As a Professional singer, Herr Are some tips and notes on top of everything that was said in this video! :) 1. Use your back muscles!!! Emphasis is usually on your core and diaphragm (which you definitely need for belting!) but everyone almost always neglects those back muscles! If you watch great singers perform live, you’ll notice their arms are usually stretched wide and they are up in a straight stance most of the time. This engages the back muscles 2. DO NOT overpush on that breath support!!! Think of it like this- instead of taking a deep breath and going for your phrase, take a deep breath, blow half of it out, and THEN start singing. You should not be using more air for belting- in fact, you may even use less. What you need is not more air, it’s more PRESSURE behind the folds! That being said you also do not want to tighten or strain. So don’t put TOO much! There really is a healthy medium to be found, and you will not find it in 1 day of practice, it will take weeks or months. You got this, my lil friend! :D
Thanks for sharing those tips about the back muscles! It gives me more motivation to work on my posture because I have scoliosis. People tell me I have a great voice. I think working on my core and posture will help me sing better. Your comment kind of confirmed what I've been thinking about as far as ways to improve.
GREAT POINT! I am 45 years old, when I was 20 years old I was handing a roll of carpet through a window and the other guy dropped his end and I dislocated three ribs from my upper middle back. Since then i have reinjured them a dozen times. It took me years to realize that my singing support is compromised because i simply cannot keep the muscles around these ribs contracted too long, or they cramp up and feels like i am being stabbed and i lose all breath support and ability to sing for a bit. Taken care of your body, the long term effects of injury are often unseen and unrecognized.
I hit a note yesterday with so much power and grit I didn't know I had in me and I credit this video 100%. I wish I could share it with everyone! Thank you so much!!
As a rock singer, I've had so many teachers tell me not to "pull chest" and just use Mix and bring my head voice down but it always felt and sounded wrong for me. All the rock singers I listened to were clearly yelling and projecting a very intense sound and I learned how to do it as well by basically doing the same thing getting into the "call register/yelling and then applying singing fundamentals and technique from there. This video is 100% the correct way to do it if you wanna belt epic rock songs, you have to get into the yell pocket, add twang as you go higher and use your full fold closure.
@@pasha-ly4ss there’s a lot of videos on it but I think it’s the feeling when you hold a vowel like aaa and there’s no breathiness and just a stable tone with all your resonance like when you speak
i totaly disagre about rock singers... And Dio its the best example of mix ad drive in high notes... Cornell its another one.. two of the bests... The rock singers that sing in chest voice not realy sig that high notes, Bro..
@@aleferraz78 man rlly that's just terminology. for the high notes above c5 you need to "mix" it a bit more (literally acoustics and resonance stuff)you can actuslly tell when greg goes into that area a little break happens. but saying that is far from saying rock singers use mix voice generally. the usual belting range is f4-b4 and those singers frequently used very belty open coordinations in that area i think youre not suited for rock without those capabilities.
@@aleferraz78 listen Lost in Echoes by Casket... theres no fckng way Matt aint belting that D#5 (D5 in live) in the chorus and that D5 (C#5 live) in the bridge, theres so much power and you see that he pulls a lot of effort to sustain that
Hi I've been singing professionally since 1981 when I was still a freshman in college. I am also a vocal coach. After watching this video, it has opened my teaching techniques to a much wider dimension. Probably because the old fashioned teachers have taught us styles that were mainly too boxed and too old. Thank you for this video. I will try to get a hold of your other videos which will help me especially in teaching those of this new generation.
The problem with pulled-up chest belting is that you can only take it so high, and it can quickly fatigue the voice. Especially if it's done incorrectly the margin of error is amplified 10 fold and so is the risk of damage. So this among many reasons, makes it imperative to have a reliable mix.
Doing ful lon chesty belts nons top costs you a lot of vocal dollars and will cause vocal fatigue on the long run!!! Loo kat al lthe great belters who mostly sued loud belting like xtian the bansheelera! You need a good balance of belting the lwoer notes and then mixing for the higher notes and u can have a well balanced mix of head and chest whihc sounds jsut as pwoerful if not more pwoerful the full on chest! Also with ful lon chest u cah always crack and is impossible to sustain alonger note reliable! I prefer chest for lower notes and balanced mix for upper belting!
hey gregory, i studied vocals at a university in germany. I have big respect for your knowledge and how you are not only explaining, but also showing what u are talking about. You are literally a better vocal coach than all lecturers i had in my university.. Crazy cause you are still so young. I hope you will have big success on RUclips, you definitely deserve more followers! Wish you the best - you definitely got my subscripition!
Hi, Gregory, yes Silvan is right from many of the vocal trainers you do have a gift. Whst app on the phone do you recommend for belting. I started singing when I was 18 yrs old and I know the power of the voice, belting by nature, I admire tenors, Elvis Presley, and singers from different culture as julio Iglesias, Jose Jose. Please let me know about a n application on the phone to practice more on belting. I admire all opinions from this group and respect them, all of them have a valuable piece to add to my puzzle. 🍷🤔🧗♀️👍
Wow. I’m a professional singer and voice teacher of 20 years, and I’m floored. I started teaching technique with Seth Riggs and Brett Manning as my model and go to, and this is totally different! It explains some things that I’ve been intuitively discovering and takes it so much further. The way he differentiates, demonstrates and gives note guides is very helpful. Will be reviewing this video multiple times and taking notes!!
i'm currently a self taught vocalist because finding vocal coaches is a TASK and i am just tryna get through high school. widening my range and belting is very difficult for me because i'm a contralto but practicing my belting every two days (neighbors) has been very helpful!!!
You helped me find my "yell pocket" and I can't thank you enough. There's a myriad of notes I thought were reserved for falsetto that you can hit just by raising your volume and power without literally screaming. Amazing.
Agreed! Being afraid or holding back of what you are trying to do is the hardest thing to practice. That's me! I can tell it is true. I need to conquer my fear of something went wrong when I try to belt high notes. Thank you for this explanation. Mabuhay!
I'm the same I'm afraid off my voice cutting out or sounding horrific I can sing but can't get the higher I'd surgery on my throat don't know if that's the reason or its just because I'm older and havnt sung in so long I play a keyboard and it's so annoying when you learn a song in the key off g and can't sing it lol that happened me last night
I could have written this. I need to do the same thing--be brave and make loud noises till I find the right space for the notes. That choice of words was probably wrong. I mean that I need to try what he's suggesting without fear of what people will think when I make those sounds. Being self-conscious is the worst thing ever.
I started to sing some bruno mars songs (which is way way higher for my voice, to the point which it's in the edge of cracking). But after following your three steps for better belting, i could instantly reach the note without feeling the need to pull my body for it to work out. Thanks man.
I just became the lead singer/front woman for the band "Look For The Light" and this video helped me so so so much! We're in the process of recording and making our EP with our producer and manager. I was terrified back in the day to belt and everyone said, no matter what I did, that I needed to be louder. I never belted. I used a very soft chest voice and was too chicken to use that power I had locked away. Man...I was missing the belts that helped us get noticed!!!! I'll use this for recording and warm ups. Thank you so much!!!! It was amazingly helpful. I used to strain and now I don't. 😊
P.s. I share this account with my son 😅 there are old videos of how I used to sing in another band and we have the playlist "the escape clause" in the list titled that as well. I'm not trying to advertise fyi. I'm just looking for opinions if you ever wanted to hear the difference between the two 😂 I could send you a mix of our new song as well.
I've belted professionally in songs for over 12 years and have never heard it put like this before ☺ Sometimes we sing and don't actually grasp why things work or what we're doing right... this makes a lot of sense to me. Great video
I'm a bass 2 and have a baritone brother who belts all the time. I have always wanted to be able to get really good at belting. Thank you soo much for this great toutorial.
Yeah, at the end of the day, it's about the vocal range you're born with. Everybody can learn head voice/mixed voice, but if you can learn to belt higher, it's just unused range you've always had, but never used, I've been singing for 15 years, and I still struggle to hit an F, with E being my max comfortable note in chest voice, so anything above that, and up to the high F, I have to use mixed voice/head voice. Don't think this video is magic, or give false hopes about belting, cause if you're not born with that belting range, you can never learn "high" belting, and it's also stupid, cause you can just lower the key of your song, and men's voices are an octave below female voices anyway, so don't try to hit the high notes that female singers do, at least not belting, and head voice/mixed voice is't practical, it's just for fun, cause it sound awful beyond the high C anyway.
@ncard00 I understand the limits of my range. My highest chest voice note is middle C (with a lot of vocal strain) but this tutorial helped me learn how to sing higher while having a relaxed vocal tract. Which in turn allowed me to sing with true vibrato for the first time.
I feel like you’re the first person I’ve actually learned something off of RUclips about singing. Needed to comment so other people know to watch EVERY video.
I honestly love the mix/type analogy which divide the mixed voice to chest/balanced/head mix, basically until G4 aprox you can go full chest mix then you shift to a balanced one until you reach a point where your mix ia more heady.. Everyone has different analogy I prefer this one personally.
I definitely feel and hear the difference between mixed voice and belt. The easiest way for me to access the full sounding belt is by using "hey" like we're yelling hey, but without the closed /i/ at the end. It is very conducive to the yell/call quality. I find the twangy sound by doing a baby cry or adding a quacky sound. There's definitely a window where it's a full sounding belt and it then goes into a bright, twangy mix sound. One tip for your video would be to actually demonstrate the belt on words and in the context of a phrase. All of my students really appreciate it when I demonstrate a technique by applying it to an actual song. I can even make up lyrics, for example: "I don't care..." = I (D4) don't (D4), care_____ (G4 F#4 E4 D4) and then do the same phrase in the next key a half step up (and continue up). That way they can also hear the shift you mentioned (more thinning among other things). I like your perspective of "belt." Some people call too many sounds "belt" when they are clearly using mixed voice. If there's no difference, then it's pointless to use the words.
wrong!!!!!! Mixed voice is a balance of head and chest!!! So technically its still a belt!!! Its just not 100% pure chest, but still a belt! Some people have more heady mix and even that is still belting since it has chest in it!
@@StudioWestLessons Curious if you've studied the Estill technique? I've studied voice with different methods and the one that has totally changed my perspective has been the Estill method. Estill also would never say head and chest voice (which really just refers to where the sound resonates, but I've always hated the terms). Estill would agree with your definition of a belt and would say that the "ey" quality you're referring to is thanks to the tilting of the Cricoid. The belt quality in Estill would say it needs extremely little air (opposite of what certain other techniques preach), should be done in a speech-quality thick fold body cover -- (think of someone yelling "Eyy--- Anthony!!"). Estill however wouldn't use the word mix. Instead the technique would say a singer like Natalie Weiss is using a thin fold body cover (singing on the thin folds for the majority of her sound) with a narrowed aryepiglottic sphincter (AES) which produces that twang quality --- the narrowing creates a formant between 2000 and 4000 Hz (the Singer's Formant) -- opera singers would probably refer to it as squilo. With regards to @Leanture's comment, I think there is a just a differences in the way certain techniques define belt. To some, it is a specific quality with a very specific anatomical setup. To the human "ear" however, he/she is correct that many would refer to Broadway mixed voices as "belts" - it's just not the same belt that we are referring to. Think "World Burn" by Taylor Louderman in Mean Girls -- many would say she's belting, but from a technical standpoint there is hardly any Cricoid tilt (or what you may refer to as a yell quality).
@@leanture3685 some of those singers doesn't even use chest voice. Mixed voice use a lot of blending and light mechanism. Okay you can say it's still a belt or whatever, but they clearly not using chest voice. Chest voice = core/foundation. Most of those singers with mixed voice having coreless belts, constricted as hell, thin, and overly bright.
Honestly man, you and chris liepe are the best vocal teachers i ever found on youtube, i actually feel your videos complement each others which is awesome!
this is the best explanation i've ever heard of how to belt. I'm 51 and back singing after years of ... not singing. I wish i had this sort of information when i was young. I've never been taught how to do this and have always wanted to learn how to belt. I also have had nodules on my chords , as a 6 year old and and had to go through speech therapy 3 times during my life time to bring my chords back to working condition (one of those times was due to having a medical condition that made my chords swell massively when used - caused by meningitis ) so my range, control, tone, and vocal formation are terrible.... well very rough... and i have bad habbits that i want to correct. I am back singing casually now at 51 years or age and need guidance like this to be not only able to have the range to hit the songs my 80's duo does, but also have the stamina to be able to get through gigs without either losing my voice or needing 3 days to not sound rough. If only you had spaces free in your schedule!!!
This is effective! I hit E5 note without any pain in my throat! (I once tried hitting E flat 5 before without belting and ended up getting a sore throat...) Your teaching is helpful to improve my singing voice, thank you so much! 😊
I am 83 years old. I started to learn how to sing February 2019. My coach increased my chest range from C2 to D4 to A1 to G5 (on a good day since I can lose highest notes). My high C belted now sounds like Pavarottii sounded. I am a dramatic tenor naturally. I lesten on youtube and all the tenors are lyrical (why?).
There is no way you are a tenor if you have a chest A1: A lot of basses don't even have that low of a voice. You may be able to sing high, but that doesn't make you a tenor.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. 2 reasons. 1 dramatic tenors are naturally (genetically) not common, you are luckym. 2...lyric tenors find it easier to sing because they "carry less weight" so they feel more encouraged to try singing....but they dont sound as impressive as dramatic tenors. I am a spinto tenor I am in the middle and you can tell the difference. We have a harder time learning but in the end it dramatic sounds better
that's incredibly high! are you sure you don't mean a G4, or are you a little off? G5 is incredible! I absolutely believe you can get high but oh lord that's really high!
@@reubenisprettycool This is the internet, you ALWAYS have to take people's claims with a grain of salt. For starters it's EXTREMELY difficult for old people, even amazing singers to properly belt into their upper middle notes (E4-A4) for most tenors, so if an allegedly 80-year-old man claims he's able to belt a C5 that sounds like Pavarotti, i'd remain a little bit skeptical at least.... Edit: Especially if that man has singing videos uploaded to his channel, and his singing sounds... shaky.... even his low notes...
This is so dope man. Everything you're describing is used in spiritual practice of mantras, incantations, meditation, on and on. Vibrating a specific vowel & tone combo and then moving it around, back and forth, up and down, expanded and contracted - practicing that actually did help me learn to sing better! Training your voice is really a powerful thing even if you aren't a performer or professional - singing is so empowering and most especially BELTING! :D It challenges you to SMILE and to tap into that self love and confidence and flow it out there to the universe
That’s really interesting! I have always sung, now I practice mantra meditation and use it with music, but only pretty recently. My husband grew up in India where mantras and music is common and his voice is stronger than mine, maybe due to what you’ve mentioned. Do you know of any videos where they talk about the voice in relation to mantra mediations, vibrations, etc? I’d really love to see and learn!
Yes! I know! I was thinking of throat singing when he was going between vowels at one point to show open versus closed. The only difference was that he didn't have harmonic overtones :) It's all so fascinating.
I love your explanation of the "yell pocket" - I have been teaching voice for over 15 years and I teach belting in a similar way. I tell me students to find the pocket and sing in the "A" shape. We try to work at putting all the vowels in the "A" shape . Soooo good :)
You can sing! You just need to learn to hold the notes on key. Also understand that everyone's voice is unique. You didn't learn to talk in one day. You can't learn to sing in one day.
im also self taught. it was when I learned that no one can even agree what a falssetto is or head voice. everyone having trash instructions like breath from your diaphram. ya know the thing we do every second or we'd die, was when I decided that most vocal coaches dont know what theyre talking about. beyond that, teaching is also a complex skill. ive taught myself everything, this rule carries over to most things. most experts are full of it. homie here on this channel tho is good and hes a good teacher.
Best explanation on the belt I have ever heard. I been in metal bands for 20+ years and have mastered every type of harsh vocal, vocal fry, and so on l. how ever I never really worked on my clean vocal. Never needed to for metal so I just never did. Now I’m older and wishing I worked on both but I guess it’s never too late. Having more than enough power only helps if u know how to control it. Thanks for the info here, I think it will help a ton!
I once visited a village in Mozambique where all the women came to greet us with singing. They could sing really loud and I realized they could do it because they where doing what you call the twang. They just sang with twang all the time! I guess they were belting all the time too? It was quite distinct but sounded awesome because they could just really make the most powerful choir and blow your socks off, no speakers needed.
Wow this video is actually great! I have been trying to expand my belting range and getting more power in it for a long time and after watching this video I noticed the biggest difference in my voice. I used to struggle a lot around the G4 area and now I can easily go up to a D or Eb5 with a lot of power and also my 4th octave range feels a lot more natural and resonant. Thank you so much for the video!
Damn. That's really impressive. What are your tips for increasing one's vocal range? I still can't seem to access mixed voice and my belting range is capped at F4.
I came from a specific opera training, and this is so interesting. It's a new way to see how you can use your voice. And i love the fact that you ACTUALLY mentioned the importance of having a good breath training. This video it's cool, entertain and super well explained. Love it.❤
I think the key here (for me) is starting with the "metallic"/crisp/solid/firm voice, as opposed to my normally airy/mixed style of voice. Thank you for parting with such invaluable knowledge and experience.
Dude, I seriously can't thank you enough! The music school where I was taking singing lesson shut down at the beginning of the pandemic so I haven't had a lesson in almost 2 years and I've been feeling like my range was slowly getting smaller since. I recently figured out that the problem was my technique and I stumbled upon your video a few days ago and I already feel like my voice is where it was at 2 years ago! I can't wait to see where it's gonna be in 2 years.
My neighbors are gonna hate me for what I'm about to commit after watching this) I was actually surprised to hear that men and women have certain pivotal notes for switching between registers (if I got it right). I thought that your register "entering/exiting notes" depend on your vocal range and what's in head register for me can be in a chest one for you, for instance. But then, I used to dream of getting up to A4 at the time when my top note was F4. I thought, those pro singers just have a greater range and there's not much I can do to keep up with them. Now my top note is A#4 and though it's being squeezed out at the moment, it proves I can actually expand my range and, moreover, there's a certain resemblance between my A#4 and that one of professional singers. So here I am finally starting to learn how to do it right)
omg after many years i now feel more confident to return to singing. i found my yell pocket and moved out of my nasal singing era!! OMFG, this is huge!
I have a very strong mix, but I struggle to belt without at least some strain. Can’t wait to finish the video. Will update. The only vocal coach I’ve found helpful on RUclips so far is Madeleine Harvey, I adore her, I hope you join her! Edit: yup at C4 I end up switching to my mix. How do you tell the difference between twang in a belt and twang in a mix? How do you get over the vocal break without mixing?
The best way to feel this is to just go hey to someone across the road . Then try raising the pitch. If its open enough but not too much then the pitch can rise without flipping the cords completely open. If to closed its gonnor strain or mix and mix is frail with limited training. I belt a lot in my band . My mix tends to fall away after a set so I have no choice but to reinforce a falsetto or belt
Your vids help me a lot since im a baritone, and couldnt sing many songs that i like, so belting+mixing helps me hit those high note, and im still learning to sing well
Love the way you break down complex acoustic theories into easily digestible / practical approaches. As a vocalist and a coach I’m hugely inspired by the work you present here 👏🏻 Thank you! And hats off to you!
This is the only thing I want. Good teaching and thorough examples. Just take my inbox and all my practice time. May your gift continue to make room for you. Thank you so much for every ounce of energy you out into making this video and all your content. Thankfully, keep going
Dude when I tell you this was life changing. LIFE CHANGING. I’ve been a theatre kid and been in choir and all that for YEARS and had perfected my mixed/head voice but couldn’t understand what I wasn’t understanding with the belt but this was the final piece in the puzzle for me so seriously THANK YOU, it’s like my throat feels a little sore from practice but like the good kind not the bad painful kind BLESS I can hit notes like never before TY🙏
This was actually so helpful. I kept hearing people talk about mix, but I never really knew what it was or how to sing in it. And I knew I had a belty voice but I didn’t really understand why. Also during this year I temporarily switched music teachers, and my new teacher keeps trying to get me not to modify my mouth shape when I go up, but naturally having a beltier voice I usually do that and found it very strange that he would ask me to keep it still. I now understand that my previous voice teacher was leaning into my belting more and that’s probably why she liked my vowel modification. 😂 thanks so much.
This video is just perfect. I'm tired of coaches who don't know what they're talking about. There are correct and incorrect ways of doing EVERYTHING. It's only a matter of what direction you want your voice to take. This is also what the great Cheryl Porter says. STOP saying that chest voice is bad: if you don't know how to teach it, don't teach it, but don't say that chest voice is bad. Whitney Houston made her career with chest voice (she could belt something like F5s in chest voice or chest dominant mix, with the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. But guess what? The autopsy showed that her vocal folds were still in perfect shape...her vocal problems came all from her lungs and breathing...) Thank you so much Gregory for this great video🔥
@@StudioWestLessons Exactly. And by doing so, they are misleading A LOT of young singers, who will NEVER know how to get that beautiful sound of their favourite artist.
By far the best belting tutorial ever, especially because it breaks the stereotype advice of how most coaches suggest going into mix, which doesn't sound as strong. Plus you were able to demonstrate and explain so beautifully, great job. Subscribed.
This video is insane, my first time watching your videos, and you transformed something so abstract as someone telling how the inside of your throat should feel, insto a perfectly detailed step by step recipe as if it was science more than music. Just what I needed as self taught, it's incredibly helpful when you explain how it should be, how it shouldn't be, and how to get there. Thanks a lot
I can confidentiality say this is %100 the best I have ever watched I've been trying for a really long time to learn how to sing and I have always felt like i can't do but I recently mustard up my courage to continue on this journey and this video was really inspiring and very educational for me and very very helpful and I really appreciate the sense of humor that you put into the video i am not only writing this comment to show my extreme appreciation but also to give as much thanks and gratitude that you make these videos I have learned a lot from them and they have helped me a lot so I just want to say thank you and have a blessed day 🙏
Trying to branch off from my lyrical classes I've been in for 4 years to train my voice into more punk rock. I've noticed that it holds a lot more of a yelling style and is very whiny compared to lyrical, so it's a lot my difficult to do so when for 4 years I've been told NOT to. This helped me so much, since I go airy on higher notes (alto issues) this helped me out a LOT
I'm a screamer/growler who's awful at singing, but it's kind of cool seeing how similar some of these concepts are. This doesn't help me much because I suck, but it seems clear to me that this is super helpful.
I've been learning to sing for the past few months or so, and I've kinda gotten stuck at belting. Never really managed to place my voice correctly, even though I've looked at countless videos. This video made it possible to reach a satisfactory level of belting for me, and while I didn't agree with everything being said in the video it still helped me out a lot. So thank you for this amazing video! For those of you out there still struggling, keep trying! I didn't see myself being able to sing at this range once I started out, but look at me now :)
You just leveled up the whole community with one video. This is how knowledge should be transferred. Perfect video man. thank you for your thoughts, trials and effort.
Thankful for youtube recommending your video to me and maaaan you really helped me understand how to belt properly. I've given up belting and just relied on my falsetto but now with much practice I think I can do it thanks to you man! You are so awesome for making these videos, keep at it!
I've found that clear, solid and heavy notes come out beautifully when your relaxed and not pushing. Navigating my voice I have found that sometimes when I've sounded the most "belty" is when I was most relaxed and not really trying to push it out. That was a big thing for me personally.
I really appreciate this video !! I taught myself how to belt and when I went back to see my old voice coach, she told me i was doing it correct. It had surprised me, a lot, because i learned how to belt listening to Heathers and Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica. A lot of people say she belted wrong during that time period but my voice teacher taught me she did it correct. Especially in her Janis role, too. It’s always interesting when I tell people this though because, she’s also a professional opera singer so people wonder why she’d say that. But, it’s because it’s true. The way you said it wasn’t dark and deep was- mwah. I loved it. My vocal teacher told me belting should be very light and bright- flow… like a summer day. Sophia Ann Caruso is another good point I often use. Or Rock/Punk singers in general. This all takes amazing breath support, how you open your jaw, your range… and it’s just. People don’t understand a lot about singing anymore and it’s sad ://
Uh this video damn it bro it's great. I think there's something kinda unfair about it and it's the fact that voices work the same (as you make it seems). I don't think so, for a bass voice those notes that "aren't belts" they are, an F4 it's so difficult for them, for a baritone those "no belts" are in the sweet spot so they could be a belt, for a tenor it's not a belt and that's the only "but" I have with this video, all male voices don't work like a tenor and they are not mean to. I understand it because you're a tenor and it's your instrument, there's no way better to teach than by the own experience however is important to realize not everyone has the same setting. I love your content it's amazing aaaaaaah bro thanks for putting out this info it's worthy af. Greetings :D
Dude you're so good and passionate and you definitely know what you're talking about coz of all the videos I've watched on youtube u the most detailed, not holding anything back. 💙 I whole heartedly appreciate you.
Gregory you really got the science of singing down. I am glad you can identify the vocal areas and different tones created by "lowering this and raising that" -- and convey that to the non-singer. Great job! I subscribed to you and will continue coming back to your videos. Best to you!
*Please can you start reacting to singing videos and in those videos you would explain, analyse and demonstrate some of these vocal pedagogies for us? I think that'd give you more views and lots of contents too. Do exclusive reaction videos of singers doing the techniques wrong and those doing it right. It would make these lessons more memorable. Would really love to see more stuff from you. Your vocal pedagogies are exceptional.*
Sometimes I've had trouble hitting above c5 in songs I like and I really like how you described how to transition here. I think I can keep this in mind because its kinda hit or miss in that zone for me when I do certain songs its like I forget what the heck I'm doing wrong and why its not really going the right way. Cool video definitely subscribing
He is very right about certain vowels not inherently able to be belted. I find analogy of the "body parts" easier to understand in general though. Breathing technique is very important to be able to do all these. I feel that people need to learn to breath with your "belly/diaphragm" first before doing all other things. You need that proper "air" control and how to differentiate the different voices between your chest voice, throat voice, nasal voice, front of your teeth voice and the "head" voice. hard to explain. but learning to sing is very complicated process requires lots of practise, esp. if you are like me who practised wrongly for years before my joining a church choir finally taught me all these. Imagine belting as you are singing with your whole body like a cylindrical instrument and no real force/strain that is focused like lots of people use their throat which is very straining and can damage your vocal cords. Drop your jaw, breath with your diaphragm to open up that belt.
Thank you so much! This lesson changed my perspective. I was so upset because I couldn't coin the technical structure of belting. And you literally showed me the door, and I entered! I cannot believe my voice can sound like this, but I also always knew that it could. I just needed guidance. That's what a great teacher looks like. Keep up the good work! You are helping so many of us!
I've been a singer, pianist and musician for 27 years and was trained in two school choirs growing up. I can sing an octave and a half above middle C but it didn't happen over night. I trained my voice to be able to sign that high.. BUT... I will not attempt to sing a song if I KNOW I can use belting as an option. If the notes I sing are sounding weak or apprehensive then I work on them until I can project and belt. I rarely use falsetto unless I REALLY have to. One way I help with belting is I'll sing songs without vibrato. Sing them in their simplest form. .Hitting the notes and the words but not trying to make them sound "fancy." This way it forces your voice to focus more on strengthening the notes. I agree that certain vowels are really difficult to sing with power lol.
20:36 This I feel like I can practice freely only when driving or in the forest (seriously, it's a good place). I don't wanna be heard by my parents nor my neighbours.
I’m learning through your videos! This is amazing! Apart from undergoing a music lesson i can also watch your videos to feed my skills more!! Keep on going!!
As a tenor one im jealous This helped so much. We’re doing a song right now in our pop a cappella choir where I have to sing a C4, which is what brought me here. Thank you so much ❤
Thank you so much for this! I started singing gospel at a young age (taking after my father), but around when my voice began to change (6th grade) I joined my school choir, and was eventually classically trained by an opera singer at 14. It wasn't until I began musical theatre that I realized that as large as my range was, I could barely belt. I've worked hard on it intuitively for years now, but this video is *immensely* helpful in confirming my theories and correcting my bad habits. Thank you!
Thank you so much. I’m a voice teacher and was trying to find ways to explain belting to my students who were having difficulty understanding my normal analogies/explanations. You gave me some different ways to explain it. Thank you!!!
Most comprehensive and most relatable belting lesson I've seen so far. I certainly learnt so much and can relate with all you've said. Thanks alot.👍🙏 I just liked and subscribed too.
You got me a lead role in my school's musical this year 🤧 I really appreciate your content. The biggest thing holding me back was not having a private place to practice, and not having the confidence to just do it (even if I am alone). I've learned to literally just close my eyes and act like I am a character in specifically Les Misérables. Idk I have just always been enamoured with the presence of every actor in that show.
12:34 I felt that burp so hard. Trying to improve my singing and I feel like I am always dealing with some burp or something hahah. Awesome vids, thank you!
This video helped me realize that I use mixed vocals a lot--mostly to reach higher notes that I can't necessarily belt. I'm concerned that with my lack of knowledge I'm damaging my voice by using a mixed voice because I didn't know what it was. I just wish I knew how to belt without slipping into a mixed voice ;-;
Literally enjoyed this entire video. The crazy part is, I have an extremely short attention span, yet I stayed attentive for this video❤❤❤ Great content❤❤❤
As a Professional singer, Herr Are some tips and notes on top of everything that was said in this video! :)
1. Use your back muscles!!! Emphasis is usually on your core and diaphragm (which you definitely need for belting!) but everyone almost always neglects those back muscles! If you watch great singers perform live, you’ll notice their arms are usually stretched wide and they are up in a straight stance most of the time. This engages the back muscles
2. DO NOT overpush on that breath support!!! Think of it like this- instead of taking a deep breath and going for your phrase, take a deep breath, blow half of it out, and THEN start singing. You should not be using more air for belting- in fact, you may even use less. What you need is not more air, it’s more PRESSURE behind the folds! That being said you also do not want to tighten or strain. So don’t put TOO much! There really is a healthy medium to be found, and you will not find it in 1 day of practice, it will take weeks or months.
You got this, my lil friend! :D
Thanks for sharing those tips about the back muscles! It gives me more motivation to work on my posture because I have scoliosis. People tell me I have a great voice. I think working on my core and posture will help me sing better. Your comment kind of confirmed what I've been thinking about as far as ways to improve.
Um little question. What’s a diaphragm and where is that
@@BrownABBY In yoga teacher training we learned that it's attached to the rib cage. It's an organ that contracts and expands when we breathe.
No I don't got this but thanks anyways. Here I gooooooo
GREAT POINT! I am 45 years old, when I was 20 years old I was handing a roll of carpet through a window and the other guy dropped his end and I dislocated three ribs from my upper middle back. Since then i have reinjured them a dozen times. It took me years to realize that my singing support is compromised because i simply cannot keep the muscles around these ribs contracted too long, or they cramp up and feels like i am being stabbed and i lose all breath support and ability to sing for a bit. Taken care of your body, the long term effects of injury are often unseen and unrecognized.
when I was a kid, my dad belted. Mostly he belted me. He didn't need any lessons, either!
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same lol except that he went to buy milk only to find i got milk and he goes home to belt me
well he gave u the lessons
I hit a note yesterday with so much power and grit I didn't know I had in me and I credit this video 100%. I wish I could share it with everyone! Thank you so much!!
Hey what note was it just for curiosity?
You could just... make a video and share it with us? Any platform would do... Share your note with the world!
Please do, it would be wonderful
Man in the box
@@gratecheese1266how do i know what note im singing? do i just not have the ears for it
As a rock singer, I've had so many teachers tell me not to "pull chest" and just use Mix and bring my head voice down but it always felt and sounded wrong for me. All the rock singers I listened to were clearly yelling and projecting a very intense sound and I learned how to do it as well by basically doing the same thing getting into the "call register/yelling and then applying singing fundamentals and technique from there. This video is 100% the correct way to do it if you wanna belt epic rock songs, you have to get into the yell pocket, add twang as you go higher and use your full fold closure.
how do you know if you’re using full fold closure?
@@pasha-ly4ss there’s a lot of videos on it but I think it’s the feeling when you hold a vowel like aaa and there’s no breathiness and just a stable tone with all your resonance like when you speak
i totaly disagre about rock singers... And Dio its the best example of mix ad drive in high notes...
Cornell its another one.. two of the bests...
The rock singers that sing in chest voice not realy sig that high notes, Bro..
@@aleferraz78 man rlly that's just terminology. for the high notes above c5 you need to "mix" it a bit more (literally acoustics and resonance stuff)you can actuslly tell when greg goes into that area a little break happens. but saying that is far from saying rock singers use mix voice generally. the usual belting range is f4-b4 and those singers frequently used very belty open coordinations in that area i think youre not suited for rock without those capabilities.
@@aleferraz78 listen Lost in Echoes by Casket... theres no fckng way Matt aint belting that D#5 (D5 in live) in the chorus and that D5 (C#5 live) in the bridge, theres so much power and you see that he pulls a lot of effort to sustain that
Hi I've been singing professionally since 1981 when I was still a freshman in college. I am also a vocal coach. After watching this video, it has opened my teaching techniques to a much wider dimension. Probably because the old fashioned teachers have taught us styles that were mainly too boxed and too old. Thank you for this video. I will try to get a hold of your other videos which will help me especially in teaching those of this new generation.
This kind of mindset deserves much respect! You are awesome sir!
Wow that's amazing 👏🏽
Coach me
I can tell you are a very great teacher
The problem with pulled-up chest belting is that you can only take it so high, and it can quickly fatigue the voice. Especially if it's done incorrectly the margin of error is amplified 10 fold and so is the risk of damage. So this among many reasons, makes it imperative to have a reliable mix.
Doing ful lon chesty belts nons top costs you a lot of vocal dollars and will cause vocal fatigue on the long run!!! Loo kat al lthe great belters who mostly sued loud belting like xtian the bansheelera! You need a good balance of belting the lwoer notes and then mixing for the higher notes and u can have a well balanced mix of head and chest whihc sounds jsut as pwoerful if not more pwoerful the full on chest! Also with ful lon chest u cah always crack and is impossible to sustain alonger note reliable! I prefer chest for lower notes and balanced mix for upper belting!
@@leanture3685 i agree with you. but. Your spelling is atrocious. jkjk
@@leanture3685 I disagree. Mahalia Jackson sang entirely in chest belt and never lost her voice.
@@MrBertramLevaughn that's because Mahalia only used an octave and a half of her voice. She didn't push herself and never strained.
@@musicloveranthony yes exactly. If you know the disadvantages and advantages of whatever mode of sound you're using, you shouldn't run into trouble.
I CHOKED WHEN YOU USED THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT ARIA AS AN EXAMPLE OF NOT BELTING
but why the hell?
she's using a classical technique of i guess "mixed" voice LOL literally like all classical/opera singers do that
@@mkaylaabila4913opera is not mixed voice!! It is head voice
@@mkaylaabila4913It's not mixed voice, that register full head voice. Source: I study classical singing
It's true
hey gregory, i studied vocals at a university in germany. I have big respect for your knowledge and how you are not only explaining, but also showing what u are talking about. You are literally a better vocal coach than all lecturers i had in my university.. Crazy cause you are still so young. I hope you will have big success on RUclips, you definitely deserve more followers! Wish you the best - you definitely got my subscripition!
Also studied voice in University & I have to agree
Surprising how the schools fail us
Hi, Gregory, yes Silvan is right from many of the vocal trainers you do have a gift. Whst app on the phone do you recommend for belting. I started singing when I was 18 yrs old and I know the power of the voice, belting by nature, I admire tenors, Elvis Presley, and singers from different culture as julio Iglesias, Jose Jose. Please let me know about a n application on the phone to practice more on belting. I admire all opinions from this group and respect them, all of them have a valuable piece to add to my puzzle. 🍷🤔🧗♀️👍
Wow. I’m a professional singer and voice teacher of 20 years, and I’m floored. I started teaching technique with Seth Riggs and Brett Manning as my model and go to, and this is totally different! It explains some things that I’ve been intuitively discovering and takes it so much further. The way he differentiates, demonstrates and gives note guides is very helpful. Will be reviewing this video multiple times and taking notes!!
That's awesome. Quite a resume you have, Isn't Seth Riggs the one that helped Sohyang with her belting/mixing?
i'm currently a self taught vocalist because finding vocal coaches is a TASK and i am just tryna get through high school. widening my range and belting is very difficult for me because i'm a contralto but practicing my belting every two days (neighbors) has been very helpful!!!
HOW’VE YOU DONE WITH PROGRESS? I’m contralto too and can only go to an A4 before cracking 😭
im contralto too!!! how do you do it?
Do you know your vocal range? I’m 16, E3-G5 (can go up to B5)
@@riddleme_this77 I thought what a dude has E3 as their lower note, lol
@@ИапГоревич Lmao nope Im definitely a woman
You helped me find my "yell pocket" and I can't thank you enough. There's a myriad of notes I thought were reserved for falsetto that you can hit just by raising your volume and power without literally screaming. Amazing.
This is what I'm trying to do. I know it's there too. I can feel it. I'm so close! Saw this comment in 2022.
I just can’t read and say the word “myriad” without singing “my proooblems were myriad, I wAs hAViNg mY PerIOd” 😭💀 please help
Agreed! Being afraid or holding back of what you are trying to do is the hardest thing to practice. That's me! I can tell it is true. I need to conquer my fear of something went wrong when I try to belt high notes. Thank you for this explanation. Mabuhay!
I'm the same I'm afraid off my voice cutting out or sounding horrific I can sing but can't get the higher I'd surgery on my throat don't know if that's the reason or its just because I'm older and havnt sung in so long I play a keyboard and it's so annoying when you learn a song in the key off g and can't sing it lol that happened me last night
Eh just add vibrato, and a run down the scale its a go to cover up of mine.
I could have written this. I need to do the same thing--be brave and make loud noises till I find the right space for the notes.
That choice of words was probably wrong.
I mean that I need to try what he's suggesting without fear of what people will think when I make those sounds. Being self-conscious is the worst thing ever.
I started to sing some bruno mars songs (which is way way higher for my voice, to the point which it's in the edge of cracking). But after following your three steps for better belting, i could instantly reach the note without feeling the need to pull my body for it to work out. Thanks man.
Bruno Mars song mostly it's really hard even though as a guy myself I feel exhausted to hit the note.
Well, why wouldn't you lower the pitch of these songs? I do that for my students, sometimes even half-step lower works much better for their voices.😃
I just became the lead singer/front woman for the band "Look For The Light" and this video helped me so so so much!
We're in the process of recording and making our EP with our producer and manager. I was terrified back in the day to belt and everyone said, no matter what I did, that I needed to be louder. I never belted. I used a very soft chest voice and was too chicken to use that power I had locked away. Man...I was missing the belts that helped us get noticed!!!!
I'll use this for recording and warm ups. Thank you so much!!!! It was amazingly helpful. I used to strain and now I don't. 😊
P.s. I share this account with my son 😅 there are old videos of how I used to sing in another band and we have the playlist "the escape clause" in the list titled that as well. I'm not trying to advertise fyi. I'm just looking for opinions if you ever wanted to hear the difference between the two 😂
I could send you a mix of our new song as well.
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I've belted professionally in songs for over 12 years and have never heard it put like this before ☺ Sometimes we sing and don't actually grasp why things work or what we're doing right... this makes a lot of sense to me. Great video
HOLY CRAP YOU USED ME IN THIS VIDEO!! hahahah
Time to sue him 💰
I like you style at mixing👍👍👍
@@gustavopaulette3496 lol 😂
@@gustavopaulette3496 - For giving him exposure? I just learned about him because he was in this video.
just let it go
“That’s a bunch of bullshit” 😂😂 subscribed.
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hahaha! Same!
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I'm a bass 2 and have a baritone brother who belts all the time. I have always wanted to be able to get really good at belting. Thank you soo much for this great toutorial.
Yeah, at the end of the day, it's about the vocal range you're born with. Everybody can learn head voice/mixed voice, but if you can learn to belt higher, it's just unused range you've always had, but never used, I've been singing for 15 years, and I still struggle to hit an F, with E being my max comfortable note in chest voice, so anything above that, and up to the high F, I have to use mixed voice/head voice. Don't think this video is magic, or give false hopes about belting, cause if you're not born with that belting range, you can never learn "high" belting, and it's also stupid, cause you can just lower the key of your song, and men's voices are an octave below female voices anyway, so don't try to hit the high notes that female singers do, at least not belting, and head voice/mixed voice is't practical, it's just for fun, cause it sound awful beyond the high C anyway.
@ncard00 I understand the limits of my range. My highest chest voice note is middle C (with a lot of vocal strain) but this tutorial helped me learn how to sing higher while having a relaxed vocal tract. Which in turn allowed me to sing with true vibrato for the first time.
I feel like you’re the first person I’ve actually learned something off of RUclips about singing. Needed to comment so other people know to watch EVERY video.
I can’t sing, don’t plan to sing, don’t understand what’s going on but aaaaaaaaAAAAAAYYYYYYY
How did you end up on this video? 😂
@@chriss4713 because sometimes a man just wants to go aaaaaaaaAAAAAAYYYYYYY. dont judge just aaaaaaaaAAAAAAYYYYYYY
@@TheMookie1590 ahahahaha 😂
I honestly love the mix/type analogy which divide the mixed voice to chest/balanced/head mix, basically until G4 aprox you can go full chest mix then you shift to a balanced one until you reach a point where your mix ia more heady.. Everyone has different analogy I prefer this one personally.
I definitely feel and hear the difference between mixed voice and belt. The easiest way for me to access the full sounding belt is by using "hey" like we're yelling hey, but without the closed /i/ at the end. It is very conducive to the yell/call quality. I find the twangy sound by doing a baby cry or adding a quacky sound. There's definitely a window where it's a full sounding belt and it then goes into a bright, twangy mix sound. One tip for your video would be to actually demonstrate the belt on words and in the context of a phrase. All of my students really appreciate it when I demonstrate a technique by applying it to an actual song. I can even make up lyrics, for example:
"I don't care..." = I (D4) don't (D4), care_____ (G4 F#4 E4 D4) and then do the same phrase in the next key a half step up (and continue up). That way they can also hear the shift you mentioned (more thinning among other things).
I like your perspective of "belt." Some people call too many sounds "belt" when they are clearly using mixed voice. If there's no difference, then it's pointless to use the words.
wrong!!!!!! Mixed voice is a balance of head and chest!!! So technically its still a belt!!! Its just not 100% pure chest, but still a belt! Some people have more heady mix and even that is still belting since it has chest in it!
@@StudioWestLessons Curious if you've studied the Estill technique? I've studied voice with different methods and the one that has totally changed my perspective has been the Estill method. Estill also would never say head and chest voice (which really just refers to where the sound resonates, but I've always hated the terms). Estill would agree with your definition of a belt and would say that the "ey" quality you're referring to is thanks to the tilting of the Cricoid. The belt quality in Estill would say it needs extremely little air (opposite of what certain other techniques preach), should be done in a speech-quality thick fold body cover -- (think of someone yelling "Eyy--- Anthony!!"). Estill however wouldn't use the word mix. Instead the technique would say a singer like Natalie Weiss is using a thin fold body cover (singing on the thin folds for the majority of her sound) with a narrowed aryepiglottic sphincter (AES) which produces that twang quality --- the narrowing creates a formant between 2000 and 4000 Hz (the Singer's Formant) -- opera singers would probably refer to it as squilo.
With regards to @Leanture's comment, I think there is a just a differences in the way certain techniques define belt. To some, it is a specific quality with a very specific anatomical setup. To the human "ear" however, he/she is correct that many would refer to Broadway mixed voices as "belts" - it's just not the same belt that we are referring to. Think "World Burn" by Taylor Louderman in Mean Girls -- many would say she's belting, but from a technical standpoint there is hardly any Cricoid tilt (or what you may refer to as a yell quality).
@@leanture3685 some of those singers doesn't even use chest voice. Mixed voice use a lot of blending and light mechanism. Okay you can say it's still a belt or whatever, but they clearly not using chest voice. Chest voice = core/foundation. Most of those singers with mixed voice having coreless belts, constricted as hell, thin, and overly bright.
Isn’t belting just projecting your mix
@@Oberatous-Udurabas Belting basically means pulling your chest voice up whether it is mixed or not.
Honestly man, you and chris liepe are the best vocal teachers i ever found on youtube, i actually feel your videos complement each others which is awesome!
this is the best explanation i've ever heard of how to belt. I'm 51 and back singing after years of ... not singing. I wish i had this sort of information when i was young. I've never been taught how to do this and have always wanted to learn how to belt. I also have had nodules on my chords , as a 6 year old and and had to go through speech therapy 3 times during my life time to bring my chords back to working condition (one of those times was due to having a medical condition that made my chords swell massively when used - caused by meningitis ) so my range, control, tone, and vocal formation are terrible.... well very rough... and i have bad habbits that i want to correct. I am back singing casually now at 51 years or age and need guidance like this to be not only able to have the range to hit the songs my 80's duo does, but also have the stamina to be able to get through gigs without either losing my voice or needing 3 days to not sound rough. If only you had spaces free in your schedule!!!
This is effective! I hit E5 note without any pain in my throat! (I once tried hitting E flat 5 before without belting and ended up getting a sore throat...) Your teaching is helpful to improve my singing voice, thank you so much! 😊
I am 83 years old. I started to learn how to sing February 2019. My coach increased my chest range from C2 to D4 to A1 to G5 (on a good day since I can lose highest notes). My high C belted now sounds like Pavarottii sounded.
I am a dramatic tenor naturally. I lesten on youtube and all the tenors are lyrical (why?).
Wow! A G5, that's amazing! Right now I'm trying to go higher, cause I can only go from F2 to D4 or E4, I wish I can sing as high as you one day!
There is no way you are a tenor if you have a chest A1: A lot of basses don't even have that low of a voice. You may be able to sing high, but that doesn't make you a tenor.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. 2 reasons. 1 dramatic tenors are naturally (genetically) not common, you are luckym. 2...lyric tenors find it easier to sing because they "carry less weight" so they feel more encouraged to try singing....but they dont sound as impressive as dramatic tenors. I am a spinto tenor I am in the middle and you can tell the difference. We have a harder time learning but in the end it dramatic sounds better
that's incredibly high!
are you sure you don't mean a G4, or are you a little off? G5 is incredible! I absolutely believe you can get high but oh lord that's really high!
@@reubenisprettycool This is the internet, you ALWAYS have to take people's claims with a grain of salt. For starters it's EXTREMELY difficult for old people, even amazing singers to properly belt into their upper middle notes (E4-A4) for most tenors, so if an allegedly 80-year-old man claims he's able to belt a C5 that sounds like Pavarotti, i'd remain a little bit skeptical at least....
Edit: Especially if that man has singing videos uploaded to his channel, and his singing sounds... shaky.... even his low notes...
This is so dope man. Everything you're describing is used in spiritual practice of mantras, incantations, meditation, on and on. Vibrating a specific vowel & tone combo and then moving it around, back and forth, up and down, expanded and contracted - practicing that actually did help me learn to sing better! Training your voice is really a powerful thing even if you aren't a performer or professional - singing is so empowering and most especially BELTING! :D It challenges you to SMILE and to tap into that self love and confidence and flow it out there to the universe
That’s really interesting! I have always sung, now I practice mantra meditation and use it with music, but only pretty recently. My husband grew up in India where mantras and music is common and his voice is stronger than mine, maybe due to what you’ve mentioned. Do you know of any videos where they talk about the voice in relation to mantra mediations, vibrations, etc? I’d really love to see and learn!
Yes! I know! I was thinking of throat singing when he was going between vowels at one point to show open versus closed. The only difference was that he didn't have harmonic overtones :)
It's all so fascinating.
I love your explanation of the "yell pocket" - I have been teaching voice for over 15 years and I teach belting in a similar way. I tell me students to find the pocket and sing in the "A" shape. We try to work at putting all the vowels in the "A" shape . Soooo good :)
Just got to the mid point of the video and realized idk why I’m watching this since I can’t sing to begin with lol
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Me...
You can sing! You just need to learn to hold the notes on key. Also understand that everyone's voice is unique. You didn't learn to talk in one day. You can't learn to sing in one day.
im also self taught. it was when I learned that no one can even agree what a falssetto is or head voice. everyone having trash instructions like breath from your diaphram. ya know the thing we do every second or we'd die, was when I decided that most vocal coaches dont know what theyre talking about.
beyond that, teaching is also a complex skill.
ive taught myself everything, this rule carries over to most things. most experts are full of it. homie here on this channel tho is good and hes a good teacher.
@@TheMookie1590my thing is, i feel like my singing voice is just inherently bad. idk what technique i could possible learn to make it better
Best explanation on the belt I have ever heard. I been in metal bands for 20+ years and have mastered every type of harsh vocal, vocal fry, and so on l. how ever I never really worked on my clean vocal. Never needed to for metal so I just never did. Now I’m older and wishing I worked on both but I guess it’s never too late. Having more than enough power only helps if u know how to control it. Thanks for the info here, I think it will help a ton!
I once visited a village in Mozambique where all the women came to greet us with singing. They could sing really loud and I realized they could do it because they where doing what you call the twang. They just sang with twang all the time! I guess they were belting all the time too? It was quite distinct but sounded awesome because they could just really make the most powerful choir and blow your socks off, no speakers needed.
Wow this video is actually great! I have been trying to expand my belting range and getting more power in it for a long time and after watching this video I noticed the biggest difference in my voice. I used to struggle a lot around the G4 area and now I can easily go up to a D or Eb5 with a lot of power and also my 4th octave range feels a lot more natural and resonant. Thank you so much for the video!
how did you expand your belting range?
i found another little monsterrrr :D
Damn. That's really impressive. What are your tips for increasing one's vocal range? I still can't seem to access mixed voice and my belting range is capped at F4.
I came from a specific opera training, and this is so interesting. It's a new way to see how you can use your voice. And i love the fact that you ACTUALLY mentioned the importance of having a good breath training. This video it's cool, entertain and super well explained. Love it.❤
I think the key here (for me) is starting with the "metallic"/crisp/solid/firm voice, as opposed to my normally airy/mixed style of voice. Thank you for parting with such invaluable knowledge and experience.
So far this is the only dude that has convinced me that he knows what hes talkin about
Dude, I seriously can't thank you enough! The music school where I was taking singing lesson shut down at the beginning of the pandemic so I haven't had a lesson in almost 2 years and I've been feeling like my range was slowly getting smaller since. I recently figured out that the problem was my technique and I stumbled upon your video a few days ago and I already feel like my voice is where it was at 2 years ago! I can't wait to see where it's gonna be in 2 years.
Wow so is it true that high chest voice or belting can improve in time? That means if I work on my belting I will go higher and higher everytime? 😱
My neighbors are gonna hate me for what I'm about to commit after watching this)
I was actually surprised to hear that men and women have certain pivotal notes for switching between registers (if I got it right). I thought that your register "entering/exiting notes" depend on your vocal range and what's in head register for me can be in a chest one for you, for instance. But then, I used to dream of getting up to A4 at the time when my top note was F4. I thought, those pro singers just have a greater range and there's not much I can do to keep up with them. Now my top note is A#4 and though it's being squeezed out at the moment, it proves I can actually expand my range and, moreover, there's a certain resemblance between my A#4 and that one of professional singers. So here I am finally starting to learn how to do it right)
gregory, you're my hero of singing, keep making video like this man
omg after many years i now feel more confident to return to singing. i found my yell pocket and moved out of my nasal singing era!! OMFG, this is huge!
I have a very strong mix, but I struggle to belt without at least some strain. Can’t wait to finish the video. Will update. The only vocal coach I’ve found helpful on RUclips so far is Madeleine Harvey, I adore her, I hope you join her!
Edit: yup at C4 I end up switching to my mix. How do you tell the difference between twang in a belt and twang in a mix? How do you get over the vocal break without mixing?
Yup I have no prob mixing and am struggling with belt! So excited for this video! I wonder how you’re getting on a year later?
The best way to feel this is to just go hey to someone across the road . Then try raising the pitch. If its open enough but not too much then the pitch can rise without flipping the cords completely open. If to closed its gonnor strain or mix and mix is frail with limited training. I belt a lot in my band . My mix tends to fall away after a set so I have no choice but to reinforce a falsetto or belt
Your vids help me a lot since im a baritone, and couldnt sing many songs that i like, so belting+mixing helps me hit those high note, and im still learning to sing well
Love the way you break down complex acoustic theories into easily digestible / practical approaches. As a vocalist and a coach I’m hugely inspired by the work you present here 👏🏻 Thank you! And hats off to you!
This is the only thing I want. Good teaching and thorough examples. Just take my inbox and all my practice time. May your gift continue to make room for you. Thank you so much for every ounce of energy you out into making this video and all your content. Thankfully, keep going
Dude when I tell you this was life changing. LIFE CHANGING. I’ve been a theatre kid and been in choir and all that for YEARS and had perfected my mixed/head voice but couldn’t understand what I wasn’t understanding with the belt but this was the final piece in the puzzle for me so seriously THANK YOU, it’s like my throat feels a little sore from practice but like the good kind not the bad painful kind BLESS I can hit notes like never before TY🙏
This was actually so helpful. I kept hearing people talk about mix, but I never really knew what it was or how to sing in it. And I knew I had a belty voice but I didn’t really understand why. Also during this year I temporarily switched music teachers, and my new teacher keeps trying to get me not to modify my mouth shape when I go up, but naturally having a beltier voice I usually do that and found it very strange that he would ask me to keep it still. I now understand that my previous voice teacher was leaning into my belting more and that’s probably why she liked my vowel modification. 😂 thanks so much.
Just wanna say buddy, you're an AMAZING teacher. My singing's improved so much with just this one video. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
This video is just perfect. I'm tired of coaches who don't know what they're talking about. There are correct and incorrect ways of doing EVERYTHING. It's only a matter of what direction you want your voice to take. This is also what the great Cheryl Porter says. STOP saying that chest voice is bad: if you don't know how to teach it, don't teach it, but don't say that chest voice is bad. Whitney Houston made her career with chest voice (she could belt something like F5s in chest voice or chest dominant mix, with the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. But guess what? The autopsy showed that her vocal folds were still in perfect shape...her vocal problems came all from her lungs and breathing...)
Thank you so much Gregory for this great video🔥
@@StudioWestLessons Exactly. And by doing so, they are misleading A LOT of young singers, who will NEVER know how to get that beautiful sound of their favourite artist.
By far the best belting tutorial ever, especially because it breaks the stereotype advice of how most coaches suggest going into mix, which doesn't sound as strong. Plus you were able to demonstrate and explain so beautifully, great job. Subscribed.
One of the first tutorials I actually understood when it comes to anatomy etc.
Dude you were spot on about what should be considered belting and what shouldn't. Great content
Awesome! I now got this. I got it. Your videos’ examples explained in such a way that I don’t need further clarification. 🔥🔥🔥Thank you
Damn it! This guy breaks things down with ok insane clarity.
This video is insane, my first time watching your videos, and you transformed something so abstract as someone telling how the inside of your throat should feel, insto a perfectly detailed step by step recipe as if it was science more than music. Just what I needed as self taught, it's incredibly helpful when you explain how it should be, how it shouldn't be, and how to get there. Thanks a lot
I can confidentiality say this is %100 the best I have ever watched I've been trying for a really long time to learn how to sing and I have always felt like i can't do but I recently mustard up my courage to continue on this journey and this video was really inspiring and very educational for me and very very helpful and I really appreciate the sense of humor that you put into the video i am not only writing this comment to show my extreme appreciation but also to give as much thanks and gratitude that you make these videos I have learned a lot from them and they have helped me a lot so I just want to say thank you and have a blessed day 🙏
Trying to branch off from my lyrical classes I've been in for 4 years to train my voice into more punk rock. I've noticed that it holds a lot more of a yelling style and is very whiny compared to lyrical, so it's a lot my difficult to do so when for 4 years I've been told NOT to. This helped me so much, since I go airy on higher notes (alto issues) this helped me out a LOT
I'm a screamer/growler who's awful at singing, but it's kind of cool seeing how similar some of these concepts are. This doesn't help me much because I suck, but it seems clear to me that this is super helpful.
I've been learning to sing for the past few months or so, and I've kinda gotten stuck at belting. Never really managed to place my voice correctly, even though I've looked at countless videos. This video made it possible to reach a satisfactory level of belting for me, and while I didn't agree with everything being said in the video it still helped me out a lot. So thank you for this amazing video!
For those of you out there still struggling, keep trying! I didn't see myself being able to sing at this range once I started out, but look at me now :)
I loooove how you showing up differences between all those techniques at certain examples !!
having so much visual representation over people and their coordinations is so helpful. great stuff!
You just leveled up the whole community with one video. This is how knowledge should be transferred. Perfect video man. thank you for your thoughts, trials and effort.
This video is REALLY informative! I've been looking for the answers as to what "belting" actually is, and I finally understand.
Thankful for youtube recommending your video to me and maaaan you really helped me understand how to belt properly. I've given up belting and just relied on my falsetto but now with much practice I think I can do it thanks to you man! You are so awesome for making these videos, keep at it!
This video came out 3 years ago and I'm just now seeing it! Its awesome
Dude this video is BY FAR the best of the 10 i‘ve watched .. thanks!
I've found that clear, solid and heavy notes come out beautifully when your relaxed and not pushing. Navigating my voice I have found that sometimes when I've sounded the most "belty" is when I was most relaxed and not really trying to push it out. That was a big thing for me personally.
I really appreciate this video !! I taught myself how to belt and when I went back to see my old voice coach, she told me i was doing it correct. It had surprised me, a lot, because i learned how to belt listening to Heathers and Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica. A lot of people say she belted wrong during that time period but my voice teacher taught me she did it correct. Especially in her Janis role, too.
It’s always interesting when I tell people this though because, she’s also a professional opera singer so people wonder why she’d say that. But, it’s because it’s true.
The way you said it wasn’t dark and deep was- mwah. I loved it. My vocal teacher told me belting should be very light and bright- flow… like a summer day.
Sophia Ann Caruso is another good point I often use. Or Rock/Punk singers in general.
This all takes amazing breath support, how you open your jaw, your range… and it’s just. People don’t understand a lot about singing anymore and it’s sad ://
Uh this video damn it bro it's great. I think there's something kinda unfair about it and it's the fact that voices work the same (as you make it seems). I don't think so, for a bass voice those notes that "aren't belts" they are, an F4 it's so difficult for them, for a baritone those "no belts" are in the sweet spot so they could be a belt, for a tenor it's not a belt and that's the only "but" I have with this video, all male voices don't work like a tenor and they are not mean to. I understand it because you're a tenor and it's your instrument, there's no way better to teach than by the own experience however is important to realize not everyone has the same setting. I love your content it's amazing aaaaaaah bro thanks for putting out this info it's worthy af. Greetings :D
Dude you're so good and passionate and you definitely know what you're talking about coz of all the videos I've watched on youtube u the most detailed, not holding anything back. 💙 I whole heartedly appreciate you.
Gregory you really got the science of singing down. I am glad you can identify the vocal areas and different tones created by "lowering this and raising that" -- and convey that to the non-singer. Great job! I subscribed to you and will continue coming back to your videos. Best to you!
*Please can you start reacting to singing videos and in those videos you would explain, analyse and demonstrate some of these vocal pedagogies for us? I think that'd give you more views and lots of contents too. Do exclusive reaction videos of singers doing the techniques wrong and those doing it right. It would make these lessons more memorable. Would really love to see more stuff from you. Your vocal pedagogies are exceptional.*
this stuff seems so incredibly hard to understand, but your examples feel like they help me understand a little bit better!
Sometimes I've had trouble hitting above c5 in songs I like and I really like how you described how to transition here. I think I can keep this in mind because its kinda hit or miss in that zone for me when I do certain songs its like I forget what the heck I'm doing wrong and why its not really going the right way. Cool video definitely subscribing
He is very right about certain vowels not inherently able to be belted.
I find analogy of the "body parts" easier to understand in general though.
Breathing technique is very important to be able to do all these. I feel that people need to learn to breath with your "belly/diaphragm" first before doing all other things. You need that proper "air" control and how to differentiate the different voices between your chest voice, throat voice, nasal voice, front of your teeth voice and the "head" voice. hard to explain. but learning to sing is very complicated process requires lots of practise, esp. if you are like me who practised wrongly for years before my joining a church choir finally taught me all these.
Imagine belting as you are singing with your whole body like a cylindrical instrument and no real force/strain that is focused like lots of people use their throat which is very straining and can damage your vocal cords.
Drop your jaw, breath with your diaphragm to open up that belt.
Thank you so much! This lesson changed my perspective. I was so upset because I couldn't coin the technical structure of belting. And you literally showed me the door, and I entered! I cannot believe my voice can sound like this, but I also always knew that it could. I just needed guidance.
That's what a great teacher looks like. Keep up the good work! You are helping so many of us!
I've been a singer, pianist and musician for 27 years and was trained in two school choirs growing up. I can sing an octave and a half above middle C but it didn't happen over night. I trained my voice to be able to sign that high.. BUT... I will not attempt to sing a song if I KNOW I can use belting as an option. If the notes I sing are sounding weak or apprehensive then I work on them until I can project and belt. I rarely use falsetto unless I REALLY have to. One way I help with belting is I'll sing songs without vibrato. Sing them in their simplest form. .Hitting the notes and the words but not trying to make them sound "fancy." This way it forces your voice to focus more on strengthening the notes. I agree that certain vowels are really difficult to sing with power lol.
Very nice vocal class. You have a wonderful style of teaching. Maybe the best vocal coach I’ve seen.
lol I was literally looking for belting videos and you dropped your video! Thank you! :)
My God, this is the BEST video on belting I’ve ever seen. Instant fan here!
I did it!!!! I actually did it! Thank you so so much for explaining this. I never thought I’d ever be able to accomplish that.
20:36 This
I feel like I can practice freely only when driving or in the forest (seriously, it's a good place). I don't wanna be heard by my parents nor my neighbours.
don't worry, i hear you in your dreams
I’m learning through your videos! This is amazing! Apart from undergoing a music lesson i can also watch your videos to feed my skills more!! Keep on going!!
like your content! you are helping a lot of struggling confused practicing singers just like me. you are very helpful!
FINALLY!!!! real content right HERE!!!! THANKS MAN
As a tenor one im jealous
This helped so much. We’re doing a song right now in our pop a cappella choir where I have to sing a C4, which is what brought me here. Thank you so much ❤
This is a great video! I’m a singer and studied voice. You explain things better than most. Sharing this with my friends!
Thank you so much for this! I started singing gospel at a young age (taking after my father), but around when my voice began to change (6th grade) I joined my school choir, and was eventually classically trained by an opera singer at 14. It wasn't until I began musical theatre that I realized that as large as my range was, I could barely belt. I've worked hard on it intuitively for years now, but this video is *immensely* helpful in confirming my theories and correcting my bad habits. Thank you!
Also death to the "belting is bad for you" myth lmao
That was definitely mind blowing! Thank you, Greg! You have a new subscriber from Brazil. I can't wait for your next video.
Thank you so much. I’m a voice teacher and was trying to find ways to explain belting to my students who were having difficulty understanding my normal analogies/explanations. You gave me some different ways to explain it. Thank you!!!
I did some coursework in phonetics and loved your description of what's happening in the vocal tract during belting. awesome work.
I just learned so freaking much. Love this video and I'm definitely subscribing for more! Thank you.
Most comprehensive and most relatable belting lesson I've seen so far. I certainly learnt so much and can relate with all you've said. Thanks alot.👍🙏 I just liked and subscribed too.
This is what i’m searching for! I already get it but sometimes i just lost the technique lol, idk why, thank you so much!
You got me a lead role in my school's musical this year 🤧 I really appreciate your content. The biggest thing holding me back was not having a private place to practice, and not having the confidence to just do it (even if I am alone). I've learned to literally just close my eyes and act like I am a character in specifically Les Misérables. Idk I have just always been enamoured with the presence of every actor in that show.
BEST VOCAL VIDEO EVER.
This video is very informative and very entertaining at the same time.😂 Thanks for this 😊
12:34 I felt that burp so hard. Trying to improve my singing and I feel like I am always dealing with some burp or something hahah. Awesome vids, thank you!
This video helped me realize that I use mixed vocals a lot--mostly to reach higher notes that I can't necessarily belt. I'm concerned that with my lack of knowledge I'm damaging my voice by using a mixed voice because I didn't know what it was. I just wish I knew how to belt without slipping into a mixed voice ;-;
You’re not damaging your voice by mixing don’t worry it’s just different. Mixed voice is helpful because it can eliminate breaks in your range
Literally enjoyed this entire video. The crazy part is, I have an extremely short attention span, yet I stayed attentive for this video❤❤❤ Great content❤❤❤
bro, I was working on a vocal performance degree and couldn't get this kind of information out of my professors. This video is f*ckn incredible.