What Is Mixed Voice vs Head Voice?
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- What Is Mixed Voice vs Head Voice? In this video you will learn what is mixed voice. You will also learn what is head voice. Watch this video to feel and experience the difference between head voice and mixed voice.
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What is mixed voice vs head voice? As you sing higher from your low to high notes, your voice passes through the passagio or bridge. The bridge is where you should be singing in a mixed voice. As your notes go higher above the bridge, you should be singing in your head voice.
I subscribe to the "mixed voice everywhere" idea. For voice blends to be seamless or transparent, they need to be spread out over as many notes as possible. The more notes, the more seamless the transitions are. Good video Chuck!
Thanks Kevin. I used to think bridging only happened in the bridges. But I hear Seth Riggs talking about notes outside the bridges that where mix or head voice. Eventually I came to the came understanding you have...and I think it absolutely makes for better singing. Nice to hear from you, as always.
I like this video because of the right amount of demonstration. These kind of videos usually have one demonstration for topic and talk about it excessively. This one has all the possible demonstrations that can be given, even wrong ones.
Hope it helps. Thanks Berkut!
This video has been so eye-opening (or should I say ear-opening?)
What a great detailed explanation!
And it was all the more relevant for me, since it came from a male voice teacher.
Up until now I hadn't been able to grasp mixed voice at all (from any female vocal coach.)
Now it's like everything falls into place and makes much more sense.
What I appreciate the most are the demonstrations of what it ISN'T.
His videos are highly educative and helpful.
Great! Thanks Alex.
Excellent and accurate advice. Thank you for sharing with us
My pleasure, Mark!
I could finally see and understand the deffernces, thank you!!
You're very welcome!
Thank you, you are confirming some intuitions i had in exploring my own voice. especially the fact that "mix" is always possible and it determines a vertical prospective that allows you to balance the chest voice better, preparing to the high notes in a more consistent way. You can easily tell the difference between a raw chest voice and a "mixed" chest voice: the first one feels disconnected and willing to break in falsetto, while in the second one you actually feel the potential of reaching the high range.
You are welcome Lorenzo. I'm glad this was helpful.
Thanks Chuck!
I always thought I should use mixed voice only to go from chest to head voice.
It helps a lot now I realize that I should start much earlier in mixed voice in order to sing high notes smoothly!
Hi Thomas! Yes! It's always ok to do that. Never ok to pull chest up.
Thank you so much, I totally agree with how you see the voice and this has helped answer all the questions I've been asking myself, thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Another excellent video!
Thank you so much Chuck. Love this information and it will help me to continue to learn how to handle the bridges. I had no idea that sopranos had 6 bridges. Who knew? Again thanks. I'll continue to practice and schedule my Skype lesson when I get fast internet.
Great content! Thank you
Thanks Marcelo!
Great Video!!
Thanks Max!
Awesome vid🔥
The best ever I have learnt.
Great!
great video. singers are different. all coordinations , at least for me, have a different sensation, thats what i use to know in 'wich mode' i'm singing. could you do a similar video of you singing songs (not singing exercises) using head, chest and mix? that would be great.
That's an interesting idea. Thanks
Yes I can hear the difference!
Great! Thanks Sandra.
Me too
I can definitely hear the difference. The chest voice sounds a bit flat and less rich when it is not mixed. I did not realize that I sing in mixed voice until watching this video. Initially, I only sang lower notes in chest voice. But I was taught "keep it forward" about feeling it in my throat (dropped back) or my palate (keeping it forward). I believe the "keep it forward" I was taught is what you call vertical vibrations. Understanding "mixed" voice, which I never heard of before this video explains how I was finally able to learn to more smoothly make the bridge from chest to head voice and back again. Even though I didn't know about mixed voice, I was apparently inadvertently learning to sing that way, as I tried to improve tone, which eventually smoothed the transition. I found this video very useful in understanding what my body is doing. That helps me better control and reinforce the habits for the tome I want. Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks Renee! Great comment!
"Vertical" means the sound feels "TALL"
omg, thnks for the demonstrations, chuck... this helps a lot! you’re so cutie 🥰
like from brazil 🇧🇷
Did this help, then?
Power To Sing yes chuck, because you gave several examples ... when it is demonstrated, it helps a lot to identify the sound in my voice! when I climbed the scales, I could identify the mix and the head voice thanks to your explanation! anyway, i would like more videos of this content hehe thnks 😉👏🏻
@@WizWealth Great! Thanks!
I can hear the difference very clearly (it helps if you have a big headphone).
Very nice video! Congrats! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Ledi! How did it help you?
Power To Sing I liked the way you explained the mixed voice, your approach and examples were great and helped me to understand a very good way to mix the voice. Congratulations from Brazil! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@ledialbanas Awesome...thanks for the feedback. I'm so glad it was helpful!
I found this an extremely clarifying video. By "head voice" you mean what I used to think of as the "ah" falsetto, as versus the "ee" or "oo" falsetto. By "falsetto", I think you mean the "ee"/"oo" falsetto.
For many years, and across multiple teachers, when I did "head voice" I did the ee/oo falsetto. Now the ee/oo falsetto is much cleaner and more powerful than the ah head voice. And before I'd worked with those teachers, I'd already learned to mask my falsetto break, so I could sing "wee", for example, continuously from chest into falsetto with no obvious moment of change. So I guess it's understandable that teachers assumed I was singing in ah head not ee/oo falsetto.
But if I understand this video correctly (and I think this was my experience before I went down the dead end those lessons took me to), singing smoothly from chest into ee/oo falsetto isn’t going to get you anywhere in terms of "mixing", but simgimg into ah head voice will. That seems like an important thing to understand. Your falsetto isn’t necessarily going to be weaker than your head voice. It might well be stronger, crisper, more resonant and able to be sung at much greater volune than your head voice. But you mustn't let that lead you astray. It's the head voice - that ah sound you can sing medium volume up into notes well above your chest notes and you aren't sure exactly, by feel or sound, where there stopped being chest in the sound. That's the "head voice" you can use to find mix - if I've understood this video at all correctly?
When done well, you can't hear the transition from chest to head voice....It just sounds smooth and easy without any brake or sudden shift in sound. Technically, chest ends at Eb4 just above middle C. The E4, F4, F#4 are the mix notes and G4, Ab4 are the approach to your 2nd bridge and the beginning of pure head voice in men. But you mix and head voice can become so strong that others think you are still singing in chest voice.
Hi! Thank you for this video, I now understand the difference between mixed and head voice.
As an adolescent guy in a county choir, I've gradually been taught to sing in mixed register since my voice started changing. However, I never really understood what head voice was until this video came out... Now I realize I have a really underdeveloped head voice for my vocal range (baritone/tenor, somewhere in between). As soon as I get to the peak of my mixed register I abruptly split to falsetto. I just don't know what to do... Are there any exercises I can do to develop my head voice?
Again, thank you for this video! I appreciated the examples, and the NON-examples as well.
Hi Lorris: Start by getting your vocal type and start doing exercises for your vocal type: www.powertosing.com/discover-your-vocal-type-wt
damn i thought i know a lot aout the voice already, but you have a different approach again.., the voice is so complex, and every teacher is diferent in so many ways... now i have to watch all of your videos, great =D
I used to think singing was complex....it seemed like a mystery to me with nothing really concrete and understandable. But it's much simpler than I ever realized. The easiest way to think of it is sustained speaking.
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Thanks.
Nice Video.
Thanks!
Very interesting video. You ask us to say what differences we experience between mixed voice and head voice. I guess the most obvious difference to me is that in head voice there's effortless resonance and hence it's very easy to get high volume - as much as one wants and virtually as much as chest. By contrast, in mixed voice it's tough to get above mezzo forte or medium volume, because the technique of blending the registers leaves us in a much smaller space with much less automatic resonance.
The other difference (connected with the first) is that the head voice feels like a much cleaner, purer effect. Too pure, in fact, because the purity creates too large a difference from the richer more complex tones of chest voice. So the mixed voice is required if one doesn't want a jump in tone (I could choose to go into head voice fairly easily & smoothly from around the B-flat below middle C but if I don't want the jump in tone I can't afford to transition into the head voice until the B-natural above middle C - ie a little over an octave higher - with the mix covering the section from around F-sharp to B-flat and some option to commence the mix a little earlier (say, E-natural) or later (say, A-natural) depending on the phrase).
Great Comments Andrew. As a baritone or tenor, ideally your mix should begin no later than E4 above middle C. By the time you are on G-Ab4 you want to be in head voice. If you wait too long, you may end up bringing up too much weight from the bottom and then risk cracking on A or Bb or B4.
@@PowerToSing That's interesting, because for me Bb is the easiest note to mix on. It was the 1st note on which I discovered how to do mixed voice and the challenge I've found is in extending the mix down from there. It seems counter-intuitive that I should not mix on the notes where mixing is easiest for me. Is it common for people to find executing the mix is easiest above the pitches at which they should ideally have transitioned to head?
I now believe my comment here was precisely wrong. What I was describing was my ee/oo falsetto. That was what was much more resonant and powerful. It wasn't "head" at all.
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is it possible to sing in mix higher??? like for example: is it possible for a (tenor) male to sing an a4 in mix voice (make it sounder "fuller" than a pure head voice a4 note)?? and if possible how can you do it? (sing louder, push more from the diaphragm, etc). thank you for your help.
Yes it's possible. It's call pulled up mix. You maintain the same coordination you have in the bridge. If you allow the vowels to spread wide, it's pulled up chest. Watch this, it might be helpful: ruclips.net/video/IbXWuoF0KeA/видео.html
woow great video sir.. cleared everything.. but I'm breakin while passing bridge for head voice... what should i do to make it sound smooth..
1. Take the test to get your vocal type 2. Get the exercises for your vocal type. www.powertosing.com/discover-your-vocal-type-wt
in practice you can always sing in the mix in order to have a single register, where the voice of the chest and the head merge and there is no change of register, right?
There is a change....the vibrations begin shifting and mixing, and the vocal cords make an adjustment....over time, as you get better at it, you don't feel the transition...and the audience doesn't hear a transition and it feels and sounds like one voice!
@@PowerToSing oh, yes!
@@PowerToSing Absolutely. It physically still exists but the singer doesn't feel it and the listener doesn't hear it.
Great video, but I still don't get it. I don't know if I move the mix around or what. All I know is that my bridges aren't very apparent. I think I'm classified as a baritone or baritenor.
It's kind of like swimming. You don't really understand it until you can do it. It really helped me to take voice lessons. I needed someone to listen to me and give me feedback.
@@PowerToSing Alright, thanks for the reply. Taking lessions is on my to-do list when I'm done with my studies. Until then I'll just sing like I normally do and try to make sense of what I do on my own haha!
I can hear the difference
Awesome, Capps. Was this helpful?
@@PowerToSing Yes sir
Thanks for this perfect demonstration sir!! One question, how long does it take to master mixed voice?? I’m tired of belting :(
Master mix? Varies from person to person. But you can start to experience it pretty quickly. But in performance...habit is a hard thing to break. It can take some months maybe longer.
Power To Sing thanks sir
Mastery takes a very long time but becoming competent doesn't take too long - 6-9months to sound seamless.
Kevin Richards RPM Vocal Studio thanks bro :)
@@angweirdo7604 I totally agree with Kevin Richards.
I'm having difficulty hearing the difference between mixed and chest voice. I will keep listening.
Listening will help. Watch this: ruclips.net/video/z41TqpsEH6o/видео.html and this: ruclips.net/video/H2DeaNWu0us/видео.html
Bet that larynx is in a neutral position. And yes because that can happen everywhere then I also believe mixed voice can be used everywhere in a vocal range. The easiest person to study to get this idea down is Mathew Bellamy from MUSE, he uses it a lot. His falsetto and vibrato is also very beautiful, he is a great singer to learn from. The chorus from the MUSE song "uprising" is literally nothing but a mixed voice, its why it still sounds powerful despite it sounding like they are pretty high notes.
Try and sing that chorus with only a head voice it sounds too weak, and too low is just too low to sound right.
Although I know how to do this I came here to find out if you can use compression/distortion in a mixed voice?
Plus I can confirm this to be an excellent demonstration of it and very well worded, good job. So if you listen to the guy in the video you will get it and understand how to get it. I was just pointing out a singer you can sing songs from to help develop it.
There is always a friendly compression when we speak and sing, otherwise be can't be heard. And singers can learn to pull mix higher, which generates more compression. Distortion is what I help singers eliminate. :) Thanks for the tip on the MUSE'S song uprising. I agree the chorus is generally a good example of Mix. Thanks for sharing.
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Can mixed voice sound nasally?
My voice kinda sounds nasally above C4.
Any voice can sound nasally. It usually is caused by a high larynx. You might want to try these exercises: www.powertosing.com/pulled-chest-high-larynx-2/
it is hard for me to stay in mixed voice when hitting lower notes... how do I fix this?
I would say to focus on the first bridge of your voice and get mix down really well in the bridge. Then work on bridging slightly earlier...on the approach to the bridge. Eventually you can take mix lower and lower....but start from the bridge and work down.
What's the first to develope ? Mixed voice or head voice ?? If we have mixed voice register , can we sing head voice ? If we have head voice , can we sing in mixed voice ?
Chest voice is first. When we are small children and we sing high pitches, often it's a light head voice or maybe even a disconnected falsetto. In my case, as an adult, I first was able to vocalize from chest into mix and head voice with bubble lips. Then to other exercises, and eventually to singing words and songs using all three, chest, mix and head voice. Mix and head voice developed at the same time. I think for the most part, mix and head voice is learned at the same time.
What about Bruno Mars, he sings high. Are you sayimg that its a headvoice?
In most instances, yes.
@@PowerToSing it is still in mix voice right?
People think that mix voice is like a middle secret voice register that happens only between chest and head.
Thanks Thiago. It's not secret is it. But I admit it can be difficult to be aware of in certain places....like below the bridge for example.
Only the uneducated think that.
That mixed voice to chest voice? Ohhh.. tricky for me..Always disconnects. XD
Watch this video and follow the directions. ruclips.net/video/d0Ob8WGmvPc/видео.html
I don't have anything to mix, since I can't even produce head voice.. 😅
How old are you TRT?
@@PowerToSing I'm 50 this year. I used to sing higher when I was 20's - 30's .. now I feel terrible with my voice. My vocal range seems decreased about 2-3 notes lower. I used to sing some Freddy Mercury's song before, now I only can sing Lionel Richie's old song..
@@TheCoolncold I understand. Watch this video and follow the directions. ruclips.net/video/d0Ob8WGmvPc/видео.html
I think it can help you. It's not too late to get your working for you again.
@@PowerToSing Okay, let me try.. thanks.
hello my voice is not good anymore because of puberty can you help me
Yes di exercises for Pulled Chest/High Larynx www.powertosing.com/pulled-chest-high-larynx-2/
Great technique, but outdated knowledge. I see it in every bel canto based singing methods.
1. Men do not bridge on e f f#4. - it depends on what voice type you are.
I am a lyric baritone and my passagio/bridge starts at B3 nad goes up to E4. This is a lyric bartone struggling area. If you are a baritenor your struggling area is half step higher (c4-f4). If you are A dramatic tenor (c#4-f#4) and so on. The same rule goes for lower voices, just move steps down.
2. You are able to bring your head voice down ONLY to the point where your passagio starts. In my case - B3.
3. Your mix voice does not end at G4. Come on man. It ends at The First note of your second bridge, wich in my case is b4 (a lyric baritone). After that you sing pure head voice.
4. You cant tell by ear what type of voice you are. No one can. You can find it out by frequency analyze.
5. All above is pure anatomy. Not beliefs.
6. Chuck I really doubt that you are a bass
Sorry for my english.
Great channel!
Thanks for your comments, Adam. I'm not sure what you mean about bel canto methods, but I'm curious where did you learn about bridging? In my experience, the baritones and tenors I've seen through the last 12 years of teaching have all bridged at E4,F,F# and their second bridge started on the A4. The basses bridged at the A3. I've never heard your concepts before.
@@PowerToSing Oh boy that was years ago. I can not tell you straight away titles of our research materials, I would have dug very deep to share sources. We have studied many books on audiology and anatomy. Its all about muscular. Back then we were associated singing students obssesd with knowledge of singing and voice types.
How did we know about bridging? I dunno where The method comes from nor its name but these are the steps:
1. Using O vowel (not OW) record "siren" from your comfortable bottom and go as high as you can in pulling chest voice way. You dont have to be pretty. Dont shift. Be loud. Pull the chest voice as high as you can go. Keep the vowel. Its going to change to AH at some point. Dont be too close to The mic - dont distort the sound.
2. Put the record of your siren to a simple audio editor that can show frequency of marked area.
3. Look at the wave. Its solid but there are three distinguished peaks.
4. Mark first peak and analyze a frequency of it. Check out what note is that frequency. This is your Bridge first note.
5. Mark second peak and repeat step 4. This is your passaggio last note.
6. Mark third peak. This is the last note of your mix (TA muscles goes out).
Among us there were basses baritones and tenors. We all have done The siren test. The results were the same every time. There is no way to alter or manipulate the results. The peaks occurs always in the same notes. Thats the way i know for sure that i am a lyric baritone. B3-e4-b4. (Peaks). It machtes with practice.
Great method. Should be well known among singers and couches.
Assuming all The men bridges at e f f# is against nature and science. We are different, our vocal folds are shorter, longer, thinner, thicker. That defines our bridging areas.
@@SierzantPieprz I wonder why, if our vocal folds are different, shorter, longer, thinner, thicker, why the results were the same every time? Or if no tenors cords were exactly the same, which I am sure they are not, why the same results? Could it be that the results in the audio editor is based more on pitches (which is always the same) than on anatomy (which is always different)? Did you compare the other known bridges, (e,f,f#4...A, Bb, B4, C5) with the audio editor, or just your method? What would have happened if instead of the "O"vowel eventually changing to AH, you would have "kept the vowel" so that it wouldn't spread and splat? Would that change your results?
What should i learn first?
Mix voice or head voice?
Mix.
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