The magic of this is, that still in your highest (full) note you keep a tiny proportion of chest voice. Going higher, you let more and more air into your head to mix with the chest voice. When you stick merely to your chest voice, it won’t happen. So, the task is to let the air pass and resonate. You can literally feel it right in your face. Lower notes have a high proportion of chest voice, higher notes a high proportion of head voice.īasically, head voice is nothing but the air that engages the bones in your head to vibrate. So, to go from cold to -let’s say- luke-warm you have to let more and more hot water mix up with the cold water. The cold water would be your chest voice and the hot water woud be your head voice. In order to change temperature, you have mix cold water with hot water. Now, How Do You Mix Your Chest and Your Head Voice? Often, female voices switch from chest to a very weak, quiet head voice, rather than flipping. While also girls have some kind of voice change in puberty, its not that obvious. And I felt I sounded damn masculine that way.īut what I didn’t know was that I didn’t really serve my singing voice that way. They are basicaly forcing the larynx in a lower position.

So, what most boys do to avoid the voice flips is to push hard to fix their larynx. As a temporary result, your voice goes up and down. More common problems in male voices.ĭuring the puberty vocal change, due to testosterone larynx and vocal chords enlarge and the larynx changes position. So breaks or flips in your voice are signs of disconnection. A disconnected head voice is what we know under the term of “falsetto”. If yes, it shows that your “head voice” was not connected. You can easily test, if what you deem to be your head voice is connected, when you start at a high pitch and then move down to the bottom, if you notice any break or flip in your voice. When we talk about head voice, we ideally mean the connected head voice. You will master to leverage airflow and optimize resonance.Īdam Levine from Maroon 5, for instance, is a good example of a skilled mixed voice singer. You don’t have to push for the notes, you don’t have to hit on your vocal chords. Singing with blended registers allows you to expand your range in a beautiful, rich- sounded way.īesides range, to sing in mixed voice is also a very healthy way of singing. Singing in mixed voice goes along with lots of advantages.įirst and foremost, your vocal range will benefit enormously. Honestly, it can take a little while until you master it.īut it’s worth the work… Benefits of a Good Mix Actually it’s some kind of artificial voice, you create through training. Mixed voice is the register blend of both chest and head voice. In order to develop a good mix, it has to be strengthen.

Head voice is usually lighter and weaker than the chest voice. If you are a male singer, you will probably notice a break or flip in your voice when your chest voice switches to your head voice.įor example, yodeling is a strong -on purpose- flip between chest and head voice. Head voice is the light voice that appears when you sing beyond the passage, where your chest voice ends. tenor, bass, baritone, alt, soprano, mezzo soprano) your pure chest voice ends at E4-G4 for males and A4-C5 for female singers. The Chest voice sounds strong and has its range limits. If you sing an “Ah” at a low pitch, you are in your chest voice. So, what do all these crazy terms “head voice”, “chest voice”, and “mixed voice” really mean and how can you discover them in your own voice?Ĭhest voice basically is your normal speaking voice. To Sing In Mixed Voice Trumps Everything Else When your listeners can’t really tell if a note was sung in chest or head voice, you know you did great at mixing your voice.Īfter reading this article you will have a good understanding of what singing in mixed voice is really about and how you can work it out on your own. But nothing is as powerful and breathtaking as the skill to blend your vocal registers. Sure, you can hit high notes in your chest voice and you can also sing it in falsetto. Being able to sing in mixed voice is one of the most powerful techniques in singing.

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