How I Learned Mix Voice - The Cry Technique
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4:04 exercise starts
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improtant information is before 4:04
2:00, I was convinced that no person in the world with an american accent could do an actual british accent, let alone the classic old rockstar accent.
Well played my guy
Just today I was telling myself "to access head voice, try a yawny/crying face" and your video came out in the recommendations.
The internet knows things. Perhaps too many things
Did you say it out loud? Lol
@@Musicbynissim 😆😆🤞
I finally achieved the vibe I have been trying to convey musically this technique freed me as a singer and finally gave me the type of powerful yells I've always wanted to convey in the songs I sing and it comes out in my entire performance. I DON'T HAVE TO THINK ANYMORE!!!! my body and my voice just move as one it's like I'm finally truly enhabiting the song I LOVE IT I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE HERE!!!!
Typical youtube comments under vocal coach videos be like
@@RutabegaFarmerwell people just get hyped if something works for them
typical cynical commenter who can't let people enjoy their life@@RutabegaFarmer
@@calamari3772likely wasn’t this profound though…
Great lesson! I am on the cusp of developing my mix and you nailed the experience down.. reaching for muscles that have never been used.
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Your lessons are so succinct and to the point unlike a lot of these channels that unnecessarily complicate things, you should have more views
Started this exercise today after watching your video yesterday and i've never been able to bridge from chest to head so effortlessly before. It feels great and zero tension this way. Thanks for sharing man.
Awesome 😊😊
omg this is absolute gold dust, I don't feel like I've ever heard anyone else experience the difficulty of trying to find mixed voice as accurately as you have in this video
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Thank you. A read "Cry technique" and had a insight. Your video did a lot for me.
I really like the way you implement your allegory. Really makes the point succinct and easy to understand.
Fantastic! This video was presented to me by the TH-cam algorithm. It really is helping. I'm subscribing!
That was very helpful, now I understand where I should feel it. Thank you!
Excellent video!
I just found your videos a few days ago as I was researching Chris Cornell and after seeing quite a few different people's vids yours were refreshingly intelligent with humor and serious talent. I'm nobody, but I highly appreciate and value your videos so in short, thank you.
Thanks Allen 😊
how to "access" this when you sing
Awesome to see you putting yourself out there more man. Keep going. I’m trying to get there myself. Dig the hair too. 👍🏽
That was awesome!
this is the video that made me understand mix. thx a lot!!!!
Thank you soo much! I just learn about this technique, I'm gonna put it in practice. The most important thing is that it ACTUALLY works!
This make sense ty i will try this approaching
enjoyd it thanks!
Very good info.
This is it!!!! Thank you!!😀😀👍👍🎶🎶🎶
You are really good at it ayo
love this
I'm really looking forward to you reacting to Eve's voice. He's a very famous japanese singer that I think used this technique in the past at all times. Now his voice sounds even more unique but he changed the technique to optimize it for his live concerts to have a better flexibility in singing his fast paced songs
You could react to some of his songs which actually gets attention of his fans. We love seeing people's reactions to his songs and personally I'd be freaking out if someone would explain and show his way of singing
I love the different methods in which to find mixed voice. You can cry, pretend to be Spongebob, or even do an impression of Chris Tucker asking Jackie Chan if he understands the words coming out of his mouth.
Yeeeep 😂
Youre so awesome! And funny 😅 thank you
Very kind. Thank you 😊
Well we’ll I’m finally going to be able to mimic Chris Cornell. Thank you for this.
I found my mixed voice long ago, but I could only sing quietly through the bridge, otherwise I'd just get breathy. Then I found this compression, and now I can sing high and loudly.
Finally a technique that's perfect for me and the fellas
5:10 dang.... crying for his mum.... sniff..... hehe nice explanation and examples.
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I had a quick look at your Cornell vid where you explain how you get that sound. Interesting stuff. I wish I felt motivated to practice bur I don't. :( maybe i could just force myself to cry mum in the shower for 15 min doing half octaves up to my breaking pt. Anything would help but I do 0 all day every day. Thx fir making some explanation vids. Like you said, it just has to click.in your mind one day after some experimenting.
your honest opinion convinced me to try this, if this works, I'm gonna sing Hallelujah in the comments:)))) One question: Since you learned to use your mixed voice, it is easier to sing? can you make it your new own habbit? it's hard for me to forget the old bad habits as long as I sing almost every day.
Singing mixed changes your singing quite a bit. It creates a whole new set of habits but it’s based so much more in a healthy voice. It takes time but keep going and just be excited by the progress. 😊
Hey man, I've been coming back to this video every day and practicing. I can seem to go into mix when I do the cry technique, however, I can't seem to gain any significant volume and it just sounds really breathy even though I feel like I'm adding in the correct support in my abdomen. Would you be able to make a video about this? Thanks!
improtant information is before 4:04
your English accent is so on point, man... LOLOLOLOL
I need to try it asap because I'm so tensed when I need to add some power that I'm squeezing myself and everything
Breakthrough!
'We're going to do the cry technique'. Quite a good accent, old bean.
Thanks brothe r
I watched your video on tension. How do you do this without tension. I can’t seem to do it without tensing up. Thanks man
Brat 💪
NICE tutirial, bro!
Another great lesson! Thank you! I can wait to see the results. Tell me please, 5 minutes of "crying" per day is enough for good results or i need to do this more minutes? Thank you in advance!
Well, there are many pieces to any puzzle like this with music and an instrument and this is just a piece. If doing this scale and exercise work well for you, keep doing it obviously. But it’s definitely not gonna do everything you need 🤷♂️
Skip to 4 min for lesson.
Ok dude, I have watched several videos on this topic that wasted and average of 4 min of my time each, without even demonstrating the technique. I had never heard of it before (yes, apparently I do live under a rock). One guy I even commented on the fact and he just got snarky with me for not wanting to invest the time to learn it. I said “you haven’t shown me anything”.
So, you demoed it, and that exercise on top of the stuff I’ve been doing apparently was the magic bullet, cause the passagio just said right this way please!
Thanks for posting that, ima hafta go look and see if you’ve got a video on vibrato.
hi! i think i need lots of help with my voice, including using the mix well.... I would appreciate to have a bit of your guidance!
So I can still expect to hear ‘flipping’ between transitions for a little while or should this be corrected right away? Thanks, great video!
Nothing is corrected right away. It takes time. It’s similar to learning how to do a handstand or something physical like that. You’re building a new coordination 😊
..we add a cry to the sound like this, and you are going to feel the muscles right here start to engage and its going to be awesome 😂
I’m guessing you’re trying to say this didn’t work for you. Perhaps you missed the part where I said it didn’t work for me for weeks and then it suddenly clicked.
@@SterlingRJackson that’s what you said in the video with a crying face and i thought it was hilarious
I am finished as well😂😂😂
so heres the thing, i started in falsetto and added chest voice...is that mix or belt or ist that the same? hahahaha
04:59
When i do it my voice might get too compressed and break out into a harsh vocal fry. Sometimes gotta let a bit more air
Please bro, I have a problem with a high notes because while I sing high notes unwanted distortion appears. i wish to make a clear voice. What can I do to get rid of this unwanted distortion? Thnx
I can't stop laughing ahsdlkfjh great video tho, definitely will follow through
Hey why does distortion come out in your voice towards the higher notes on the "mum" exercise?
That is temporary. If you are getting distortion, go back to the hooting to reestablish the tone clarity.
Great lesson,thanks! I believe I was able to find these muscles in my voice from this cry technique video about a month ago. It’s sounds very Axl Rose/Brian Johnson when I do this so I think I’m on the right track. I have a crazy amount of distortion when I’m practicing using this technique which doesn’t work in a lot of my songs I currently sing.My question is will these new found muscles I haven’t been using strengthen over time and/or will my coordination improve so I can use this technique in songs when I don’t want to sound quite so Axl Rose?
Having distortion sounds like something may be a little amiss. This sound should be clean so you might be either forcing it too much or having vocal fry underneath. This coordination can take a while to develop so give it time. It’s not so much about strength as it is finding the right space and then relaxing into it. Give it some time and practice. 😊
Will do, thanks
It’s not really ‘new found muscles.’ You’ve cried/sobbed since you were a baby without even thinking about it. Often for hours on end without vocally tiring.
A sob or cry causes the false vocal folds to retract. Singing like this can illicit an emotional response from audiences because we are conditioned to have an empathetic response to someone crying/sobbing.
‘Mixed’ voice is much closer to head voice than it is to chest voice. This is something many people struggle with when attempting to ‘find’ mixed voice. It’s not going to feel like chest voice as you get higher, even though it may sound to the ear as fuller or ‘connected’.
Hello, is it normal that as I reach the higher notes C4 D4 etc… and try to do the cry technique I end up having a gag reflex? 😭 And I feel like I’m straining a lot on my throat (I know this is wrong but I don’t how to stop doing it)
I have always pushed my chest voice higher, and I can go all the way up without breaking (loudly) but it’s not 100% consistent and I don’t know if it’s causing harm ? If I start doing this exercise, should I stop singing like I’m used to, in order 2 figure out this coordination ? Will I not be able to find my mix if I keep doing what I’ve been doing ? 😅
It can be really hard to change when you’re used to using tension the way you’re describing. It will be a whole new journey for you using this method but easier on the voice and probably easier to do for longer periods. See what works 😬
@@SterlingRJackson I wouldn’t say there’s a LOT of tension, I’m not straining like a beginner (tensing the entire neck, tilting the head back, raising the larynx and pushing hard only to flip into falsetto😂) I implemented a twang like quality, (sounded like Bee Gees in the beginning) but I learned to slide through my registers very fast, so it makes me think it’s too good to be true, I MUST be doing something wrong 😅
@@lennartvangensinnerud7923 it can absolutely feel too good to be true at first because instinctually we think it’s supposed to get heavier and more difficult but you have to back off pressure to get there. Keep practicing and check in with a vocal coach if you can 😊
Were you able to do it the new way as taught here? If so, does your voice sound the same as before?
Hi, really interesting video. I'm in the same place you were - cannot understand how to find/develop mix voice. Do you do online lessons? I'm an English guy with one of those funny accents!
Yes I do. SterlingRJackson@gmail.com. English accents are appreciated 😊
I’d love to find that original video of the English guy 👀
To me you started to sound like Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) and Bono (U2) is that what they are doing? Is most of rock in mixed voice?
I find it interesting that you’re a baritone with an f# passage, that’s like, almost two whole steps higher then the typical lyric baritone passage at E4
That was your take away from this video?
@@SterlingRJackson wouldn’t really call it a take away. I just think the variance in the human voice is interesting, my actual takeaway was that I cannot figure out how to do this technique properly and need significantly more work on it
Hi, can I ask how you transition from this cry sound to the more "finished" mixed voice? Does it just happen over time from training those muscles?
Not sure what finished means. But I have a bunch of videos on this topic that should help answer your question😊
@@SterlingRJackson by finished mixed voice I meant what a mixed voice without an obvious cry sound would sound like!
Been doing this vid for about a week or so - had been focusing on stretching chest first but wanted an overview of mix for future reference. I seem to have got the hang of it quite quickly using this vid but my attempts sound like there's a natural compression/slight distortion to it - is that correct or am I doing it wrong?
When I hear that’s happening it usually seems like it’s probably happening by a connection to the muscles under your chin pulling your vocal cords apart a little. Gotta keep that muscle relaxed and make sure you’re not stretching your voice from that location.
@@SterlingRJackson Thanks man :)
4:52
constriccion free??
3:52
when I do this I just get absurds amount of of vocal fry... aaaa (and then relatively easy acces to whistle register...)
My family thought I'm crazy
Yeah. I tried to do the cry technique for a year. Didn’t work for me. Any other methods?
Try certain cartoons characters that are high in pitch? Maybe a witch? Imitate them.
This is the video that got me to understand it.
th-cam.com/video/PWILJG2wh5Q/w-d-xo.html
Took me a few months of on and off practicing before it really clicked.
BREATH SUPPORT! “Good” breath support isn’t enough. Chris Liepe has multiple videos about it, and that was the difference for me. It took actual sweat to get my breath support right. My ribs were sore for days.
I personally find that doing a “HUP” type of sound, like when you’re lifting something heavy, helped me to find it! There’s a small sensation you can feel in the throat when you do that, that if you hang onto it, you can slide up through your range without flipping. Just remember to not do it too hard. It’s a gentle sensation. It didn’t feel anything like I expected and I never used those muscles while singing. It was amazing. Now, singing is much easier for me and I don’t flip into falsetto. It engages the same muscles as this crying sound. I personally feel it towards the front of my throat. Hope this helps!
did you make sure you're using enough support? You can also try going a bit louder at first and when it's easy lower the volume a bit. You also need to let your larynx get gradually higher naturally as pitch goes up and make sure you open your mouth proggressively as well.
Another possibility is that you might be lacking twang, which difficults the production of this type of sound especially as pitch goes up
Them last five mum mum are tough
I keep trying to get the crying noise to happen but it just isn't going on. Is there anything I can do to evoke it, short of actually crying?
Ha. Well, this is just one of the main methods that helped me. It won’t work for everyone and it’s just one piece of the puzzle. I have many other videos on the topic. Keep in mind that you’re sorta trying to engage muscles you don’t use often so it can be experimental and confusing to find.
@@SterlingRJackson I think I may have gotten it over the course of a day, which is somewhat comedic. Do the muscles in the abdomen automatically tighten when one properly executes the cry technique?
@@nicklee3769 You don't need to support when making mix sounds. If supporting helps then I might not say don't do it but usually it's just finding some sounds that work first.
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What do you mean when you say your break is at F#4 as a baritone? All sources say that a baritone break or secondo passagio is D4 or Eb4.
Does that make the information I shared here irrelevant? Is the exercise useless because you don’t agree with where my bridge is? Seems like that shouldn’t be an issue. I’ve been teaching for over 13 years now and 90 percent of the men I teach have a bridge almost exactly at F#4.
@@SterlingRJackson I didn't mean to come off antagonistic, I like the video and I will try it out tonight. I just wanted to ask about this because I heard you say it in many videos and it's hard for me to understand what a bridge is, because I feel my voice shifting on G3, C4, E4, G4, G#4 and sometimes various points in between. I'm a beginner of 2 years. So I wanted to hear what it means for you, like how do you feel around F#4 to call it a bridge.
@@klodm.2064ahh. Yeah, typically people want to argue and get very caught up on voice types and they don’t take things seriously or have a lot of fear regarding learning or even trying because of what they think they know about voice types. Simply put, my chest voice or speaking voice ends at F#4. It breaks and doesn’t continue. It’s been that way as long as I can remember or started paying attention. It gets tense and breaks apart. So I learned what to do to keep it from breaking. This video showcases the very first thing I did to learn how to keep my cords from breaking 😊. Regardless of voice type, everyone’s speaking voice has a break or limit whether it be harsh or sorta smooth. There are other vocal bridges but none like your main chest voice bridge.
@@SterlingRJackson See that's odd for me, because my "chest voice" normally ends at Eb4 and I'm very tenor sounding. E4 took many months to achieve without falsetto. And my C4 is very head resonant and problematic if I want a darker sound. I learned to connect up until G#4, sometimes A4 and Bb4 in warmup, but G4 is very hard in songs. So I feel like E4 is my main break in that sense. But also maybe G4. I don't know which corresponds best to your F#4.
@@klodm.2064 Dude, your comments resonate so much for me. When I first started lessons, my voice would flip at D4, sometimes E4 and again at F#4. After 6 or 7 lessons it started to change and settle. I could force it to happen for a while but now after 18 months those lower bridges are gone. I settled right into F#4. It's so solidly there that I practice songs like Hotel California to work on getting over it. After about a year, we found I have a second bridge at E5. From there, with flageolet I can hit F6 when I'm warmed up. I call my self a baritone. Honestly though, I don't really think about the label unless someone asks me to label it. I just keep focusing on trying to use the right muscles for the sound I want.
I'm in a weird halfway spot... I can sing in mix voice, hit high notes in full voice etc, but it's a little unreliable and tiring. I've been told I'm using the larynx as a pitching mechanism instead of something just under it, and this is related somehow.
Most likely attached under the chin using those muscles. Happens to many folks including myself sometimes.
Does it hurt in the beginning?
Noooo. 😳 not at all
@@SterlingRJackson Thanks for the quick response!! I presumed not. Any way you can non-verbally explain how to engage those top muscles without strain then?
@@binyaminbroth6123 hmm.. it’s about experimentation. The muscles are usually found by making more ridiculous and cartoony sounds. Often times people don’t “find it” because they’re not associating these more silly sounds as being a part of their voice when they definitely are. I would try simply singing songs like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC or Guns and Roses but don’t try adding distortion. Underneath all those singers is a more head voice sounding timbre that’s been honed to sound “better”. But it starts out kinda funny sounding.
@@SterlingRJackson K great. I'll be theatrical lol
Was the English dude Carl John Franz?
Nope
@@SterlingRJackson spencer welch? Because I learned this from him
Didn't work on me 😭
Did you miss the part where I said it took me weeks and then months to develop?
@@SterlingRJackson my friend I've been singing for 10 years... The crying thing is an old fail for me 😅
Are you a fan of Spencer Sotelo. Your hair looks like his lol
You never know what shitty video will help you out. Anyway Thanks man ;) :D
Ha. Yuuup
How do I go from this obnoxious crying sound to something that is actually clean and singable? Will it come with time?
It can be compared to doing a hand stand. At first your wobbly and it’s hard to keep balance but with practice you learn what muscles to utilize and how to maintain the coordination. It starts off small and eventually your throat relaxes and understands what’s happening.
@@SterlingRJackson Well that's good too hear! Thank you, will start implement this in my daily singing routine :)
What if one crys in the wrong coordination?.
I think I do..aghhhhhh. or even crying in falsetto
These things take time and experimentation. You’re trying to find a sound that connects your chest and head voice.
@@SterlingRJackson I figured out how to connect chest and head. Does that mean that weird tochy part in between is the mixed? Or is it just a transition. Nobody seems to talk about this...
Bro... Looks like a great lesson so thanks? But i keep flipping! 😥😥
I’ll try this for a month, if I succeed I will let you know people
What does succeed mean? In making the noise I’m showing or being able to sing in mixed voice? There are some more pieces to all of this 😬
@@SterlingRJackson to succeed for me here, would be to feel that I’m really approaching to my mixed voice, or to see if I notice some positive changes
too much pressure in this?
when it's been a year of training and you sound like a cow when you sing 😂
Sure do. Love cows. Great stuff.
@@SterlingRJackson thanks
The video starts at 3:54
It wasn't covid relax
That's not mixed voice you're squeezing chest into your nose. Not singable.
Perhaps you missed the 15 years of videos I’ve put up on my channel of me singing.
@@SterlingRJacksondangggg fr
Why pink ? you are woke or something like this ?
I just like making people with the name Patrick confused.
@@SterlingRJackson man people are weird, anyways thanks for the video, I’m gonna practice this.
@@Uji_Metal good olllll Patrick 😊