For a long time I think this voice was "wrong", and trying so hard to find a real "head voice" (ended up belting). Those open vowels work like a charm! YOU ARE THE BEST!
I usually lurk, and never comment. But this video, this video is something special man. I've watched hours and hours of singing content on RUclips, and you are the only singing teacher that explains in such a way that I can actually map every singing concept you portray to my own voice. I am so glad that you are putting this effort into your videos, and into your teaching. Please keep the content coming, and I assure you that the subscribers will follow. You have something special, thank you for sharing it with the world.
This made perfect sense to me. Thanks so much. I can blend up from chest voice into falsetto / mix, but coming back down into chest voice I always crack and fry. Is this just a matter of time and practice, and strengthening muscles or incorrect placement?
Thanks for making this video! I'll try it out. Also, 6:03 I know this is not the point of this video, and it's a demonstration of what not to do for this coordination, but I really want to get to this sound, too, it's actually quite nice.
when you say "i don't recommend trying this lower than f#" i have the problem that anything above eb4 feels so high for some reason to keep singing in chest, and i know that that's my passage but it's like my body defaults to strain and making my voice extremely heavy and singing just an E4 feel impossible, but i don't feel like i have a particularly low voice, it's super confusing
When I go form oooo to oh on the first part the sound dies out for me and gets really breathy. I am trying my best to support the sound but I think I have vocal cord injuries preventing me from ever accessing mixed voice
It was previously referred to as metal like neutral in an older version of the model but they scrapped that term. Unfortunately the CVT model does not do a great job with sounds like this- it's sort of a hole. It would be like doing a neutral with twang and "borrowing" from the falsetto setting. So, not a normal modal neutral but something with less TA activity (relative to same pitch comparisons). -Gregory
Greg... I am getting the creak a lot, also I don't know how to get my falsetto mix to "open up" like, I can't get it to have that chest voice quality. I need help
If you are able to connect this to you chest voice, would you be able to use it in any song? Or do I have to avoid songs that are in the middle/around of the break.
@@StudioWestLessons I think I can do it now. Literally while watching your other video I commented the other day lol. Can I send u a video or something on IG?
Hey Greg. You sound great in your demonstrations. I'm just curious if practising 'falsetto mix' would be counterproductive to more of a 'true mix'? I only ask this because widening your vowels like you do in the falsetto mix may cause the singer to 'splat' or yell their words in more of a true mix? I'm no vocal coach or expert but I see value in keeping a consistent vocal line, especially through the mixed voice, so you can maintain a consistent sound and not get too yelly in more of a true mix. I'm not saying that the falsetto mix doesn't work, but could it potentially cause bad habits for someone trying to really learn their mixed voice (like myself). I really want to practise it after watching your video because like I said, you sound great, but i'm worried it may cause some bad habits putting the sound too wide and forward when moving up higher in my range? When I say true mix I mean maintaining the same connection from chest voice and taking it all the way up, but thinning out into a mixed coordination without flipping, and without also pulling up chest. Any feedback would be really helpful thanks man!
@@StudioWestLessons gotcha man thanks for the insight! Yes I definitely understand now it could be a tool to add to your singing repertoire and is probably going to help the overall flexibility of your voice. Keen to start giving this a go. Again man, you sound great. Keep up the excellent work!
Okay I couldn't sleep and decided to annoy my neighbours giving this another shot. And I just found it. You changed my life with this. I can't believe that I was looking for my mix for years and all my past teachers invalidated the importance of my strong falsetto and said it was going to be useless for contemporary. And now this. I have to say it again you changed my life. This is soooo nuts. Thank you thank you thank you thank you.
Thank you for this video! I’ve been frustrated for years thinking I was unable to find my ‘mix,’ but it turns out I’ve been able to produce this sound all along (albeit a less pleasant version haha)! I thought it felt too easy and sounded too twangy so I thought it couldn’t have been correct, but the more you know. Now to work on connecting this to my chest voice 🤟
Hi Greg, thank you This sound is exactly what I've been looking for years So in the first exercise: making falsetto louder and clearer, I personally have my vocie creaking up all the time. Is that part of the phase too? Should I keep going?
@@StudioWestLessons Thank you so much for the quick reply. I try your tips for few days til now. Especially with that additional airflow through my creaks. It works though, no more creaking. The problem is just it gets too loud and whiny, lol. I think I'm just gonna keep working on it, it might be just a matter of time til I get the _soft_ sound. Thanks again, Greg 🙏🏻
This video is wonderful! I was actually developing this technique without knowing it! Can you actuallygrow that sound up higher ? I think I can take this ysound up to only D5 at best and it's strained, bc I'd love to do it up to E5 and then transition to flageolet
Hours of practicing the subsonic fry/creak until I could hold it and move between notes as well as use it to speak robotically without inflection opened the rest of my mixed - high range. One day (seemingly out of the blue) I could sing notes that I could never reach without strain or having to resort to falsetto.
I accidentally did this today and was shocked belting a C5. and now the algorithm shows me this video. This coordination is heavenly since I was struggling with belting an A4.
Hey Greg! Thanks so much for this video (and a lot of your vids actually)! I feel like I found exactly what you're describing and I can reproduce most of the sounds. However, as you said a lot of males do (at 21:48), that light chest voice really seems to elude me completely. When i try to slide down with falsetto mix into chest I seem to get creaking/a somewhat distorted sound between B3-D4. Do you have any tips on how to get that clean light chest voice as you demonstrated at 21:48? Or would you maybe make a video about it? It would really really help me I think and hopefully others too.
I loved this video lesson. I use this sound a lot and I'm still experimenting with it below B4 as I have a hard time staying in this coordination in the fourth octave. You pointed out some really vital steps here, and as usual, your pedagogy is impressive and spot on! Keep up the good work!
Is there any routine u can do muscularly to strenght the change between falsetto and mix voice without using sound? Like weighs or pronounce a lot certain consonants would be amazing something we Could do in the metro... or in a bar...thanks in advance you are an awesome person...
I found my higher register above chest using your flageolet tension technique, and now I'm suffering all of the problems you describe in this video. Can't control volume or tone, or male it breathy. It's a very harsh sound. How do I find my actual falsetto above my break (G4) without jumping into flageolet tension or just forcing my chest voice up?
Hello Greg, nice vid! I recently found out that my voice is more open and I can reach high notes effortlessly if I shout, not aggressively but like speaking louder and the higher the note, the louder I get. And what I've noticed is that my voice doesn't sound strained now, and I feel like my chest voice is starting to connect with my head voice. But I still strain at B4, I want to know how I can sing higher without getting too loud or having to shout.
Sir, now I am 17 years old boy , I am untrained singer , just gave up a try singing a song with headphones , I measured my vocal range from an app it shows lowest not is G2 and highest note is A4 . Sir am I high baritone ? Sir, just tried to sang in girl voice it want up to F5 . Sir, do my voice gets lower as I age ? From 18 years to 21 years do my voice range lowers ? Thank you sir, I will be waiting for your reply
Priceless video, answered all of my questions. In general, in singing, is there an endeavoring to focus on the point of which your mixed voice starts sounding mostly like head voice, to take that point and raise it, in the sense that your making previous head sounding points and strengthening your coordination to make those points sound chestier? Or is it the case that Everyone's point of which their mix starts sounding like mostly head voice is unchangeable?
Yes, not only to raise it but also to LOWER it. Laryngeal registers (controlling the vocal folds to produce a modal, falsetto, or mix) is pitch apathetic so you can and should train for the flexibility to move the registers all across the range in both ways. :)
Sir, please answer to my last two doubts “ Now I am hitting A4 note and G2 note without falsetto and ‘’F5 note using falsetto’’ but if I train my voice , then till what high note and low note can I hit ? ‘’ . “ Do voice range decrease after 17 years to 21 years in males ?“ Thank you sir
I'll start by saying that you're the best RUclipsr that teaches singing. I've been trying to learn to sing on RUclips for 4 years now and my voice hasn't grown a bit. The only thing that grown was my confusion.😂 Your videos really clarified so many concepts for me. Thank you so much! Now for my question. I'm wondering if this falsetto mix is M2, and if the flageolet mix is M1. Cuz you didn't say that in the video. Thanks again!
@@StudioWestLessons so you're saying just by changing the shape of the video tract, the vibratory mechanism of the vocal folds so also changes? However, when I'm trying to connect the falsetto mix back to chest voice, I feel something "click" from F4 to E4, the same sensation when I transition from falsetto to chest directly, just smoother. That click is what I use to distinguish M1 and M2. So what's wrong with my understanding then?
Hey Gregory, I discovered my falsetto mix a few months ago and i worked a lot on it but it seems that there are juste areas of my voice that don't connect, especially on the low part of my range (passagio between chest and falsetto mix, it just gets really creaky and unstable (and i can't seem to improve it)). Do you have any more tips about this ?
@@StudioWestLessons Other question : does your head is voice is always connected to your chest ? Can you transit from your chest to your head on a relatively low note ?
Wait a minute, i trained myself as a baritone to get up to c6 with my flageolet, making me able sing soprano songs, but with this coordination it seems impossible to get as high as with the flageolet isnt it?
Would you say this concept of keeping the support the same throughout what you’re doing is actually a pretty good principle for singing most phrases in general???
Yeah, nice!! The tactile feedback of the support muscles is a really useful thing to consider when trying to apply this, isn’t it?? Like, I find it easy to habitually apply random amounts of pressure which is vocally exhausting and awful. There’s a cool video of some (seemingly) Broadway coach teaching what sounds like this concept (in different words). The results are cool and easy to apply with the hand gesture thingy. Have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/uxWm51OWZ0Y/видео.html
My falsetto mix is much softer than my chest voice (also my falsetto is soft). I am working on getting slowly better but I can;t sing like you, although I can go way up there with a much better tone quality than you have. I am 82 years old and have been singing 3 years. Basically I am softer than you with my maximum volume. I have gone up to B6 very softly. I only can go up to F5 with any power.
Would a baritone be able to sing songs like Bon Jovi and Air Supply?? Or is it a stretch?? I am a baritone and is struggling with my very little range.. I love karaoke but I cannot high so I cannot sing most contemporary songs I like.. How sad.
As a baritone, I have tried to sing their songs just to know if I could expand my vocal range. I sang them on a popular Karaoke app. The results are not really good, but at least I feel satisfied that in some extent, I managed to achieve what I expected.
I'm struggling with the first exercise, I can't seem to make a clean falsetto sound, even when I increase the volume there still seems to be "air leaks". Any tips on this?
@@StudioWestLessons I will try to do that, thanks! By the way, could you make a video on falsetto? Eg. How to have better resonance, compression, twang, etc for falsetto?
I'm new to this channel and I've been working on learning mixed voice the past few months. It took me almost 7 months to learn head voice placement not knowing that I needed to have better chord closure #1 , then opening my nasal passage was the 2 ND thing, I have a high lyrnix even when I'm relaxed so getting my lyrnix to stay down has been a challenge as well. So far I'm able to do most of what you are doing in this video but I'm not the best at adding all of this to my singing yet😂. I know in the end is all just practice and good technique and placement and I know I'll get there eventually
I can do falsetto but it's not so good :(( I need voice teacher I feel that I can do high note bc my chest heart and breathe saying that I can I just need some practice and I need voice teacher
Sir, I didn’t practise to go lower range but when I speak now I am speaking in between A2 to F2 from a week , is my voice dropping? . I am 17 year old just I determined I grew up 2 cm from January 2021 to June 2021 . If I grow do I lose my range ? But before 1 week my speaking voice was constant between A2 to G3 .
Greg or everyone here, please answer! I am really confused about where the larynx is supposed to be when doing falsetto or head voice. Some people say it should be stable or low, but I find it impossible to do falsetto without a high larynx. Every time I switch into falsetto or head voice, my larynx suddenly shoots up.
Hi! Greg here. That's a good reason to practice singing in falsetto with the larynx down! You need to be able to control your larynx height and gain some independence regarding its position from the register and pitches you sing. IE be able to put the larynx high , mid, or low while singing high, mid, or low notes within different registers. It sounds easy but it can be difficult to develop that skill. You'll likely feel a positive effect from doing that kind of training though.
After All. I think I got my mixed voice But unfortunately I steel Feel I am Singing More heady.(Surely it's a mix ,I am not straining .) BUT I would love to have a Chesty mixed Voice With loud voice.I really Need some help on that👍❤🤔
Hey Greg, hope your doing well. I just had lessons with Sam Johnson a while back and I was actually mixing quite well thanks to your videos and others. I really appreciate all your work that you put into your channel. I have to do falsetto integrating excesses now which is fun. I didn't break at all during the Ah exercise from chest to head. My dream is actually finally coming true. I plan on making videos soon once I get lyrics tackled which is my new years resolution.
I love all your videos! If it's not too much I'd like to request a chest/high chest video. For some reason I have more cord closure on higher notes and my low notes are very airy and strained.
Try swelling your falsetto and bringing it down into the bottom of your voice. Slowly and gently, but solidly. You will find that you can take falsetto all the way to the bottom, and it will start to mix and give you a more hollow but less strained low range. You may even find that this process increases your low range! When you extend the top, the bottom often extends as well. The voice stretches from the middle at both ends.
Instead of doing the exercises you are teaching, what i am doing is just to keep watching and i was just amazed by your voice. Thank you for the information and lesson about the falsetto mix😊
Thank you so much. It was a relief stumbling across your videos. I want to get more confidence with my singing. I am so insecure about cracking in between registers since my voice isn’t strong yet. This is very informative and u explain so perfectly.
My speaking voice at early morning will be in between D2 to A2 . After 1 hour my speaking range will be in between A2 to A3 . I am untrained 18 years old singer I just noticed that I can move up to C5 note and in falsetto A5 . What would be my singing voice type and range if I practice singing?
So I have this coordination I have sung with for years. Basically, it feels like a lighter version of my chest voice and it gets quieter as I get higher. I can go all the way to the top of my range with it, but it is quiet. So is this flageolet tension? I think I can also do a falsetto mix, as that is pretty loud when I sing high, but I am not sure I like the tone. Does it sound like I am conceptualizing this right?
@@StudioWestLessons The higher I sing using this configuration, the easier it becomes to add breathiness. So on like an so like B3 to F#4 chest it is like a black and white transition. Above F#4, it becomes more like falsetto up to the very top notes, and it is easy to transition between this and falsetto. I should also mention that this takes no effort to sing in at all.
This is how I actually sing many higher songs. My mix is unreliable so I use this in gigs.
Do they sound identical? I would like to use this to sing RnB, so would I have a problem singing notes in the middle of the break?
I kind of pull on the sound. Hard to explain..
Do a falsetto note and add try add more compression or muscle . Bloody hard to explain lol
is there a difference between mix and falsetto mix?
This is mix though
This is mix….
For a long time I think this voice was "wrong", and trying so hard to find a real "head voice" (ended up belting). Those open vowels work like a charm! YOU ARE THE BEST!
I usually lurk, and never comment. But this video, this video is something special man. I've watched hours and hours of singing content on RUclips, and you are the only singing teacher that explains in such a way that I can actually map every singing concept you portray to my own voice. I am so glad that you are putting this effort into your videos, and into your teaching. Please keep the content coming, and I assure you that the subscribers will follow. You have something special, thank you for sharing it with the world.
@@StudioWestLessons Gregory the falseto mix is the same mixed voice?
@@StudioWestLessons thanks
Thanks for this !
It would be great if you could put all that was explained in action on a song. That is the purpose of learning this tecnique, right?
I'm learning so much about from you greg, I love your creative work 😇
I'm happy to see you get your channel back.
Wooooooooooooo...❤ it's Amazing
video is so sick I needed this so much. thanks greg
What the hell this actually worked this is so good
22:39 is so nice
This made perfect sense to me. Thanks so much. I can blend up from chest voice into falsetto / mix, but coming back down into chest voice I always crack and fry. Is this just a matter of time and practice, and strengthening muscles or incorrect placement?
I need this! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for making this video! I'll try it out. Also, 6:03 I know this is not the point of this video, and it's a demonstration of what not to do for this coordination, but I really want to get to this sound, too, it's actually quite nice.
when you say "i don't recommend trying this lower than f#" i have the problem that anything above eb4 feels so high for some reason to keep singing in chest, and i know that that's my passage but it's like my body defaults to strain and making my voice extremely heavy and singing just an E4 feel impossible, but i don't feel like i have a particularly low voice, it's super confusing
I get crazy creaking lmao 🤣
When I go form oooo to oh on the first part the sound dies out for me and gets really breathy. I am trying my best to support the sound but I think I have vocal cord injuries preventing me from ever accessing mixed voice
Hm, go see a doctor to find out! I have had many students with healthy voices not be able to do this immediately. It's hard for some people.
-Gregory
Ahh the jeff Buckley mix, I love it thanks.
Are you 💅🏿
Nice messa di voce...
Ma le sopraciglie vanno alzate?
Do anyone know what is it in CVT term?
It was previously referred to as metal like neutral in an older version of the model but they scrapped that term. Unfortunately the CVT model does not do a great job with sounds like this- it's sort of a hole. It would be like doing a neutral with twang and "borrowing" from the falsetto setting. So, not a normal modal neutral but something with less TA activity (relative to same pitch comparisons).
-Gregory
Sir, what is the range of untrained tenor and untrained baritone . Thank you sir
@@StudioWestLessons thank you sir❤️
New Subscriber here Sir 💖🇵🇭
@@StudioWestLessons Actually sir, im really doing your example in mixing blending falsetto and mix/chest and etch. And absolutely loved it!🙏😊
Your voice is higher than my salary man.
Greg... I am getting the creak a lot, also I don't know how to get my falsetto mix to "open up" like, I can't get it to have that chest voice quality. I need help
Any improvements as of now?
If you are able to connect this to you chest voice, would you be able to use it in any song? Or do I have to avoid songs that are in the middle/around of the break.
@@StudioWestLessons Thanks a lot man! You a real one.
why do i fry before the mixed tho? like, it automatically fry.
@@StudioWestLessons I think I can do it now. Literally while watching your other video I commented the other day lol. Can I send u a video or something on IG?
It sounds more like a blend of head voice/ mix and reinforced falsetto... 🤔 But good video either way. 🙂
The young is hard,I can't do that too.
Hey Greg. You sound great in your demonstrations. I'm just curious if practising 'falsetto mix' would be counterproductive to more of a 'true mix'? I only ask this because widening your vowels like you do in the falsetto mix may cause the singer to 'splat' or yell their words in more of a true mix? I'm no vocal coach or expert but I see value in keeping a consistent vocal line, especially through the mixed voice, so you can maintain a consistent sound and not get too yelly in more of a true mix. I'm not saying that the falsetto mix doesn't work, but could it potentially cause bad habits for someone trying to really learn their mixed voice (like myself). I really want to practise it after watching your video because like I said, you sound great, but i'm worried it may cause some bad habits putting the sound too wide and forward when moving up higher in my range? When I say true mix I mean maintaining the same connection from chest voice and taking it all the way up, but thinning out into a mixed coordination without flipping, and without also pulling up chest. Any feedback would be really helpful thanks man!
@@StudioWestLessons gotcha man thanks for the insight! Yes I definitely understand now it could be a tool to add to your singing repertoire and is probably going to help the overall flexibility of your voice. Keen to start giving this a go.
Again man, you sound great. Keep up the excellent work!
how do you stop it from going mario
Okay I couldn't sleep and decided to annoy my neighbours giving this another shot. And I just found it. You changed my life with this. I can't believe that I was looking for my mix for years and all my past teachers invalidated the importance of my strong falsetto and said it was going to be useless for contemporary. And now this. I have to say it again you changed my life. This is soooo nuts. Thank you thank you thank you thank you.
Im glad it worked through just a RUclips video alone! Congrats :)
-Gregory
Very original, and no cliche.
So happy to see your channel grow Greg. You absolutely 100% deserve it!
Thank you for this video! I’ve been frustrated for years thinking I was unable to find my ‘mix,’ but it turns out I’ve been able to produce this sound all along (albeit a less pleasant version haha)! I thought it felt too easy and sounded too twangy so I thought it couldn’t have been correct, but the more you know. Now to work on connecting this to my chest voice 🤟
Hi Greg, thank you
This sound is exactly what I've been looking for years
So in the first exercise: making falsetto louder and clearer, I personally have my vocie creaking up all the time.
Is that part of the phase too?
Should I keep going?
@@StudioWestLessons Thank you so much for the quick reply. I try your tips for few days til now. Especially with that additional airflow through my creaks.
It works though, no more creaking. The problem is just it gets too loud and whiny, lol.
I think I'm just gonna keep working on it, it might be just a matter of time til I get the _soft_ sound.
Thanks again, Greg 🙏🏻
This video is wonderful! I was actually developing this technique without knowing it! Can you actuallygrow that sound up higher ? I think I can take this ysound up to only D5 at best and it's strained, bc I'd love to do it up to E5 and then transition to flageolet
Hours of practicing the subsonic fry/creak until I could hold it and move between notes as well as use it to speak robotically without inflection opened the rest of my mixed - high range. One day (seemingly out of the blue) I could sing notes that I could never reach without strain or having to resort to falsetto.
I accidentally did this today and was shocked belting a C5. and now the algorithm shows me this video. This coordination is heavenly since I was struggling with belting an A4.
14:42 I laugh so hard at this. Thank you so much Greg, what an amazing approach
Can you mix flageolet tension and breathiness/airiness? I always wonder how they do airy head voice/falsetto up above.
Man, I really want to practice with my voice. But, I also don't want to annoy my neighbors and potentially getting a complaint. 😅
That is a common problem that I experience too. If I could find a space for practicing that wouldn't disturb people.....
Hey Greg! Thanks so much for this video (and a lot of your vids actually)! I feel like I found exactly what you're describing and I can reproduce most of the sounds. However, as you said a lot of males do (at 21:48), that light chest voice really seems to elude me completely. When i try to slide down with falsetto mix into chest I seem to get creaking/a somewhat distorted sound between B3-D4. Do you have any tips on how to get that clean light chest voice as you demonstrated at 21:48? Or would you maybe make a video about it? It would really really help me I think and hopefully others too.
how everyone gets it and i dont :(
but anyways congrats for everyone who finally have found their mix voice
Best video on thias subject ever. I've been searching for this for like ten years and now I finally got it and was able to do it.
I love using that register, the only difference is that I am a baritone so my tone is thicker or fuller.
An amazing video with full of knowledge!! Good job Greg!!
I loved this video lesson. I use this sound a lot and I'm still experimenting with it below B4 as I have a hard time staying in this coordination in the fourth octave. You pointed out some really vital steps here, and as usual, your pedagogy is impressive and spot on! Keep up the good work!
0:31 "now what the f..." I thought you would say other thing lmao
Is there any routine u can do muscularly to strenght the change between falsetto and mix voice without using sound? Like weighs or pronounce a lot certain consonants would be amazing something we Could do in the metro... or in a bar...thanks in advance you are an awesome person...
I found my higher register above chest using your flageolet tension technique, and now I'm suffering all of the problems you describe in this video. Can't control volume or tone, or male it breathy.
It's a very harsh sound.
How do I find my actual falsetto above my break (G4) without jumping into flageolet tension or just forcing my chest voice up?
17:20 Now I understand why I struggle when I sing high note where certain vowels occur, esp that sounds "i" like in the words "miss", "he".
Hello Greg, nice vid! I recently found out that my voice is more open and I can reach high notes effortlessly if I shout, not aggressively but like speaking louder and the higher the note, the louder I get. And what I've noticed is that my voice doesn't sound strained now, and I feel like my chest voice is starting to connect with my head voice. But I still strain at B4, I want to know how I can sing higher without getting too loud or having to shout.
Thanks greg,
Sir, now I am 17 years old boy , I am untrained singer , just gave up a try singing a song with headphones , I measured my vocal range from an app it shows lowest not is G2 and highest note is A4 . Sir am I high baritone ? Sir, just tried to sang in girl voice it want up to F5 . Sir, do my voice gets lower as I age ? From 18 years to 21 years do my voice range lowers ? Thank you sir, I will be waiting for your reply
@@StudioWestLessons thanks sir
Priceless video, answered all of my questions. In general, in singing, is there an endeavoring to focus on the point of which your mixed voice starts sounding mostly like head voice, to take that point and raise it, in the sense that your making previous head sounding points and strengthening your coordination to make those points sound chestier? Or is it the case that Everyone's point of which their mix starts sounding like mostly head voice is unchangeable?
Yes, not only to raise it but also to LOWER it. Laryngeal registers (controlling the vocal folds to produce a modal, falsetto, or mix) is pitch apathetic so you can and should train for the flexibility to move the registers all across the range in both ways. :)
Your my life savor. Just want you to know that. I finally reached that sweet spot in my voice thanks to these amazing videos
can you give a song example that uses this technique? is this used by michael jackson and bruno mars or is it mixed?
God bless your camera for not focusing on your belly! Phew :D
@@StudioWestLessons Mr Gregory! I sent you an email a few months ago but unfortunatelly I never heard back from you. It was about private coaching.
3:10-3:23 That is impressive and seems to be useful that I am going to do that exercise
Sir, please answer to my last two doubts “ Now I am hitting A4 note and G2 note without falsetto and ‘’F5 note using falsetto’’ but if I train my voice , then till what high note and low note can I hit ? ‘’ . “ Do voice range decrease after 17 years to 21 years in males ?“ Thank you sir
@@StudioWestLessons thank you sir ❤️
I'll start by saying that you're the best RUclipsr that teaches singing. I've been trying to learn to sing on RUclips for 4 years now and my voice hasn't grown a bit. The only thing that grown was my confusion.😂 Your videos really clarified so many concepts for me. Thank you so much!
Now for my question. I'm wondering if this falsetto mix is M2, and if the flageolet mix is M1. Cuz you didn't say that in the video. Thanks again!
@@StudioWestLessons so you're saying just by changing the shape of the video tract, the vibratory mechanism of the vocal folds so also changes?
However, when I'm trying to connect the falsetto mix back to chest voice, I feel something "click" from F4 to E4, the same sensation when I transition from falsetto to chest directly, just smoother. That click is what I use to distinguish M1 and M2. So what's wrong with my understanding then?
you do an excellent job explaining & demonstrating concepts that are hard to grasp and to feel!
Hey Gregory,
I discovered my falsetto mix a few months ago and i worked a lot on it but it seems that there are juste areas of my voice that don't connect, especially on the low part of my range (passagio between chest and falsetto mix, it just gets really creaky and unstable (and i can't seem to improve it)).
Do you have any more tips about this ?
@@StudioWestLessons Ok thank you will do ! A video would be great
@@StudioWestLessons Other question : does your head is voice is always connected to your chest ? Can you transit from your chest to your head on a relatively low note ?
@@StudioWestLessons Ok thank you
THIS is what makes Jeff Buckley so special!
LoL I don't have a tooth in head (mouth). I wonder what recommendations there are for singers with dentures.
Wait a minute, i trained myself as a baritone to get up to c6 with my flageolet, making me able sing soprano songs, but with this coordination it seems impossible to get as high as with the flageolet isnt it?
Would you say this concept of keeping the support the same throughout what you’re doing is actually a pretty good principle for singing most phrases in general???
Yeah, nice!! The tactile feedback of the support muscles is a really useful thing to consider when trying to apply this, isn’t it?? Like, I find it easy to habitually apply random amounts of pressure which is vocally exhausting and awful.
There’s a cool video of some (seemingly) Broadway coach teaching what sounds like this concept (in different words). The results are cool and easy to apply with the hand gesture thingy.
Have you seen this?
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I really loved what happened when I used your "smile" demo. worked really well for me in moving me into mix. Thanks
My falsetto mix is much softer than my chest voice (also my falsetto is soft). I am working on getting slowly better but I can;t sing like you, although I can go way up there with a much better tone quality than you have. I am 82 years old and have been singing 3 years. Basically I am softer than you with my maximum volume. I have gone up to B6 very softly. I only can go up to F5 with any power.
That intro sounds like a sex ed class. 😂 sorry not sorry. Practicing singing is very intimate at times. Lots of grunts and tongue positions. Im done.
Would a baritone be able to sing songs like Bon Jovi and Air Supply?? Or is it a stretch??
I am a baritone and is struggling with my very little range.. I love karaoke but I cannot high so I cannot sing most contemporary songs I like.. How sad.
As a baritone, I have tried to sing their songs just to know if I could expand my vocal range. I sang them on a popular Karaoke app. The results are not really good, but at least I feel satisfied that in some extent, I managed to achieve what I expected.
I'm struggling with the first exercise, I can't seem to make a clean falsetto sound, even when I increase the volume there still seems to be "air leaks". Any tips on this?
@@StudioWestLessons I will try to do that, thanks! By the way, could you make a video on falsetto? Eg. How to have better resonance, compression, twang, etc for falsetto?
I'm new to this channel and I've been working on learning mixed voice the past few months. It took me almost 7 months to learn head voice placement not knowing that I needed to have better chord closure #1 , then opening my nasal passage was the 2 ND thing, I have a high lyrnix even when I'm relaxed so getting my lyrnix to stay down has been a challenge as well. So far I'm able to do most of what you are doing in this video but I'm not the best at adding all of this to my singing yet😂. I know in the end is all just practice and good technique and placement and I know I'll get there eventually
I can do falsetto but it's not so good :(( I need voice teacher I feel that I can do high note bc my chest heart and breathe saying that I can I just need some practice and I need voice teacher
Im sry but is it falsetto mix or a falsetto but stronger version?
9:12 Isn't it interesting how you can hear different harmonics based on shape?
It makes my throat sore when i do this
Sir, I didn’t practise to go lower range but when I speak now I am speaking in between A2 to F2 from a week , is my voice dropping? . I am 17 year old just I determined I grew up 2 cm from January 2021 to June 2021 . If I grow do I lose my range ? But before 1 week my speaking voice was constant between A2 to G3 .
Greg or everyone here, please answer! I am really confused about where the larynx is supposed to be when doing falsetto or head voice. Some people say it should be stable or low, but I find it impossible to do falsetto without a high larynx. Every time I switch into falsetto or head voice, my larynx suddenly shoots up.
Hi! Greg here.
That's a good reason to practice singing in falsetto with the larynx down! You need to be able to control your larynx height and gain some independence regarding its position from the register and pitches you sing. IE be able to put the larynx high , mid, or low while singing high, mid, or low notes within different registers. It sounds easy but it can be difficult to develop that skill. You'll likely feel a positive effect from doing that kind of training though.
Do you think Michael Jackson use this?
How to Increse The Breath Support?.Do you have any Suggestions For me?
@@StudioWestLessons Really Thanks❤
After All. I think I got my mixed voice But unfortunately I steel Feel I am Singing More heady.(Surely it's a mix ,I am not straining .) BUT I would love to have a Chesty mixed Voice With loud voice.I really Need some help on that👍❤🤔
I sound like a beaten mosquito
Hey Greg, hope your doing well. I just had lessons with Sam Johnson a while back and I was actually mixing quite well thanks to your videos and others. I really appreciate all your work that you put into your channel. I have to do falsetto integrating excesses now which is fun. I didn't break at all during the Ah exercise from chest to head. My dream is actually finally coming true. I plan on making videos soon once I get lyrics tackled which is my new years resolution.
I love all your videos! If it's not too much I'd like to request a chest/high chest video. For some reason I have more cord closure on higher notes and my low notes are very airy and strained.
Try swelling your falsetto and bringing it down into the bottom of your voice. Slowly and gently, but solidly. You will find that you can take falsetto all the way to the bottom, and it will start to mix and give you a more hollow but less strained low range. You may even find that this process increases your low range! When you extend the top, the bottom often extends as well. The voice stretches from the middle at both ends.
Great video I've been using this for awhile. Are you going to be different types of mix video???
Instead of doing the exercises you are teaching, what i am doing is just to keep watching and i was just amazed by your voice. Thank you for the information and lesson about the falsetto mix😊
Is this sort of thing useful for a genre like powermetal?
So is it just reinforced falsetto?
Nice video ever seen. Hey can you please check how Dimash Kudaibergen does a high belting at A5 and B5 in mix voice.
@@StudioWestLessons It will be great sir.
cant this be considered head voice
I saw the video and did it on accident lol
Thank you so much. It was a relief stumbling across your videos. I want to get more confidence with my singing. I am so insecure about cracking in between registers since my voice isn’t strong yet. This is very informative and u explain so perfectly.
how do you connect it to chest tho
The best explanation and Demonstration as always btw you look great...
My speaking voice at early morning will be in between D2 to A2 . After 1 hour my speaking range will be in between A2 to A3 . I am untrained 18 years old singer I just noticed that I can move up to C5 note and in falsetto A5 . What would be my singing voice type and range if I practice singing?
@@StudioWestLessons I agree.
My poor neighbours… 😂
You look great, Greg!
This technique is what I use to hit notes higher than G4 and sometimes even in F#4 when I have a bad day for my chest register range! 😆
What technique do you use to hit notes from C4 to G4?
@@noworkonmonday Usually use chest dominant mix but when exhausted, I resort to head dominant mix
So I have this coordination I have sung with for years. Basically, it feels like a lighter version of my chest voice and it gets quieter as I get higher. I can go all the way to the top of my range with it, but it is quiet. So is this flageolet tension? I think I can also do a falsetto mix, as that is pretty loud when I sing high, but I am not sure I like the tone. Does it sound like I am conceptualizing this right?
@@StudioWestLessons The higher I sing using this configuration, the easier it becomes to add breathiness. So on like an so like B3 to F#4 chest it is like a black and white transition. Above F#4, it becomes more like falsetto up to the very top notes, and it is easy to transition between this and falsetto.
I should also mention that this takes no effort to sing in at all.
I had this exact same vocal creaking issue and my vocal coach had no idea what the issue was. This i will have to try!