You changed my singing dramatically with this video bud i can finally got on track with this video and the way you explained how to sing the right way without strain i can't stop doing it now I've been learning on my own for a few years now watching you tube video's day after day i wish i would of had this video years ago i would have been so far ahead so thanks so much for this video bud keep up the excellent work
I went through a lot of what you talk about...Its so nice and so important for me to hear about how the process of learning to sing was for you.....singing high should not be hard, tense nor difficult... you emphasize this a lot and its a absolut truth! DONT LET YOURSELF BE FOOLED BY SINGERS FACE ON HIGH NOTES.....theres is a time when you sing low or high notes with the same effort. Its all about ressonance........i am getting there.......sorry about my english. Good night
Lovely to see you Calder. It just popped up on my feed and I thought, “I recognise that chap!” Great to see you are still singing and teaching. Great video too, very well explained. ❤
@@singingmatterscaldergood thank you pal, still very busy with music. Teaching & recording music full time, released my 7th album in Jan and still singing thanks to you! I too have had quite the journey. So much to learn. Your videos are great, really in depth and candid. Keep up the great work! :)
Wow thanks so much making videos!! Other channels have been helpful, but I really appreciate the way you lay things out in simple terms and give clear examples. Edit: Would you be able to make a video or share some tips on “cord closure” ? I am only able to get good cord closure and feel the easiness of singing only sometimes, but I can’t figure out what I’m doing ‘correctly’ when it happens!
I started singing at the beginning of lockdown. I've never really practice with many scales or drills, but I always choose songs that present various challenges for me to work through and learn from. This style of learning has actually worked out pretty well for me, probably a bit slower going than learning through drills, scales, and 1 on 1 instruction, but the hard learned lessons always seem to stick with me best anyway. Mixed voice has been challenging for me to develop, but it's going pretty well, not quite automatic for me yet. I usually have to actively think about vowel modification, but I'm steadily progressing. Enjoyed the video dude🤘
Many thanks for the comment and it means a lot to my new page! Well, you can take one section of a song that is tricky and turn that into an exercise by removing the words, for example, and just singing the few notes from that phrase, using different vowel sounds, humming, the ‘nng’ sound, so you can feel where it resonates, before going back to the words of the song. Scales and exercises are a chance to work purely with the mechanics of your voice, away from the magic of songs and music. Many people aren’t ready for this kind of work but you learn so much more when you develop your instrument instead of rehearse songs
I get what you mean about finding challenging songs too.choosing songs that test you and help you develop.. But try that tip in my previous comment, where I said use the phrase from the song that you find difficult just that phrase and work it with just the notes maybe pick one vowel sound but sing the notes from that very short phrase that is the most difficult and repeat it and play around with it and experiment with it eventually you find a way to hit that part of the song correctly, so that when you come back to it, your voice knows what to do through muscle memory, but turn into an exercise is a good steppingstone between only rehearsing songs and actually starting to run scales exercises. Good luck.
Very interesting, your point about singing higher notes resulting in some people singing louder. This is exactly my focus right now. I can access some pretty powerful high notes, surprising myself, but only once a session hahaha. Immediately after I'm gassed and out of breath. I've taken to sort of pilgrimaging on a path of breath support to nail those notes in a way that doesn't require belting, and surprisingly, for me a big facet I've been misunderstanding is my chest resonance. Often when I thought I was in chest, I was more stuck in my throat. So actually being more thoughtfully in chest resonance has given me more efficient access to higher notes, which sounds counterintuitive but for me functions well. The endeavor now, then, is grasping (and experiencing) what you spoke of, the 'pulling back' of the muscles more conducive for those higher notes.
Yeah , great stuff. It’s the pulling back but equally letting go of the chest voice muscles too at the same time . The comment there about once a session sounds like there must be a hell of a lot of tension going on . Sounds like the kind of moment where you brace yourself and manage to get something out of your voice but can’t repeat it - sounds like it might be a lot of effort . Hard to tell on text but those sorts of reflections often sound like singing with all kinds of tension. It should be totally more effortless . But it’s hard to say without seeing, hearing. I’m always happy to receive short video clips to help assess for free. Contact details are on my site www.singingmatters.co.uk You should practice the art of quiet high notes - that doesn’t mean falsetto and breathy, still the cords are connected but you can do it with minimal fuss and at low volume . Try it.
Would also add in terms of what you hear on a production, you don't have a compressor built into your body. Higher frequencies cut through a mix but boy does a compressor really help a singer achieve a consistent powerful volume on a record. Great video, glad to see more people on here tackling this subject properly, starting from a smaller sound and focusing on creating a larger resonant space for power/volume rather than shouting like Dave Grohl over a Bruce Dickinson song.
Yeah absolutely. People try to mimic what they hear n a heavily produced track. I’ve said this somewhere on a video recently !. Singers really need to grasp what they are hearing and how singers are actually using their voice.
Mate hows things. Yes i have been struggling with a mixed voice for years. I have sung for 20 years using a pretty strong voice but every so often i hit a mix and its powerful high pitched . This is hard to keep consistently. Thats my challenge. Sometimes weight is attached and others its lighter but with support . I also have about 3 different head voice coordinations and dont know which to work on. . I will follow along.
The experimentation is all very helpful as I’m sure you know . Sometimes different tones are useful in situations, as well aren’t they. And always remember your voice isn’t the same every day either. It’s all about getting used to what is feeling tight and restricting … and keeping that shape open, even when aiming for the pharyngeal resonance. What sort of material are you singing? How varied is it?
I thought i replied so hopefully this isnt a double up as i cant see my reply. Yes i do anything as low as paul Kelly to acdc, choirboys. Queen, CCR , black keys, and many more . I handle them fine but that mix i sometimes get is the holy grail as its closed cords and super high power. Its just not a constant. @@singingmatterscalder
@@fenderfox5080They might all be correct ! Maybe it depends on the song. I know what you mean. There are many ways to get a note out of yourself in your higher range. We are trying to notice what feels balanced and not tight. Sometimes this is way more subtle than we realise. It can depend on style . What sort of stuff are you singing? How flexible and free does it feel n those different approaches you can do?
@@stebolianThe power is almost just perceived power. We are always needing to put less into it. Get things out of the way and remove force and effort, strangely it sounds more powerful that way. But our ears just hear those notes as powerful - they sound impressive, they sound louder because our ears respond to those frequencies more. So the power comes from not over doing it. But , also , remember your voice is a moving target. It’s never the same twice . Dont expect it to work the same today as it did yesterday.
Good video! I don't recommend using voices from studio recorded songs as a reference, since in most of the cases you're listening to overproduced vocals (with several layers and effects) until a point where it's not a realistic human voice that you can mimic. I think it's useful to watch a video with an acoustic take of the song, which will most likely also be fine tuned soundwise but at least it's a more realistic approach and that can also bring technical hints by watching the singer articulations. The most realistic videos are the ones taken from a mobile phone 😄
You say that there shouldn't be all this pressure to sing high notes and that would be wrong, but this is about the mix voice technique, right? In the case of belting, which is pulled chest voice, it requires much greater physical effort and therefore, more pressure as well.
Really the amount of pressure people sing with, including myself when I didn’t have a clue what damage I was doing, is insane. Crazy amounts of force and therefore compensating with extrinsic muscles. . It doesn’t need brute force. Depends on what amount of pressure you are talking about.
I can mix at different levels of intercity but my biggest problem is singing ee oo in songs. They don't play nice with the other vowels in that F4-Ab4 range because they want to bridge over so much sooner. They actually work better with the other vowels above that because I feel like all the vowels are more heady up there
Yeah the vowels all play different games with the set up, as you already know. Try lowering the larynx for the ee vowel. And maybe make the oo , more like ew.. hard to type. Ha ha. 😝 Try that. Or try making the oo pharyngeal and bright ! Thin and narrow at the back ... I hope that gives you something to mess about with.
@@singingmatterscalder Thanks, I get what you're saying. Sure can get tricky depending on which other vowels are mixed in there. If only all the vowels felt like ay, lol
Can you get mixed if you don't have head voice or can't find it? When I look on tutorials about head/Falsetto they do the usual micky mouse voice or owl sounds, but they all seem to do it about 5 semitones higher than I can. I can't find any info on why this is and only videos on strength rather than pitch. Its frustrating to be able to scream chest out at C4 but get to like G3 in head :/ Does this make mixed impossible until head/falsetto is solved?
This is really interesting, I have one student who simply cannot find any sound at all above an E4 maybe an F . I’ve never had such a tricky voice , he comes from no musical background . But no matter what I try it’s like those muscles that want to stretch back and encourage a high sound, he just can’t find it at all. It’s really a tough one - I did try to look it up and couldn’t find anything. I want to reach out to some other coaches and see if they’ve come across this or helped anyone fix it . Guys just don’t use this part of their voice at all sometimes but it could also be coz it’s so strained and gripped that access is denied!
@@singingmatterscalder This was me until 2 weeks ago, I stumbled upon the term flageolet and investigated it further, started with taking vocal fry as high as I could and as I increased in pitch I decreased effort - which was minimal to start with, hence the fry - until I was making a tiny sound - not looking for pitch - then I started to lean into the sound a little, gradually more and more, moving it up down, forwards, backwards etc. I was absolutely convinced I didn't have a head voice, but I think as a 57 year old man I was just totally stuck in chest, I definitely have a head voice now - needs a lot of work - and am starting to get the hang of mixing. I think a good analogy would be if I tried to do the splits, I wouldn't get anywhere near - hospitalised probably :) - but if I started stretching the right muscles/tendons/ligaments I would eventually be able to do the splits, it's just a case of finding something/anything that triggers the right feeling and then you have the ability to strengthen something you have never accessed before.
I’m not sure if this sounds like a couple of things mixed up. Unless I said it like that, I’ll have to watch back. The voice resonates the chest bones when the n our deeper spoken range, chest voice. As we get higher , you don’t feel the resonance in the chest anymore. The chambers within the vocal tract would not be below the folds, no. That wouldn’t make sense, you’re right
@@singingmatterscalder I guess the trachea would technically act like a resonant chamber below the vocal folds so I correct myself i should’ve been more specific. But the chest cavity isn’t a resonant chamber. The chest cavity vibrates due to sympathetic vibrations :)
@@singingmatterscalder it’s nice to discuss this with someone who doesn’t just go “f off” haha. In that case look into Ingo Titze work on the voice and CVT complete vocal technique. They have a load of studies to read :)
@@digitaltrip3311 yeah I’m not sure what I said that made you think that. I haven’t watched my vid back. And it was done off top of my head. It’s definitely not anything I’ve said before so I don’t know if you misheard me . Yes of course Titze. Maybe I’ll catch what this is about at some point !
Lower your larynx! Keep the throat open left the soft pallet…. I will add , people are obsessive about that side of things, when often they have a warped sense of what they hear in other singers, and in their own voice anyway. Often people don’t wanna hear the advice because they think it takes them away from some big powerful sound. They are so attached to it when actually that sound they are attached to is being achieved in an unhealthy way that will damage your voice overtime and will never sound or feel free, which always undermines your confidence anyway. But there are always to make the sound bigger like that . Try it
Why am I able to sing in head voice but it's quiet? When I sing something like Radiohead I can sing it great in head voice but when I add any weight it doesn't sound right. There's that second half that makes it mixed that I don't understand
It depends if you’ve let go completely of cords and when you try to add it back in , are you adding a lot of weight and strain into that. I always think of it as just a tiny bit of chest voice still holding onto the cords . Have you heard of pharyngeal resonance? You may want to be aiming for that tilt that adds a twangy, bright pharyngeal sound and makes the cords stay together as you get higher . Feel free to send me a video and I’ll see what I can notice. My contact info is on my site. Incl phone number for WhatsApp. singingmatters.co.uk
@@singingmatterscalder thank you, I will try to share something soon, I mostly sing and play 90s stuff, I've learned allot the last year and a half from Chris Liepe as a student of his, but I had to cancel class last month. I think I have a good grasp on a bunch of different things I just don't know how to put it all together. If I could explain it in words that make sense I would say chest voice is great but I've learned to sing above chest, meaning when I sing the same songs now that I used to sing in all chest I'm just moving the placement up a little more in my throat and pallet. Then higher head voice stuff I'm able to do fine without flipping into it the way I used to, I used to flip into head voice but I worked passed that flip. Now when I sing in head voice I'm only feeling resonance in my soft palette and maybe some nasal area, I feel like I'm missing that second part which I'm guessing should be lower feeling? I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense but it's the best I can explain 😆
@@fenderfox5080 I get you! I know what you mean. It’s great you’ve worked through this stuff and started to change the placement. Chris Liepe is the boss! I think I’d have to hear you to know what you haven’t quite put together . Maybe it’s better than you think! What do you not like about it?? What do you think you are missing?
@@singingmatterscalder yes Chris is amazing!! I just can't afford classes ATM but I plan to join down the road so it's not because of anything he did 😆. I feel like I'm holding back or using to much compression maybe? This might be because when I hold back air I have more control but maybe I'm using compression? Maybe I think they are the same thing? When I sing in head voice I feel stagnant when I feel like I should be letting air out, like when you sing you should be releasing pressure while doing it, and I'm holding pressure not being fluent in letting it out while I sing. So it feels held back.
This is the best vocal lesson channel
Wow thanks ! I hope you think so. New video on its way by tomorrow .
@@singingmatterscalder the tip about how to start moving into head voice a bit before the higher notes begin helped a lot
@@Braunfolk it’s often an absolute game changer for everyone! Thanks
Love this lesson too. Learning a lot. 🖤🎵🙏🎸🎤
You changed my singing dramatically with this video bud i can finally got on track with this video and the way you explained how to sing the right way without strain i can't stop doing it now I've been learning on my own for a few years now watching you tube video's day after day i wish i would of had this video years ago i would have been so far ahead so thanks so much for this video bud keep up the excellent work
That’s really great to hear, Thanks and good luck !
I went through a lot of what you talk about...Its so nice and so important for me to hear about how the process of learning to sing was for you.....singing high should not be hard, tense nor difficult... you emphasize this a lot and its a absolut truth! DONT LET YOURSELF BE FOOLED BY SINGERS FACE ON HIGH NOTES.....theres is a time when you sing low or high notes with the same effort. Its all about ressonance........i am getting there.......sorry about my english. Good night
Best channel that's ever been recommended.Thank you.
Lovely to see you Calder. It just popped up on my feed and I thought, “I recognise that chap!” Great to see you are still singing and teaching. Great video too, very well explained. ❤
Ah nice one !! How’s it going? Thanks , doing my best!
@@singingmatterscaldergood thank you pal, still very busy with music. Teaching & recording music full time, released my 7th album in Jan and still singing thanks to you! I too have had quite the journey. So much to learn. Your videos are great, really in depth and candid. Keep up the great work! :)
Wow thanks so much making videos!! Other channels have been helpful, but I really appreciate the way you lay things out in simple terms and give clear examples.
Edit: Would you be able to make a video or share some tips on “cord closure” ?
I am only able to get good cord closure and feel the easiness of singing only sometimes, but I can’t figure out what I’m doing ‘correctly’ when it happens!
Yeah! That’s a good idea. I’ll think about that for a vid . Cheers
I started singing at the beginning of lockdown. I've never really practice with many scales or drills, but I always choose songs that present various challenges for me to work through and learn from. This style of learning has actually worked out pretty well for me, probably a bit slower going than learning through drills, scales, and 1 on 1 instruction, but the hard learned lessons always seem to stick with me best anyway. Mixed voice has been challenging for me to develop, but it's going pretty well, not quite automatic for me yet. I usually have to actively think about vowel modification, but I'm steadily progressing. Enjoyed the video dude🤘
Many thanks for the comment and it means a lot to my new page!
Well, you can take one section of a song that is tricky and turn that into an exercise by removing the words, for example, and just singing the few notes from that phrase, using different vowel sounds, humming, the ‘nng’ sound, so you can feel where it resonates, before going back to the words of the song. Scales and exercises are a chance to work purely with the mechanics of your voice, away from the magic of songs and music. Many people aren’t ready for this kind of work but you learn so much more when you develop your instrument instead of rehearse songs
Same, the first song I started out on was Bruno Mars it will rain.... and I don't modify keys.
I get what you mean about finding challenging songs too.choosing songs that test you and help you develop..
But try that tip in my previous comment, where I said use the phrase from the song that you find difficult just that phrase and work it with just the notes maybe pick one vowel sound but sing the notes from that very short phrase that is the most difficult and repeat it and play around with it and experiment with it eventually you find a way to hit that part of the song correctly, so that when you come back to it, your voice knows what to do through muscle memory, but turn into an exercise is a good steppingstone between only rehearsing songs and actually starting to run scales exercises. Good luck.
Came here for a Marvin Gaye’s mixed voice example. Leaving with some cool tips for loosening voice while mixing.
Thank you
This was so helpful, I didn't know what to let go before, but your illustration helped me see it ty!!
Amazing thanks. My apologies.. I'm only just getting to some of these comments. I hope the voice is doing well for you right now.
Very interesting, your point about singing higher notes resulting in some people singing louder. This is exactly my focus right now. I can access some pretty powerful high notes, surprising myself, but only once a session hahaha. Immediately after I'm gassed and out of breath. I've taken to sort of pilgrimaging on a path of breath support to nail those notes in a way that doesn't require belting, and surprisingly, for me a big facet I've been misunderstanding is my chest resonance. Often when I thought I was in chest, I was more stuck in my throat. So actually being more thoughtfully in chest resonance has given me more efficient access to higher notes, which sounds counterintuitive but for me functions well. The endeavor now, then, is grasping (and experiencing) what you spoke of, the 'pulling back' of the muscles more conducive for those higher notes.
Yeah , great stuff. It’s the pulling back but equally letting go of the chest voice muscles too at the same time . The comment there about once a session sounds like there must be a hell of a lot of tension going on . Sounds like the kind of moment where you brace yourself and manage to get something out of your voice but can’t repeat it - sounds like it might be a lot of effort . Hard to tell on text but those sorts of reflections often sound like singing with all kinds of tension. It should be totally more effortless . But it’s hard to say without seeing, hearing. I’m always happy to receive short video clips to help assess for free. Contact details are on my site www.singingmatters.co.uk
You should practice the art of quiet high notes - that doesn’t mean falsetto and breathy, still the cords are connected but you can do it with minimal fuss and at low volume . Try it.
Yea, it’s possible! Just keep going mates it’ll work out just f%* keep going all right. Thank you master once again.
Thank you !
This was absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much!
Awesome tips, man! Thank you :)
this is great mate thanks
Great explanation. thanks!
I hope it helps ! Thanks
Really good video thank you
Thanks. I hope it’s useful to you !
Another very good video!
This was awesome! Thanks. I have a feeling you’ve covered Sting before 😉 If I close my eyes I hear Sting talking.
Would also add in terms of what you hear on a production, you don't have a compressor built into your body. Higher frequencies cut through a mix but boy does a compressor really help a singer achieve a consistent powerful volume on a record.
Great video, glad to see more people on here tackling this subject properly, starting from a smaller sound and focusing on creating a larger resonant space for power/volume rather than shouting like Dave Grohl over a Bruce Dickinson song.
Yeah absolutely. People try to mimic what they hear n a heavily produced track. I’ve said this somewhere on a video recently !. Singers really need to grasp what they are hearing and how singers are actually using their voice.
I have a question how can you scream safely and healthy. While using mixed voice.
hi i have a sog on youtube call optimistic can you tell me if this mix voice belt
Mate hows things. Yes i have been struggling with a mixed voice for years. I have sung for 20 years using a pretty strong voice but every so often i hit a mix and its powerful high pitched . This is hard to keep consistently. Thats my challenge. Sometimes weight is attached and others its lighter but with support . I also have about 3 different head voice coordinations and dont know which to work on. . I will follow along.
The experimentation is all very helpful as I’m sure you know . Sometimes different tones are useful in situations, as well aren’t they. And always remember your voice isn’t the same every day either. It’s all about getting used to what is feeling tight and restricting … and keeping that shape open, even when aiming for the pharyngeal resonance.
What sort of material are you singing? How varied is it?
Same as me, I have a few different head voice sounds and I don't know which one is correct😂
I thought i replied so hopefully this isnt a double up as i cant see my reply. Yes i do anything as low as paul Kelly to acdc, choirboys. Queen, CCR , black keys, and many more . I handle them fine but that mix i sometimes get is the holy grail as its closed cords and super high power. Its just not a constant. @@singingmatterscalder
@@fenderfox5080They might all be correct ! Maybe it depends on the song. I know what you mean. There are many ways to get a note out of yourself in your higher range. We are trying to notice what feels balanced and not tight. Sometimes this is way more subtle than we realise. It can depend on style . What sort of stuff are you singing? How flexible and free does it feel n those different approaches you can do?
@@stebolianThe power is almost just perceived power. We are always needing to put less into it. Get things out of the way and remove force and effort, strangely it sounds more powerful that way. But our ears just hear those notes as powerful - they sound impressive, they sound louder because our ears respond to those frequencies more. So the power comes from not over doing it. But , also , remember your voice is a moving target. It’s never the same twice . Dont expect it to work the same today as it did yesterday.
Good video! I don't recommend using voices from studio recorded songs as a reference, since in most of the cases you're listening to overproduced vocals (with several layers and effects) until a point where it's not a realistic human voice that you can mimic. I think it's useful to watch a video with an acoustic take of the song, which will most likely also be fine tuned soundwise but at least it's a more realistic approach and that can also bring technical hints by watching the singer articulations. The most realistic videos are the ones taken from a mobile phone 😄
Definitely!! Always watch live performances to see what they are doing. If there’s a stripped back version yeah even better. 👌👍👍👍👌💪
You say that there shouldn't be all this pressure to sing high notes and that would be wrong, but this is about the mix voice technique, right? In the case of belting, which is pulled chest voice, it requires much greater physical effort and therefore, more pressure as well.
Really the amount of pressure people sing with, including myself when I didn’t have a clue what damage I was doing, is insane. Crazy amounts of force and therefore compensating with extrinsic muscles. . It doesn’t need brute force. Depends on what amount of pressure you are talking about.
I can mix at different levels of intercity but my biggest problem is singing ee oo in songs. They don't play nice with the other vowels in that F4-Ab4 range because they want to bridge over so much sooner. They actually work better with the other vowels above that because I feel like all the vowels are more heady up there
Yeah the vowels all play different games with the set up, as you already know. Try lowering the larynx for the ee vowel. And maybe make the oo , more like ew.. hard to type. Ha ha. 😝
Try that. Or try making the oo pharyngeal and bright ! Thin and narrow at the back ... I hope that gives you something to mess about with.
@@singingmatterscalder Thanks, I get what you're saying. Sure can get tricky depending on which other vowels are mixed in there. If only all the vowels felt like ay, lol
Can you get mixed if you don't have head voice or can't find it?
When I look on tutorials about head/Falsetto they do the usual micky mouse voice or owl sounds, but they all seem to do it about 5 semitones higher than I can.
I can't find any info on why this is and only videos on strength rather than pitch. Its frustrating to be able to scream chest out at C4 but get to like G3 in head :/
Does this make mixed impossible until head/falsetto is solved?
This is really interesting, I have one student who simply cannot find any sound at all above an E4 maybe an F . I’ve never had such a tricky voice , he comes from no musical background . But no matter what I try it’s like those muscles that want to stretch back and encourage a high sound, he just can’t find it at all. It’s really a tough one - I did try to look it up and couldn’t find anything. I want to reach out to some other coaches and see if they’ve come across this or helped anyone fix it . Guys just don’t use this part of their voice at all sometimes but it could also be coz it’s so strained and gripped that access is denied!
@@singingmatterscalder This was me until 2 weeks ago, I stumbled upon the term flageolet and investigated it further, started with taking vocal fry as high as I could and as I increased in pitch I decreased effort - which was minimal to start with, hence the fry - until I was making a tiny sound - not looking for pitch - then I started to lean into the sound a little, gradually more and more, moving it up down, forwards, backwards etc. I was absolutely convinced I didn't have a head voice, but I think as a 57 year old man I was just totally stuck in chest, I definitely have a head voice now - needs a lot of work - and am starting to get the hang of mixing. I think a good analogy would be if I tried to do the splits, I wouldn't get anywhere near - hospitalised probably :) - but if I started stretching the right muscles/tendons/ligaments I would eventually be able to do the splits, it's just a case of finding something/anything that triggers the right feeling and then you have the ability to strengthen something you have never accessed before.
Why would the chest voice resonant chamber be below the vocal folds? I don't think that makes much sense in terms of "Physics" as you put it.
I’m not sure if this sounds like a couple of things mixed up. Unless I said it like that, I’ll have to watch back. The voice resonates the chest bones when the n our deeper spoken range, chest voice. As we get higher , you don’t feel the resonance in the chest anymore. The chambers within the vocal tract would not be below the folds, no. That wouldn’t make sense, you’re right
@@singingmatterscalder I guess the trachea would technically act like a resonant chamber below the vocal folds so I correct myself i should’ve been more specific. But the chest cavity isn’t a resonant chamber. The chest cavity vibrates due to sympathetic vibrations :)
@@singingmatterscalder it’s nice to discuss this with someone who doesn’t just go “f off” haha. In that case look into Ingo Titze work on the voice and CVT complete vocal technique. They have a load of studies to read :)
@@digitaltrip3311 yeah I’m not sure what I said that made you think that. I haven’t watched my vid back. And it was done off top of my head. It’s definitely not anything I’ve said before so I don’t know if you misheard me . Yes of course Titze. Maybe I’ll catch what this is about at some point !
@@digitaltrip3311 I’m gonna have to watch everything back to work out what this is about
How about chest mix?
Gotta strenthen chest voice higher
@@Chris_Lodi
Got any tips or useful exercises for chest mix?
cheers 👍
but how do you make it sound biggeR?
Lower your larynx! Keep the throat open left the soft pallet…. I will add , people are obsessive about that side of things, when often they have a warped sense of what they hear in other singers, and in their own voice anyway. Often people don’t wanna hear the advice because they think it takes them away from some big powerful sound. They are so attached to it when actually that sound they are attached to is being achieved in an unhealthy way that will damage your voice overtime and will never sound or feel free, which always undermines your confidence anyway.
But there are always to make the sound bigger like that . Try it
Why am I able to sing in head voice but it's quiet? When I sing something like Radiohead I can sing it great in head voice but when I add any weight it doesn't sound right. There's that second half that makes it mixed that I don't understand
It depends if you’ve let go completely of cords and when you try to add it back in , are you adding a lot of weight and strain into that. I always think of it as just a tiny bit of chest voice still holding onto the cords . Have you heard of pharyngeal resonance? You may want to be aiming for that tilt that adds a twangy, bright pharyngeal sound and makes the cords stay together as you get higher .
Feel free to send me a video and I’ll see what I can notice.
My contact info is on my site. Incl phone number for WhatsApp. singingmatters.co.uk
@@singingmatterscalder thank you, I will try to share something soon, I mostly sing and play 90s stuff, I've learned allot the last year and a half from Chris Liepe as a student of his, but I had to cancel class last month. I think I have a good grasp on a bunch of different things I just don't know how to put it all together. If I could explain it in words that make sense I would say chest voice is great but I've learned to sing above chest, meaning when I sing the same songs now that I used to sing in all chest I'm just moving the placement up a little more in my throat and pallet. Then higher head voice stuff I'm able to do fine without flipping into it the way I used to, I used to flip into head voice but I worked passed that flip. Now when I sing in head voice I'm only feeling resonance in my soft palette and maybe some nasal area, I feel like I'm missing that second part which I'm guessing should be lower feeling? I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense but it's the best I can explain 😆
@@fenderfox5080 I get you! I know what you mean. It’s great you’ve worked through this stuff and started to change the placement. Chris Liepe is the boss!
I think I’d have to hear you to know what you haven’t quite put together . Maybe it’s better than you think!
What do you not like about it?? What do you think you are missing?
@@singingmatterscalder yes Chris is amazing!! I just can't afford classes ATM but I plan to join down the road so it's not because of anything he did 😆. I feel like I'm holding back or using to much compression maybe? This might be because when I hold back air I have more control but maybe I'm using compression? Maybe I think they are the same thing? When I sing in head voice I feel stagnant when I feel like I should be letting air out, like when you sing you should be releasing pressure while doing it, and I'm holding pressure not being fluent in letting it out while I sing. So it feels held back.
@@fenderfox5080 hmm 🤔 well, you don’t want all the air to escape ! Or you lose support . But maybe it doesn’t feel free and that’s what you mean .
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