some high notes that were easy to access but growing up, going through voice change, it just feels like that completely disconnected from my chest and my head. It's a huge break between that and my chest, I can hear like a yoodle kind of sound, but I believe it's an extension of my voice that I don't know how to connect to my chest and head, it goes up to like D6, it sounds airy like.
What a very important topic in the world of singing and voices, many years I am looking to such this analyze. Thank you Tara and thank you Jerremie.. In my personal opinion, the falsetto is an existing register and it is completely different from head voice. It requires a lot of practicing to perform it in nice way, other ways it will look funny and useless.
As far as I know Falsetto and Head Voice are different but can sound slightly similar, it depends on how it is produced and where it resonates. Head voice resonates in the Naso-Pharynx and Nasal Cavity. Falsetto resonates in the throat and sounds very weak and leaky. Tara was right in asking him to sing what she wanted to hear. You can feel when your chest, mix and head registers move from Laryngeal-Pharynx to Oro-Pharynx to the Naso-Pharynx.
The difference is do to the length and thickness of the the folds themselves. A woman’s falsetto is more closely related to her head voice, and she can get away with a lighter sound being closer in timbre to her fuller headvoice. Where a mans voice(much thicker and longer folds) has a more dramatic difference within the compression levels in falsetto or headvoice, this create a larger change in timbre. Different levels of fold compression really determines everything you need to know. Women and men both have falsettos and head voices no matter what you think those terms mean.
i feel like what Jeremie is attempting at 5:20 is what i consider my "falsetto" voice. The way he used his voice before was what i always thought "head voice" meant, as i its a kind of voice that is really hard for me to supportt and connect to my body. super interesting video! Love you both.
Falsetto is part of the upper head voice for males it is just that the registers need to be connected from the chest to mix to head ,to higher head which is falsetto, that being the full male vocal range ,
Ok, for me, girls do have chest, mix, falsetto, head and whistle vocal ranges. I have my voice switches to a light airy tone ( mix) for G of the 4th octave and head voice mostly from G of the 5th octave and I can falsetto from there upward then to my whistle range from G of the 6th octave. So there you have it. Men do have the same features, take DIMASH for instance. It just depends on individual, what he or she has, prefers and trains on, ok. And oh, I love to warm-up with EEEEEEE!!!! and OOOOOOO!!! I feel at ease when using them than AAAAA, UUUUUUU and QQQQQQQ. Love you Tara 😍🥰😊☺️😘😚😙😗💕💞💜💙💚💛🧡❤️♥️
Jeremy you're 100 % you are singing using falsetto !! male head voice is completely different. Thanks to you both for doing these videos.. Great work!! Sending love from Australia
Yes i agree with Jeremie, all throughout my vocal journey as male singer, when I'm younger about 9-11 years old I have a range of about an tiple but i did at some point learned to use my upper extentions but I didn't have the knowledge about head voice, hence i only used falsetto. But as my voice dropped to baritone/tenor at 12-13 i satarted to discover my head voice to which I didn't have any sort of confusion between the two registers. But i will say this, my falsetto reached up to G6 when I'm 17, but i stop for a couple of months and i can only reach to D6, you need regular use or practice for your falsetto to be maintained and strengthened otherwise it will falter.
Falsetto and head voice and chest voice are did headvoice and cheat voice are created when your vocal folds are closed and falsetto is when your vocal folds are open creating a bit more of an airy tone
I know I'm late to the game, but for me (classically trained) head voice is exactly what it says, it is sound that resonates through my head and through my mask bust mostly comes from the same spot that my chest voice comes from, however my falsetto comes, basically, directly from just my throat and only resonates through my mouth and teeth.
another male here and i really like singing in my falsetto even though i am not trained in any way but i have to agree with coach Jeremie that i mostly feel my falsetto in the back of my throat. i often feel like my falsetto is more a different voice instead of just an continuation of my chest voice
So I used to think the same as Tara about head voice and falsetto, but I recently found out what falsetto is scientifically, and both men and women have both a head voice and a falsetto. So everyone should have a chest voice, a mixed voice, a head voice, and then a falsetto.
I have experienced falsetto as well as head voice . The feeling of the Falsetto is on my throat, and the feeling of my head voice is right on my nose. But funny enough, my head voice is stronger on higher notes of that register.
This is great! Can you add more posts or reviews of male voices? Bass/baritone voice advice would be really helpful to me. I have some questions and would be willing to sing for you.
I agree , we cannot separate falsetto from our range we just need to learn a way as male to have connected to the mix or base head voice to falsetto , completing the range
I've been singing falsetto since 16. I have a TH-cam video singing the song Alika. I've learned it's diaphragm control as well as vocal chords. Awesome video y'all have to help those who want that high notes.
I have to agree with Tara on this one. I think it just is what was mentioned at the end, it is very dependent on your voice. For me, my head voice is, I guess, my falsetto. I don't feel as though I have 3 different registers but rather just chest and head/falsetto. I also find it most comfortable to sing in head voice using E or Ah sounds. In my case, however, my voice is unique in the sense that, I was born intersex, XXY, was given male hormones in my teens, identify as female, and my voice never really dropped all that much and I very much consider myself a mezzo soprano singer because that's where I feel most comfortable singing in. I can sing to songs by Toni Braxton or Cher all the way to Whitney Houston with relative comfort and ease.
I believe that falsetto is a non-resonant head voice due to the lack of resonance from the vocal cords (because they're more apart as Jerremie said). The air moving through the cords just have nothing to carry upwards, so the energy just dissipates before they can build up (resonate). Very physics related
I literally feel falsetto in my head as if my head is filling up with helium. And it feels airy and free. As I come down into mix and down to chest I fell the air and the sound come down through my neck, chest and into my tummy.
A lot of times a man’s head voice manifest as a chest sound which can make it confusing. My pure headvoice is relatively weak but I’m good at achieving high chest notes . My headvoice is better accessed through the e sound as well. I think men have such thick cords that we may just push though with more chest or break into a falsetto as our voice climbs. Women can just keep easing up due to their respective anatomy.
I can definitely say that falsetto and head voice are two different things. My voice falls under the Bass range; very deep, and I used to have a falsetto, which would allow me to easily sing notes in the soprano or mezzo-soprano range, and very comfortably imitate Elmo’s voice, from Sesame Street, and meow like a kitten, and yodel, as an example. I damaged my voice over the years however, due to forcing my voice to sing in the tenor range. All that strain in my vocal cords over the years made me lose my falsetto completely. I was devastated and I miss it, even to the day. I can now barely use head voice, but it isn’t the same. I can barely reach notes in the soprano range with head voice. I definitely remember how using falsetto felt; how activating the falsetto felt, and it is different, when compared to head voice. it’s placed in a different vocal register of its own. Personally, and metaphorically, I would describe falsetto as opening a door and walking into a big spacious living room, whereas head voice for me is like opening a door and walking into a closet.
I feel a distinct difference between my chest voice, my head voice and my falsetto. I even feel like I can sometimes produce a mix of my head and falsetto which feels again different then mixing head and chest. I can also have my falsetto feel really light and breathy (but not coming in and out like the example in the video) or much stronger sounding (what some people call reinforced falsetto), So I'm definitely in the "they're different" group.
As a trumpet player, I had to tighten my lips like you tightened your vocal cords to sing really high notes. I could play Super G, which is sort of trumpet falsetto. You actually use less air but your vocal cords have stepped up another and gotten closer together. In theory, you should be able to hold a falsetto note longer than a low note. If you need more detail, I would be glad to explain further.
Bass voice here. For me, there is a DEFINITE difference in my falsetto and my head voice. I can feel the opening in the chords Jeremie was explaining, but, alternatively, I can also feel the forward, "masky" sensation when I am in my head voice. They also have completely different timbres. My falsetto is, without a doubt, weaker and more breathy. Also, since I have trained my voice, I can typically only access my falsetto when my throat is tired/worn out and the chords don't get the closure they need for a strong, well-supported head voice. MY biggest trouble is finding my mixed voice. My chest goes so low, and my head goes so high (A1-F6 on a good day) that I have trouble finding where the actually "mix". But, I know that is an ENTIRE other video!! The voice is, indeed, an amazing instrument~
Same for me here, I cannot for the life of me find my mixed voice (especially since most examples onTH-cam are of women or tenors), and find it easier to just belt those notes with a more back-of-the-throat placement that keeps my larynx relaxed but just does not produce the most pleasant sound. Would love to learn, of course!
Two diffrent things. My vocalcoach also seems to think its the same. However my toprange is really breathy so I will work on it as suggested in this video. Great content as always.
Headvoice/mix and falsetto are definitely not the same. I can do falsetto with ease, but I still haven’t learned to use my mix yet. You can clearly tell when I use falsetto, and I think it’s even less airy than his example of a very mask placed falsetto. There is just 0 chest in it at all, and I think it’s very easy to hear.
I can definitely feel a difference between a falsetto and head voice. I can go up to a D6 with my head voice. It’s definitely nasal and more forward and almost squeaky sounding. Whereas my falsetto is weaker, more breathy. I have a hard time connecting it. I thought all people could tell the difference.
I'm an alto, and honestly head and falsetto both feel the same to me. I have a lower register for a woman, but I don't notice any difference. I have to agree with Tara, I feel it mostly in my nose when I sing up in my higher register.
He’s not lying it’s hard to find true head voice for a male. I’ve found my head voice only a handful of times and it was when I felt really good emotionally and well rested. Otherwise I struggle to get there. The first time I found head voice, I knew I found it immediately. It was amazing. But generally I can only count on finding my falsetto, or mixed voice.
I’ve been waiting for a video like this! I’m a bass with a chest/belt range of Eb2-F#4, but my falsetto, or what I believe to be falsetto, spans from G3 to E5. I do not feel the resonance in my nose, the placement is like what Jeremie describes. It makes me so curious about the anatomy of the voice. For example when I listen to singers like Leona Lewis and Dinah Jane Hansen, the way they flip from their chest voice to a higher register sounds the exact same as a flip to falsetto for me. But, I don’t hear that flip when opera sopranos sing. It’s so strange lol.
In head voice, you can slide down into chest voice without cracking. In falsetto, you cannot slide into chest voice without cracking. It's a different voice and mechanism.
As a male singer and a voice teacher, falsetto is a very weak and disconnected sound and it resonates manly in the throat. Head voice sounds a little similar but the cords are more connected, it sounds fuller and it resonates in the naso-pharynx and sinus cavities. Some singers comare a male head voice as 'woman-like' depending on how high. I agree that they are two different things, however what makes them different is the resonators.
Im with Jeremy. I’ve learned to push my falsetto and make it sound like it’s very forward and in that mask and what I guess women would say is the head voice, But my head voice and falsetto are exactly where he was also feeling it.
I used to be able to slide very well from my natural voice to falsetto....I stopped practicing and I lost it. The E and O vowel helps me with the falsetto part
I think falsetto and head voice are two different thing, but the same in some ways, like both are very airy, it is just the placement is the difference, the head voice is more stronger or forward, the falsetto is more throaty and more airy. I think.
I used to be able to slide very well from my natural voice to falsetto....I stopped practicing and I lost it. The E and O vowel helps me with the falsetto part
With the generic descriptions of falsetto and head, I have a mix of the two, or a strong and masked falsetto. No idea, but it's stronger than falsetto but "clearer" in the highs than chest. I sing bass in my choir, but I've been in the sops a full times. I do access the whistle register too, it's fun! No, I don't strain.
Can't wait to see the new hair colour in full Tara! Very interesting video. The increasing falsetto range thing was an intriguing remark, I wonder if that's why, for example, Dimash has different sounds on his lower note operatic voice sometimes. Wondering if maybe some is proper chest voice and then others are falsetto. Wonder how low some singers can go in that coordination. Also if you fancy something classical to listen to; at a recent event Dimash did a duet with a soprano opera singer (Vienna Opera House Soprano) called Aida; song was called Ulisse. Same night there was also a trio with Dimash, Lara Fabian and Aida singing Ti Amo Cosi. Hope you enjoy them if you do listen to it. (Ulisse is my favourite from that night, he also did a great version of Know) Also there is a cool medley from Home Free I've been listening to alot called Country Fried Pop, like 15+ different songs that they've managed to arrange to sound like it's practically one song, even lyrics wise, it's quite the ear worm. Plus a bass singing pop is always cool. Hope everything is going well for you, take care and I look forward to your next video. If you listen to the songs let me know what you think, no worries if you don't fancy listening to them or are too busy with work. Cheers Rebecca
Oh my do I have a lot to share about this.. I've defined it as supported vs unsupported falsetto. An example of unsupported is in Bohemian Rhapsody Gallileo Gallileo Gallileo figaro magnifico” A supported falsetto example is in the end of green manalichi by Judas priest, Rib Halford isn't "screaming" Note that this isn't the David Lee Roth high squeek. I taught myself how to do supported by starting with unsupported then somehow pushing a lot of air over the vocal chords and sort of forcing it Eventually I could do it quite relaxed . Jeff Tate from queensryche is good at it as well. Ive lost the ability to do this anymore.. I very much want to get it back as it's so impressive. it doesn't sound thin and mousy acapella but rather a check connected piercing without any sort of amplification at all. Your guest is performing a well-formed and lovely unsupported. Ian Gillan from deep purple was a master at this, listen to the end of the song of deep purple child in Time. Or Led Zep at the finale of Immigrant song I would pay someone $1,000 if they can help if they can help me successfully sing child in time again
Lol im a male and falsetto and head vocie are 2 completely different things and yes we have both i feel falsetto in my throat..when i get around c5/c6 head voice @3:23 that was totally head voice lol i think he is confused as to where falsetto ends and head voice begins. for males i believe where falsetto ends and head voice begins is when you start mixing in the frontal forward sound the further you go up in the scale typically around c/5 the thing is some males just don't have access to there head voice due to lack of training and don't know the difference in feeling and placement
For me, I’m not at all vocally trained but I have been singing for some time now in my classes like musical theatre where we learn kinda in a group. So I have a falsetto and like jeremie said, it’s more throaty or placed further back. I do note however that when I push further up past my singable note near middle/upper 5th octave, it is when I get a ringing in my nose which might be what you’re talking about it being more nasally. Not sure if that helps at all, but that’s my take on it being that I only really have a chest and falsetto.
I don’t have a head voice or a mask but I think a good example would be brendon Urie because his isnt at all flutey like a falsetto would be and it almost reminds me of a twang that allows his range to be higher and more nasally.
I have a relatively high pitched voice and for me falsetto is just head voice with less chord closure and more resonance at the back of my head. After getting some training I don’t really have or use falsetto anymore. Even when I sing ‘oooo’s higher than C5 I’m using a lot of chord closure and mixing in a little chest voice to get a loud full sound that rings more in front.
5:55 haha see, head voice and falsetto is the same for guys, I should know because I practice both of these a lot and a lot of instances I'm like, these things are the same! It's because I feel it in the head of say🤔 8:22 another thing, the head voice is also rangy and people claim the first half is head and the second half is falsetto BUT it depends on the person and vowels and all that stull🤔
As a male, I feel like I can place it in both falsetto and a more nasal head voice space too, where it can go a bit higher but less stylistically. There is a point where it's hard to know where I even feel it though, somewhere in between lol.
Head tone and falsetto are definitely not the same, though a falsetto is also by necessity a head voice, too. I’m a natural bass, using my diaphragm, but I’ve been singing a lot of duets on old bluegrass songs, which are very high. I find that after practice I easily sing second tenor lead and first tenor harmony (which is less forceful, so more relaxed) using my normal head tones. My falsetto lets me go an octave higher, the same notes you were singing. To sing falsetto, I relax my throat as completely as possible. My lowest falsetto notes are about where my highest head voice is. It is NOT nasal. It sounds just the same when I hold my nose. At the lowest falsetto I can articulate clearly and use vibrato, but at the highest notes I can reach, my mouth is so open and round that I can only sing O and Ah sounds. It’s not easy to transition between a regular head voice and a falsetto.
love this so much. thank you. i cannot even get myself to understand how to use my abs. love love love to see a vid that helps one learn how to find vocal power from one's core and not just through the chords. danke darlin'. pretty please.
falsetto are two completely different things as falsetto is airy and the cords arent fully connected and it's also referred to as a "false" voice bc it's "cheating" head voice to hit higher notes easier bc head voice can be harder to hit higher notes (unless youre using super head voice lol) but falsetto and head voice can both be used by both men and women, a couple example is ariana grande depends more on falsetto as demi lovato depends more on head voice, also brendon urie depends on head voice more than falsetto and me being a male i depend more on falsetto. it more depends on your voice, technique, vocal type, and what works best for your voice. (currently tho i have vocal polyps and i'm having to depend more on head voice bc my polyps are preventing me from using my falsetto) but to know more about it you have a better chance at learning the best by looking it up than just listening to me lol
Falsetto in my opinion is a weak or more open coordination of head voice whereby you vocal folds aren't touching as much. This allows more air to release and the sound to be breathy also the lack of good coordination means the sound is weaker and harder to maintain control, pitch, etc. Falsetto isn't a register but simply a different or weaker chord coordination in your head register.
I mean it’s falsetto and mixed for me I only felt it in my face when In mixed I think depending on the female there is head voice or falsetto Lower altos have more of separation between registers and I would argue experience similar to male singers Those deep raspy female voices as well Head voice to me are those soprano voices that just sit there naturally and float there
For me (a beginner) the most distinctive difference is the so-called passaggio. I really have to switch gears so to speak in order to get in and out of falsetto. Whereas with a head-voice, there is no passage, no switch, and it's all about the placement. Since I'm just starting to develop a mix-voice, there is for me this kind of blind, well, mute spot in which I my vocal chords don't quite know what to do, since I'm neither below nor above the passaggio, and you can clearly see the crack as if I were trying to do a vocal fry, only that I'm not. Now... having said all that. There are times, specially with sounds like the "U" he just did there, when I am NOT sure I'm doing a head voice (forward nasal placement), or a falsetto that just happened to came out very well, but unusually, supported. Or if it's both (mixed voice maybe???).
To find your falsetto....just yodel. When you do it, the high voice is the falsetto and the low voice is the chest, no matter whether you're male or female. To yodel you have to switch from chest to falsetto and back and forth. It's the only way to do it. You can't yodel from chest to supposed head-voice and back. There has to be a definite "break." Head is just type of Chest. Head is not a register in and of itself. You've got Fry, Chest, Falsetto, and Whistle; whether you be a dude or chick, or anything else vaguely human-esque. That's just the way it is. To yodel, you've got to bounce back and forth 'tween chest and falsetto. The particular sounds of your voice will, of course, depend on the length and the thickness of the cords you happen to have been bless'd or cursed with (and the way your vocal cavity has been arranged). :) ps: Women's falsetto is much harder to identify casually than men's. So do the yodel thingy. That will always give you the proper chest/falsetto differential, for guys and gals. Have a good one. :)
I'm a teacher who has mostly taught children and adult women but I've had some recent male adult students come in and am trying to build my confidence teaching men, finding this area so confusing. Any tips for women teaching men to access it and feel difference? this is really interesting and helpful already, just trying to make sure I don't confuse them bt lining it up too much with female head/tilt.
For me there is a difference between falsetto and head voice. In my opinion falsetto feels more floaty and light in a way, almost more like an opera singer. While head voice feels more like something that would be in a rock song where the singer is hitting high notes that are really powerful. I hope that makes some sense.
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I'm with Jeremie - in falsetto, it feels like a whole different voice in my body with its own range whereas head voice feels like an extension of my chest voice and requires more breath. My lower falsetto notes (where my secondo passaggio starts) feels as comfortable and easy as my lower chest (my normal tessitura) so I don't have to utilize as much breath.
That's precisely the way I feel :)
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I agree with Jeremie. Falsetto and head voice have a completely different feel.
As someone who trained and performed as an operatic mezzo soprano (with a voice that went through female puberty) and then transitioned into a "male" voice via HRT, I have to heartily agree with Jeremy. The head voice that I had with a "female" voice just doesn't exist in the "male" voice. There's chest, mix, and then falsetto, and the differentiation between them is really obvious on the inside, even if it's not readily heard on the outside.
omg this comment was so helpful as someone who’s voice is dropping with hrt ❤
falsetto and head-voice are both within M2 (laryngeal vibratory mechanism #2) and Jeremie is basically demonstrating levels of cartilaginous aDduction in M2
As a male I find head voice and falsetto to be different. Falsetto lacks power, proper chord closure, dynamics and vibrato. Whereas head voice has all of those things. With the right teacher I believe everyone can learn to access head voice, male or female.
I'm untrained. Prince "I Wanna Be Your Lover" is supposed to be all falsetto with to me a lot of vibrato at the end of lines. Do you agree?
as a very lowly trained high tenor, he is absolutely right. Chords are open and not connecting, but you can push the sound around into the front of your face if needed.
I agree with this man 100000%!!!! And he’s examples are exactly me!!!
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I’ve strengthened my falsetto for months but forgot how to unlock it. This video was literally a falling domino that connected EVERY FOR ME! I can sing (Most of) Jordan Rakei, (Most/Some) Daniel Caesar, and (A good amount of) Ariana Grande now!
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The part where you explain that your falsetto is where you vocal cords don’t touch helped me the most! For a while I’ve been pulling up my chest voice not understanding or unlocking my truest potential!
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Here's what I have recently learned. This is based on the old definition of the 70s apparently : Falsetto is something soft and breathy with a back placement. Reinforced falsetto is the same thing but it has twang to give it some strength. Head voice is a falsetto that has compression added to it. Apparently what is considered a falsetto for men is what is called ahead voice for women, so women don't really have to worry about all this stuff. That could be why Tara thinks that falsetto and head voice are the same.
I’m with Jeremie - everything feels in the throat for me, even when I bring the sound forward, I still feel it in my throat
Hey Tara, can you do a video like this on how to develop a vibrato ? Btw, I really find these videos helpful! Tysm n love you!
I feel like Falsetto is a vocal range unique to each singer and that head voice is a technique used to help get you into the lower end of your falsetto range.
The best definition I’ve found is that chest/head voice refers to resonance, and falsetto refers to cord closure. As a guy, it’s possible to sing in a low, chesty falsetto, or a high, head-y cords closed voice (although of course naturally, it makes much more sense to sing with head resonance in falsetto and chest resonance in non-falsetto). From what I can tell, that’s not at all the case with women though. I hope that clears it up a bit 🤷♂️
I like that kind of distinction too. Falsetto is kind of breathy, no matter where in range it is. I've heard some vocal coaches also demonstrate female chesty falsetto.
The second definition that resonated with me was "head voice is when you can connect it to chest"
Nah falsetto and headvoice are two completely different things for me
Me too. Falsetto feels breathy and light and head voice is more robust and full.
same. sometimes I hit headvoice on a specific note and sometimes I need to use falsetto to hit it. Idk.
Danny Ordonez that head voice u are talking about must be mixed voice
@@timnguyen885 nope, I havent even found my mix yet. The best way I can explain it is that falsetto for me sounds like a breathy, light, weaker pop sounding head voice. And head voice is like female soprano opera head voice.
@@danielordonez4308 same mate. Headvoice is more powerful and more forward than falsetto which is like a lazy singing for me. Falsetto works in the neck and Headvoice is in the head , I guess lol
As a singer myself, I have a head voice and falsetto. Being such a massive fan of Beyoncé, and a little bit of Whitney Houston, it made it very clear to me. However, I will say that I do agree with Tara, there are times when head voice and falsetto are synonymous. I always feel head voice in my nose, it’s so forward.
The King of a Natural Falsetto is the late Bobby Debarge. His voice is beautiful and doesn't sound false. He's my top singing mentor.
For Mitch Grassi: his high notes are more head voice.
For Kevin: his high notes are more falsetto.
I think Jeremie is right because I have a falsetto and I think I have a head voice from making a nasally tone (something like Mitch’s)
Jeremy Garcia I need your help. My high notes (Highest is A5) and they don’t sound airy or flat, they sound full and they have power. So what do I call them? Head voice or falsetto?
@@mxgrant25 If it has a more nasally tone in your voice and your throat is more closed than a "low" falsetto then it's most likely a head voice. But I don't know for sure .Hope this helps.
Thank you for acknowledging the confusion between head and falsetto. A long time ago I realized I don't understand the difference and I spent so long trying to find the answer
This would be an interesting topic to discuss, although I’m a few months out of the loop. But I’m terms of the registers, I believe there are three distinct registers: chest, head, and falsetto.
Falsetto and head voice feel very different for guys. I didn't feel his demonstration did it justice though. Doing a strong or weak falsetto is very easy- it's connecting to produce a head voice that takes effort. Everything about falsetto is easy but doesn't mean head voice is louder; that might be why is hard to hear the difference. It's easy to produce an extremely loud sound in falsetto (ex: if you hear a guy cheering "woo-hoo" he's using falsetto because it takes less concentration.) But even though falsetto can be powerful, it doesn't sound good that way because it's sounds very different from the rest of the voice (chest mix and head voice) because it's literally disconnected from them. Also, to make it more confusing is that male falsetto sounds almost like a female head voice. I think it's harder to tell when a girls voice is connected through because it sounds so similar 🤷♂️. Good video once it got to the tutorial part.
Falsetto is a disconnected sound but it's still part of the head voice , think of this , without falsetto , the male range would have a few notes after the mix ,but then going higher ,you connect the mix to the base head voice into the falsetto ,
Exactly, I'm a male and.. as a kid I remember I used to had some high notes that were easy to access but growing up, going through voice change, it just feels like that completely disconnected from my chest and my head. It's a huge break between that and my chest, I can hear like a yoodle kind of sound, but I believe it's an extension of my voice that I don't know how to connect to my chest and head, it goes up to like D6, it sounds airy like.
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Yall we are here for lessons not love lol I'm a 14 yr old male and these videos help alot
What a very important topic in the world of singing and voices, many years I am looking to such this analyze. Thank you Tara and thank you Jerremie.. In my personal opinion, the falsetto is an existing register and it is completely different from head voice. It requires a lot of practicing to perform it in nice way, other ways it will look funny and useless.
As far as I know Falsetto and Head Voice are different but can sound slightly similar, it depends on how it is produced and where it resonates. Head voice resonates in the Naso-Pharynx and Nasal Cavity. Falsetto resonates in the throat and sounds very weak and leaky. Tara was right in asking him to sing what she wanted to hear. You can feel when your chest, mix and head registers move from Laryngeal-Pharynx to Oro-Pharynx to the Naso-Pharynx.
Very informative for both female and male voices!
The difference is do to the length and thickness of the the folds themselves. A woman’s falsetto is more closely related to her head voice, and she can get away with a lighter sound being closer in timbre to her fuller headvoice. Where a mans voice(much thicker and longer folds) has a more dramatic difference within the compression levels in falsetto or headvoice, this create a larger change in timbre.
Different levels of fold compression really determines everything you need to know.
Women and men both have falsettos and head voices no matter what you think those terms mean.
i feel like what Jeremie is attempting at 5:20 is what i consider my "falsetto" voice. The way he used his voice before was what i always thought "head voice" meant, as i its a kind of voice that is really hard for me to supportt and connect to my body. super interesting video! Love you both.
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Falsetto is part of the upper head voice for males it is just that the registers need to be connected from the chest to mix to head ,to higher head which is falsetto, that being the full male vocal range ,
Ok, for me, girls do have chest, mix, falsetto, head and whistle vocal ranges. I have my voice switches to a light airy tone ( mix) for G of the 4th octave and head voice mostly from G of the 5th octave and I can falsetto from there upward then to my whistle range from G of the 6th octave. So there you have it. Men do have the same features, take DIMASH for instance. It just depends on individual, what he or she has, prefers and trains on, ok. And oh, I love to warm-up with EEEEEEE!!!! and OOOOOOO!!! I feel at ease when using them than AAAAA, UUUUUUU and QQQQQQQ. Love you Tara 😍🥰😊☺️😘😚😙😗💕💞💜💙💚💛🧡❤️♥️
Jeremy you're 100 % you are singing using falsetto !! male head voice is completely different. Thanks to you both for doing these videos.. Great work!! Sending love from Australia
For me, falsetto and head voice are absolutely different things. Exactly as you said, Tara, more behind my throat than where my eyes are.
I agree falsetto and head voice are completely different. It's all about placement and support. There is less chest support but core support.
Yes i agree with Jeremie, all throughout my vocal journey as male singer, when I'm younger about 9-11 years old I have a range of about an tiple but i did at some point learned to use my upper extentions but I didn't have the knowledge about head voice, hence i only used falsetto. But as my voice dropped to baritone/tenor at 12-13 i satarted to discover my head voice to which I didn't have any sort of confusion between the two registers. But i will say this, my falsetto reached up to G6 when I'm 17, but i stop for a couple of months and i can only reach to D6, you need regular use or practice for your falsetto to be maintained and strengthened otherwise it will falter.
Falsetto and head voice and chest voice are did headvoice and cheat voice are created when your vocal folds are closed and falsetto is when your vocal folds are open creating a bit more of an airy tone
I know I'm late to the game, but for me (classically trained) head voice is exactly what it says, it is sound that resonates through my head and through my mask bust mostly comes from the same spot that my chest voice comes from, however my falsetto comes, basically, directly from just my throat and only resonates through my mouth and teeth.
another male here and i really like singing in my falsetto even though i am not trained in any way but i have to agree with coach Jeremie that i mostly feel my falsetto in the back of my throat. i often feel like my falsetto is more a different voice instead of just an continuation of my chest voice
So I used to think the same as Tara about head voice and falsetto, but I recently found out what falsetto is scientifically, and both men and women have both a head voice and a falsetto.
So everyone should have a chest voice, a mixed voice, a head voice, and then a falsetto.
As a female (low alto) my head voice and falsetto are two different mechanisms
I have experienced falsetto as well as head voice . The feeling of the Falsetto is on my throat, and the feeling of my head voice is right on my nose. But funny enough, my head voice is stronger on higher notes of that register.
I think that is good if you are a tenor.. but if you are baritone.. falsetto becomes helpful in reaching higher notes.
This is great! Can you add more posts or reviews of male voices? Bass/baritone voice advice would be really helpful to me.
I have some questions and would be willing to sing for you.
I feel like him too. I totally can go that high with my falsetto but I also feel like there’s no full head voice for me.
Same !!
I agree , we cannot separate falsetto from our range we just need to learn a way as male to have connected to the mix or base head voice to falsetto , completing the range
I've been singing falsetto since 16. I have a TH-cam video singing the song Alika. I've learned it's diaphragm control as well as vocal chords. Awesome video y'all have to help those who want that high notes.
I have to agree with Tara on this one. I think it just is what was mentioned at the end, it is very dependent on your voice. For me, my head voice is, I guess, my falsetto. I don't feel as though I have 3 different registers but rather just chest and head/falsetto. I also find it most comfortable to sing in head voice using E or Ah sounds.
In my case, however, my voice is unique in the sense that, I was born intersex, XXY, was given male hormones in my teens, identify as female, and my voice never really dropped all that much and I very much consider myself a mezzo soprano singer because that's where I feel most comfortable singing in. I can sing to songs by Toni Braxton or Cher all the way to Whitney Houston with relative comfort and ease.
I believe that falsetto is a non-resonant head voice due to the lack of resonance from the vocal cords (because they're more apart as Jerremie said). The air moving through the cords just have nothing to carry upwards, so the energy just dissipates before they can build up (resonate). Very physics related
I literally feel falsetto in my head as if my head is filling up with helium. And it feels airy and free. As I come down into mix and down to chest I fell the air and the sound come down through my neck, chest and into my tummy.
A lot of times a man’s head voice manifest as a chest sound which can make it confusing. My pure headvoice is relatively weak but I’m good at achieving high chest notes . My headvoice is better accessed through the e sound as well. I think men have such thick cords that we may just push though with more chest or break into a falsetto as our voice climbs. Women can just keep easing up due to their respective anatomy.
I can definitely say that falsetto and head voice are two different things. My voice falls under the Bass range; very deep, and I used to have a falsetto, which would allow me to easily sing notes in the soprano or mezzo-soprano range, and very comfortably imitate Elmo’s voice, from Sesame Street, and meow like a kitten, and yodel, as an example.
I damaged my voice over the years however, due to forcing my voice to sing in the tenor range. All that strain in my vocal cords over the years made me lose my falsetto completely. I was devastated and I miss it, even to the day.
I can now barely use head voice, but it isn’t the same. I can barely reach notes in the soprano range with head voice. I definitely remember how using falsetto felt; how activating the falsetto felt, and it is different, when compared to head voice. it’s placed in a different vocal register of its own.
Personally, and metaphorically, I would describe falsetto as opening a door and walking into a big spacious living room, whereas head voice for me is like opening a door and walking into a closet.
I feel a distinct difference between my chest voice, my head voice and my falsetto. I even feel like I can sometimes produce a mix of my head and falsetto which feels again different then mixing head and chest. I can also have my falsetto feel really light and breathy (but not coming in and out like the example in the video) or much stronger sounding (what some people call reinforced falsetto), So I'm definitely in the "they're different" group.
As a trumpet player, I had to tighten my lips like you tightened your vocal cords to sing really high notes. I could play Super G, which is sort of trumpet falsetto. You actually use less air but your vocal cords have stepped up another and gotten closer together. In theory, you should be able to hold a falsetto note longer than a low note. If you need more detail, I would be glad to explain further.
Bass voice here. For me, there is a DEFINITE difference in my falsetto and my head voice. I can feel the opening in the chords Jeremie was explaining, but, alternatively, I can also feel the forward, "masky" sensation when I am in my head voice. They also have completely different timbres. My falsetto is, without a doubt, weaker and more breathy. Also, since I have trained my voice, I can typically only access my falsetto when my throat is tired/worn out and the chords don't get the closure they need for a strong, well-supported head voice. MY biggest trouble is finding my mixed voice. My chest goes so low, and my head goes so high (A1-F6 on a good day) that I have trouble finding where the actually "mix". But, I know that is an ENTIRE other video!! The voice is, indeed, an amazing instrument~
Same for me here, I cannot for the life of me find my mixed voice (especially since most examples onTH-cam are of women or tenors), and find it easier to just belt those notes with a more back-of-the-throat placement that keeps my larynx relaxed but just does not produce the most pleasant sound. Would love to learn, of course!
Two diffrent things. My vocalcoach also seems to think its the same. However my toprange is really breathy so I will work on it as suggested in this video. Great content as always.
Headvoice/mix and falsetto are definitely not the same. I can do falsetto with ease, but I still haven’t learned to use my mix yet. You can clearly tell when I use falsetto, and I think it’s even less airy than his example of a very mask placed falsetto. There is just 0 chest in it at all, and I think it’s very easy to hear.
Tara I like your ideas and opportunities
I also agree with Jeramie. That’s what it feels like for me.
I can definitely feel a difference between a falsetto and head voice. I can go up to a D6 with my head voice. It’s definitely nasal and more forward and almost squeaky sounding. Whereas my falsetto is weaker, more breathy. I have a hard time connecting it. I thought all people could tell the difference.
I agree with Tara the resonance for my head voice is different than my falsetto.
I'm an alto, and honestly head and falsetto both feel the same to me. I have a lower register for a woman, but I don't notice any difference. I have to agree with Tara, I feel it mostly in my nose when I sing up in my higher register.
He’s not lying it’s hard to find true head voice for a male. I’ve found my head voice only a handful of times and it was when I felt really good emotionally and well rested. Otherwise I struggle to get there. The first time I found head voice, I knew I found it immediately. It was amazing. But generally I can only count on finding my falsetto, or mixed voice.
I’ve been waiting for a video like this! I’m a bass with a chest/belt range of Eb2-F#4, but my falsetto, or what I believe to be falsetto, spans from G3 to E5. I do not feel the resonance in my nose, the placement is like what Jeremie describes. It makes me so curious about the anatomy of the voice. For example when I listen to singers like Leona Lewis and Dinah Jane Hansen, the way they flip from their chest voice to a higher register sounds the exact same as a flip to falsetto for me. But, I don’t hear that flip when opera sopranos sing. It’s so strange lol.
That's the vocal break!!
I feel like i have a similar range but the g3 to e5 is headvoice for me
Dimash has a strong falsetto and strong head voice
In head voice, you can slide down into chest voice without cracking. In falsetto, you cannot slide into chest voice without cracking. It's a different voice and mechanism.
OMG, thank you so much Jeremie for this!!
As a male singer and a voice teacher, falsetto is a very weak and disconnected sound and it resonates manly in the throat. Head voice sounds a little similar but the cords are more connected, it sounds fuller and it resonates in the naso-pharynx and sinus cavities. Some singers comare a male head voice as 'woman-like' depending on how high. I agree that they are two different things, however what makes them different is the resonators.
9:32 wow she just casually drops that kinda legendary thing
Im with Jeremy. I’ve learned to push my falsetto and make it sound like it’s very forward and in that mask and what I guess women would say is the head voice, But my head voice and falsetto are exactly where he was also feeling it.
I used to be able to slide very well from my natural voice to falsetto....I stopped practicing and I lost it. The E and O vowel helps me with the falsetto part
I think falsetto and head voice are two different thing, but the same in some ways, like both are very airy, it is just the placement is the difference, the head voice is more stronger or forward, the falsetto is more throaty and more airy. I think.
I used to be able to slide very well from my natural voice to falsetto....I stopped practicing and I lost it. The E and O vowel helps me with the falsetto part
With the generic descriptions of falsetto and head, I have a mix of the two, or a strong and masked falsetto.
No idea, but it's stronger than falsetto but "clearer" in the highs than chest.
I sing bass in my choir, but I've been in the sops a full times.
I do access the whistle register too, it's fun!
No, I don't strain.
I’ve always defined falsetto as more of a fluty vibrato type sounds versus a straight toned sound
Can't wait to see the new hair colour in full Tara!
Very interesting video. The increasing falsetto range thing was an intriguing remark, I wonder if that's why, for example, Dimash has different sounds on his lower note operatic voice sometimes. Wondering if maybe some is proper chest voice and then others are falsetto. Wonder how low some singers can go in that coordination.
Also if you fancy something classical to listen to; at a recent event Dimash did a duet with a soprano opera singer (Vienna Opera House Soprano) called Aida; song was called Ulisse.
Same night there was also a trio with Dimash, Lara Fabian and Aida singing Ti Amo Cosi.
Hope you enjoy them if you do listen to it. (Ulisse is my favourite from that night, he also did a great version of Know)
Also there is a cool medley from Home Free I've been listening to alot called Country Fried Pop, like 15+ different songs that they've managed to arrange to sound like it's practically one song, even lyrics wise, it's quite the ear worm. Plus a bass singing pop is always cool.
Hope everything is going well for you, take care and I look forward to your next video.
If you listen to the songs let me know what you think, no worries if you don't fancy listening to them or are too busy with work.
Cheers
Rebecca
Oh my do I have a lot to share about this..
I've defined it as supported vs unsupported falsetto.
An example of unsupported is in Bohemian Rhapsody Gallileo Gallileo Gallileo figaro magnifico”
A supported falsetto example is in the end of green manalichi by Judas priest, Rib Halford isn't "screaming"
Note that this isn't the David Lee Roth high squeek.
I taught myself how to do supported by starting with unsupported then somehow pushing a lot of air over the vocal chords and sort of forcing it
Eventually I could do it quite relaxed .
Jeff Tate from queensryche is good at it as well.
Ive lost the ability to do this anymore.. I very much want to get it back as it's so impressive.
it doesn't sound thin and mousy acapella but rather a check connected piercing without any sort of amplification at all.
Your guest is performing a well-formed and lovely unsupported.
Ian Gillan from deep purple was a master at this, listen to the end of the song of deep purple child in Time.
Or Led Zep at the finale of Immigrant song
I would pay someone $1,000 if they can help if they can help me successfully sing child in time again
In addition to my last comment, you can sing any note (chest, mix, head) in falsetto. Head voice notes exist in a specific area of your range.
I'm looking forward to learning from you thanks for sharing this with me !!
Lol im a male and falsetto and head vocie are 2 completely different things and yes we have both i feel falsetto in my throat..when i get around c5/c6 head voice @3:23 that was totally head voice lol i think he is confused as to where falsetto ends and head voice begins. for males i believe where falsetto ends and head voice begins is when you start mixing in the frontal forward sound the further you go up in the scale typically around c/5 the thing is some males just don't have access to there head voice due to lack of training and don't know the difference in feeling and placement
Yeah! Falsetto for male is a kinda head voice for female because their flute/falsetto register is really out of this world.
For me, I’m not at all vocally trained but I have been singing for some time now in my classes like musical theatre where we learn kinda in a group. So I have a falsetto and like jeremie said, it’s more throaty or placed further back. I do note however that when I push further up past my singable note near middle/upper 5th octave, it is when I get a ringing in my nose which might be what you’re talking about it being more nasally. Not sure if that helps at all, but that’s my take on it being that I only really have a chest and falsetto.
I don’t have a head voice or a mask but I think a good example would be brendon Urie because his isnt at all flutey like a falsetto would be and it almost reminds me of a twang that allows his range to be higher and more nasally.
I have a relatively high pitched voice and for me falsetto is just head voice with less chord closure and more resonance at the back of my head. After getting some training I don’t really have or use falsetto anymore. Even when I sing ‘oooo’s higher than C5 I’m using a lot of chord closure and mixing in a little chest voice to get a loud full sound that rings more in front.
5:55 haha see, head voice and falsetto is the same for guys, I should know because I practice both of these a lot and a lot of instances I'm like, these things are the same! It's because I feel it in the head of say🤔
8:22 another thing, the head voice is also rangy and people claim the first half is head and the second half is falsetto BUT it depends on the person and vowels and all that stull🤔
jeremie is hemming so much and it is so bad for the cords !! incredible ...
Im late joing, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this channel!
I’m trying Tara girl and I feel it where he does 😭
As a male, I feel like I can place it in both falsetto and a more nasal head voice space too, where it can go a bit higher but less stylistically. There is a point where it's hard to know where I even feel it though, somewhere in between lol.
Thankful for this video. Perfect timing guys. Happy Holidays! 🤩
I said it once and I will repeat it again: it is very distracting and hard to learn because he is so handsome hot and cute
Thank you for this conversation.
i love this video this is adorable! i came to learn which i am doing but im also getting a show and i love it! also he has a beautiful voice
Head tone and falsetto are definitely not the same, though a falsetto is also by necessity a head voice, too. I’m a natural bass, using my diaphragm, but I’ve been singing a lot of duets on old bluegrass songs, which are very high. I find that after practice I easily sing second tenor lead and first tenor harmony (which is less forceful, so more relaxed) using my normal head tones. My falsetto lets me go an octave higher, the same notes you were singing. To sing falsetto, I relax my throat as completely as possible. My lowest falsetto notes are about where my highest head voice is. It is NOT nasal. It sounds just the same when I hold my nose. At the lowest falsetto I can articulate clearly and use vibrato, but at the highest notes I can reach, my mouth is so open and round that I can only sing O and Ah sounds. It’s not easy to transition between a regular head voice and a falsetto.
love this so much. thank you. i cannot even get myself to understand how to use my abs. love love love to see a vid that helps one learn how to find vocal power from one's core and not just through the chords. danke darlin'. pretty please.
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falsetto are two completely different things as falsetto is airy and the cords arent fully connected and it's also referred to as a "false" voice bc it's "cheating" head voice to hit higher notes easier bc head voice can be harder to hit higher notes (unless youre using super head voice lol) but falsetto and head voice can both be used by both men and women, a couple example is ariana grande depends more on falsetto as demi lovato depends more on head voice, also brendon urie depends on head voice more than falsetto and me being a male i depend more on falsetto. it more depends on your voice, technique, vocal type, and what works best for your voice. (currently tho i have vocal polyps and i'm having to depend more on head voice bc my polyps are preventing me from using my falsetto) but to know more about it you have a better chance at learning the best by looking it up than just listening to me lol
Falsetto in my opinion is a weak or more open coordination of head voice whereby you vocal folds aren't touching as much. This allows more air to release and the sound to be breathy also the lack of good coordination means the sound is weaker and harder to maintain control, pitch, etc. Falsetto isn't a register but simply a different or weaker chord coordination in your head register.
I mean it’s falsetto and mixed for me
I only felt it in my face when In mixed
I think depending on the female there is head voice or falsetto
Lower altos have more of separation between registers and I would argue experience similar to male singers
Those deep raspy female voices as well
Head voice to me are those soprano voices that just sit there naturally and float there
For me (a beginner) the most distinctive difference is the so-called passaggio. I really have to switch gears so to speak in order to get in and out of falsetto. Whereas with a head-voice, there is no passage, no switch, and it's all about the placement.
Since I'm just starting to develop a mix-voice, there is for me this kind of blind, well, mute spot in which I my vocal chords don't quite know what to do, since I'm neither below nor above the passaggio, and you can clearly see the crack as if I were trying to do a vocal fry, only that I'm not.
Now... having said all that.
There are times, specially with sounds like the "U" he just did there, when I am NOT sure I'm doing a head voice (forward nasal placement), or a falsetto that just happened to came out very well, but unusually, supported. Or if it's both (mixed voice maybe???).
*Im a Male, & i TOTALLY get what he's saying. It feels the same way for me*
I'm also with Jeremie its like a whole different part of my body and feels distinct from any other kind of singing. I don't feel it in my noise.
To find your falsetto....just yodel. When you do it, the high voice is the falsetto and the low voice is the chest, no matter whether you're male or female. To yodel you have to switch from chest to falsetto and back and forth. It's the only way to do it. You can't yodel from chest to supposed head-voice and back. There has to be a definite "break." Head is just type of Chest. Head is not a register in and of itself. You've got Fry, Chest, Falsetto, and Whistle; whether you be a dude or chick, or anything else vaguely human-esque. That's just the way it is. To yodel, you've got to bounce back and forth 'tween chest and falsetto. The particular sounds of your voice will, of course, depend on the length and the thickness of the cords you happen to have been bless'd or cursed with (and the way your vocal cavity has been arranged). :) ps: Women's falsetto is much harder to identify casually than men's. So do the yodel thingy. That will always give you the proper chest/falsetto differential, for guys and gals. Have a good one. :)
I'm a teacher who has mostly taught children and adult women but I've had some recent male adult students come in and am trying to build my confidence teaching men, finding this area so confusing. Any tips for women teaching men to access it and feel difference? this is really interesting and helpful already, just trying to make sure I don't confuse them bt lining it up too much with female head/tilt.
I don’t know that I have a head voice but I do know that I have falsetto and it definitely feels like what Jeremie said.
He has a strong falseto. I think they murge and you naturally transition after alot of practice
For me there is a difference between falsetto and head voice. In my opinion falsetto feels more floaty and light in a way, almost more like an opera singer. While head voice feels more like something that would be in a rock song where the singer is hitting high notes that are really powerful. I hope that makes some sense.