I am an indian and i love to watch your videos bcoz i like english music i want learn it too and i would love to watch more of your videos dr. dan so much love from india
The visuals on the board were real helpful in understanding the different areas of the voice, especially when you demonstrated the shortener dominant in the upper register. Thank you!!!!
Hi, Wallace Thiago#95. You may find my online singing course helpful -drdan.co/onlinesinginglessons. Feel free to check it out sometime. The first module is free to preview!
I finally get it. I think i finally figured out what type of voices i have, it's a head voice and i can rarely go to a chest voice, i can do mix sometimes tho, it's easy to switch from it to head voice, i can do pulse (vocal fry) too, and false chord screaming. This video helped a lot in understanding this. Thank you very much, I may watch more of your videos in the future when I get time to improve my singing.
stumbled upon your channel tonight and i think your tutorials are fabulous, some of the best i have seen. You explain everything amazingly well. I have watched ALOT of these kinds of videos as an aspiring singer but out of the few videos of yours i have seen so far i have already learnt so much. PLEASE dont stop making these tutorials you are a fantastic teacher now im off to subscribe and like your facebook page etcetc all the rest :)
I absolutely agree! Just found this channel and I've learnt so much! It really helps to understand the biology and biomechanics behind making beautiful sounds! Thank you Dr Dan!
i come back a week later to fuckin thank you, i've learned how to fryscream in matter of few days thanks to this comment. All tutorials we're like "just do this and that and it will work" and couldn't figure out what i was doing wrong. I've tried doing this for 3 years, and the answer was simple. Thank you again!
Dr Dan, thank you for posting all your wonderful videos; I'm getting so many answers for questions I've had all my life! you finally explain every point I've ever wondered!!! Thanks again! you rock
Hi Dr Dan Thank you so much for your all your informative tutorials! This one is my absolute favorite! I appreciate the clarity in you provided in explaining registers!
WOW! I have been searching for a way to explain the CT and TA relationship to students and this is so helpful. It gets so technical and I wanted something to streamline their vocal technique course! THANKS! Love All your stuff BTW!
Brilliance. This video goes hand in hand with other great works about how to ‘access’ vocal registers, especially the part about stating the vocal cord lengthener/shortener muscles as antagonistic muscles. I wonder why I never thought of the “mysterious ability to sing high notes comfortably” in guys as simply the muscle memory to disengage a muscle in favor of allowing a opposing muscle to act, which is essentially the same as stopping a limb from flexing reflexively. Despite this video not talking about how to get better at ‘choosing’ your vocal registers, it truly points a inexperienced singer such as myself towards a direction they can clearly visualize and comprehend, as long they have the most basic knowledge of anatomy.
This kid has bad content, the following video about Voice Registration (with Exercises) may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html&list=PLZFx6cLexy5G_dU1vJUwAsMGOQbMGt8fT
This has been the best video I have found for explaining this, because every video has explained it as chest, head, and mixed with hard it is to find your mixed voice. I have practically zero vocal training, but I have a very powerful voice and enjoy karaoke (my KJ has to turn my mic down compared to everyone else because I have trouble getting power at lower volumes. I have a strong lower registry and a strong falsetto, but my higher register needs work, and I never liked the way others described it. This helped a lot.
The Metal Mechanic, the following video about Voice Registration (with Exercises) may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html&list=PLZFx6cLexy5G_dU1vJUwAsMGOQbMGt8fT
This is a great explanation of vocal registers. I'm going into a rehearsal in just a few minutes, so this helpful information will be fresh in my mind. Thank you, Dr. Robinson.
Wow! I have never heard Head and Chest voice articulated so well. You are a very gifted voice teacher! I guess using these in a song comes with practice and knowing what you want to communicate in a particular song. Sometimes I will engage my CT muscles early (maybe Db) at a particular passage in a song becuase I don't want it sound overbearing but a little softer. Does that kind of sound like I'm on the right track as far as using this information in a song? Thanks again. I love your channel and find it very helpful!
Kevin, it all depends on the song and what you are wanting to communicate. Allow the narrative of the lyric to direct how you chose to use your registers.
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! i have been experimenting with polyphonic singing (similar to Lalah Hathaway's polyphonic singing) and have had a ton of trouble explaining this concept. Your drawing perfectly fit what my theory was leading to but so much more refined than the clunky explanation I had.
You know its an informative video if you had already known about the mechanics of the voice and you still learn more about it, thanks for putting things into perspective with the visual representation.
I was frustrated at how airy and high pitched my voice was - but this video helped me realize that its all head voice, despite singing with my lungs. Hope to learn more about how to utilize both aspects!
Great video!! It made clear ideas that I had no clue existed, and that is the mark of phenomenal education. Also, I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but I absolutely LOVE your voice! It's so smooth and confident and the timbre is just divine.
***** thank you for your reply. And sorry if I sounded mean in anyway. Currently learning abit about whistle notes. Thats why it hit me :). If you want to see examples of whistle notes check out Adam Lopez Also thanks for putting out information out. Even if this one might have been incorrect. :) With love M
Actually it is, whistle is an extended falsetto, both genders are capable of doing it. However super head voice (which sound like a fuller/richer whistle) is and extended head voice again both genders are able to sing this except males in superhead. Falsetto and whistle are disconnected registers. Super head voice and head voice are connected
He meant for guys that the falsetto will be their version in order for them to hit the not because men sing lower than women. And for women the whistle register is easy for the, to reach especially in the 6th octave.
This is something I never knew.. Thank a million I never talked about this bodily part as this is so much intricate but you really expounded very well. Kudos to you Keep bringing such stuff it's really fascinating.
Hello this is the first time I watched your channel and it was very helpful. I watched the 5 things to avoid if we don't want to loose our voice.wow I always sang even sick .no idea I was causig harm to my voice.Another thing. .I used to live in a tropical country and when I moved to a all seasons area I noticed I need to use hats and scarves during all the fall and winter. I lost my registry sound during the first winters at this area and during pregnancy ... so upsetting...well years passed I learned to protected myself from the cold the babies are 8 and 6 and I'm happy to have my voice in working condition. I dont have a voice coach to help me since 2005 .. so was thinking in getting one to help me. I'm singing more often at my church and I'm seeing that stressful moments like funerals weddings and touchy moments when I'm emotional can have a tol on my voice so I need to go back to exercising and really use my voice as an instrument.
There's a TH-cam of Pentatonix hanging out and the guys also demo whistle (not falsetto) register. I didn't think it was possible for guys to do that Mariah Carey whistle. Amazing.
As I mentioned before, I'm getting lessons from a classically trained church musician who is coaching me as a choir singer. I'd like to improve my ability to sing contemporary styles too, just for fun. My teacher has never mentioned the different registers, which I guess means I must be naturally singing everything we do in mixed and/or head voice, because as a choir soprano if I were in chest voice presumably she would correct me. The trouble is, not having any quality recording equipment, I don't know exactly what I sound like outside my own head, and I can't even tell if I HAVE a chest voice/lower register in anything but my lowest notes right now. When I sing contemporary songs, I think I sound mixed all the way through, but I'm not sure without anyone qualified to tell me and without being able to hear a good recording. My voice type seems to be closest to soubrette or light lyric. It gets described as 'light' and 'pure'. Is it common for sopranos of those types to naturally sing everything in mixed or head voice, or to struggle to develop a chest voice? Or am I possibly just not recognising my chest voice because of the unusual tone it has?
7:40 Doctor Dan, how do you do that? Is it something natural that you can do or is it something that you worked on? Does it involve in positioning the vocal chord somewhere? I’m pondering to know the answer.
Thank you for this video Dr. Dan! This is one of the best videos that discuss on this concept of so-called 'mixed voice' and 'unity between registers' than many coaches nowadays are talking about :)
Mariah Carey is able to use lyric in the whistle register. If you listen to, for example, Love Takes Time, she uses it without words. But in Fly Like a Bird, at the end of the song, she sings in the whistle register and says, “Higher Jesus!”
+Dr Dan's Voice Essentials Thats my lucky by catching up your videos . I have been very confusing about register and your video is the most clear explanation among others on youtube. I actually cant make it successfully at the present but I believe I will sooner or later when I comprehend it internally ;)
+Dr Dan's Voice Essentials Thanks for encouraging. Its very nice to have chance talking with you like this. Hope to be in conversation with you more later. To clear more some my question. I will share the videos and subscribe more . Have a great day Dr.Dan and contribute more. ;)
I don't like the term falsetto as you used it. For me it is a breath production, one that can be produced in a high or low tone. I have heard both so I know it can be done. For me falsetto would be the production of very few overtones. Even whistle register shows up with few overtones when using a spectral analyzer.
LOVE this video! Explanation is so helpful. Are there specific exercises for the lengthener muscles? I definitely find the area of transition between the G and A looses its clarity. So glad I came across your videos! Lots of useful info explained in a very user-friendly manner! Aloha,Christine
As a fan of yours I have to be in desagreement for the first time as both males and females have falsetto and both have whistle voice. Whistle/flute voice cannot be interchangeable not even based on gender. Trained voices can take their headvoice higher than falsetto (I can). I also find difficult to aknowledge pulse and falsetto as registers according to my research and my experience, except for my bottom 2 semitones that at this moment I can only do using pulse. Nevertheless I fully embrace your physiological explanation and your quality and awesomness as a singer and teacher.
+Voice Essentials I agree, there's a lot of debate about the subject, and I wish I could offer a fixed model that I adhere to as my opinion has been shaped from different sources, but I can point you to one of the most thorough and best backed up explanations out there: www.singwise.com/cgi-bin/main.pl?section=articles&doc=UnderstandingVocalRangeRegistersAndType It's become a regular reading source for me for it's scientific approach to explaining the inner workings of the voice, and the stuff mentioned there has proven true for me. Cheers!
People are getting confused. There is no debate that males and females cannot sing in a said register (accept maybe super head voice for males), Its just that in classical music falsetto and headvoice are gender specific terms. Both are actually referring to same register and both involve same muscles. They call male head voice falsetto because how dramatic of a change in tone it is for males. What we call "falsetto" and "whistle register" in contemporary music are a separate disconnected high registers which again both genders can do.
But falsetto and whistle register aren’t the same thing at all right? like guys can do a whistle note as high as a girls whistle note. The reason you can vocalise with whistle notes is because they are literally whistling with the vocal chords.
what % would you put if the mix voice was a blend of chest and flageolet ? i have this one friend and he is a guy can actually mix that high . his vocal cord compression control are so great
If you are female and transition at middle C instead of g4, what does that mean? My upper transition used to be an E but I am not even reaching that after maybe 10 years not singing.
Thank you, I liked the way you visualized and drew on the whiteboard. So there is head voice and chest voice, where does singing from the mask area fit into this? Is mask voice considered to be more off a head voice? Thank you.
Wow, another great video Dan, thanks. You explain things about the voice that I always wanted to know but could never find the answers for and trust me I've spent years reading material online and going to voice lessons. Please keep up the great work!
The distinction between head voice and falsetto contradict. You used what sounded like falsetto when singing lengthener dominant upper register and then sang the same tune when singing for falsetto. Also, am I correct in assuming that shortener dominant upper register sounds like chest voice or is otherwise called ‘belting’?
I understand the registers on this level (muscular) but then when we bring in acoustics the conversation increases in complexity and the lines between registers seem to blur even more.
Madison Levi, the following video about Voice Registration (with Exercises) may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html&list=PLZFx6cLexy5G_dU1vJUwAsMGOQbMGt8fT
Hello Doctor Dan; I found this to be a really informative video. I am one of those guys who neglected their upper voice and flipped straight from chest to falsetto (usually around an F/F#4). I'm doing university level singing now (2nd year of my degree, in Melbourne)... and I'm working on the upper part of my voice - however, it's incredibly breathy and weak - it sounds like my chest voice but up an octave and a bit... rather than the hooty/hollow falsetto sound. I want to feel as though I'm on the right track; but it is honestly getting me down - because I don't know how long it will be until it's a usable sort of register. Soft sirens are mostly smooth with no clunks, breaks or excess air. But vowels are not. I don't really know where I'm going with this; I guess I'm just frustrated with myself... for not trying to work on the tilt/thin fold mechanism earlier. Was it difficult for you to train this part of your voice?
Dr. Dan, I'm a bit confused by your use of the term "upper register" for males. Is the meaning roughly equivalent to what is known in classical training as the "zona di passagio"? My understanding is that the zona di passaggio for men is generally quite narrow, spanning an interval of only about a perfect fourth (e.g. C4 - F4). It's not clear to me whether "upper register" refers to this narrow zone, or if it refers to a broader range in the male voice.
@@DrDanRobinson Understood. I'm just trying to get my head around what would constitute upper register in my own voice. You mentioned in another video that the upper register for many males is quite underdeveloped, to the extent that it can seem non-existent. That seems to describes my own voice: I have lower register and falsetto, and precious little in between.
Thank you! Im actually looking for answers to why my voice doesn't feel connected at all. I have a very low chest voice and It doesn't have the same timbre with my upper register.:'(
Wow thanks Dr. Dan. Feels like sitting in a classrom. This somehow clarifies my confusion. Through time I seem to be confused and reviewing this video again assert my training. Is the dominance of the shorteners all along ascending chest through the head good or bad @9:55? Or is it chest voice all the way to falsetto?
I have naturally high speaking voice...I tried mixing but the problem is my chest and head registers are weak...I only hit a2 to c4 when I wake up in the morning..and then when I do vocal exercises, It shift to c3 to e4..sometime I hit f4 In a good day...but yeah..I was tenor for five straight years in a school choir..am I going to be tenor still when puberty stops?..and when I try to record my voice while singing..it was horrible lol...my voice has no emotions nor power and sound strained(with cracks)any suggestions to this?
Before he explained how the muscles in his arm works, I wish he had started out with... Yes you can or no you cannot and then how to. Then I would have listened to his biceps... Call me: still uninformed thus unable to make a change.
Does that mean that the cause of flipping/breaking between the Registers is no good muscle coordination? Which muscle moves the larinx up and down? The tounge?
Great video Dr Dan, really interesting and helpful way of breaking down the Voice's mechanics. One thing I wanted to query though was when you said that the Pulse and Falsetto Registers were either completely TA or CT/CA but I feel like the opposing muscle can still be used in these registers. For example I can get what I think is a more TA muscle sound out of my Falsetto (Less Breathy, more wholesome/resonant sound) register and whilst underdeveloped I can get a light fry sound in what feels like my upper register. I'm still new to singing and I do find all of this really interesting. Am I getting this mixed up or does this topic go deeper then this video. Thanks Dr Dan.
Dean, according to Thurman and Welch the only way to access pulse is to be TA only and the only way to access true falsetto is to be CT/CA only. All other sounds are a 'mix' of the musculature.
Interesting. So to do true Pulse and true Falsetto it requires full use of those muscles but it's possible to get a mix of these going as well. Is that correct? Thanks for the reply Dr Dan.
Thanks! I had one more question. Speaking optimally, to have a balanced voice should one have either head or chest dominant voice? I've been told tenors have a head dominant voice and basses have a chest dominant voice.?
uhm I'm here because of the "into the unknown "
Me toooooooo
same
SAME LMFAO I WAS LIKE “uhhh what’s head voice and chest voice and falsetto”
same!!
Same so did u find out how to sing the highe notes
I am an indian and i love to watch your videos bcoz i like english music i want learn it too and i would love to watch more of your videos dr. dan so much love from india
I found Dr Dan a few months ago and have really gotten into listening to him. He rocks!
*WELP IM HERE BECAUSE OF THE FREAKING IN TO THE UKNOWN CHALLENGE THING*
Hahahha we will do a play of frozen 1 and I'm playing Anna 😂 frozen is so influential 😊 Goodluck to you and hope for your success!
Oml same😂😂😂😂
Same lol. I literally don’t sing *at all*
Same owo
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This is the absolute best explanation on this subject, you sir are so ridiculously underated.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Hân Võ. Thanks for watching.
The visuals on the board were real helpful in understanding the different areas of the voice, especially when you demonstrated the shortener dominant in the upper register. Thank you!!!!
I have always admired good singers.... I myself sound like a dying goat... 😂😂
Thanks for the lesson.....
I will start singing 😊😊
Hi, Wallace Thiago#95. You may find my online singing course helpful -drdan.co/onlinesinginglessons. Feel free to check it out sometime. The first module is free to preview!
You sound better than me then. No joke. I sound like a dead rat.
@@michelewalburn4376 Well uh, considering a dead rat cannot make any sound, I doubt you sound bad.
lmao felt dat
im here so i can sing into the unknown like everyone else
joe mama, the following video may also prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
I'm here so I can sing JK's part in ON
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Armyyy! Bring the pain on!
never seen someone write p like that xD
Owen Denno As soon as he did it, I was like “O Ma Gad”
That word upper was freaking me out too
I finally get it. I think i finally figured out what type of voices i have, it's a head voice and i can rarely go to a chest voice, i can do mix sometimes tho, it's easy to switch from it to head voice, i can do pulse (vocal fry) too, and false chord screaming. This video helped a lot in understanding this. Thank you very much, I may watch more of your videos in the future when I get time to improve my singing.
I wanna buy that larynx with the muscles
Same
Difficult concepts simply explained. Fantastic thanks.
stumbled upon your channel tonight and i think your tutorials are fabulous, some of the best i have seen. You explain everything amazingly well. I have watched ALOT of these kinds of videos as an aspiring singer but out of the few videos of yours i have seen so far i have already learnt so much. PLEASE dont stop making these tutorials you are a fantastic teacher now im off to subscribe and like your facebook page etcetc all the rest :)
I absolutely agree! Just found this channel and I've learnt so much! It really helps to understand the biology and biomechanics behind making beautiful sounds! Thank you Dr Dan!
Hi, just a tip if someone cares, if you want to try a metal voice, (fry scream) practice the Pulse + head voice.
And growls would be pulse + chest voice? 🤔 Or is it the same? 😅
Thanks a lot!
i come back a week later to fuckin thank you, i've learned how to fryscream in matter of few days thanks to this comment. All tutorials we're like "just do this and that and it will work" and couldn't figure out what i was doing wrong. I've tried doing this for 3 years, and the answer was simple. Thank you again!
So far the best video. I think u should have an ad campaign on you tube and have more of us
Lashen Resh, the following video may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
Dr Dan, thank you for posting all your wonderful videos; I'm getting so many answers for questions I've had all my life! you finally explain every point I've ever wondered!!! Thanks again! you rock
Hi Dr Dan
Thank you so much for your all your informative tutorials! This one is my absolute favorite! I appreciate the clarity in you provided in explaining registers!
Fabulous and very effective lesson. Thank you so much.
You're welcome Rajesh Pawar. Thanks for watching.
The wikipedia article on voice registration is the best explanation I've come across. This video did add some good additional food for thought though.
This video is superb bro! The way you’ve explained and demonstrated this complex theory is second to none👌🏻 brilliant content
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Guideheart. Thanks for watching.
So good, a great way to visualise and understand how the registers work. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
This explanation was SO helpful! The combination of white board and anatomical models really helped it click for me. Thank you!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Christy Thompson. Thanks for watching.
WOW! I have been searching for a way to explain the CT and TA relationship to students and this is so helpful. It gets so technical and I wanted something to streamline their vocal technique course! THANKS! Love All your stuff BTW!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Dawna Thomas. Thanks for watching.
Eye-opening and, I suspect, helpful to me and my singers. Well done! Thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Paul Olguin. Thanks for watching.
Brilliance. This video goes hand in hand with other great works about how to ‘access’ vocal registers, especially the part about stating the vocal cord lengthener/shortener muscles as antagonistic muscles. I wonder why I never thought of the “mysterious ability to sing high notes comfortably” in guys as simply the muscle memory to disengage a muscle in favor of allowing a opposing muscle to act, which is essentially the same as stopping a limb from flexing reflexively.
Despite this video not talking about how to get better at ‘choosing’ your vocal registers, it truly points a inexperienced singer such as myself towards a direction they can clearly visualize and comprehend, as long they have the most basic knowledge of anatomy.
This kid has bad content, the following video about Voice Registration (with Exercises) may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html&list=PLZFx6cLexy5G_dU1vJUwAsMGOQbMGt8fT
Dan, I cant find my Upper register.
I only feel falsetto and "normal voice"
Andre, the following video about head voice may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/Flxa2YIfTAo/w-d-xo.html
Awesome thank you so much. Finally sorting some of this out.
You're welcome!
This has been the best video I have found for explaining this, because every video has explained it as chest, head, and mixed with hard it is to find your mixed voice. I have practically zero vocal training, but I have a very powerful voice and enjoy karaoke (my KJ has to turn my mic down compared to everyone else because I have trouble getting power at lower volumes. I have a strong lower registry and a strong falsetto, but my higher register needs work, and I never liked the way others described it. This helped a lot.
The Metal Mechanic, the following video about Voice Registration (with Exercises) may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html&list=PLZFx6cLexy5G_dU1vJUwAsMGOQbMGt8fT
Very good explanation! Thank you
You're welcome ASANDA ANDREW MOSS. Thanks for watching.
This is a great explanation of vocal registers. I'm going into a rehearsal in just a few minutes, so this helpful information will be fresh in my mind. Thank you, Dr. Robinson.
I'm from Malaysia..I'm bigginer..I love you channel sir.. thanks
This one made it into my "Favorites" list Dan. Great dose of knowledge here, approached a little differently than I have learned Thank you.
Dr Dan's Voice Essentials Awesome video! Thank you!
Wow! I have never heard Head and Chest voice articulated so well. You are a very gifted voice teacher! I guess using these in a song comes with practice and knowing what you want to communicate in a particular song. Sometimes I will engage my CT muscles early (maybe Db) at a particular passage in a song becuase I don't want it sound overbearing but a little softer. Does that kind of sound like I'm on the right track as far as using this information in a song? Thanks again. I love your channel and find it very helpful!
Kevin, it all depends on the song and what you are wanting to communicate. Allow the narrative of the lyric to direct how you chose to use your registers.
It explained alot for me. Thank u 👍
You're welcome 😊
Amazing video, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! i have been experimenting with polyphonic singing (similar to Lalah Hathaway's polyphonic singing) and have had a ton of trouble explaining this concept. Your drawing perfectly fit what my theory was leading to but so much more refined than the clunky explanation I had.
It's strange but it is amazing, because it makes the voice have a balaced tone that heard clear as crystal
You know its an informative video if you had already known about the mechanics of the voice and you still learn more about it, thanks for putting things into perspective with the visual representation.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Ayanda Ayzar. Thanks for watching.
I was frustrated at how airy and high pitched my voice was - but this video helped me realize that its all head voice, despite singing with my lungs. Hope to learn more about how to utilize both aspects!
KujasUltima, the following video about voice registration may prove helpful also - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
Great video!! It made clear ideas that I had no clue existed, and that is the mark of phenomenal education. Also, I don't know if anyone has said this yet, but I absolutely LOVE your voice! It's so smooth and confident and the timbre is just divine.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Jonah Collins. Thanks for watching.
The whistle register is not the same as falsetto.
***** thank you for your reply. And sorry if I sounded mean in anyway. Currently learning abit about whistle notes. Thats why it hit me :). If you want to see examples of whistle notes check out Adam Lopez Also thanks for putting out information out. Even if this one might have been incorrect. :) With love M
Actually it is, whistle is an extended falsetto, both genders are capable of doing it. However super head voice (which sound like a fuller/richer whistle) is and extended head voice again both genders are able to sing this except males in superhead. Falsetto and whistle are disconnected registers. Super head voice and head voice are connected
@@Mohamedmifxal it's not the same in the way it's being represented here
@@Mohamedmifxal i don't think whistle is disconnected.
He meant for guys that the falsetto will be their version in order for them to hit the not because men sing lower than women. And for women the whistle register is easy for the, to reach especially in the 6th octave.
Dr Dan thank you very much!
I love your videos a lot)
Thank you very much for this clear video! :) Here in Italy is very difficult to find good singing schools :(
This is something I never knew..
Thank a million I never talked about this bodily part as this is so much intricate but you really expounded very well.
Kudos to you
Keep bringing such stuff it's really fascinating.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video John K. Thanks for watching.
Hello this is the first time I watched your channel and it was very helpful. I watched the 5 things to avoid if we don't want to loose our voice.wow I always sang even sick .no idea I was causig harm to my voice.Another thing. .I used to live in a tropical country and when I moved to a all seasons area I noticed I need to use hats and scarves during all the fall and winter. I lost my registry sound during the first winters at this area and during pregnancy ... so upsetting...well years passed I learned to protected myself from the cold the babies are 8 and 6 and I'm happy to have my voice in working condition. I dont have a voice coach to help me since 2005 .. so was thinking in getting one to help me. I'm singing more often at my church and I'm seeing that stressful moments like funerals weddings and touchy moments when I'm emotional can have a tol on my voice so I need to go back to exercising and really use my voice as an instrument.
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!! LOVE YOU I WANNA WORK WITH YOU IN ACADEMIC MATTER!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Κωστής Καπαχτσής. Thanks for watching.
Great stuff again doc.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much! Your explanation is amazing! So underrated.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video celestial force. Thanks for watching.
Thanks 🙏 for teaching how to sing high head voice
My pleasure 😊
There's a TH-cam of Pentatonix hanging out and the guys also demo whistle (not falsetto) register. I didn't think it was possible for guys to do that Mariah Carey whistle. Amazing.
Thank you so much, this helps me visualize and focus for a better gesticulation ♥
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Mariella La Cunza. Thanks for watching.
As I mentioned before, I'm getting lessons from a classically trained church musician who is coaching me as a choir singer. I'd like to improve my ability to sing contemporary styles too, just for fun. My teacher has never mentioned the different registers, which I guess means I must be naturally singing everything we do in mixed and/or head voice, because as a choir soprano if I were in chest voice presumably she would correct me. The trouble is, not having any quality recording equipment, I don't know exactly what I sound like outside my own head, and I can't even tell if I HAVE a chest voice/lower register in anything but my lowest notes right now. When I sing contemporary songs, I think I sound mixed all the way through, but I'm not sure without anyone qualified to tell me and without being able to hear a good recording. My voice type seems to be closest to soubrette or light lyric. It gets described as 'light' and 'pure'. Is it common for sopranos of those types to naturally sing everything in mixed or head voice, or to struggle to develop a chest voice? Or am I possibly just not recognising my chest voice because of the unusual tone it has?
7:40 Doctor Dan, how do you do that? Is it something natural that you can do or is it something that you worked on? Does it involve in positioning the vocal chord somewhere? I’m pondering to know the answer.
Sereyvutha Thul, the following video may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/ExV7Xe8Iq_4/w-d-xo.html
@@DrDanRobinson Thank you, sir!
Thank you, from Brazil! Awesome explanation! s2
If have wanted to know this for such a long time. Im so happy. Thank you so much Dan!
Floor Maassen, the following video about voice registration may also prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for this video Dr. Dan! This is one of the best videos that discuss on this concept of so-called 'mixed voice' and 'unity between registers' than many coaches nowadays are talking about :)
Mariah Carey is able to use lyric in the whistle register. If you listen to, for example, Love Takes Time, she uses it without words. But in Fly Like a Bird, at the end of the song, she sings in the whistle register and says, “Higher Jesus!”
Interesting. I'll have to check that out, Zorn.
Finally a more scientific and phisiological explanation
Kate Iry, the following video may prove helpful also - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
@@DrDanRobinson thanks so much!
Love your videos. You're awesome! Do you have any recommendations for relaxing the vocal muscles?
thanks dr dan!
You're welcome Soul. Thanks for watching.
Very helpful.
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3:18 scared the s**t out of me. That ain't no creaky door, that's freaking Samara
I believe Mariah is an exception to that flute because she actually whistle the words. 🤗
Very useful Dr.Dan ! Thank you and hope to see more those amazing tutorial !
+Dr Dan's Voice Essentials Thats my lucky by catching up your videos . I have been very confusing about register and your video is the most clear explanation among others on youtube. I actually cant make it successfully at the present but I believe I will sooner or later when I comprehend it internally ;)
+Dr Dan's Voice Essentials Thanks for encouraging. Its very nice to have chance talking with you like this. Hope to be in conversation with you more later. To clear more some my question. I will share the videos and subscribe more . Have a great day Dr.Dan and contribute more. ;)
Awesome vídeo. Appreciated.
You're welcome Alter Dei. Thanks for watching.
lowest note G2 highest note C5, whistle register C5, what type of voice do I have?
I think it's about where you sing most comfortable
I am a soprano, that can go as low as an alto but I prefer singing higher🤷♀️
Idk if that helps
Marian Andrei, the following video may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
I don't like the term falsetto as you used it. For me it is a breath production, one that can be produced in a high or low tone. I have heard both so I know it can be done. For me falsetto would be the production of very few overtones. Even whistle register shows up with few overtones when using a spectral analyzer.
LOVE this video! Explanation is so helpful. Are there specific exercises for the lengthener muscles? I definitely find the area of transition between the G and A looses its clarity. So glad I came across your videos! Lots of useful info explained in a very user-friendly manner! Aloha,Christine
Where did you get this shirt? If anyone knows where to find this shirt, please drop me a link, ☺️
The shirt was a gift. Cool, hey!
As a fan of yours I have to be in desagreement for the first time as both males and females have falsetto and both have whistle voice. Whistle/flute voice cannot be interchangeable not even based on gender. Trained voices can take their headvoice higher than falsetto (I can). I also find difficult to aknowledge pulse and falsetto as registers according to my research and my experience, except for my bottom 2 semitones that at this moment I can only do using pulse. Nevertheless I fully embrace your physiological explanation and your quality and awesomness as a singer and teacher.
+Voice Essentials I agree, there's a lot of debate about the subject, and I wish I could offer a fixed model that I adhere to as my opinion has been shaped from different sources, but I can point you to one of the most thorough and best backed up explanations out there: www.singwise.com/cgi-bin/main.pl?section=articles&doc=UnderstandingVocalRangeRegistersAndType
It's become a regular reading source for me for it's scientific approach to explaining the inner workings of the voice, and the stuff mentioned there has proven true for me. Cheers!
People are getting confused. There is no debate that males and females cannot sing in a said register (accept maybe super head voice for males), Its just that in classical music falsetto and headvoice are gender specific terms. Both are actually referring to same register and both involve same muscles. They call male head voice falsetto because how dramatic of a change in tone it is for males. What we call "falsetto" and "whistle register" in contemporary music are a separate disconnected high registers which again both genders can do.
Wow... Very Well Said Sir...
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But falsetto and whistle register aren’t the same thing at all right? like guys can do a whistle note as high as a girls whistle note. The reason you can vocalise with whistle notes is because they are literally whistling with the vocal chords.
what % would you put if the mix voice was a blend of chest and flageolet ? i have this one friend and he is a guy can actually mix that high . his vocal cord compression control are so great
Haziq Bencok, the following video may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
If you are female and transition at middle C instead of g4, what does that mean? My upper transition used to be an E but I am not even reaching that after maybe 10 years not singing.
Thank you, I liked the way you visualized and drew on the whiteboard. So there is head voice and chest voice, where does singing from the mask area fit into this? Is mask voice considered to be more off a head voice? Thank you.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video Afaq Mufti. Thanks for watching.
@@DrDanRobinson thank you for your reply Dan; can you please answer my question in reference to the mask area. Thank you.
What about Dr Dan's voice? How can it be improved?
Wow, another great video Dan, thanks. You explain things about the voice that I always wanted to know but could never find the answers for and trust me I've spent years reading material online and going to voice lessons. Please keep up the great work!
it would be great to know where he got his anatomy model from
I imported it from Italy...nearly two decades ago...
The distinction between head voice and falsetto contradict. You used what sounded like falsetto when singing lengthener dominant upper register and then sang the same tune when singing for falsetto. Also, am I correct in assuming that shortener dominant upper register sounds like chest voice or is otherwise called ‘belting’?
Kurt Justice Ronquillo, the following video about voice registration may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html
Good explanation!
Your first example of head voice was more like falsetto and the second example was more like head voice to me.
Is head voice the same as singing in falsetto? I don’t get what head voice is still
ebenezer357, the following video about head voice may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/Flxa2YIfTAo/w-d-xo.html
I understand the registers on this level (muscular) but then when we bring in acoustics the conversation increases in complexity and the lines between registers seem to blur even more.
Madison Levi, the following video about Voice Registration (with Exercises) may prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/CAGR81QFIj0/w-d-xo.html&list=PLZFx6cLexy5G_dU1vJUwAsMGOQbMGt8fT
Hello Doctor Dan; I found this to be a really informative video. I am one of those guys who neglected their upper voice and flipped straight from chest to falsetto (usually around an F/F#4). I'm doing university level singing now (2nd year of my degree, in Melbourne)... and I'm working on the upper part of my voice - however, it's incredibly breathy and weak - it sounds like my chest voice but up an octave and a bit... rather than the hooty/hollow falsetto sound. I want to feel as though I'm on the right track; but it is honestly getting me down - because I don't know how long it will be until it's a usable sort of register. Soft sirens are mostly smooth with no clunks, breaks or excess air. But vowels are not. I don't really know where I'm going with this; I guess I'm just frustrated with myself... for not trying to work on the tilt/thin fold mechanism earlier. Was it difficult for you to train this part of your voice?
Yes, this can be a challenging area of the voice to work on. Perhaps this video will prove helpful - th-cam.com/video/Kpyu_CbVRLg/w-d-xo.html
but.... if you are in "the mix", why do we need "healthy belting"? isn't the mix the healthy version of a strong, full body high note?
what about flageolet Dan?
Dr. Dan, I'm a bit confused by your use of the term "upper register" for males. Is the meaning roughly equivalent to what is known in classical training as the "zona di passagio"? My understanding is that the zona di passaggio for men is generally quite narrow, spanning an interval of only about a perfect fourth (e.g. C4 - F4). It's not clear to me whether "upper register" refers to this narrow zone, or if it refers to a broader range in the male voice.
Please remember, that my application of registers is to the contemporary voice; which is different from the classical voice.
@@DrDanRobinson Understood. I'm just trying to get my head around what would constitute upper register in my own voice. You mentioned in another video that the upper register for many males is quite underdeveloped, to the extent that it can seem non-existent. That seems to describes my own voice: I have lower register and falsetto, and precious little in between.
Does the Vocal Fry exercise on high notes help with TA (Thyroarytenoid) Coordination?
It certainly will exercise the TA...as to the coordination, that is open for debate.
Where does soprano, mezzo and alto falls into
all this?
Thank you! Im actually looking for answers to why my voice doesn't feel connected at all. I have a very low chest voice and It doesn't have the same timbre with my upper register.:'(
Wow thanks Dr. Dan.
Feels like sitting in a classrom. This somehow clarifies my confusion. Through time I seem to be confused and reviewing this video again assert my training.
Is the dominance of the shorteners all along ascending chest through the head good or bad @9:55? Or is it chest voice all the way to falsetto?
When making choices for the muscular balance, allow the artistic interpretation required for the song to direct your decisions.
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Ok, then both are healthy, I presume
I have naturally high speaking voice...I tried mixing but the problem is my chest and head registers are weak...I only hit a2 to c4 when I wake up in the morning..and then when I do vocal exercises, It shift to c3 to e4..sometime I hit f4 In a good day...but yeah..I was tenor for five straight years in a school choir..am I going to be tenor still when puberty stops?..and when I try to record my voice while singing..it was horrible lol...my voice has no emotions nor power and sound strained(with cracks)any suggestions to this?
Before he explained how the muscles in his arm works, I wish he had started out with... Yes you can or no you cannot and then how to. Then I would have listened to his biceps... Call me: still uninformed thus unable to make a change.
Does that mean that the cause of flipping/breaking between the Registers is no good muscle coordination? Which muscle moves the larinx up and down? The tounge?
thank you very much Dan! You mean right amount of breath compression? BTW i just subscribedl:-)
Great video Dr Dan, really interesting and helpful way of breaking down the Voice's mechanics. One thing I wanted to query though was when you said that the Pulse and Falsetto Registers were either completely TA or CT/CA but I feel like the opposing muscle can still be used in these registers. For example I can get what I think is a more TA muscle sound out of my Falsetto (Less Breathy, more wholesome/resonant sound) register and whilst underdeveloped I can get a light fry sound in what feels like my upper register. I'm still new to singing and I do find all of this really interesting. Am I getting this mixed up or does this topic go deeper then this video. Thanks Dr Dan.
Dean, according to Thurman and Welch the only way to access pulse is to be TA only and the only way to access true falsetto is to be CT/CA only. All other sounds are a 'mix' of the musculature.
Interesting. So to do true Pulse and true Falsetto it requires full use of those muscles but it's possible to get a mix of these going as well. Is that correct? Thanks for the reply Dr Dan.
Hi Dr dan! What would be a good way to strengthen CT dominance in the lower register?
Thanks! I had one more question. Speaking optimally, to have a balanced voice should one have either head or chest dominant voice? I've been told tenors have a head dominant voice and basses have a chest dominant voice.?
My primary transition occurs at A4 and C4 on secondary.
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i still cant understand what voice is on 9:10 ?? mixed?