0:00 Intro 0:20 Let's jump right into the juicy stuff. How do you go from point A to point G(reg)? 0:44 Exercise Number 1 - The Creak or Vocal Fry 0:56 Ways to find a nice relaxed vocal fry 2:22 Take the Creak to various pitches and slide into chest voice, then just creak all the way up 2:53 This exercise makes sure you keep enough cord closure and not go into falsetto 3:44 Don't let go of that tension when you ascend! 4:04 Coordinating out of the Creak into sound 4:56 Issues you might encounter with this exercise 5:38 try starting with a clean, light sound and then add the Creak 6:43 Mess around with the amounts of breath pressure when you try to coordinate out of the Creak. The more breath pressure, the chestier the sound and vice versa. 7:28 Exercise Number 2 - Glottals 8:19 the glottal onset is a sign of good vocal fold closure 8:41 find the glottal onset everywhere across your range 8:45 Nice 9:03 the way to think about glottals 9:44 the appropriate volume for glottals 11:01 issues you may find entering the passagio using glottals 11:27 Follow along! 12:06 advice on glottals for the ladies 13:00 the falsetto version if you can't get higher 13:17 Falsetto versus Head Voice 13:53 Glottals and their relation to breath pressure 14:49 Pay attention to the vowel/vocal tract shape that you are using 16:00 Easier to start with an open vowel like Eh versus a closed vowel like EE or OO 17:03 Follow along! Eh glottals 17:34 The importance of opening the mouth more on Eh as you go higher in pitch 18:43 Exercise Number 3 - Falsetto Mix 18:54 You need a loud clear strong falsetto first otherwise you will be unable to get into Falsetto Mix 19:15 Whoopy falsetto (F1/H1 for you nerds) 21:34 Crescendo the falsetto 21:56 Use glottal attacks in falsetto 22:24 What's the level of support you have when you have this loud clear falsetto? 23:07 Once you have the level of support clear in your sensations, you want that level to be 100% steady and constant. Very important! 23:44 Stay in the OO and then open the vowel up 24:38 Make sure you have a big smile, big opening when you open the vowel. Make sure you have the tongue low enough too. 25:26 EE-Eh 25:57 Look at that dangly thing (the uvula) 26:28 Cool thing about Falsetto Mix 27:28 Falsetto Mix with Glottals 27:59 Outro and Thanks for Watching!
This one is a game changer b/c Greg doesn't just say, "Here's an exercise, do it and you will get there." I am so impressed at how well he takes us from him not doing it, to doing it... and then even gives the alternative of coming from falsetto. And extra points for how he shows what is going on with the shape of his throat - some teachers have a scope, but he just looks into the camera and shows us. Dang, this guy is good! Not to mention the instead of "saying to start with "eh," he shows us what happens when if we get stuck on something more open... So cool! Getting better every time I watch this and it hasn't been 24hrs. I'm glad he is getting attention with his approach - his videos have made my practice more productive and if he is helping me, he's helping others. Go Greg! Thanks for breaking it out by time, too!
In my years of youtube research, including folks such as cheryl porter and chris liepe, I have NEVER found anyone who could help me understand what mix is and how it should feel better than you do. I am infinitely grateful that you made this and other videos. You've become my go-to for discovering my voice. I notice I can do most of what you do but I struggle keeping it clean, it keeps adding distortion especially as I climb up the tone ladder. Interesting stuff
Im literally about to cry right now I accessed my mixed voiced today!!! Thank you!! People will not believe me but this is real I accessed my mixed before he even starts explaining under a Minute i copied what he did and then boomm😭😭💗💗💗 thank you!! I can now easily hit A4-D5 easily! Before i was kinda struggling to hit G4-A4 cause I’m using a pulled up chest voice but now i can do it easily gosh!! Thank youuuuuu so muchhh out of all vocal coach here on youtube you’re the only one who have helped me to access my mixed voice so easily!! From my experience its now easier to hit f4-C5! Before i cant hit A4 at ease but with mix voice its so easy!! I always do a pulled up chest and my voice only ranges up to F4 at ease before
WOW. The creek door really helped me!! I would pull too much chest. Making me lose richness as I got higher into “mix” because something would press on my vocal chords making them feel strained/tired quickly. But that creek muscle should stay there in mix in a way that’s how it felt and I noticed a HUGE change I was hitting the notes correctly into mix. Thank you so much!
@@StudioWestLessons yes a grandpa voice would make sense it was very restrained/nasal but not too exaggerated I could hit the note right but just volume, richness, tone would decrease a lot with also my voice feeling tired and strained. It even almost made it sound like I was constipated almost lmao. This is my 3rd month learning how to sing and this was a huge threshold to cross for me. Thanks again
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much! This vocal fry exercise CHANGE my life! I was already accessing head voice and mix for 2 years, but some higher notes not frequently. This exercise help me access head voice without head resonance, making higher notes easy and light to access. Now, I'm adapting to this new light, easy and comfortable way to sing.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, especially on the part talking about how breath pressure can turn the sound chesty or light. I’ve been wanting to know so much how to make my mixed voice sound chesty and like full voice how my favorite singers do. I’m hitting crazy high notes now and thinking “this is it???” Like dude thank you! I’ve been through so many vocal coaches in person and on here and you’re definitely in my top. You give real tangible feedback instead of all this abstract bullshit. This is all anyone needs on mixed voice EVER.
So helpful thank you! As a life long soprano now learning to sing in chest and mixed voice this made so much sense! I cant believe I am singing this high in a mix!
Holy hell....I have watched A LOT of TH-cam vids on singing and on mixed...and this is a GAME CHANGER!! That vocal fry exercise alone had me feeling like Robert plant! Will check out ur other vids
I was digging through TH-cam all over and kept getting mixed voice explanation videos but not enough examples and approaches. This was incredibly dense with valuable information and was perfectly suited for my stage. Thank you so much for making this video!
I come back to your video several times to practice and learn and finally start to hear the voice I want. Your videos are really helpful and are better than the others. Thanks.
I’m following along. (You kept asking so I knew it was important to you.) Thank you for making this video for those of us who already know what Mixed Voice is and already know what a creak or fry is BUT who are craving a video that helps us exercise this! Yay!
Bravo! Thanks Greg. I loved the video and it really helped that you demonstrated so much and added humor and play into the lesson. I was singing in ways that I never allowed before. thanks. You pulled it all together and made it click for me at the end when you said not to trust our feelings and when you said that it feels like falsetto for you. I've been discounting my mixed voice thinking that it was really falsetto. Thank you! Oh yeah, love the camp too.
This was amazing! For years I thought there was no way for me to safely access G4 and above without either falsetto or pulling chest then getting a sore throat haha.... The creak into the notes to keep the folds closed were so helpful and freaking cool! All of a sudden could mix an "ah" vowel from G4 to C5 without pain! I can't use it consistently yet, especially in songs because of the different vowels and consonants - but super super overjoyed bc of the breakthrough. Thank you!
your demonstration in the opening in the video is all I needed to hear. Immediately got it but sometimes cant make sound come out if feel too much squeezing or too little. It’s kinda funny. Sometimes got it though. It feels like holding breath back while talking but not too strongly. Sometimes gotta sigh high to low to loosen it up again if it over does it. Hit or miss. Compared to the other singing videos like singing success- they do it way too lightly it just doesn’t work for me following them. Feels like flicking a switch and being careful halfway with theirs. Definitely gotta practice this at daytime in a place fearless of volume and not 4am lol. People will think youre dying or having secks.
I'm not a good singer but i am amazed by your voice😯😍, it's very wide, full of control and what i like about is your vibrato, which until now i can't do but this is what i want to learn. I love singing but i'm not doing any exercises in my voice because i don't have place for doing that. It feels when i do exercises like that my siblings will probably laugh on me. Thank you for that lessons😊👏👏you are amazing once again😊👏
@@BradiantHello, thank you for that, for now i'm too shy but hoping i could do the exercises in an enclosed space or even have my own studio😁 without getting shy because only myself hearing those notes coming from my mouth🤢
bruh these are straight up f*cking hacks wtf?! I've never felt my mixed voice more clearly before, these exercises are crazy effective, I don't even feel that much strain anymore. Can't thank you enough.
So gooooood!!! I realised what I was doing wrong with the flag mix now. I was squeezing too much when im creaking. Now I understand I should let the creaking happen naturally rather than constipating hahaha
I’ve met my new best friend for the next few months! I’m recovering from superier laryngeal nerve damage mixed with muscle tension Dysphonia and though I’ve been a pro singer for years, I’m learning the basics again. This was a brilliant video to discover and help get my upper range back. Thanks Greg!!
I really really like your teaching approach and how you're one of the most honest youtube singing teachers online. Especially you demonstrating and literally visualizing (on your own throat :D) how to execute certain exercises. The only thing making me insecure about your videos is when you say "That's wrong"... Of course you meant it only for a certain exercise, and not in an overall, general view, but still I feel like it's also making a lot of beginners, me including, very uncertain about whether they should always approach their singing like this or if there are varying types of cases. I hope you don't see this as an offensive or hating comment because really, it's quite the opposite and as a singer, I think it's really really hard to kinda find your own style or approach and still keep it healthy or "right".. but as you already said in your videos that there is no real "right" way, we're more in a sort of struggle, because we constantly question our technique, and then even our ability which is, of course the worse thing that can happen as a singer because confidence is key. Only love and regards to you and your videos :)
Greg the way you are explaining and showing the same time is amazing .It is super very very helpful !!! And how to find the mix etc.I was watching many of your videos. And try to learn from you .
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of SOVT exercises in this video. Without going into a long winded talk about why, it’s good to see that! Haha. They’re like.... ok..... but not great.
Focking hell, I have been looking for this video for a year. Finally I understand how to get to mix voice. Not to say I like how it sounds right now, haha. Thanks man
very nice, now its my miiiiix...., no ..no....still figure it out how to control, but its the most easiest singing couch I can find so far....great work and thank you.
Dude... I think you just gave me the key to fixing my tone. Where the hell did you find that information about the back of the vocal folds not closing?
Hey! For sure u cant remember me but I commented on this video 2 months ago! I just wanted to say thank you so much!! I’m getting better with mixing high notes!! I can hit A4-B4 at ease! And I noticed whenever I’m singing that high my vibrato comes in naturally!! But the only problem is that my chest voice weakened IDK why!!!😭😭🤣 now I kept on using mixed voice even if Im only singing at E4-F#4🥲😆 any advice? I’m mor eof a belter before but now I’m kinda struggling and always accidentally switching from chest to mix😂
OMG this is a total revelation! I so want to to learn how this works in my voice... but totally freaked out to do it without someone monitoring me due to my vocal chord issues!
@@StudioWestLessons because of my history of bad chord adduction since I was a kid (nodules and having to have speech therapy at three stages in my life) I just have bad habits that my body reverts back to when I perform. So I lost my voice mid gig sometimes. Doing high 80’s pop tunes non stop for up to an hour per set
@@StudioWestLessons I've had nodules which rendered me voiceless and meningitis that caused my chords to inflame to the point of losing my voice altogether. Both of these took months each to fix and recover from.
@@StudioWestLessons and i most certainly will be doing them... it would just be great if i had a third eye watching me and telling me when my technique is incorrect... or telling me what i need to do.... is that a passively aggressive enough or big enough hint to say i need a singing teacher????
When I see video like that I feel love. Bravo I definitely have to take a lesson with you.. I sing opera and I think this approach would work for it very well
Search for a consonant called the "voiceless velar fricative" and look into the mirror when you do it and you should see the palatopharyngeal arches approximate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
You're the best vocal coach ever. Love that you make us laugh while teaching, that's the best kind. Question: I know when I'm in my mix but I struggle to have power in it the way I do in my belts. So then I start pulling chest which strains me. How do I make my true mix sound more powerful, kinda like Amy Lee?
okay i've watched like six videos and this all just feels like a body hack and i love it edit: i've also learned what exactly was happening when i was doing a lot of this stuff cuz some of it i just learned on my own but now i know what the actual technique is!!
Do you have any videos on increasing vocal range for mixed voice? I’ve tried to find them but you helped me discover how to do a mixed voice, (only person who’s videos made sense on it btw) but when trying to apply it in songs I want to sing it still feels straining and difficult. Does this just come with time? Thanks so much for all the time you put in to these!
Hey Greg great video it is helping a lot. One question though. When I do this exercise I really can get that clean buzzy sound you talked about in the third tip, with a lot of resonance, and Im able to switch to more closed vowels aswell, but it really does just feel like a stronger falsetto. When I try to add a bit of weight onto that I just lose it and my voice cracks. It feels disconnected from the rest of my register if that makes sense, like if I wanted to get to that position or coordination as you call it in a song I wouldnt be able to without cracking. Let me know if this doesnt make sense
And I feel like I have great control of my chest voice and get regulate the volume and air pressure to my liking up until like an F#/G4, which is where it gets really janky and I lose that control and usually break into falsetto or head voice quite clearly.
hello and congratulations for the videos. your videos are really very well explained. I wanted to ask you a curiosity of mine: I saw that when you open your mouth, the tongue in the center forms a kind of hollow, it is lower than the sides, as an "U". This can favor the right sound? because I don't know how to do it. Thank you very much
Thank you so much for posting this! I am finding my mix voiced very well but when I’m higher in my range I’m having trouble getting volume from it. The soft notes are better than they’ve ever been up high but I’m having trouble with the loud notes. Any advice?
Loving your vids, Greg! Can you please talk more about placement and the soft palate? How and where do you 'aim' your voice/airflow/whatever the right term is LOL. Where is the feeling and how do you find it? I have some idea but would love to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks bro keep pumping out these awesome vids. CVT is amazing I got their app, wish they have vids like yours!
Hi Gregory, my falsetto voice has all but disappeared over time (I’m 55 years old and it just kinda stopped when I was about 40 years old). Do I need my falsetto voice to develop my mixed voice? Thanks for all your videos, they’re awesome!
This is great Gregory! I will try all these exercises. I am also trying the Falsetto Mix exercises Who havent watch must watch that video:) and I have a question about falsetto mix when you switch to open vowel sound how is your larynx feel does it go up?
0:00 Intro
0:20 Let's jump right into the juicy stuff. How do you go from point A to point G(reg)?
0:44 Exercise Number 1 - The Creak or Vocal Fry
0:56 Ways to find a nice relaxed vocal fry
2:22 Take the Creak to various pitches and slide into chest voice, then just creak all the way up
2:53 This exercise makes sure you keep enough cord closure and not go into falsetto
3:44 Don't let go of that tension when you ascend!
4:04 Coordinating out of the Creak into sound
4:56 Issues you might encounter with this exercise
5:38 try starting with a clean, light sound and then add the Creak
6:43 Mess around with the amounts of breath pressure when you try to coordinate out of the Creak. The more breath pressure, the chestier the sound and vice versa.
7:28 Exercise Number 2 - Glottals
8:19 the glottal onset is a sign of good vocal fold closure
8:41 find the glottal onset everywhere across your range
8:45 Nice
9:03 the way to think about glottals
9:44 the appropriate volume for glottals
11:01 issues you may find entering the passagio using glottals
11:27 Follow along!
12:06 advice on glottals for the ladies
13:00 the falsetto version if you can't get higher
13:17 Falsetto versus Head Voice
13:53 Glottals and their relation to breath pressure
14:49 Pay attention to the vowel/vocal tract shape that you are using
16:00 Easier to start with an open vowel like Eh versus a closed vowel like EE or OO
17:03 Follow along! Eh glottals
17:34 The importance of opening the mouth more on Eh as you go higher in pitch
18:43 Exercise Number 3 - Falsetto Mix
18:54 You need a loud clear strong falsetto first otherwise you will be unable to get into Falsetto Mix
19:15 Whoopy falsetto (F1/H1 for you nerds)
21:34 Crescendo the falsetto
21:56 Use glottal attacks in falsetto
22:24 What's the level of support you have when you have this loud clear falsetto?
23:07 Once you have the level of support clear in your sensations, you want that level to be 100% steady and constant. Very important!
23:44 Stay in the OO and then open the vowel up
24:38 Make sure you have a big smile, big opening when you open the vowel. Make sure you have the tongue low enough too.
25:26 EE-Eh
25:57 Look at that dangly thing (the uvula)
26:28 Cool thing about Falsetto Mix
27:28 Falsetto Mix with Glottals
27:59 Outro and Thanks for Watching!
The realest mvp 🥺👏🏻
Damn. That's such a commitment!
You stole my job 😭
Lmao NICE
This one is a game changer b/c Greg doesn't just say, "Here's an exercise, do it and you will get there." I am so impressed at how well he takes us from him not doing it, to doing it... and then even gives the alternative of coming from falsetto. And extra points for how he shows what is going on with the shape of his throat - some teachers have a scope, but he just looks into the camera and shows us. Dang, this guy is good! Not to mention the instead of "saying to start with "eh," he shows us what happens when if we get stuck on something more open... So cool! Getting better every time I watch this and it hasn't been 24hrs. I'm glad he is getting attention with his approach - his videos have made my practice more productive and if he is helping me, he's helping others. Go Greg! Thanks for breaking it out by time, too!
Bang on!
True ,sir ,he is a true and real coach ,have met so far,Greg you're the best,,
May i know how your voice has progressed with these exercises?
In my years of youtube research, including folks such as cheryl porter and chris liepe, I have NEVER found anyone who could help me understand what mix is and how it should feel better than you do. I am infinitely grateful that you made this and other videos. You've become my go-to for discovering my voice. I notice I can do most of what you do but I struggle keeping it clean, it keeps adding distortion especially as I climb up the tone ladder. Interesting stuff
at this point I feel I almost know the back of Greg's mouth better than my own XD
Pause
Im literally about to cry right now
I accessed my mixed voiced today!!! Thank you!!
People will not believe me but this is real I accessed my mixed before he even starts explaining under a Minute i copied what he did and then boomm😭😭💗💗💗 thank you!! I can now easily hit A4-D5 easily! Before i was kinda struggling to hit G4-A4 cause I’m using a pulled up chest voice but now i can do it easily gosh!! Thank youuuuuu so muchhh out of all vocal coach here on youtube you’re the only one who have helped me to access my mixed voice so easily!!
From my experience its now easier to hit f4-C5! Before i cant hit A4 at ease but with mix voice its so easy!! I always do a pulled up chest and my voice only ranges up to F4 at ease before
Genuinely the best vocal coach I’ve ever seen. No bullshit, Straight forward and it clears up so much previous frustration. Love this!
WOW. The creek door really helped me!! I would pull too much chest. Making me lose richness as I got higher into “mix” because something would press on my vocal chords making them feel strained/tired quickly. But that creek muscle should stay there in mix in a way that’s how it felt and I noticed a HUGE change I was hitting the notes correctly into mix. Thank you so much!
@@StudioWestLessons yes a grandpa voice would make sense it was very restrained/nasal but not too exaggerated I could hit the note right but just volume, richness, tone would decrease a lot with also my voice feeling tired and strained. It even almost made it sound like I was constipated almost lmao. This is my 3rd month learning how to sing and this was a huge threshold to cross for me. Thanks again
The same happened to me. The creek has been a huge gamechanger.
@@d.t.o-xin6237 lucky you! I’ve been trying for a year and a half to somehow ‘break’ past F4 and now I discover this Greatness!!🫶🏼👍🏽
22:21 i cant stop watching this part 😂😂😂. Greg suddenly enters sassy mode 💅
Wow that was cute haha
why am I so mesmerized watching your videos? you look attractive as a voice teacher, if I will be your student, I cannot stand it. hehe
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much! This vocal fry exercise CHANGE my life! I was already accessing head voice and mix for 2 years, but some higher notes not frequently. This exercise help me access head voice without head resonance, making higher notes easy and light to access. Now, I'm adapting to this new light, easy and comfortable way to sing.
God bless you man. You have no idea how elucidative, enlightening this class is! We can see the resolts at first!
really awesome value and detailed teaching here which is priceless :) short videos be overrated! 👌👌😭😂😂😂 thanks Greg
@@StudioWestLessons Hi Greg, you should do more #short video for watch time and subs. Show off your skill boyyy :D :D
THANK YOU SO MUCH, especially on the part talking about how breath pressure can turn the sound chesty or light. I’ve been wanting to know so much how to make my mixed voice sound chesty and like full voice how my favorite singers do. I’m hitting crazy high notes now and thinking “this is it???” Like dude thank you! I’ve been through so many vocal coaches in person and on here and you’re definitely in my top. You give real tangible feedback instead of all this abstract bullshit. This is all anyone needs on mixed voice EVER.
Very smart young man, great teacher with stuff that really works. Congrats and thanks.
So helpful thank you! As a life long soprano now learning to sing in chest and mixed voice this made so much sense! I cant believe I am singing this high in a mix!
Holy hell....I have watched A LOT of TH-cam vids on singing and on mixed...and this is a GAME CHANGER!! That vocal fry exercise alone had me feeling like Robert plant! Will check out ur other vids
Bro,the day I get listening to you on mixed voice work out ,am getting a great change with two weeks ,
Thank you ,and keep doing this!!
I'm so impressed with your thorough explanation! Please do a video on how to add distortion and rasp into our singing as well. Thanks a lot!
Seconded! Especially arytenoid rattle.
I was digging through TH-cam all over and kept getting mixed voice explanation videos but not enough examples and approaches. This was incredibly dense with valuable information and was perfectly suited for my stage. Thank you so much for making this video!
I think I found my mixed voice. Thak you so much!
Cheers from Brazil!
I come back to your video several times to practice and learn and finally start to hear the voice I want. Your videos are really helpful and are better than the others. Thanks.
I’m following along. (You kept asking so I knew it was important to you.)
Thank you for making this video for those of us who already know what Mixed Voice is and already know what a creak or fry is BUT who are craving a video that helps us exercise this! Yay!
Bravo! Thanks Greg. I loved the video and it really helped that you demonstrated so much and added humor and play into the lesson. I was singing in ways that I never allowed before. thanks. You pulled it all together and made it click for me at the end when you said not to trust our feelings and when you said that it feels like falsetto for you. I've been discounting my mixed voice thinking that it was really falsetto. Thank you! Oh yeah, love the camp too.
you are the best channel for this type, love the content
Holy moly, it works 🤯
Absolutely the best voc tutorial o have ever seen in 20 years since o started the Seth Riggs rabbit hole...wow
This was amazing! For years I thought there was no way for me to safely access G4 and above without either falsetto or pulling chest then getting a sore throat haha....
The creak into the notes to keep the folds closed were so helpful and freaking cool! All of a sudden could mix an "ah" vowel from G4 to C5 without pain! I can't use it consistently yet, especially in songs because of the different vowels and consonants - but super super overjoyed bc of the breakthrough. Thank you!
Hi Gregory. Thank you for your tutorial. I think I have found my mix voice after watching your video and practicing.
your demonstration in the opening in the video is all I needed to hear. Immediately got it but sometimes cant make sound come out if feel too much squeezing or too little. It’s kinda funny. Sometimes got it though. It feels like holding breath back while talking but not too strongly. Sometimes gotta sigh high to low to loosen it up again if it over does it. Hit or miss. Compared to the other singing videos like singing success- they do it way too lightly it just doesn’t work for me following them. Feels like flicking a switch and being careful halfway with theirs.
Definitely gotta practice this at daytime in a place fearless of volume and not 4am lol. People will think youre dying or having secks.
Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!! God bless you!!!! You are very generous to share all these.. 🙏🙏🙏
You are changing some lives here my friend, from the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU!
Dang!! You're doing weekly update now!!
This is just awesome, haven't found so much technical detail so carefully explained anywhere else. Great job.
"... and now I'm in my mix" is my favourite moment!! 🙂
This is actually worked. Finally got what people mean by mixed voice... At least at the larynx/vibration level. Thanks!
I'm not a good singer but i am amazed by your voice😯😍, it's very wide, full of control and what i like about is your vibrato, which until now i can't do but this is what i want to learn. I love singing but i'm not doing any exercises in my voice because i don't have place for doing that. It feels when i do exercises like that my siblings will probably laugh on me. Thank you for that lessons😊👏👏you are amazing once again😊👏
And they will laugh... that is until they're jealous in a few months. If you can drive that's the go to for me
@@BradiantHello, thank you for that, for now i'm too shy but hoping i could do the exercises in an enclosed space or even have my own studio😁 without getting shy because only myself hearing those notes coming from my mouth🤢
bruh these are straight up f*cking hacks wtf?! I've never felt my mixed voice more clearly before, these exercises are crazy effective, I don't even feel that much strain anymore. Can't thank you enough.
Priceless content!! Thank you Greg. So happy to see your channel growing and reaching more people!!!!
So gooooood!!! I realised what I was doing wrong with the flag mix now. I was squeezing too much when im creaking. Now I understand I should let the creaking happen naturally rather than constipating hahaha
Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!! Thank you! 🙏
a master of voice, thank you for sharing very detailed info☺️👍
I’ve met my new best friend for the next few months!
I’m recovering from superier laryngeal nerve damage mixed with muscle tension Dysphonia and though I’ve been a pro singer for years, I’m learning the basics again. This was a brilliant video to discover and help get my upper range back.
Thanks Greg!!
I really really like your teaching approach and how you're one of the most honest youtube singing teachers online. Especially you demonstrating and literally visualizing (on your own throat :D) how to execute certain exercises. The only thing making me insecure about your videos is when you say "That's wrong"... Of course you meant it only for a certain exercise, and not in an overall, general view, but still I feel like it's also making a lot of beginners, me including, very uncertain about whether they should always approach their singing like this or if there are varying types of cases.
I hope you don't see this as an offensive or hating comment because really, it's quite the opposite and as a singer, I think it's really really hard to kinda find your own style or approach and still keep it healthy or "right".. but as you already said in your videos that there is no real "right" way, we're more in a sort of struggle, because we constantly question our technique, and then even our ability which is, of course the worse thing that can happen as a singer because confidence is key.
Only love and regards to you and your videos :)
Greg the way you are explaining and showing the same time is amazing .It is super very very helpful !!! And how to find the mix etc.I was watching many of your videos. And try to learn from you .
nice that there is an explanation for some of these things I have done before
These are awesome, thanks man!
I'm hoping this was at least somewhat inspired by my comment on your community post earlier haha
I’ve noticed a distinct lack of SOVT exercises in this video. Without going into a long winded talk about why, it’s good to see that! Haha. They’re like.... ok..... but not great.
WTF my mixed came out at the first attempt with the glotal exercise I love you
doing the uh exercise on my mental health walk around the neighborhood has been such a game changer. i can go up to C5 in my mix?? insane
Thank you, thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Your exercises are precious .
Yes! I've been waiting for this!! Thank you Greg
this was SO helpful I can't even explain
Focking hell, I have been looking for this video for a year. Finally I understand how to get to mix voice. Not to say I like how it sounds right now, haha. Thanks man
This video is glorious! It answers so many questions.
Came here to learn mix, ended up actually understanding what breath support actually means!
So good at explaining every inch of this topic at really high level
I want to say that I truuuuuuuly appreciate what your doing. I love the way you teach. Thank you so much :)
Gregory West - the saviour of bassists and baritones
I looove the exercises!! Can't you do another one of these videos???
Thankyou so much for all your tips and videos! very helpful and easy to understand now i found my mixed voice and starting to develop it!
very nice, now its my miiiiix...., no
..no....still figure it out how to control, but its the most easiest singing couch I can find so far....great work and thank you.
Dude... I think you just gave me the key to fixing my tone. Where the hell did you find that information about the back of the vocal folds not closing?
So, so good! Your presentations have been incredibly helpful. Thanks so much!
Loving these tutorials, Greg! Very pertinent and applicable!
Hey! For sure u cant remember me but I commented on this video 2 months ago! I just wanted to say thank you so much!! I’m getting better with mixing high notes!! I can hit A4-B4 at ease! And I noticed whenever I’m singing that high my vibrato comes in naturally!! But the only problem is that my chest voice weakened IDK why!!!😭😭🤣 now I kept on using mixed voice even if Im only singing at E4-F#4🥲😆 any advice? I’m mor eof a belter before but now I’m kinda struggling and always accidentally switching from chest to mix😂
I'm in love with the way you teach, really really helped me.
OMG this is a total revelation! I so want to to learn how this works in my voice... but totally freaked out to do it without someone monitoring me due to my vocal chord issues!
@@StudioWestLessons because of my history of bad chord adduction since I was a kid (nodules and having to have speech therapy at three stages in my life) I just have bad habits that my body reverts back to when I perform. So I lost my voice mid gig sometimes. Doing high 80’s pop tunes non stop for up to an hour per set
@@StudioWestLessons I've had nodules which rendered me voiceless and meningitis that caused my chords to inflame to the point of losing my voice altogether. Both of these took months each to fix and recover from.
@@StudioWestLessons and i most certainly will be doing them... it would just be great if i had a third eye watching me and telling me when my technique is incorrect... or telling me what i need to do.... is that a passively aggressive enough or big enough hint to say i need a singing teacher????
Amazing you were the final mix voice boss 🙏🙏🙏
excellent, clarifies things up a lot for me. Your neighbours must hate you, now mine are going to hate me :)
I really appreciate you for all the video. Thank you 💞💞
Where should I be feeling the creek, back of my throat or at the roof of my mouth?
Pls make a video about vocal injuries
This is literal magic holy crap
When I see video like that I feel love. Bravo I definitely have to take a lesson with you.. I sing opera and I think this approach would work for it very well
Awesome, thank you so much, you made my day, and the followings !
THIS WAS AMAZING thank you so much man!
This video is very helpful thanks a lot, keep making great content like this and I’ll keep hitting that like 👍🏽
WOW! Well explained and detailed 👏 thank you
OMG! How is it possible to move the pharyngeal walls???? Can you teach us??? Very interesting! I couldn't do that! Thank you, man!
Search for a consonant called the "voiceless velar fricative" and look into the mirror when you do it and you should see the palatopharyngeal arches approximate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative
@@StudioWestLessons LOL
@@SaiChooMusic Thank you very much!
You're the best vocal coach ever. Love that you make us laugh while teaching, that's the best kind. Question: I know when I'm in my mix but I struggle to have power in it the way I do in my belts. So then I start pulling chest which strains me. How do I make my true mix sound more powerful, kinda like Amy Lee?
okay i've watched like six videos and this all just feels like a body hack and i love it
edit: i've also learned what exactly was happening when i was doing a lot of this stuff cuz some of it i just learned on my own but now i know what the actual technique is!!
Dude...........where have you been, I have needed this forever, I have an..........ish voice........and I need this lol
Do you have any videos on increasing vocal range for mixed voice? I’ve tried to find them but you helped me discover how to do a mixed voice, (only person who’s videos made sense on it btw) but when trying to apply it in songs I want to sing it still feels straining and difficult. Does this just come with time? Thanks so much for all the time you put in to these!
I was waiting for this ...thanks man 🙏
Dude, you're the best! Thank you so much!
Absolutely brilliant!
Hey Greg great video it is helping a lot. One question though. When I do this exercise I really can get that clean buzzy sound you talked about in the third tip, with a lot of resonance, and Im able to switch to more closed vowels aswell, but it really does just feel like a stronger falsetto. When I try to add a bit of weight onto that I just lose it and my voice cracks. It feels disconnected from the rest of my register if that makes sense, like if I wanted to get to that position or coordination as you call it in a song I wouldnt be able to without cracking. Let me know if this doesnt make sense
And I feel like I have great control of my chest voice and get regulate the volume and air pressure to my liking up until like an F#/G4, which is where it gets really janky and I lose that control and usually break into falsetto or head voice quite clearly.
Awesome video! Great explanation
This is one of the top 6 tips ever ...practice practic😅
hello and congratulations for the videos. your videos are really very well explained. I wanted to ask you a curiosity of mine: I saw that when you open your mouth, the tongue in the center forms a kind of hollow, it is lower than the sides, as an "U". This can favor the right sound? because I don't know how to do it. Thank you very much
Great video, brother!!
I always love your explanation 😊
Amazing lesson, dude! Got a subscriber! Regards from Brazil!
Such a great video! Do you have a daily warm up/exercise routine and could you share a follow along video? :)
@@StudioWestLessons awesome! Thanks Greg!
Thank you so much for posting this! I am finding my mix voiced very well but when I’m higher in my range I’m having trouble getting volume from it. The soft notes are better than they’ve ever been up high but I’m having trouble with the loud notes. Any advice?
Loving your vids, Greg! Can you please talk more about placement and the soft palate? How and where do you 'aim' your voice/airflow/whatever the right term is LOL. Where is the feeling and how do you find it? I have some idea but would love to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks bro keep pumping out these awesome vids. CVT is amazing I got their app, wish they have vids like yours!
Love it ❤🎉. Thanks 🙏🏾
Enjoy your videos! Out of curiosity who did you train/study with?
Hi Gregory, my falsetto voice has all but disappeared over time (I’m 55 years old and it just kinda stopped when I was about 40 years old). Do I need my falsetto voice to develop my mixed voice?
Thanks for all your videos, they’re awesome!
@@StudioWestLessons thanks!
This is great Gregory! I will try all these exercises. I am also trying the Falsetto Mix exercises Who havent watch must watch that video:) and I have a question about falsetto mix when you switch to open vowel sound how is your larynx feel does it go up?
@@StudioWestLessons oh then i got my miiiix :) thx 🙏 a lot man Love your videos keep it coming waiting for the next one!
I've been practicing subharmonics for so long that it took me a second to remember how to vocal fry .