Vocal fry low to twang falsetto! Singing is more about tone, timbre and pitch! At some point we started chasing range! Lyrics and melody are also above the aforementioned! If you can sing melodiously in the low and high ranges - stop and rethink! Singing is more than noises is the air! It is more than "notes"!
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What type of bass breaks at an F4?😂😂 freak of nature to start. My natural break starts around a C4. Still tho you give me hope of singing high. Your tips are amazing man.
I guess at the moment he's more like a bass-baritone. Voices get a little lower as people age, so he'll probably turn into a "full" bass when he's around 30. Just a guess though.
Bruh this hits close to home. I was stuck at c4 from 16 till 19. I had no clue how to use other registers, so I was stuck with a strained sound until I learned mix and head voices. It was only after that that I could bring my chest voice up easier. I top out around g4 on a good day, but only because my voice knows how to slip into falsetto when it gets tired. Before, I couldn’t go above c4 without actual shouting and pain. ANY basses/baritones around, take David’s advice to heart here, even if you never wanna sing like a tenor range, the ease and power you get from his techniques here will save your chords in the future.
I’ve been practicing ever since this video came out and my comfortable range went up from a C4 to and F4. And my highest belted note went from a G#4 to a Bb4, so it’s been a great process and I can’t wait to see my progress in 3 years when I get to senior year.
I feel like I have the same range you had, I just started practicing and I feel like I'm a baritone and not a bass, because without fry I can't hit an E2 and everything under F2 is really low in volume. And yeah I can sing all the time on E4 so what type am I ?
@@chris9yearsago698 I think I'm a baritone. Last week I did actually scream a clean B4 mixed, but I s^till have trouble to "sing G4s" etc, even though I can etchnically go higher. Are you a tenor ?
Warm-up: Descending Scales - 15:20 Ascending Scales - 15:57 Mix Transition Exercises: F Mix - 5:10 A Mix - 7:10 Vocal Slide (B) - 11:06 Baby Goat Groan - 17:07 *Do not squeeze, move your head side to side and you should still be able to do the exercises*
Your videos are really good, awesome job... I'm a low baritone, but I struggle around D2/D#2, and it is really hard to go below that for me, except early in the morning when I wake up when my voice goes down to like B1/C2. Could you make a video on how to sing on the bottom of your range or increase low range in chest voice? Thank you.
I'm a basso cantante and my natural chest range goes from C2-F#4. I can force a G4 with enormous straining but I wanna stop that non sense and learn how to use mixed voice. It might just be my opinion but the problem for me has been that 99% of vocal coaches don't fully understand the bass voice types. You have been really helpful so far. I still sound like a broken copy machine from time to time when I'm doing the exercises but my throat feels a lot healthier when I'm using the range from C4-G4, so thank you and greetings from Germany.
I would say this is a valid point. However, a Tenor voice has the same 1st passagio (E,F,F# above Middle C) area as most regular Bass voices, and also Baritone voices, their voices may not be quite as hefty, but the change from Bass to Tenor classification is not abrupt enough to change the passagio to a higher area, so getting stuck on the F4 is possible for a Tenor as well, and even if they can sing higher than that and you can't, Tenor voices will not be able to comfortably sing all in chest voice into an F4 without making a transition. Their less hefty and less thick classification may make it easier for them to have tension that they can pull through F4 that a Bass has a harder time with, but that tension will usually catch up with them in the 2nd Passagio (A,Bb,B,C above Middle C). So, regardless of your range, all singers need to know how to sing smoothly through the 1st Bridge, or passagio which for most male voices ( Regular Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Counter-Tenor) is E4,F4,F#4. Only then can we all effectively cross the break and have a strong powerful head voice. The 1st passagio has to be free of tension before we stretch our voices up. Its the same concept with females as well. An Alto voice, despite being lower than a Soprano, is going to have the same 1st Passagio (A,Bb,B,C above Middle C) as a Mezzo, 1st Soprano, or the less common Coloratura. Unless you're dealing with a Contralto (Deeper Alto) voice, the change in the other voices is not enough for the 1st bridge to be lower or higher.
After watching this very inspirational video and after only with the first lesson w my teacher I was able to hit a clean A4. I’m gonna be honest here the way I was able to get it was not through the exercise here but just trying to reach for those high notes and trying stuff on my own to at least hit the notes of the song i really loved with no falsetto . The bihb bihb exercise from my teacher was what probably helped me learn what it feels like but but it was still sounding very heady but I always kept this tip of yours in the back of my mind :start with the falsetto and and bring chest voice down.. I’ve used today to make my my mixed voice sound better and it worked sounds a lot fuller and chestier still not as good as your A4# on the cover u made but it’s a huge step. This was a huge revelation to me though and probably the second happiest day of my life...the happiest was when my teacher told me yes you can sing tenor!!! It doesn’t matter in contemporary music!!! You’re gonna get that A4 just practice!! So yes there is hope for us baritones!!!!!! And heck i have acid reflux and can’t practice that regularly if ur healthy then u can do this even faster!!!! Good luck to y’all . It doesn’t have to take 10 or 5 years !!!
It's kind of funny, tenors like me need to pay attention to the other way, singing low notes with a high voice. Some tenors can go really deep, my deepest chest voice note is an E2, F#1 with vocal fry/subharmonic singing. But we just don't have the power and volume the likes of you, Avi and Tim have. So we try to make up for it by putting a little to much weight into our low notes, which is not exactly that healthy. I'm happy as a tenor but sometimes I wish I could be a bass. The resonance you get when singing those low notes or just speaking is absolutely incredible.
thats why im grateful to be a baritone, we can do both with a bit of training lmao, ive trained my voice to go up to B4 and down to D2, i would maybe prefer being a tenor but they both have their benefits
As a singer who has been through a long process of discovering and rediscovering the mix voice and finding different gradations of fold used, I can say that this video is completely valid in all the tips that it provides. Thank you for making this awesome video. Also, Make It on Our Own sounds great! Instrumentally and vocally.
This helped build on stuff I found a few years back. The rubber band analogy helped me beat my d4 limit when my voice dropped originally. I wasn’t able to hit anything, ANYTHING, in the 5th octave until I found how to stretch my voice for falsetto and add more gradually, and my top note went from b4 to over g5. So happy to hear more of this advice being spread. Take my like👍
This seriously is the most helpful singing video I’ve ever seen! The way you explained everything really made sense and I’m excited to do these exercises.
I really hope this helps me. 'cause it really frustrates me not being able to sing how I want to. Thank you for openimg my mind and now I know where I need to focus on.
I'm a bass too currently struggling around G4 with some vowels especially "o" and "u". Always feel i automatically tighten my throat.. And i can barely hit B4 with a weird cat noise.... Really grateful for this video! It feels so reassuring to know that i still have some undiscovered potential if i work for it... Will try those exercise tmr in the shower hahahaha
Man i usually don't comment any video, but the way you drove the tips and the reflexion about having a the voice have make progress a lot!! i mean, i've been looking trough a lot of mixed voice videos and your videos really made sense for me, because i also have a very low voice and couldn't find the right video. Thanks a lot!
Oh, I feel you, bro! I´ve always been trained as a baritone but pop music requires sometimes a high C. It´s been so hard to develop the speech level singing mix and the nasal constriction mix by myself. My classical teachers (in Mexico they are the cheapest) said I had to use apoggio to reach high notes and that only allows me to reach a high A, and the estill teacher I had last semester wanted me to belt with apoggio too but without the operatic passagio (like classical teachers trying to teach me pop singing), he was very disgusted when I told him I don´t wanted to use pulled chest voice anymore and the worst came when I told him I wanted to develop a dark nasal mixed sound (like R&B singers), he said that was not correct and as I said "it´s my voice and I want to decide my sound" he asked the school for a change of student. I know a great teacher who knows SLS and Nasal Constriction very well but because of covid-19 right now I don´t have the money to work with her. So sad. But you know what keeps me hopeful? Last year when I was starting to develop my mix I was asinged to a classical teacher who really thought I was a tenor because I was able to reach a high Bb (mixed) and he really thoght it was my "tenor range" and not a mixed voice so I gues I´m going the right way lol
I have been feeling very bad about my voice and this helped me. I do theatre and would love to go on to a professional stance and go onto bigger things with theatre as I feel I am a decent actor. However I am a bass. And in theatre (musical theatre) as in broadway, I would get told that as a bass you will not be able to play young characters. This has some truth as many broadway actors in male leads must be a tenor or a high baritone. And being a bass is very demotivating when you get told that you won’t ever be able to hit high notes. However this video helped me see that I can. And that I can use my voice and become more versatile.
Hey sir, thanks for the 20 minutes of worth knowledge you share to us. I've been trying to expand my range, but since i don't have any vocal coach im afraid I'll end up hurting my own voice. And then I'm starting to search more on TH-cam and i found you. This is one of the most usefull vocal exercises and tips i ever find.
Omg! This is it - for me at least. Finally I am able to sing beyond my break (F#4) all the way up to d5. And i am sure that with more practice i can make it sound good too. Thank you so much!❤❤❤
Omg,thank you so much for this.It really makes a difference for a lot of bass singers like me.You are amazing,you never fail at amazing all of us.Keep up the good work❤️
10:54 => slides through the registers 12:20 => realizing you are your best teacher (listen to yourself) 15:19 => warm-up going down 15:56 => warm-up going up 17:04 => baby goat yelling + moving head left to right
This video makes much more sense to me on how to hit high notes. I'm still young and I'm going through puberty. In middle school I could hit so many high notes, but then in 8th grade my voice started getting lower and I had to push more to get high notes. I asked my music teacher about how I can reach high notes again and they told me it's some kind of feeling in your throat, but I still didn't get it. I tried doing your exercise in this video. Whenever I try to switch from head voice to chest voice I have to do a little break in between and I can't do it continuously. I really don't get how to open up my vocal chords during chest voice, I have to push everytime. Thanks for the vid, it really helped me with identifying what my problem was (pushing) and I know it's not as hard as I think. Can you give me some exercises to work on to improve my high notes voice?
I finally found my mix a few months ago, and have sang up to C#5 as a bass, but I'm struggling with consistency and making the tone more pleasant. I've sometimes been able to use the 2nd harmonic to make it sound thicker, but it's still too bright imo.
hey man thank you so much for posting this video and putting yourself out there. It means a lot bro and definitely inspired me in many ways to not give up on my own voice. Was literally searching through TH-cam to gain some confidence on my own voice to see if it was possible for a person with my voice type (probably baritone) who could sing. Although my voice doesn't go as low as yours, it's surely a bit on the deeper side so watching this video gave me a lot of inspiration to not give up on my dream of being able to sing. Thank you man! I watched some of your covers. You have an amazing voice! I subbed and keep up the great work!
Baritone too, just tried it out, everything was quite comfy (except for that G#4 in the chorus at first, but then i nailed it with no problem after a few trys).
Thanks for giving me a great insight....great analogies with such honesty I feel like you shared your experience and struggles with me....I think your techniques are going to work for me. Cheers
I think learning how to do subharmonics helped me to do this😂 it has helped me to relax my vocal chords and then instead of sliding down, I took the idea to slide up. I can’t believe how universal some of these techniques are, this is awesome!
I also find that while I can get a very similar mixed voice sound in a nasal way like you mention here, it has a serious volume limit that makes it unusable for very loud rock stuff because it just does not compete with the aggressive top end of my lower register. So instead, although it's much harder to develop the strength and coordination for, it's more valuable to learn to make that same very bright tonal quality by having good placement and projection, almost in an operatic way. This gives it cut and a fullness that, while still not the same as a lower register sound, at least competes in terms of volume over loud electric instrumentals. It's very similar in sound, enough to confuse most people, but it's easy to tell the difference because it's not at all impacted if you plug your nose while making it, it's a bit harsher and it's probably about 10-20db louder on average than the nasal tone you described here.
How did you *actually* learn to do the exercise at 5:10? I understand that practicing this transition from falsetto to chest is a great way to practice in the passagio but I have NO IDEA what to even work on to be able to practice that transition from falsetto to chest. If I could I wouldn't be watching this video, I would be doing it. For reference, my chest voice ranges from C2-D4. I can sing any note from, say, middle C to tenor C in my falsetto, but it is a 100% different register, sensation, locked arena, whatever, than my chest voice. I am unable to "bring in chest voice"; my voice will just stay in falsetto, no matter what changes I try to make with my support or voice. I have to hard-stop singing and try the note again in my chest voice (which hits a brick wall at D4). Same goes for starting in chest and bringing in falsetto. The only notes I can do anything close to this on are in my low range, low enough to where I don't have tension (maybe around G3). Can you (or others reading) explain what exactly I need to practice to be able to practice this exercise?
i would practice it around where you can comfortably do it even some what and continue to practice bringing it up slowly! also if you ever want to have a voice lesson i help people all the time get it down quicker. send me an email (davidkahnsings@gmail.com) or dm on insta @davidkahnsings
Could you do a video on falsetto singing for bass singers? I’ve gotten better recently, but still have a ways to go. Any help would be much appreciated!
I need some more of the technicals behind bringing in the chest voice. Can sing the F4 in head easily but don’t know how to bring in chest. C4 is highest in chest for me and it’s very strained. Fantastic vid btw!
it’s all in the exercises believe it or not, slowly adding support starting from very quietly up and down the scales and then with more volume each time. i may possibly make another video on this so thank you for your comment!
I'm going to try this start light idea. and maybe do some things to increase my chest range. that makes sense then it'll at least hopefully let me sing a few notes higher w/o feeling like I'm dying. haha
Wow, that's interesting.I'll try it and tell you if it worked with me. What about a tutorial of how to get lower in chest voice? I know, you made a subharmonic tutorial already but I find it pretty difficult to switch to subharmonics in a down-scale like in Rachmaninov's Vespers
That's an interesting video. Honestly I got the theory for quite a while now (to the point I can actually teach what you're showing) but doing it is another thing. I'm actually a professional operatic bass so maybe my problem is there (like singing with too much fold in full chest for years). I can sing strong covered F4 and can go as low as a good strong D2. As for head belt, I can do really good belts from C4 to maybe A5, even some good heavy metal screams like manowar with healthy saturation. But man, between E4 and C4, two options, first is having a weak head voice full of air, second one is try to add more folds but end up sounding like a duck and it's very instable and it seems impossible to bridge this with chest voice, even light one. Do you have an advice ? Of course I'll try those few exercises.
Thanks a lot man, seriously. Even if i try to find a vocal teacher on México they don't care about increasing vocal Range. I mean i know is not the most important thing but you really Help me out. Love to you c:
Man, you struggled at a D4 when you started? I broke at an A3 when I started... I had to work like hell just to be able to sing a C4. I can now use my upper register at solid volume with enough strength/stability to do some very fun upper register notes with subharmonics and rasp and weird overtones and all kinds of party tricks. Even up over C5, right up to around G5 now. And I can sustain a solidly loud D5 for in excess of 15 seconds. But for the life of me, I still cannot seem to smoothly slide between registers. I'm not sure what isn't clicking for me, but I just cannot seem to get a handle on bridging.
Hi @David Kahn :) I hope you see this comment because while I listen to all of your covers and I'm generally not into those styles of music, it's still impressive to see someone with such a range. I think if I had started singing normally my voice would have been a baritone or low tenor but the bass range is fascinating to me. I figure I won't be singing much higher than the 4th octave but I'm trying to extend my low range. Chest voice I can sing Eb2, I can reliably get a G1 with subharmonics (which I learned from yours and @David Larson's video) and I can hit an F1 with growl. I still think low chest is the best sounding of all these registers, however, so I'd like to be able to get to a C2. I want to be able to sing Avi Kaplan's bass part in Pentatonix - Run To You. Again, while I'm comfortable with the top of my range and don't plan to expand it much, I enjoyed this and found it helpful because I think these techniques are applicable to any note. Thanks for listening :)) (Speaking of listening I listened to your song Make It on Our Own and it was great. Your range blows me away)
@@DavidKahnSings sorry, but I don't squad, and I don't know how to use it. But I will definitely reccomend your channel to everyone, who has the same questions as I have. BTW do you teach singing classes in person?
I like bass low voice even though I'm tenor my voice is too light I can't go down from f#2 but I can belt f4 easy but stain on c#5 my falsetto can go up to f6 which I like the most
David, thank u! I am low baritone and i always had problem with high notes. It was hard to sing E3 for me. But maybe 2 month ago i started to practice mixed voice. So i feel that u dont need to push high note but stretch it as u said. Now i can hit G3 easily, but higher notes sound thin. Do i need time to teach my muscle or am i doing something wrong? When i warmup i dont feel any strain and i feel my neck very relaxed.
Tough to say for sure. I’d love to set up a skype/FaceTime voice coaching. Feel free to send me an email at davidkahnsings@gmail.com and we can get you singing comfortably in your higher registers!
Im a Bass 2 in Choir, im the one who has the lowest range , i can hit C_2 effortlessly, when i force myself i can go A#1, but my effortless highest note is C_4. i really can't sing proper higher than that, i wonder what technique should be learned or what vocal warm up do i need everyday to increase my range.
It's interesting you say your vocal break is around an F4, because this would normally be a break for a tenor. Bass normally break around the A3 - D4 area.
@DavidKahnSings interesting I didn't know your break could change. I just presumed your passaggios were set in stone. Perhaps you mastering the mix voice has bridged this gap for you? I have a low deep voice too so I found your video quite interesting. Without any vocal training I could quite comfortably hit a C2 note however still struggle to sing high. My break is around C4. I really appreciate you sharing your experiences. I think that you are so talented. And I can only imagine the work you have had to put in to develop your range to where it is now. You have probably had to work so much harder than other artists who are natural tenors and can naturally sing high. I really hope you have success in your music career you deserve it 🙂
This is very flawed. A baritone/bass can sing with a head dominant mix aswell throughout their entire range. Laryngeal mechanisms are not how voice types are defined. I dont understand what your concept is
@@nightmare4eVerr1 When I wrote this, I thought about where the voice of a voice type shines. I still think this corresponds archetypally in that sense, but it is of course true that anyone can sing in any register, especially in theory as we all have full larynxes. That wasn’t what I was getting at, that each voice type sings solely in one dominant mode of the voice. I meant that each voice type has shining moments and type-defining moments in the registers listed.
@@nightmare4eVerr1 Sopranos shine in their head voice and are distinct in that way, with coloratura sopranos being distinct out of their bunch because they have strong facility in the flageolet register. Mezzos & altos* are often equated as “belters” in musical theater because of the chest & mix dominant singing being lower than soprano singing which is typed as “legit”. There is correlation there. The contralto is often prided over for how easily she extends her chest voice, namely for her low range, both of which most female singers will not have as much facility in - low notes & pure upper chest notes. Countertenors sing akin to mezzos and low sopranos, while tenors sing in more of a chest mix that is a lot like that of the contralto but fuller and darker in color. The baritone tends to sing most conversationally, as does the contralto singer, as both sing in a chest voice which largely lives in the lower end of the range. Bass & bass-baritone singers have the unique extended aptitude in the developed fry register which adds darkness and depth to the rest of the modal voice, a stark contrast to the modal head & flageolet voice of the soprano, and a stark contrast of both bass and soprano against the more chest-mixed registration of lower altos and tenors. It’s worth noting too that most voices struggle around the same D4-F4 passaggio area, and female voices tend not to carry as much chest resounding quality as male voices, even though they can extend upward much more easily, as their head resounding voice is more acoustically piercing rather than booming. Flageolet tends to occur around A5-D6 in most singers who can reasonably access it and fry from F2-Bb2 in most who can reasonably access it as well.
@@nightmare4eVerr1 In the end though, the idea is conceptual. It’s meant as a mild heuristic, not dogma. Of course sopranos can belt and many of the best countertenors out there are natural baritones. Tenors can sing low and altos can sing high. There’s plenty of room for emulation and adaption. That’s a big part of why I made the list actually: if you explore your registers, you might discover a more diverse voice type-wise than you thought you might have had.
@@gillianomotoso328 ah yes your detailed comment makes full sense. I agree with every aspect your well researched i would say. And yes every voice struggles on D4-F4 Because thats a common acoustic registration change where u need to start thinking about vowel modifications/placement no matter what voice type you are. However for basses/baritones, you cant access this area without strain because the voice starts losing modal color before it even gets to D4. So not only do they have to keep support much higher and hit their limit tonkeep their voices chesty, they also have to think even more about vowel modifications. I just wanted to add that because people often think that since D4-F4 is same for voice types, that doesnt mean a baritone/bass can sing higher in modal voice by learning to navigate that. (Theyll always strain, or use a lighter mix that thats heady)
I'm still confused as to how to actually do any of this. You talk about using "head voice" to get light vocal chord closure, and then say to add more fold into the sound to get the beefier sound. When you say "head voice", is this the same as falsetto? If it's not, how exactly is someone supposed to confidently go into a "head voice" and know for sure that what they're in isn't falsetto? And then how do you even practice adding more fold into the sound? I'll start a higher note on a falsetto and try to flip to chest but all that happens is I drop the octave.I've been stuck on this for a couple years now and it's insanely frustrating to practice because I don't know if what I'm doing is correct, and the more frustrated I get the more tension comes in during practice. and at that point my only option is to just stop singing so I don't hurt my throat or vocal folds anymore. so now I've hit this wall and I cannot for the life of me figure what the hell I'm supposed to do to get past it.if anyone else has been here and figured out how to get past this, please, for the love of god, let me know how you did it. Every video I watch on youtube is constantly defining "head" voice, falsetto, and mixed voice differently and it's beyond confusing at this point.
Head Voice is like Falsetto, but with more volume, it's not the same breath weak sound that falsetto has. About mix voice, I think this video can help you: th-cam.com/video/FMl8dGxW9do/w-d-xo.html
Work reverse way. Pick a chest voice note and transition it to falsetto, you do that by lowering volume untill the note becomes super quiet and then you can transition to falsetto. Then LEARN the sensation you felt and try to reverse it.
Was it really you in Dublin on the bridge today?? Omg..your voice so so so good..I don’t know much about music but I love how you sing with so much passion.
Dude I feel like i can relate to this so much and it’s so frustrating lol. Singing low notes is a breeze for me and I feel like my voice has so much potential and power but I just can’t get down the certain nechnoque I need to use. A couple times I think I accidentally unlocked my whole sing range and it was crazy I swear I could sing literally any song with ease. I was so happy trying to remember all the high songs I usually struggle with so I could sing them lol. I have no idea how it happened but it felt almost magical lol. Would there be any possible way you could do a 1v1 vid or audio chat to tell me what my dumbass needs to do? Lol
Hello, I've been using your advice for quite a while and it did work. I got my chest range from c4 to an F4, sometimes f#. But I can't get rid of the strain above B3 for some reason, although I feel much more relaxed now than before. More practice, I guess?
Ive noticed when you belt that high your tongue is rather depressed is that intentionally and what would you recommend for positioning? Is the back of your throat open like a yawning formation?
I'mma try this, today I can subharmonic until E2 and my chest voice go as low as B1, but my chest voice can go as high has F sharp 4, then I can mix D5-F5, BUT I FREAKING TURN TO FALSETTO ON G4-C5, maybe this can help me, I'll update my voice after 1 year As of July 15,2021: I can now mix up to A4, I only improved 3 semitones higher but it's still better than 0 semitones
@@DavidKahnSings Thanks! I did not expect that you'll reply to me, this is an old video and you're still replying to new comments, you're nice and you're definitely underrated! You deserve subs bro😃 Edit: wth, I did not noticed that you're the one who made the vid about subharmonics that made my voice lower
It's an increase in support imo, there is a feeling in your diaphragm. I think of the belly as like a bag pipe that works the opposite way. The healthy pressure of the breath drives the air through the note. Adding more air pressure makes a louder fuller sound. I'm still working on a mix but this is my best advice.
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You know it's gonna be a good video when in just 5 seconds he goes from Bb4 to Eb1, almost 3 1/2 octaves.
Same interval as oogie boogie's song ending
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You mean B4.
Vocal fry low to twang falsetto! Singing is more about tone, timbre and pitch! At some point we started chasing range! Lyrics and melody are also above the aforementioned! If you can sing melodiously in the low and high ranges - stop and rethink! Singing is more than noises is the air! It is more than "notes"!
Him: *goes from Bb4 to Eb1*
Me: Dude, I'm 7 seconds in, and you're already flexing
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What type of bass breaks at an F4?😂😂 freak of nature to start. My natural break starts around a C4. Still tho you give me hope of singing high. Your tips are amazing man.
I guess at the moment he's more like a bass-baritone.
Voices get a little lower as people age, so he'll probably turn into a "full" bass when he's around 30.
Just a guess though.
Remyparkour one w a lot of training! I used to break right around there for many years as well 🤷🏻♀️
Man before I started practicing singing high I capped at a g3! Normal voice reaches an e4 now, in falsetto I can hit an f#5 which I’m very happy with
Bruh this hits close to home. I was stuck at c4 from 16 till 19. I had no clue how to use other registers, so I was stuck with a strained sound until I learned mix and head voices.
It was only after that that I could bring my chest voice up easier. I top out around g4 on a good day, but only because my voice knows how to slip into falsetto when it gets tired. Before, I couldn’t go above c4 without actual shouting and pain.
ANY basses/baritones around, take David’s advice to heart here, even if you never wanna sing like a tenor range, the ease and power you get from his techniques here will save your chords in the future.
Really? I can sing upto F#4 and Im a bass. I can go as low as C2. Maybe I'm a bass-Baritone...
I’ve been practicing ever since this video came out and my comfortable range went up from a C4 to and F4. And my highest belted note went from a G#4 to a Bb4, so it’s been a great process and I can’t wait to see my progress in 3 years when I get to senior year.
I feel like I have the same range you had, I just started practicing and I feel like I'm a baritone and not a bass, because without fry I can't hit an E2 and everything under F2 is really low in volume. And yeah I can sing all the time on E4 so what type am I ?
My highest belt is also G#4 and breaks at a4 but sometimes reach it without break
@@chris9yearsago698 I actually yesterday hit a B4 in mix very loudly, but clean so I'm learning I guess
@@musicval7462 and are u a tenor?
@@chris9yearsago698 I think I'm a baritone. Last week I did actually scream a clean B4 mixed, but I s^till have trouble to "sing G4s" etc, even though I can etchnically go higher. Are you a tenor ?
I break around c4 and I just belted a F4 with minimum strain by doing that first exercise, like damn thanks bro.
Warm-up:
Descending Scales - 15:20
Ascending Scales - 15:57
Mix Transition Exercises:
F Mix - 5:10
A Mix - 7:10
Vocal Slide (B) - 11:06
Baby Goat Groan - 17:07
*Do not squeeze, move your head side to side and you should still be able to do the exercises*
thank you so much. very helpful
Your voice is on another level! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much man!
Also please consider checking out my single! Link in description:)
Your videos are really good, awesome job... I'm a low baritone, but I struggle around D2/D#2, and it is really hard to go below that for me, except early in the morning when I wake up when my voice goes down to like B1/C2. Could you make a video on how to sing on the bottom of your range or increase low range in chest voice? Thank you.
This is crazy. You're extremely underrated.
5:09 7:07 10:37 11:06 15:19
Finally, a legend with the timestamps
I'm a basso cantante and my natural chest range goes from C2-F#4. I can force a G4 with enormous straining but I wanna stop that non sense and learn how to use mixed voice. It might just be my opinion but the problem for me has been that 99% of vocal coaches don't fully understand the bass voice types. You have been really helpful so far. I still sound like a broken copy machine from time to time when I'm doing the exercises but my throat feels a lot healthier when I'm using the range from C4-G4, so thank you and greetings from Germany.
I would say this is a valid point. However, a Tenor voice has the same 1st passagio (E,F,F# above Middle C) area as most regular Bass voices, and also Baritone voices, their voices may not be quite as hefty, but the change from Bass to Tenor classification is not abrupt enough to change the passagio to a higher area, so getting stuck on the F4 is possible for a Tenor as well, and even if they can sing higher than that and you can't, Tenor voices will not be able to comfortably sing all in chest voice into an F4 without making a transition. Their less hefty and less thick classification may make it easier for them to have tension that they can pull through F4 that a Bass has a harder time with, but that tension will usually catch up with them in the 2nd Passagio (A,Bb,B,C above Middle C). So, regardless of your range, all singers need to know how to sing smoothly through the 1st Bridge, or passagio which for most male voices ( Regular Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Counter-Tenor) is E4,F4,F#4. Only then can we all effectively cross the break and have a strong powerful head voice. The 1st passagio has to be free of tension before we stretch our voices up.
Its the same concept with females as well. An Alto voice, despite being lower than a Soprano, is going to have the same 1st Passagio (A,Bb,B,C above Middle C) as a Mezzo, 1st Soprano, or the less common Coloratura. Unless you're dealing with a Contralto (Deeper Alto) voice, the change in the other voices is not enough for the 1st bridge to be lower or higher.
After watching this very inspirational video and after only with the first lesson w my teacher I was able to hit a clean A4. I’m gonna be honest here the way I was able to get it was not through the exercise here but just trying to reach for those high notes and trying stuff on my own to at least hit the notes of the song i really loved with no falsetto .
The bihb bihb exercise from my teacher was what probably helped me learn what it feels like but but it was still sounding very heady but I always kept this tip of yours in the back of my mind :start with the falsetto and and bring chest voice down.. I’ve used today to make my my mixed voice sound better and it worked sounds a lot fuller and chestier still not as good as your A4# on the cover u made but it’s a huge step. This was a huge revelation to me though and probably the second happiest day of my life...the happiest was when my teacher told me yes you can sing tenor!!! It doesn’t matter in contemporary music!!! You’re gonna get that A4 just practice!! So yes there is hope for us baritones!!!!!! And heck i have acid reflux and can’t practice that regularly if ur healthy then u can do this even faster!!!! Good luck to y’all . It doesn’t have to take 10 or 5 years !!!
must be nice to have developed your mix hm
@@ikmalhakimharun3823 it is very nice! it doesn’t sound as good as his but it’s great to know I’m
On my way! Work hard homie! You’ll find it too!
It's kind of funny, tenors like me need to pay attention to the other way, singing low notes with a high voice.
Some tenors can go really deep, my deepest chest voice note is an E2, F#1 with vocal fry/subharmonic singing.
But we just don't have the power and volume the likes of you, Avi and Tim have. So we try to make up for it by putting a little to much weight into our low notes, which is not exactly that healthy.
I'm happy as a tenor but sometimes I wish I could be a bass.
The resonance you get when singing those low notes or just speaking is absolutely incredible.
Are You Crazy!?!?! I wish I could be a Tenor, all the girls I could get lol Tenors can sing High notes as easy as breathing
thats why im grateful to be a baritone, we can do both with a bit of training lmao, ive trained my voice to go up to B4 and down to D2, i would maybe prefer being a tenor but they both have their benefits
@@TayTheAncientgirls prefer deeper voices from my pov but yet everyone has their own preferences
As a singer who has been through a long process of discovering and rediscovering the mix voice and finding different gradations of fold used, I can say that this video is completely valid in all the tips that it provides. Thank you for making this awesome video. Also, Make It on Our Own sounds great! Instrumentally and vocally.
This is *THE BEST* video on this stuff I've ever come across. Thank you so much, David
This helped build on stuff I found a few years back. The rubber band analogy helped me beat my d4 limit when my voice dropped originally. I wasn’t able to hit anything, ANYTHING, in the 5th octave until I found how to stretch my voice for falsetto and add more gradually, and my top note went from b4 to over g5. So happy to hear more of this advice being spread. Take my like👍
Thanks a lot, David. I was feeling a bit depressed about my progress and watching this inspired me and I'm adding the exercises to my regimen now!
This seriously is the most helpful singing video I’ve ever seen! The way you explained everything really made sense and I’m excited to do these exercises.
I really hope this helps me. 'cause it really frustrates me not being able to sing how I want to. Thank you for openimg my mind and now I know where I need to focus on.
I'm a bass too currently struggling around G4 with some vowels especially "o" and "u". Always feel i automatically tighten my throat.. And i can barely hit B4 with a weird cat noise.... Really grateful for this video! It feels so reassuring to know that i still have some undiscovered potential if i work for it...
Will try those exercise tmr in the shower hahahaha
glad to help! please share if you think it would help your squad as well🙏🖤
Man i usually don't comment any video, but the way you drove the tips and the reflexion about having a the voice have make progress a lot!! i mean, i've been looking trough a lot of mixed voice videos and your videos really made sense for me, because i also have a very low voice and couldn't find the right video. Thanks a lot!
Yessss the master shares his knowledge again! Thanks for the video man. Great information
This helps even for me, who's a low baritone.
So glad to hear brotha! You got it💪
Oh, I feel you, bro! I´ve always been trained as a baritone but pop music requires sometimes a high C. It´s been so hard to develop the speech level singing mix and the nasal constriction mix by myself. My classical teachers (in Mexico they are the cheapest) said I had to use apoggio to reach high notes and that only allows me to reach a high A, and the estill teacher I had last semester wanted me to belt with apoggio too but without the operatic passagio (like classical teachers trying to teach me pop singing), he was very disgusted when I told him I don´t wanted to use pulled chest voice anymore and the worst came when I told him I wanted to develop a dark nasal mixed sound (like R&B singers), he said that was not correct and as I said "it´s my voice and I want to decide my sound" he asked the school for a change of student. I know a great teacher who knows SLS and Nasal Constriction very well but because of covid-19 right now I don´t have the money to work with her. So sad. But you know what keeps me hopeful? Last year when I was starting to develop my mix I was asinged to a classical teacher who really thought I was a tenor because I was able to reach a high Bb (mixed) and he really thoght it was my "tenor range" and not a mixed voice so I gues I´m going the right way lol
I have been feeling very bad about my voice and this helped me. I do theatre and would love to go on to a professional stance and go onto bigger things with theatre as I feel I am a decent actor. However I am a bass. And in theatre (musical theatre) as in broadway, I would get told that as a bass you will not be able to play young characters. This has some truth as many broadway actors in male leads must be a tenor or a high baritone. And being a bass is very demotivating when you get told that you won’t ever be able to hit high notes. However this video helped me see that I can. And that I can use my voice and become more versatile.
I was just diagnosed with the baritone curse last week… This video video gives me a lot of hope!
Hey sir, thanks for the 20 minutes of worth knowledge you share to us. I've been trying to expand my range, but since i don't have any vocal coach im afraid I'll end up hurting my own voice. And then I'm starting to search more on TH-cam and i found you. This is one of the most usefull vocal exercises and tips i ever find.
Omg! This is it - for me at least. Finally I am able to sing beyond my break (F#4) all the way up to d5. And i am sure that with more practice i can make it sound good too. Thank you so much!❤❤❤
you got this!
Wow! I'm a baritone and u my bro are quite impressive with those lows
Omg,thank you so much for this.It really makes a difference for a lot of bass singers like me.You are amazing,you never fail at amazing all of us.Keep up the good work❤️
10:54 => slides through the registers
12:20 => realizing you are your best teacher (listen to yourself)
15:19 => warm-up going down
15:56 => warm-up going up
17:04 => baby goat yelling + moving head left to right
This is getting me really excited. Absolutely bookmarking this.
you look like that guy from ratatouille
Done
ive been surfing vocal tips for the longest time and this was THE MOST on point!
This video makes much more sense to me on how to hit high notes. I'm still young and I'm going through puberty. In middle school I could hit so many high notes, but then in 8th grade my voice started getting lower and I had to push more to get high notes.
I asked my music teacher about how I can reach high notes again and they told me it's some kind of feeling in your throat, but I still didn't get it.
I tried doing your exercise in this video. Whenever I try to switch from head voice to chest voice I have to do a little break in between and I can't do it continuously. I really don't get how to open up my vocal chords during chest voice, I have to push everytime.
Thanks for the vid, it really helped me with identifying what my problem was (pushing) and I know it's not as hard as I think. Can you give me some exercises to work on to improve my high notes voice?
I finally found my mix a few months ago, and have sang up to C#5 as a bass, but I'm struggling with consistency and making the tone more pleasant. I've sometimes been able to use the 2nd harmonic to make it sound thicker, but it's still too bright imo.
hey man thank you so much for posting this video and putting yourself out there. It means a lot bro and definitely inspired me in many ways to not give up on my own voice. Was literally searching through TH-cam to gain some confidence on my own voice to see if it was possible for a person with my voice type (probably baritone) who could sing. Although my voice doesn't go as low as yours, it's surely a bit on the deeper side so watching this video gave me a lot of inspiration to not give up on my dream of being able to sing. Thank you man! I watched some of your covers. You have an amazing voice! I subbed and keep up the great work!
Thank you, David. Wonderful teaching, much appreciated. God bless you
I’m a baritone and I just learned to sing Perfect by Ed Sheeran. Managed to hit the notes! It’s so hard but I did it!
Baritone too, just tried it out, everything was quite comfy (except for that G#4 in the chorus at first, but then i nailed it with no problem after a few trys).
@@djabthrash Ed Sheeran is a lyric baritone, it should not be that difficult.
It was both painfully relatable and relieving to hear your journey.
ahah we are all on the journey! ironically my next original release comes out on the 28th and it’s called journey ;)
The first exercise helped me do an A4, whereas my break is usually way below that.
Great stuff !
That’s amazing bro💪👊
Thanks for giving me a great insight....great analogies with such honesty I feel like you shared your experience and struggles with me....I think your techniques are going to work for me. Cheers
Great video - I have a range from A1 to A4 and this has been very helpful
solid! and thank you😁
dont fear the rain by doubrelle is an example
@@DavidKahnSings
I think learning how to do subharmonics helped me to do this😂 it has helped me to relax my vocal chords and then instead of sliding down, I took the idea to slide up. I can’t believe how universal some of these techniques are, this is awesome!
Damn bro, free 20 minute singing tutorial, too good to be true
Best video I’ve found on singing , thanks man !
I also find that while I can get a very similar mixed voice sound in a nasal way like you mention here, it has a serious volume limit that makes it unusable for very loud rock stuff because it just does not compete with the aggressive top end of my lower register. So instead, although it's much harder to develop the strength and coordination for, it's more valuable to learn to make that same very bright tonal quality by having good placement and projection, almost in an operatic way. This gives it cut and a fullness that, while still not the same as a lower register sound, at least competes in terms of volume over loud electric instrumentals. It's very similar in sound, enough to confuse most people, but it's easy to tell the difference because it's not at all impacted if you plug your nose while making it, it's a bit harsher and it's probably about 10-20db louder on average than the nasal tone you described here.
either can work with the right breath support!
@@DavidKahnSings That's actually really helpful information, thank you!
How did you *actually* learn to do the exercise at 5:10? I understand that practicing this transition from falsetto to chest is a great way to practice in the passagio but I have NO IDEA what to even work on to be able to practice that transition from falsetto to chest. If I could I wouldn't be watching this video, I would be doing it.
For reference, my chest voice ranges from C2-D4. I can sing any note from, say, middle C to tenor C in my falsetto, but it is a 100% different register, sensation, locked arena, whatever, than my chest voice. I am unable to "bring in chest voice"; my voice will just stay in falsetto, no matter what changes I try to make with my support or voice. I have to hard-stop singing and try the note again in my chest voice (which hits a brick wall at D4). Same goes for starting in chest and bringing in falsetto. The only notes I can do anything close to this on are in my low range, low enough to where I don't have tension (maybe around G3).
Can you (or others reading) explain what exactly I need to practice to be able to practice this exercise?
i would practice it around where you can comfortably do it even some what and continue to practice bringing it up slowly! also if you ever want to have a voice lesson i help people all the time get it down quicker. send me an email (davidkahnsings@gmail.com) or dm on insta @davidkahnsings
Read The Tenor Voice by Anthony Frisell, you should do descending falsetto chromatic scales first and then the Messa Di Voce
Could you do a video on falsetto singing for bass singers? I’ve gotten better recently, but still have a ways to go. Any help would be much appreciated!
15:20 for his amazing warmup!
I need some more of the technicals behind bringing in the chest voice. Can sing the F4 in head easily but don’t know how to bring in chest. C4 is highest in chest for me and it’s very strained.
Fantastic vid btw!
it’s all in the exercises believe it or not, slowly adding support starting from very quietly up and down the scales and then with more volume each time. i may possibly make another video on this so thank you for your comment!
I'm going to try this start light idea. and maybe do some things to increase my chest range. that makes sense then it'll at least hopefully let me sing a few notes higher w/o feeling like I'm dying. haha
god DAMN this guy is good at explaining shit
Wow, that's interesting.I'll try it and tell you if it worked with me.
What about a tutorial of how to get lower in chest voice? I know, you made a subharmonic tutorial already but I find it pretty difficult to switch to subharmonics in a down-scale like in Rachmaninov's Vespers
That's an interesting video. Honestly I got the theory for quite a while now (to the point I can actually teach what you're showing) but doing it is another thing. I'm actually a professional operatic bass so maybe my problem is there (like singing with too much fold in full chest for years). I can sing strong covered F4 and can go as low as a good strong D2. As for head belt, I can do really good belts from C4 to maybe A5, even some good heavy metal screams like manowar with healthy saturation. But man, between E4 and C4, two options, first is having a weak head voice full of air, second one is try to add more folds but end up sounding like a duck and it's very instable and it seems impossible to bridge this with chest voice, even light one. Do you have an advice ? Of course I'll try those few exercises.
Thank you so much sir🙏🙏🙏❤️
Thanks a lot man, seriously. Even if i try to find a vocal teacher on México they don't care about increasing vocal Range. I mean i know is not the most important thing but you really Help me out. Love to you c:
Wow! Plenty of good and useful content. Thanks for this dude!!!
Excellent advice and voice 🎶✨👍
Your song is so great 😯
Btw did you have any problems with relaxing your voice? I'm struggling trying to sing over g#4/a4
Yes for many years, take it slow. And thank you for listening!
I always have to sing a song in a lower key to the point I sound scary. I feel bad.
Low voices are the rarest
@@NikoKyon And the most limited ones
@@edgebug unless you train ;)
@@DavidKahnSings I agree, still limited tho
@@edgebug I mean baritone's can get up to like a5 in mixed voice so I'm sure that with enough training bass's can get up there with enough training
Flaps of flesh. Giggity.
Man, you struggled at a D4 when you started? I broke at an A3 when I started... I had to work like hell just to be able to sing a C4. I can now use my upper register at solid volume with enough strength/stability to do some very fun upper register notes with subharmonics and rasp and weird overtones and all kinds of party tricks. Even up over C5, right up to around G5 now. And I can sustain a solidly loud D5 for in excess of 15 seconds. But for the life of me, I still cannot seem to smoothly slide between registers. I'm not sure what isn't clicking for me, but I just cannot seem to get a handle on bridging.
try slowing it down! if you would like a vocal coaching send me an email at davidkahnsings@gmail.com :)
so basically i just gotta learn how to mix
@@aylergayuno yes!
Hi @David Kahn :) I hope you see this comment because while I listen to all of your covers and I'm generally not into those styles of music, it's still impressive to see someone with such a range. I think if I had started singing normally my voice would have been a baritone or low tenor but the bass range is fascinating to me. I figure I won't be singing much higher than the 4th octave but I'm trying to extend my low range. Chest voice I can sing Eb2, I can reliably get a G1 with subharmonics (which I learned from yours and @David Larson's video) and I can hit an F1 with growl. I still think low chest is the best sounding of all these registers, however, so I'd like to be able to get to a C2. I want to be able to sing Avi Kaplan's bass part in Pentatonix - Run To You. Again, while I'm comfortable with the top of my range and don't plan to expand it much, I enjoyed this and found it helpful because I think these techniques are applicable to any note. Thanks for listening :)) (Speaking of listening I listened to your song Make It on Our Own and it was great. Your range blows me away)
What you are doing is called The Messa Di Voce excercise
ahh wow
5:10 7:09 10:43 11:06 15:20 15:57 17:06
I can sing a D2-G#4 with chest voice although I start to break at E4. From G#4 I can sing to a C5 with mixed voice, although it sounds weak…
That’s solid bro, hit me up for some vocal coaching if you want to get faster results! Davidkahnsings@gmail.com
try to sing like you and my roomate told me that I sound like a rooster.
Oliver Cao oh dang :(
Same happened to me, and it's the break happening :) You can get past it and sing a clean note in the end tho' !
Well, the song Rooster by Alice in Chains is very good, it's an F4 in the verse and a fried Bb4 in the chorus
that's exactly what I needed! Thank you!
so glad to hear ed! all i ask is you please share w the squad if you think it could be helpful to others too💕🙌
@@DavidKahnSings sorry, but I don't squad, and I don't know how to use it. But I will definitely reccomend your channel to everyone, who has the same questions as I have. BTW do you teach singing classes in person?
I like bass low voice even though I'm tenor my voice is too light I can't go down from f#2 but I can belt f4 easy but stain on c#5 my falsetto can go up to f6 which I like the most
Exercise:
15:20
David, thank u! I am low baritone and i always had problem with high notes. It was hard to sing E3 for me. But maybe 2 month ago i started to practice mixed voice. So i feel that u dont need to push high note but stretch it as u said. Now i can hit G3 easily, but higher notes sound thin. Do i need time to teach my muscle or am i doing something wrong? When i warmup i dont feel any strain and i feel my neck very relaxed.
Tough to say for sure. I’d love to set up a skype/FaceTime voice coaching. Feel free to send me an email at davidkahnsings@gmail.com and we can get you singing comfortably in your higher registers!
This is actually really helpful! Thanks a lot bro!
Excellent video dude !
Thanks brotha! Have you heard my debut single btw? Link in bio ;)
Im a Bass 2 in Choir, im the one who has the lowest range , i can hit C_2 effortlessly, when i force myself i can go A#1, but my effortless highest note is C_4. i really can't sing proper higher than that, i wonder what technique should be learned or what vocal warm up do i need everyday to increase my range.
This one!
@@DavidKahnSings Thank you bro.👍
A lot inspiring. Thanks a lot. I will try.
you got this!
It's interesting you say your vocal break is around an F4, because this would normally be a break for a tenor. Bass normally break around the A3 - D4 area.
I believe I said this in the video but again my break when I first started singing was C4-D4 and as I have trained to sing more tenor it has risen.
@DavidKahnSings interesting I didn't know your break could change. I just presumed your passaggios were set in stone. Perhaps you mastering the mix voice has bridged this gap for you?
I have a low deep voice too so I found your video quite interesting. Without any vocal training I could quite comfortably hit a C2 note however still struggle to sing high. My break is around C4.
I really appreciate you sharing your experiences. I think that you are so talented. And I can only imagine the work you have had to put in to develop your range to where it is now. You have probably had to work so much harder than other artists who are natural tenors and can naturally sing high.
I really hope you have success in your music career you deserve it 🙂
Love this! And thank you!
Thank you for this video!
This is realy helpful, i have bever hit an octave higher in my life. Other than that this is life changing!
What do you think of this, conceptually?
Coloratura soprano: flageolet dominant
Lyric soprano: head dominant
Dramatic soprano: middle dominant
Mezzo: middle dominant
Contralto: chest dominant
Countertenor: middle dominant
Lyric tenor: mixed dominant
Dramatic tenor: chest dominant
Baritone: chest dominant
Bass-baritone: chest or fry dominant
Bass: fry dominant
This is very flawed.
A baritone/bass can sing with a head dominant mix aswell throughout their entire range.
Laryngeal mechanisms are not how voice types are defined.
I dont understand what your concept is
@@nightmare4eVerr1 When I wrote this, I thought about where the voice of a voice type shines. I still think this corresponds archetypally in that sense, but it is of course true that anyone can sing in any register, especially in theory as we all have full larynxes. That wasn’t what I was getting at, that each voice type sings solely in one dominant mode of the voice. I meant that each voice type has shining moments and type-defining moments in the registers listed.
@@nightmare4eVerr1 Sopranos shine in their head voice and are distinct in that way, with coloratura sopranos being distinct out of their bunch because they have strong facility in the flageolet register. Mezzos & altos* are often equated as “belters” in musical theater because of the chest & mix dominant singing being lower than soprano singing which is typed as “legit”. There is correlation there. The contralto is often prided over for how easily she extends her chest voice, namely for her low range, both of which most female singers will not have as much facility in - low notes & pure upper chest notes. Countertenors sing akin to mezzos and low sopranos, while tenors sing in more of a chest mix that is a lot like that of the contralto but fuller and darker in color. The baritone tends to sing most conversationally, as does the contralto singer, as both sing in a chest voice which largely lives in the lower end of the range. Bass & bass-baritone singers have the unique extended aptitude in the developed fry register which adds darkness and depth to the rest of the modal voice, a stark contrast to the modal head & flageolet voice of the soprano, and a stark contrast of both bass and soprano against the more chest-mixed registration of lower altos and tenors. It’s worth noting too that most voices struggle around the same D4-F4 passaggio area, and female voices tend not to carry as much chest resounding quality as male voices, even though they can extend upward much more easily, as their head resounding voice is more acoustically piercing rather than booming. Flageolet tends to occur around A5-D6 in most singers who can reasonably access it and fry from F2-Bb2 in most who can reasonably access it as well.
@@nightmare4eVerr1 In the end though, the idea is conceptual. It’s meant as a mild heuristic, not dogma. Of course sopranos can belt and many of the best countertenors out there are natural baritones. Tenors can sing low and altos can sing high. There’s plenty of room for emulation and adaption. That’s a big part of why I made the list actually: if you explore your registers, you might discover a more diverse voice type-wise than you thought you might have had.
@@gillianomotoso328 ah yes your detailed comment makes full sense.
I agree with every aspect your well researched i would say.
And yes every voice struggles on D4-F4
Because thats a common acoustic registration change where u need to start thinking about vowel modifications/placement no matter what voice type you are.
However for basses/baritones, you cant access this area without strain because the voice starts losing modal color before it even gets to D4.
So not only do they have to keep support much higher and hit their limit tonkeep their voices chesty, they also have to think even more about vowel modifications.
I just wanted to add that because people often think that since D4-F4 is same for voice types, that doesnt mean a baritone/bass can sing higher in modal voice by learning to navigate that. (Theyll always strain, or use a lighter mix that thats heady)
you give the example to bring your chest voice into your head voice, but that's the point if that's doesn't work, how do you come at that point,.
I'm still confused as to how to actually do any of this. You talk about using "head voice" to get light vocal chord closure, and then say to add more fold into the sound to get the beefier sound. When you say "head voice", is this the same as falsetto? If it's not, how exactly is someone supposed to confidently go into a "head voice" and know for sure that what they're in isn't falsetto? And then how do you even practice adding more fold into the sound? I'll start a higher note on a falsetto and try to flip to chest but all that happens is I drop the octave.I've been stuck on this for a couple years now and it's insanely frustrating to practice because I don't know if what I'm doing is correct, and the more frustrated I get the more tension comes in during practice. and at that point my only option is to just stop singing so I don't hurt my throat or vocal folds anymore. so now I've hit this wall and I cannot for the life of me figure what the hell I'm supposed to do to get past it.if anyone else has been here and figured out how to get past this, please, for the love of god, let me know how you did it. Every video I watch on youtube is constantly defining "head" voice, falsetto, and mixed voice differently and it's beyond confusing at this point.
Head Voice is like Falsetto, but with more volume, it's not the same breath weak sound that falsetto has.
About mix voice, I think this video can help you:
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Head voice is part of the modal voice. Falsetto is only partial vocal fold closure.
Work reverse way. Pick a chest voice note and transition it to falsetto, you do that by lowering volume untill the note becomes super quiet and then you can transition to falsetto. Then LEARN the sensation you felt and try to reverse it.
Was it really you in Dublin on the bridge today?? Omg..your voice so so so good..I don’t know much about music but I love how you sing with so much passion.
WTF 🤯🤯 you said bass and blew some beautiful tenor notes.
haha thanks, we don’t want to neglect any parts of the voice!
If i'm not mistaken, axel rose from Guns'nRoses is a Bass-baritone, and almost every song in 1st octave.
You’re right! Good ear
Can you write the names of your teachers? I would like to find these programs in Berklee! You inspired!
paul pampinella and steve kowalcyzk
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Dude I feel like i can relate to this so much and it’s so frustrating lol. Singing low notes is a breeze for me and I feel like my voice has so much potential and power but I just can’t get down the certain nechnoque I need to use. A couple times I think I accidentally unlocked my whole sing range and it was crazy I swear I could sing literally any song with ease. I was so happy trying to remember all the high songs I usually struggle with so I could sing them lol. I have no idea how it happened but it felt almost magical lol. Would there be any possible way you could do a 1v1 vid or audio chat to tell me what my dumbass needs to do? Lol
yes! i teach via skype, ft, whatsapp, etc. send me an email davidkahnsings@gmail.com or dm @davidkahnsings
Hello, I've been using your advice for quite a while and it did work. I got my chest range from c4 to an F4, sometimes f#. But I can't get rid of the strain above B3 for some reason, although I feel much more relaxed now than before. More practice, I guess?
Yes, sing sirens while moving your head gently/slowly from side to side
I love your low voice
Thank you:)
Ive noticed when you belt that high your tongue is rather depressed is that intentionally and what would you recommend for positioning? Is the back of your throat open like a yawning formation?
I'mma try this, today I can subharmonic until E2 and my chest voice go as low as B1, but my chest voice can go as high has F sharp 4, then I can mix D5-F5, BUT I FREAKING TURN TO FALSETTO ON G4-C5, maybe this can help me, I'll update my voice after 1 year
As of July 15,2021:
I can now mix up to A4, I only improved 3 semitones higher but it's still better than 0 semitones
You got this💪
@@DavidKahnSings Thanks! I did not expect that you'll reply to me, this is an old video and you're still replying to new comments, you're nice and you're definitely underrated! You deserve subs bro😃
Edit: wth, I did not noticed that you're the one who made the vid about subharmonics that made my voice lower
This is OK if you know head from chest voice..I have no clue
When will you be offering vocal lessons. I’m interested and ready to pay!!
Shoot an email to davidkahnsings@gmail.com!
Are you saying that I should be training falsetto to be thicker or something else? I'm very confused
Great video. So I understand what you mean by 'bringing in more fold', but how the F do you actually do it?!
It's an increase in support imo, there is a feeling in your diaphragm.
I think of the belly as like a bag pipe that works the opposite way. The healthy pressure of the breath drives the air through the note. Adding more air pressure makes a louder fuller sound.
I'm still working on a mix but this is my best advice.
Thanks for the exercises!! Did you also have to learn breath support or was it already naturally there, what is good way to learn it?
Yes it was a lot of work! I’m actually working on a new tutorial video for that, stay tuned:)
Thank U so much, you're amazing!!
No prob bro, thanks for watching! Have you heard my debut single btw? Available on all platforms 😁
@@DavidKahnSings Listening to it right now. It's beautiful!