That concept you mentioned of letting head voice add 'richness' to chest voice is absolutely golden. Despite being fairly advanced I still suffer from trying to add chest upon chest to make it fuller, beltier, louder or whatever is lacking. Doing the opposite just achieved all of those things.
I'm a guy who used this as a way to re-train my voice back to health after a major flu. Its benefits were immediately obvious, and I will incorporate this into my daily workout. The opera caricature is a lovely tonal image that helps relax the voice back into a normal, empowered, relaxed state. Thanks for this Rachel! Love your channel. drm
“If you suffer from oversinging and pulling chest voice and need a bit of relief and release, this one will help you” YES IT CERTAINLY IS HELPING! For the last year, I’ve been singing with a band whose members played too loud and refused to turn down 🙄and also many of the songs that I was singing were too low for me! I was definitely pulling chest to the point of being flat in some songs; Fortunately this is done and I’m singing with some lovely acoustic groups now but I really felt like I forgot how to sing, and that my voice was broken 😳 thanks to your videos. I feel like I’m on the healing path again! ♥️🙏🏻🌀
I’m so glad this helped you - have you tried in-ear monitors for stage singing? The band often have to play at a certain level based on the drum volume, in-ear monitors definitely save you from needing to over sing when you’re in a live situation x
@@RachelGerrard I do have in ears but our PA wasn’t great nor were my technical set up skills; SO I heard everything through them and not just me😳it actually made it worse; I definitely need to get those sorted out. We never made it to a live performance. This was just my small basement they definitely needed to accommodate their volume to that small setting. It was kind of ridiculous 🙄 I am now playing acoustically with the only musician in the group who was willing to turn down♥️
@@RachelGerrard I do have in ears but our PA wasn’t great nor were my technical set up skills; SO I heard everything through them and not just me😳it actually made it worse; I definitely need to get those sorted out. We never made it to a live performance. This was just my small basement they definitely needed to accommodate their volume to that small setting. It was kind of ridiculous 🙄 I am now playing acoustically with the only musician in the group who was willing to turn down♥️
I've given this a try a couple of times and although you do lose me for a little while on the first couple of exercises where you go up to the stratosphere, I feel like there is definitely value in it for the guys as well!
I'm actually a trans woman, but I have a male voice, and a low one at that - bass-baritone - and I've spent a lot of time (in conjunction with teachers both in one-on-one and group settings, mainly one-on-one) training my voice to reinforce my falsetto. I tap out at G5. I'm still very chest-dominant. I think the "Lee," "Law" and "Leh" exercises were most useful for me, probably because they were on the lower side. I think those men who want a very large range, particularly metal singers and countertenors, would benefit from at least some of these. (They actually say countertenors should be trained in a way very similar to the way women are trained.) (To pre-empt another question, oestrogen doesn't change the voice back!)
Great to hear from you. G5 is pretty high - I tap out around an A5 usually 😅 I’m not an expert in changing voice types, but I wonder if training your mix voice would be a good idea? The darker LEE exercises etc are probably working well because they are head dominant without being completely broken off from the chest voice xx
That's one of the areas I'm focusing on! I'm putting a lot of work into a seamless transition between the two modes as that is one of my trouble spots. And I'm proud to have achieved G5 as before singing lessons I could barely squeak out an E5, and that was with poor technique, sounding breathy, and bad tension in my neck. Thank you!
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That concept you mentioned of letting head voice add 'richness' to chest voice is absolutely golden. Despite being fairly advanced I still suffer from trying to add chest upon chest to make it fuller, beltier, louder or whatever is lacking. Doing the opposite just achieved all of those things.
This comment made my day honestly 🙌
Thank you a lot.
I'm a guy who used this as a way to re-train my voice back to health after a major flu. Its benefits were immediately obvious, and I will incorporate this into my daily workout. The opera caricature is a lovely tonal image that helps relax the voice back into a normal, empowered, relaxed state. Thanks for this Rachel! Love your channel. drm
I’m so happy to hear you got therapeutic benefits from this - I agree, the opera tone is very good for the voice 👌
“If you suffer from oversinging and pulling chest voice and need a bit of relief and release, this one will help you”
YES IT CERTAINLY IS HELPING! For the last year, I’ve been singing with a band whose members played too loud and refused to turn down 🙄and also many of the songs that I was singing were too low for me! I was definitely pulling chest to the point of being flat in some songs; Fortunately this is done and I’m singing with some lovely acoustic groups now but I really felt like I forgot how to sing, and that my voice was broken 😳 thanks to your videos. I feel like I’m on the healing path again! ♥️🙏🏻🌀
I’m so glad this helped you - have you tried in-ear monitors for stage singing? The band often have to play at a certain level based on the drum volume, in-ear monitors definitely save you from needing to over sing when you’re in a live situation x
@@RachelGerrard I do have in ears but our PA wasn’t great nor were my technical set up skills; SO I heard everything through them and not just me😳it actually made it worse; I definitely need to get those sorted out.
We never made it to a live performance. This was just my small basement they definitely needed to accommodate their volume to that small setting. It was kind of ridiculous 🙄
I am now playing acoustically with the only musician in the group who was willing to turn down♥️
@@RachelGerrard I do have in ears but our PA wasn’t great nor were my technical set up skills; SO I heard everything through them and not just me😳it actually made it worse; I definitely need to get those sorted out.
We never made it to a live performance. This was just my small basement they definitely needed to accommodate their volume to that small setting. It was kind of ridiculous 🙄
I am now playing acoustically with the only musician in the group who was willing to turn down♥️
Gotcha, yes those loud rehearsals can be brutal on the voice!
It seems very simple , however it is very effective for me.
I've given this a try a couple of times and although you do lose me for a little while on the first couple of exercises where you go up to the stratosphere, I feel like there is definitely value in it for the guys as well!
Thanks that’s good to know!!
I'm actually a trans woman, but I have a male voice, and a low one at that - bass-baritone - and I've spent a lot of time (in conjunction with teachers both in one-on-one and group settings, mainly one-on-one) training my voice to reinforce my falsetto. I tap out at G5. I'm still very chest-dominant. I think the "Lee," "Law" and "Leh" exercises were most useful for me, probably because they were on the lower side. I think those men who want a very large range, particularly metal singers and countertenors, would benefit from at least some of these. (They actually say countertenors should be trained in a way very similar to the way women are trained.)
(To pre-empt another question, oestrogen doesn't change the voice back!)
Great to hear from you. G5 is pretty high - I tap out around an A5 usually 😅 I’m not an expert in changing voice types, but I wonder if training your mix voice would be a good idea? The darker LEE exercises etc are probably working well because they are head dominant without being completely broken off from the chest voice xx
That's one of the areas I'm focusing on! I'm putting a lot of work into a seamless transition between the two modes as that is one of my trouble spots. And I'm proud to have achieved G5 as before singing lessons I could barely squeak out an E5, and that was with poor technique, sounding breathy, and bad tension in my neck. Thank you!
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