As a soprano with a traditionally 'sweet' sounding voice, my middle register has always been the bane of my existence, and the reason why I developed and use my chest voice so much. It's great to have practical applications on how to strengthen that middle ground. Great video Evynne! Thanks!
I'm so lost on mainly everything singing. I use to just sing;now there are a ton of new vocal terms and I'm just lost. I don't even know if I have a head voice
@@cyborg5777, chest voice is called that because your chest is vibrating -- like when you talk. Put your hand on your chest and sing. If you feel something, it's your chest. If you don't, it's your head voice. Also, if you put your hand behind your head while singing in head voice, just above the neck, you'll feel vibration, hence the term head voice. A mix you you can feel in both. And right in your cheekbones. Mix voice combines both registers to make the transition between the two smoother and more uniform. Instead of extending your chest voice all the way up into your headspace, or trying to lower your head voice, you are dividing the sound between the two registers, creating a third.
Speaking of getting to know your voice, what about doing a video that can serve as a sort of self-evaluation of one's voice? Knowing the upper and lower limits, where the breaks are, how big the breaks are, and so on.
I sing but never took lessons.. been singing since I can remember. People think my voice is odd some think is unique I just sing in how I feel comfortable since I'm an asthmatic. Watching ur video shows me that my voice is more mixed.
Is it weird to be a girl who's chest voice starts straining basically past E4 ???? Like my range is essentially super duper low and limited. So people who belt "low" notes r actually way higher than me....
TH-cam Addict I'm the same. I just commented something along these lines. I've just always been singing in my head voice all my life, even for low notes
I am a guy and I do not currently coach voices but I am a choir director. Women struggle more with singing in their chest voice than men. People all have different voice types and some have more challenges. If you find it hard to sing in chest voice, your voice type probably tends to resist an in-between sound so it feels like you either make the best with head voice or would have to scream not sing to hit a chest note, and strong mixed voice is missing. But it is a placement thing, you need to adjust your placement to overcome these resistant spaces of your voice type and find your chest voice. Start in low range and strengthen it and then you will find the chest range begins to expand because your voice technique and dynamics "learn" how to handle your vocal space and find the hidden previously freedom in your range. Jiji and Allison, I believe this applies to you, especially if you are a soprano or light/lyric alto? TH-cam Addict, Chynna and Sylba, I imagine you are low altos (contraltos)?There is nothing wrong with that. There are many contraltos that often sing in the tenor section. You can always build the more resisted parts of your range with good practice, and believe me it is there even if it doesn't seem to exist right now. You probably would have a powerful strong mixed voice and rich head voice too that once you find and develop will allow you to continue singing in modal voice to higher notes that flow well with your chest voice and sound good. Good luck!
This is the best video I've seen about singing in a mixed voice, thank you so much for this incredibly helpful video! I'm a mezzo that can sing really high, but my head voice sounds weak but this really helps me sound stronger when I sing those high notes!
I don’t hear it. I don’t hear the break in her voice and I only hear it occasionally in mine but I don’t think I’m using my mix because the sound always comes from the back of my throat and never behind the nose where people say I should feel it. Help please.
i think you figured by now but if not i give it a shot. try to watch the other tutorials before watching this one (its pretty advanced). At first work on belting and finding your head voice. It is good to note that your Headvoice can pretty easily mixed with your falsetto but an easy way to know which one is which is trying to go low. Your falsetto stops at your break point for chest voice whereas your head voice goes beyond. After that start on strengthening your head and chest voice as well as your belting until you have an overlap of at least half an octave you can hit with comfort. After that this tutorial gets interesting because after you have these voices you want to connect them. The thing about feeling the voice behind the nose is done by lifting the (i think its called soft palate). you can find that in another tutorial. A tip for that: It helped me a lot just standing in front of a mirror and practicing. just like learning on how to wiggle your ears. And another tip is: if you're not relaxed dont try it. Everything you do is far better with a relaxed voice.
I used to feel that way. I didn't like my voice and thought I sounded mentally challenged with a male sounding voice, but over time, I've learned to accept and embrace the voice God gave me and work with it and build it.
You have the most gentle and smooth chest voice I have ever heard. Mine is REALLY rough sounding so I mainly sing in mix! It's really beneficial for musical theatre but some genres sound really weird with my voice type for that reason.
You're wonderful! I'm a mezzo soprano and once had a high and powerful belt. However, I had kids and my voice changed. I also stopped practicing. I've been cast in a couple musicals but was passed over for a role in legally blonde due to, quite simply, being outsung. Big time outsung. The director was kind enough to actually give me this feedback. This video is SO HELPFUL. I love the exercises and I'll be doing them every day. Your voice is absolutely gorgeous by the way!! Thanks for sharing your gifts with us!
This is the second time my choir teacher has mentioned something (for the first time) in class and you've uploaded a video about it that day. Are you magical?
I can't tell you how many useless vocal coach videos I've watched about the upper register/ transitioning and how many days I've spent crying over not understanding how to sing!😂 BUT FINALLY, you've helped me ! Thank you, thank you, thank you !!xx
This lesson has helped me the most so far. I was pretty okay in my high register to begin with, but the lessons did help a lot. My low register needs help though; I cant wait for that lesson! This middle register lesson has helped a LOT because I'm singing "What Child is This?" at my church on the 20th, and the version I'm singing is right on my middle register (I would have preferred them to choose a higher version because I'm a strict soprano, but it's fine).
I found mix voice coordination by taking a high note, such as the word "Born" by Sam Cooke in the song "Change is Gonna Come". First line. "I was Booooorn, by the river". Holding the ooo sound and adjusting vocal coordination to add more chest resonance by adjusting placement, larynx position, ect.. until I get the sound I want. Then practiced other vowel sounds and modifications while singing sustained high note vowel sound. Over time, my voice actually grew and it was effortless for me to create rich volume. She is genius because her cues for finding the SENSATIONS are great. It's all about learning the sensation, and practicing that coordination that provides that sensation (getting to know your voice) GREAT VIDEO!
Thanks for being so encouraging and positive. I get so frustrated and impatient with myself most of the time, but I'll keep working on it! It's one of my goals to put together a music video too someday! :)
Thank you thank you!!! This is exactly what I need to work on in my voice :) I have missed working with my vocal coach from college, and now that I’m raising a family haven’t had time for lessons. Thank you for offering this 😊😊😊
It's normal in sopranos. I'm a boy soprano (i didn't go through puberty yet) and my chest voice F#4 is weird, so i usually go into head up to B6, and whistle up to F#8.
Evynne thanks to you I have been practicing and getting better at singing. Also my main singing is either in the belly or the face, but I'm still working on doing both. My main goal is to sing hello
Dear Evynne, you are wonderful!! I have been singing all my life, from learning to harmonize with my dad as a little girl, to singing in multiple choirs all throughout high school, and graduating with bachelor degrees in both music education & vocal performance, but let me tell you...I LOVE what you are doing! After all that thinking and training and working, I let myself forget about the most important parts of learning to sing well, which is to have fun, be patient, and go easy on myself. Thank you SO much reigniting this passion by helping me to be encouraged about where currently I am vocally :o) - Elizabeth Dyer
This is very cool I 'm always a bad singer but I progress... Slowly and very slowly but I progress and now I enjoy to sing ... and now people forget to say about me " please mercy stop a little bit singing " ... It's very useful Evynne Thank you for your lessons ...
this video was perfect. just what i needed. i started noticing a break in my voice between head and head and this explains the situation perfectly and gives me exactly what i needed
Your willingness to share so freely all your wisdom is greatly respected. Your voice is pitch perfect as you so easily demonstrate all the techniques which many teachers fail to do and your videos are truly inspiring, many thanks Evynne.
just discovered your voice lesson videos and I love them! growing up I used to ask my dad why I could sing a note and have it sound different...now I realize i was singing in head voice and chest voice! Love your videos!
Wow what a friggin awesome voice Evynne! I'm a professional opera singer and was on the look out for a suit tutorial video for my best friend who is having issues with his mix. I'll pass on your channel. Thanks again, from London! 🇬🇧
Thank you for such an informative and entertaining video! I've been chosen to sing as the lead for a musical... But it's been a real struggle to sing my higher register (because I'm really a trombone player) and these videos have been really helping! Keep on keepin' on!
I'm struggling super hard right now from being quarantined from covid...so my voice lessons are online this next quarter and I haven't been able to sing much. this video was SO helpful and exactly what I needed!!
For the life of me, I have been watching these mixed voice vids for a year or more now, and I still can't mix the two. I'm either very deep in my chest voice or very high in my head voice. Arrrhhg! ~ Gen
You always do awesome voice lessons! But I would love to have Peter demonstrate mixed voice. I feel like being a male listening to a female voice makes it difficult to grasp the concept.
I am incredibly good at belting, whistle, and high notes for my age, but belting higher notes has always been harder for me. I have to learn to sing Notice Me Horton for my theatre magnet and I could not sing most of the higher notes when belting. Your videos on Twang and Mixed belting have helped me a lot. Thanks for the help!
This was really helpful. Little details about how to do this. Differenciating between upper and lower VOICE, and directing the voice to the cheeks/frontal part of the face through the nose instead of the head, was an extremely imp top to actually know how and what to do. Thanks a lot!!! 😊😊 Been struggling with it for so long.
Thank you these types of videos are very helpful to me as a classically trained spinto soprano it has been difficult for me in the past to do low notes. And so, having to learn how to use my chest voice and mixed voice is been crucial to me and especially for hitting high notes properly through belting and through my mask. A lot to learn but if you want to sing like a Disney Princess these techniques are so important. I really loved your video where you showed you changing your voice for all the Disney princesses that was VERY impressive and most people (I think including myself) probably cannot even sounds close to that.
I know this is an old video but I've just had the biggest epiphany of my singing career. In the choirs I've been a part of (amateur mostly) I've rarely had the chance to go anywhere below a high soprano. I have a really strong head voice, and mediocre but decent chest voice. However whenever I had to pass the two I would always break and get weak in the transition. I don't know how this has eluded me for so long... You've saved my singing in the choir I'm currently in and am getting the opportunity for solo singing now because of this. Thank you so much!
I can't wait to start using these exercises! I had a very short period of time where I had a really strong mixed register and no break and since then both have become really weak and I -really- want to get back to where I was! Thanks for these! :) (Maybe I'll even start posting some covers when I feel more confident in my voice!)
I really like watching your "How to sing" Videos, i love to sing and have wanted to find somewhere to learn more ^^ Thanks for doing these Videos, you're great! :)
Hey there. I’ve gotten to the half century and my voice has changed!!! So I’m on line practicing to get back some of that flexibility in my range that I once had. 😢
After you've worked on these exercises for a while and you try to sing a song using mixed voice, how can you tell if you're using a mix or if you're just in head voice? How do you even mix the chest and head voices?
Mixed voice is like a chest voice natural voice but you're controlling your voice making it a bit small when hitting high note but you use mixed voice not head voice.
After you realized that effort is a determined attempt that's that's typically failure and is uncertain to work. You should know that just because you attempt with the intent of causing a purpose to succeed, doesn't mean you succeed to do it. Learn truth. You attempted on it, you you didn't succeed on it.
I am an Opera singer and I just want to say there is o such thing as mixed register. There is a transition between the modal voice and thyroid tilt voice.
Hi im new at you channel. Please tell me cause i exercise this really a lot so my question is : WHY my mix voice is so nasal ? I can't do nothing about it. I think i tried everything. I got nasal always when i start to sing in mix voice.
Evynne Hollens nice video i am classical singer it is helpful for techniquel strenght 😍😍😘😘😙 also i have the natural note of SA RE GA MA PA DA NI SA those are classical swara can you make one video for classical notes plz
Evynne Hollens Hello! I've been watching your videos for a bit now, and I haven't found any videos thus far that deal with bettering one's chest voice. I naturally use my head voice almost all the time when I'm singing, so I have an extremely weak chest voice. If you have any videos like this, please let me know where I can find them, but if not, it'd be cool to see some done. Thank you
These videos are always very helpful, the guy "head voice" doesn't sound nearly as nice as yours does 😂. But seriously, you and Peter are awesome, and I wish I could make videos like you do. You're awesome, and a role model. Thank you evynne!
Just because you effort is a determined attempt on something, doesn't mean it will succeed nor do you succeed because you try to make yourself succeed or anything else succeed.
you resemble jessie j a lot to me. your beautiful. i have been singing my entire life. i stopped singing when i graduated because there was no more chamber choir or talent shows. all i had was karaoke...and i have given up being a star because i have a family now..but i decided to start singing again. but i would get discouraged everytime i would sing a song that i used to be able to sing wonderfully and your lessons have been helping me to get my voice back. thank you. i used to pay 50$ a lesson. and your much better. thank you
Hi Evynne. Just discovered your site and I've subscribed. I absolutely LOVE your attitude. All of this vid made full sense to me because I have been "tutored" via another site since July 2017. I could not even breathe properly before that believe it or not. I did a note range test early on and found out I was Mezzo Soprano but both my upper and lower registers have extended now, my upper one more extensively. My high voice is stronger than my lower voice so I have been working on that. I sing mostly Musical Theatre and can hit the high notes now in the Phantom songs, also the ones in Les Mis. I shall definitely keep tuned to your channel now. Singing is a bit of an obsession with me now - I hope that is not a bad thing. As well as vocal warm ups, I do the tongue route warm up and upper body (neck, arm and shoulder warm ups). Thank you so much for taking time to pass on your expertise. Kind regards.
Thanks so much! I think my middle register is pretty strong, but I do have noticeable transitions between the registers, so I definitely want to smooth those out so that it's just one long voice. I will try these exercises immediately! :D
Hi I have been siniging for 3yrs n have a weird break I'm a Bass 2 but I break at f#3/G3. I have also done some soprano 2 and have a strong falsetto but mostly I have to sing Bass 2 because of how rare we are but being that my break is low I get covered real quick and sometimes pop up the octave and my choir director will tell me to just add more weight and sometimes that helps but not all the time Mr. Hollens knows more of the story and I came to you for more tips and tricks Happy Holidays, X
You know, it really helps so much when you provide examples of what you mean, as you did here with that bit of your 'Hello' video, what a great teacher you are, Evynne! I wish I could find a local group to sing with; I know a common suggestion is to find a church choir to join but I'm not Christian and my religion doesn't have much basis in music or song. Hmm I guess my next step is to check the Community Education schedule and see if there's anything possible there.
My lowest note that I am able to sing is an E3 and my highest note using my chest voice is C5# sometimes D5, but using my head voice I can sing up to B6
id love a video on vibrato. my teacher keeps telling me to use my vibrato but i can only do it on the low notes or in my falsetto. i cant really do it in the "mixed voice" range. Thanks for the great tips though!
I love videos like this, trying to explain a mixed or protected voice to non singers is like speaking in Latin 😂 and I love that she said you have to develop your mixed voice like it’s a muscle, it might feel like cheating when you want to belt everything, but after working on it it can get even more powerful than your belt!
I've got to give credit to my high school music teacher for teaching me the right way to sing. I started singing at church, traditional hymns (which aren't always easy to do), before my voice deepened into a baritone. To me baritone is the hardest range to achieve because you can't really get high (soprano) or deep (bass), since you're sort of stuck in the middle of those vocal ranges. But she did always tell us baritones, "You still have a three-chamber register so USE IT!!!" I think my middle register comes a little more naturally to me than with others, probably because a lot of our high school choral pieces focused on singing in your falsetto and belting voices. We were singing nearly all of our songs in our middle registers without us really understanding exactly how the middle register is perfected. We were probably too young to really understand it musically so she just focused on teaching us the correct way to sing those notes contained within the middle register (whether you were alto, soprano, baritone or bass), which, in the process, taught us to find our middle register. I notice my middle register when I'm singing a selection that requires me to go down if I can't get high enough to hit the high notes (sometimes the notes are just too far outside a baritone's range, so he has to drop and octave or else he'll be straining to hit the high note and it will come out way too raspy) and then I have to bounce right back up...or if I get into my falsetto and then drop back down just a tad. I feel my middle voice resonating somewhere between my chest and my head, which sort of makes sense.
@EvynneHollins, thanks for this video. The theory explanation and the exercises seem good. I've got to say, when you are demonstrating the chest vs. head vs. mixed voices, I cannot hear the differences. When I do those, it's very very pronounced!
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Many thanks!^^ Good day!~
As a soprano with a traditionally 'sweet' sounding voice, my middle register has always been the bane of my existence, and the reason why I developed and use my chest voice so much. It's great to have practical applications on how to strengthen that middle ground.
Great video Evynne! Thanks!
I'm so lost on mainly everything singing. I use to just sing;now there are a ton of new vocal terms and I'm just lost. I don't even know if I have a head voice
same 😫 i can hear the difference of head and chest, mixed not so much
i don't even know which of the three registers i use when i sing oh well
Guava Pastries everyone has one, you just haven't found it yet.
haha as long as you have a head, you definitely have a head voice. With the right skills, I'm sure you can do it:)
patricia b mix is basically a stronger version of chest
@@cyborg5777, chest voice is called that because your chest is vibrating -- like when you talk. Put your hand on your chest and sing. If you feel something, it's your chest. If you don't, it's your head voice. Also, if you put your hand behind your head while singing in head voice, just above the neck, you'll feel vibration, hence the term head voice. A mix you you can feel in both. And right in your cheekbones.
Mix voice combines both registers to make the transition between the two smoother and more uniform. Instead of extending your chest voice all the way up into your headspace, or trying to lower your head voice, you are dividing the sound between the two registers, creating a third.
So mixed voice is what disney princesses sing in lol
Sara Wawa ... pretty much lol!
Why you gotta do them like that! 🤣
Exactly
everyone except for elsa hehe
Brooke Guess that’s why Elsa’s the Queen
Speaking of getting to know your voice, what about doing a video that can serve as a sort of self-evaluation of one's voice? Knowing the upper and lower limits, where the breaks are, how big the breaks are, and so on.
+feitocomfruta Thanks for that idea! I'll think about it; great suggestion!
+feitocomfruta Yaaas!
That would be amazing!
Lip rolls look very funny in 24fps, haha. Good video, this is very interesting for someone like me who never knew all these vocal techniques existed.
+insaneintherainmusic ayyy
@@lanaeden8523 listen to Alison Moyet, the female voice doesn’t have to be high to be beautiful
I sing but never took lessons.. been singing since I can remember. People think my voice is odd some think is unique I just sing in how I feel comfortable since I'm an asthmatic. Watching ur video shows me that my voice is more mixed.
Is it weird to be a girl who's chest voice starts straining basically past E4 ???? Like my range is essentially super duper low and limited. So people who belt "low" notes r actually way higher than me....
TH-cam Addict same here
TH-cam Addict I'm the same. I just commented something along these lines. I've just always been singing in my head voice all my life, even for low notes
Me too. In my case, I can hit a C6 with head voice but my chest voice can't even get past G4
TH-cam Addict I'm the same way!!!!! I can hit low notes that most females can't do!!!
I am a guy and I do not currently coach voices but I am a choir director. Women struggle more with singing in their chest voice than men. People all have different voice types and some have more challenges. If you find it hard to sing in chest voice, your voice type probably tends to resist an in-between sound so it feels like you either make the best with head voice or would have to scream not sing to hit a chest note, and strong mixed voice is missing. But it is a placement thing, you need to adjust your placement to overcome these resistant spaces of your voice type and find your chest voice. Start in low range and strengthen it and then you will find the chest range begins to expand because your voice technique and dynamics "learn" how to handle your vocal space and find the hidden previously freedom in your range. Jiji and Allison, I believe this applies to you, especially if you are a soprano or light/lyric alto? TH-cam Addict, Chynna and Sylba, I imagine you are low altos (contraltos)?There is nothing wrong with that. There are many contraltos that often sing in the tenor section. You can always build the more resisted parts of your range with good practice, and believe me it is there even if it doesn't seem to exist right now. You probably would have a powerful strong mixed voice and rich head voice too that once you find and develop will allow you to continue singing in modal voice to higher notes that flow well with your chest voice and sound good. Good luck!
This is the best video I've seen about singing in a mixed voice, thank you so much for this incredibly helpful video! I'm a mezzo that can sing really high, but my head voice sounds weak but this really helps me sound stronger when I sing those high notes!
I don’t hear it. I don’t hear the break in her voice and I only hear it occasionally in mine but I don’t think I’m using my mix because the sound always comes from the back of my throat and never behind the nose where people say I should feel it. Help please.
i think you figured by now but if not i give it a shot.
try to watch the other tutorials before watching this one (its pretty advanced).
At first work on belting and finding your head voice. It is good to note that your Headvoice can pretty easily mixed with your falsetto but an easy way to know which one is which is trying to go low. Your falsetto stops at your break point for chest voice whereas your head voice goes beyond.
After that start on strengthening your head and chest voice as well as your belting until you have an overlap of at least half an octave you can hit with comfort.
After that this tutorial gets interesting because after you have these voices you want to connect them.
The thing about feeling the voice behind the nose is done by lifting the (i think its called soft palate). you can find that in another tutorial. A tip for that: It helped me a lot just standing in front of a mirror and practicing. just like learning on how to wiggle your ears.
And another tip is: if you're not relaxed dont try it. Everything you do is far better with a relaxed voice.
IM THE SAME WAY I FEEL LIKE A RASPY FEELING IN THE BACK OF MY THROAT AND IT KINDA HURTS BUT IDK HOW TO DESCRIBE IT
Mmm. No you’re probably just singing from your throat??
What if you love singing more that anything but you don't like your voice?
I used to feel that way. I didn't like my voice and thought I sounded mentally challenged with a male sounding voice, but over time, I've learned to accept and embrace the voice God gave me and work with it and build it.
@@JCalynnArt89 unique voices live beyond their time
The reason I like to wear earbuds.
Sing anyway 😃
I used to feel that way for sure. Even though it sucks at first, record yourself. You'll get used to and probably eventually like your voice :)
You have the most gentle and smooth chest voice I have ever heard. Mine is REALLY rough sounding so I mainly sing in mix! It's really beneficial for musical theatre but some genres sound really weird with my voice type for that reason.
You're wonderful! I'm a mezzo soprano and once had a high and powerful belt. However, I had kids and my voice changed. I also stopped practicing. I've been cast in a couple musicals but was passed over for a role in legally blonde due to, quite simply, being outsung. Big time outsung. The director was kind enough to actually give me this feedback.
This video is SO HELPFUL. I love the exercises and I'll be doing them every day. Your voice is absolutely gorgeous by the way!! Thanks for sharing your gifts with us!
This is the second time my choir teacher has mentioned something (for the first time) in class and you've uploaded a video about it that day. Are you magical?
I can't tell you how many useless vocal coach videos I've watched about the upper register/ transitioning and how many days I've spent crying over not understanding how to sing!😂 BUT FINALLY, you've helped me ! Thank you, thank you, thank you !!xx
Right before you said "it makes your nose itch" I was itching my nose lol
that's why i always press my nose down a little bit when i do lip trills to stop the buzzing a little... tickles so bad LOL
my voice just sounds so tight and thin ew
same :/
Lucky my voice is so loud and open
Open up your voice and don’t strain. Relax ur voice
I appreciate that single “.......ew.....”
But a thin voice means it’s easier to riff! Which is good :)
This lesson has helped me the most so far. I was pretty okay in my high register to begin with, but the lessons did help a lot. My low register needs help though; I cant wait for that lesson! This middle register lesson has helped a LOT because I'm singing "What Child is This?" at my church on the 20th, and the version I'm singing is right on my middle register (I would have preferred them to choose a higher version because I'm a strict soprano, but it's fine).
Absolutely love these videos! I am going to go for a music degree once I get into college and these videos help out so much! Thank you Evynne! 😄😉😘🎤🎧
+Shaina Toth Wonderful! Thanks for the comment Shaina & yay for pursuing music in college!
I found mix voice coordination by taking a high note, such as the word "Born" by Sam Cooke in the song "Change is Gonna Come". First line. "I was Booooorn, by the river". Holding the ooo sound and adjusting vocal coordination to add more chest resonance by adjusting placement, larynx position, ect.. until I get the sound I want. Then practiced other vowel sounds and modifications while singing sustained high note vowel sound. Over time, my voice actually grew and it was effortless for me to create rich volume. She is genius because her cues for finding the SENSATIONS are great. It's all about learning the sensation, and practicing that coordination that provides that sensation (getting to know your voice) GREAT VIDEO!
Finally someone that explains things very clearly, thank you ! I am gonna work on those things immediatly :D
Thanks for being so encouraging and positive. I get so frustrated and impatient with myself most of the time, but I'll keep working on it! It's one of my goals to put together a music video too someday! :)
Thank you thank you!!! This is exactly what I need to work on in my voice :) I have missed working with my vocal coach from college, and now that I’m raising a family haven’t had time for lessons. Thank you for offering this 😊😊😊
see I'm the opposite. I always stay in my head voice and I barely have a chest voice. I can't use chest voice above a F
Allison Garippo sameee
yeesss. some months ago i didn't have my mix developed and once i got it i stopped singing with my chest voice and always used mix
@@alep1221 good job! I literally have no clue how to access mine. Every video I watch just doesn't help much. Could you possibly share your exercises?
It's normal in sopranos.
I'm a boy soprano (i didn't go through puberty yet) and my chest voice F#4 is weird, so i usually go into head up to B6, and whistle up to F#8.
Evynne thanks to you I have been practicing and getting better at singing. Also my main singing is either in the belly or the face, but I'm still working on doing both. My main goal is to sing hello
I've always been using a mixed voice and i never realized it until now
Dear Evynne, you are wonderful!! I have been singing all my life, from learning to harmonize with my dad as a little girl, to singing in multiple choirs all throughout high school, and graduating with bachelor degrees in both music education & vocal performance, but let me tell you...I LOVE what you are doing! After all that thinking and training and working, I let myself forget about the most important parts of learning to sing well, which is to have fun, be patient, and go easy on myself. Thank you SO much reigniting this passion by helping me to be encouraged about where currently I am vocally :o) - Elizabeth Dyer
I love this series... these are exactly the exercises I do with my teacher every week :D
This is very cool I 'm always a bad singer but I progress... Slowly and very slowly but I progress and now I enjoy to sing ... and now people forget to say about me " please mercy stop a little bit singing " ... It's very useful Evynne Thank you for your lessons ...
This was great , been trying to work out mixed voice an achieving resonance. You got straight to the point with the exercises,well done
This was ACTUALLY helpful! GEESH. Thank you! I’ve watched like, 5 videos on this looking for something that made sense!!!
this video was perfect. just what i needed. i started noticing a break in my voice between head and head and this explains the situation perfectly and gives me exactly what i needed
THERE IT IS. I've been trying to find the resonance space forever, thanks for clarifying where it is so now I can aim for there every time.
My vocal teacher always did these with me they are the best!!!! Thanks for having this video!
Thanks. That was great. I have a lot of work to do. The patience part is encouraging.
Your willingness to share so freely all your wisdom is greatly respected. Your voice is pitch perfect as you so easily demonstrate all the techniques which many teachers fail to do and your videos are truly inspiring, many thanks Evynne.
I don't have the knowledge I just love singing.. Thank you for your sharing.
just discovered your voice lesson videos and I love them! growing up I used to ask my dad why I could sing a note and have it sound different...now I realize i was singing in head voice and chest voice! Love your videos!
I love how you really care about your viewers and always posting up helpful videos. Thank you!!
+Rawchid Oh I just love to hear from you all too! Thanks!
Wow what a friggin awesome voice Evynne! I'm a professional opera singer and was on the look out for a suit tutorial video for my best friend who is having issues with his mix. I'll pass on your channel. Thanks again, from London! 🇬🇧
These videos help so much!!! your voice is so beautiful and you explain everything so perfectly❤
+Madyson McCollum Thanks so much Madyson!
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@@EvynneHollens You are good. And I'll stick to instructions.
I use my mixed voice all the time, more than any other parts of my voice.
makeupmermaid22 lucky!! it's so hard for me, as I've just naturally developed my head voice the most (more than my chest voice, actually)
I’m a soprano in choir but I do musical theatre and it’s so hard for me to mix
HOW
I have a very hard time mixing my chest and head voice😕
I have a smooth transition, but I mostly use either chest voice only or head voice only, it's really difficult to mix.
Thank you for such an informative and entertaining video! I've been chosen to sing as the lead for a musical... But it's been a real struggle to sing my higher register (because I'm really a trombone player) and these videos have been really helping! Keep on keepin' on!
+MrChicAChowster Great to hear!
I'm struggling super hard right now from being quarantined from covid...so my voice lessons are online this next quarter and I haven't been able to sing much. this video was SO helpful and exactly what I needed!!
For the life of me, I have been watching these mixed voice vids for a year or more now, and I still can't mix the two. I'm either very deep in my chest voice or very high in my head voice. Arrrhhg! ~ Gen
You always do awesome voice lessons! But I would love to have Peter demonstrate mixed voice. I feel like being a male listening to a female voice makes it difficult to grasp the concept.
I am incredibly good at belting, whistle, and high notes for my age, but belting higher notes has always been harder for me. I have to learn to sing Notice Me Horton for my theatre magnet and I could not sing most of the higher notes when belting. Your videos on Twang and Mixed belting have helped me a lot. Thanks for the help!
Wish I could hear you belting high notes and whistling! That would be great!
You remind me so much of my singing teacher! You're just as good and bubbly and amazing at teaching as her! Thanks for the videos! They're amazing!
This was really helpful. Little details about how to do this. Differenciating between upper and lower VOICE, and directing the voice to the cheeks/frontal part of the face through the nose instead of the head, was an extremely imp top to actually know how and what to do. Thanks a lot!!! 😊😊 Been struggling with it for so long.
Thank you these types of videos are very helpful to me as a classically trained spinto soprano it has been difficult for me in the past to do low notes. And so, having to learn how to use my chest voice and mixed voice is been crucial to me and especially for hitting high notes properly through belting and through my mask. A lot to learn but if you want to sing like a Disney Princess these techniques are so important. I really loved your video where you showed you changing your voice for all the Disney princesses that was VERY impressive and most people (I think including myself) probably cannot even sounds close to that.
I know this is an old video but I've just had the biggest epiphany of my singing career. In the choirs I've been a part of (amateur mostly) I've rarely had the chance to go anywhere below a high soprano. I have a really strong head voice, and mediocre but decent chest voice. However whenever I had to pass the two I would always break and get weak in the transition. I don't know how this has eluded me for so long... You've saved my singing in the choir I'm currently in and am getting the opportunity for solo singing now because of this. Thank you so much!
I can't wait to start using these exercises! I had a very short period of time where I had a really strong mixed register and no break and since then both have become really weak and I -really- want to get back to where I was! Thanks for these! :) (Maybe I'll even start posting some covers when I feel more confident in my voice!)
Spot on, exactly what I was looking for to help a friend harness her mixed voice!
what an excellent video!! as someone trained in choir as a child this is so nice and familiar but i love your teaching (and singing) style and voice!
I really like watching your "How to sing" Videos, i love to sing and have wanted to find somewhere to learn more ^^ Thanks for doing these Videos, you're great! :)
Thank you Evynne Hollens i do your vocal warms ups every day i so appreciated very much !
I feel focused when listening while looking closely to your face. I feel concentrated. Thank youuu
Hey there. I’ve gotten to the half century and my voice has changed!!! So I’m on line practicing to get back some of that flexibility in my range that I once had. 😢
Dang... I bet you're an incredible jazz singer!
This is one of the first vocal lessons I've watched on TH-cam that actually gave me clear instruction and education.... Thank you!
After you've worked on these exercises for a while and you try to sing a song using mixed voice, how can you tell if you're using a mix or if you're just in head voice? How do you even mix the chest and head voices?
Mixed voice is like a chest voice natural voice but you're controlling your voice making it a bit small when hitting high note but you use mixed voice not head voice.
@@joeofmoon1287 This shit made more sense than the video, thank you.
@@ASMR-JMelliee Yeah there are a lot of videos on mixed voice but they are really confusing
@@ASMR-JMelliee it was the opposite for me lol video made sense. That comment made no sense to me 🤣🤣
After you realized that effort is a determined attempt that's that's typically failure and is uncertain to work. You should know that just because you attempt with the intent of causing a purpose to succeed, doesn't mean you succeed to do it. Learn truth. You attempted on it, you you didn't succeed on it.
I have been working with my voice for 2 years now - on my own. I went from thinking I'm contralto to singing finally now my first big diva song.🙌🏻🐯
I am an Opera singer and I just want to say there is o such thing as mixed register. There is a transition between the modal voice and thyroid tilt voice.
can peter be a guest teacher in this series? :) you two are such an awesome power couple
+helena bcfan I'll ask ;) Thanks!
Hi im new at you channel. Please tell me cause i exercise this really a lot so my question is : WHY my mix voice is so nasal ? I can't do nothing about it. I think i tried everything. I got nasal always when i start to sing in mix voice.
Evynne Hollens nice video i am classical singer it is helpful for techniquel strenght 😍😍😘😘😙
also i have the natural note of SA RE GA MA PA DA NI SA those are classical swara
can you make one video for classical notes plz
Evynne Hollens plz please reply my question 😯
Evynne Hollens
Hello! I've been watching your videos for a bit now, and I haven't found any videos thus far that deal with bettering one's chest voice. I naturally use my head voice almost all the time when I'm singing, so I have an extremely weak chest voice. If you have any videos like this, please let me know where I can find them, but if not, it'd be cool to see some done. Thank you
I have a higher register so this really helps keeping my voice healthy and finding that point for me
Thank you so much for this video! I have a performance coming up and this will help me soooo much!!!!!!! Your an amazing singer and teacher
+Grace Friesen Thanks so much Grace! Hope it goes well!
Thank you for this video, I have been working on developing mix for a little while and it really helped!
This was a very helpful video for me. Your explanation was clear and the exercises are very actionable. Thank you!
Your voice is beautiful. You sound heavenly
These videos are always very helpful, the guy "head voice" doesn't sound nearly as nice as yours does 😂. But seriously, you and Peter are awesome, and I wish I could make videos like you do. You're awesome, and a role model. Thank you evynne!
+William Kelly Thanks so much William! Yeah, maybe I'll have Peter pop in and do some demonstrating one of these days!
yeah, happy holidays to the hollens family too!
Only exercise so far that helped me find MixedVoice Thank you!
This is a great video. I struggle most with knowing how to lead a song
Just because you effort is a determined attempt on something, doesn't mean it will succeed nor do you succeed because you try to make yourself succeed or anything else succeed.
you resemble jessie j a lot to me. your beautiful. i have been singing my entire life. i stopped singing when i graduated because there was no more chamber choir or talent shows. all i had was karaoke...and i have given up being a star because i have a family now..but i decided to start singing again. but i would get discouraged everytime i would sing a song that i used to be able to sing wonderfully and your lessons have been helping me to get my voice back. thank you. i used to pay 50$ a lesson. and your much better. thank you
THANK YOU.... I will practice this everyday
Hi Evynne. Just discovered your site and I've subscribed. I absolutely LOVE your attitude. All of this vid made full sense to me because I have been "tutored" via another site since July 2017. I could not even breathe properly before that believe it or not. I did a note range test early on and found out I was Mezzo Soprano but both my upper and lower registers have extended now, my upper one more extensively. My high voice is stronger than my lower voice so I have been working on that. I sing mostly Musical Theatre and can hit the high notes now in the Phantom songs, also the ones in Les Mis. I shall definitely keep tuned to your channel now. Singing is a bit of an obsession with me now - I hope that is not a bad thing. As well as vocal warm ups, I do the tongue route warm up and upper body (neck, arm and shoulder warm ups). Thank you so much for taking time to pass on your expertise. Kind regards.
For me it is really helpful to see in your video- when you use the chest- and mixed voice. I'd like to see more videos like this one. Thanks!!!
Can't wait to try this when I get home! Thanks for this gem :)
I’d give anything for fullLength training videos! You’re the best!
I'd love to have more of these exercises!
Hi Evynne! Did anyone tell you you're the most elegant vocal coach on TH-cam (and probably everywhere else)?
Thanks so much! I think my middle register is pretty strong, but I do have noticeable transitions between the registers, so I definitely want to smooth those out so that it's just one long voice. I will try these exercises immediately! :D
Thank you so much for this lesson. It has been invaluable to me.
This was good! Thank you. helpful--and I have been doing on line ( you tube) lessons for almost 2 years now. I learned new stuff today.
You're Inspiring! I'll keep working on my voice.
What a beautiful Singer you are! flawless
Hi I have been siniging for 3yrs n have a weird break I'm a Bass 2 but I break at f#3/G3. I have also done some soprano 2 and have a strong falsetto but mostly I have to sing Bass 2 because of how rare we are but being that my break is low I get covered real quick and sometimes pop up the octave and my choir director will tell me to just add more weight and sometimes that helps but not all the time Mr. Hollens knows more of the story and I came to you for more tips and tricks
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You know, it really helps so much when you provide examples of what you mean, as you did here with that bit of your 'Hello' video, what a great teacher you are, Evynne! I wish I could find a local group to sing with; I know a common suggestion is to find a church choir to join but I'm not Christian and my religion doesn't have much basis in music or song. Hmm I guess my next step is to check the Community Education schedule and see if there's anything possible there.
My lowest note that I am able to sing is an E3 and my highest note using my chest voice is C5# sometimes D5, but using my head voice I can sing up to B6
our registers are quite similar, what song do you think is great for us?
eylül ama LGS hm i’m not sure, maybe an Ariana Grande song?
gucci grande maybe, i think billie would be good too
Your videos are amazing! I've learned so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I really love these how-to-sing video! You explain things so well :)
This explanation was perfect ❤️
thank you for teaching us Evynne
I feel lost, but thank you for the tips. You're great.
id love a video on vibrato. my teacher keeps telling me to use my vibrato but i can only do it on the low notes or in my falsetto. i cant really do it in the "mixed voice" range. Thanks for the great tips though!
I love videos like this, trying to explain a mixed or protected voice to non singers is like speaking in Latin 😂 and I love that she said you have to develop your mixed voice like it’s a muscle, it might feel like cheating when you want to belt everything, but after working on it it can get even more powerful than your belt!
It's actually also a belt
@@XaiMartinezOfficialYT mixed voice is not belting that’s incorrect
I've got to give credit to my high school music teacher for teaching me the right way to sing. I started singing at church, traditional hymns (which aren't always easy to do), before my voice deepened into a baritone. To me baritone is the hardest range to achieve because you can't really get high (soprano) or deep (bass), since you're sort of stuck in the middle of those vocal ranges. But she did always tell us baritones, "You still have a three-chamber register so USE IT!!!" I think my middle register comes a little more naturally to me than with others, probably because a lot of our high school choral pieces focused on singing in your falsetto and belting voices. We were singing nearly all of our songs in our middle registers without us really understanding exactly how the middle register is perfected. We were probably too young to really understand it musically so she just focused on teaching us the correct way to sing those notes contained within the middle register (whether you were alto, soprano, baritone or bass), which, in the process, taught us to find our middle register. I notice my middle register when I'm singing a selection that requires me to go down if I can't get high enough to hit the high notes (sometimes the notes are just too far outside a baritone's range, so he has to drop and octave or else he'll be straining to hit the high note and it will come out way too raspy) and then I have to bounce right back up...or if I get into my falsetto and then drop back down just a tad. I feel my middle voice resonating somewhere between my chest and my head, which sort of makes sense.
@EvynneHollins, thanks for this video. The theory explanation and the exercises seem good. I've got to say, when you are demonstrating the chest vs. head vs. mixed voices, I cannot hear the differences. When I do those, it's very very pronounced!
love the open mouth hum (tongue on roof of mouth) - very effective.