Belting vs. Mix Voice - How to sing like Hayley Williams Only Exception by Paramore) 

You had me at Hayley Williams.

Hayley Williams is my singing goals

This video literally saved me. I’ve always wanted to sing with that power, but when following the instructions of other people, ended up just shouting and it was straining my voice. Thankfully I was aware of this so I stopped and I learned about the mixed voice. Not completely understood it until now and wow🥳

So, Belting is singing loud but straining. Mixed voice is sing loud but without any strain.

This method of translating voice exercises into real song lyrics is something I've been looking for.

is this not just twang? I swear to god, the sheer amount of conflicting information out there in the world between vocal coaches will be the death of me ahaha

this is amazing! i love this ! HAHAHA very simple but very clear! thumps up!

omg i Love this woman she explains things in my language. ive never followed any vocal coach untill now sophie is the best! God bless her!

This is extremely helpful!!! Thank you : )

Very useful! Great lesson!

Very excellent! I used the trick on this video and now i finally get the mechanism in my hands!!!!!! Yes!! GOLD! You are a God Send.

I love your tips!

Great tip! Thanks for sharing!

This helped me so much! :)

Damn! that was so simple yet so useful. Thank you!

I luv this lady! Thank you, mamas👏🏾✨🙌🏾

Very helpful. Thanks!

Thank you hit G#5 note because of the siren sound I was able to access the phrayngeal sound with ease now I can Power ballads,Pop,Musical Theatre etc.

Some call mixed voice - healthy belting like Kerri Ho! you are both awesome, and it's good to know that the same essential things have different definitions by vocal coaches! :)

Aweeeesooome thank you!!!

Lool I like your style, subscribed.

Great tip!

It finally makes sense!!!!!

That was great. Thanks

Ur amazing...... I subbed immediately, ur not like the other RU-vid coaches teaching kids to belt and lose ur voice.... true skill is in blending and mixing

Wow, this is great! Thank you~

Oh my god!!! Great tip! I used to have the belting habit, but this really helped me. Thanks again!

you make it make sense

THANK YOU

You have such a beautiful tone haha

Thanks for the tip, Sophie :) All your videos have made me see things. Like, before I believed everyone else that I just can't hit high notes because I just can't do it. However, now I see that I can do that, I just never knew how to get there healthily. Instead of straining my voice. I also now see why after trying to sing high notes, my throat killed. It was because I was reaching them in an unhealthy way, and I was straining my voice to the extent that it gave up. All your tips help, thanks

Thank you.

THANK YOU GODESS

Hahaha, you're super funny! And your video helped me, so thank you :D

I so much love you for the contents of this video hahahahahah

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This helped so much omg

Damn you have a great voice.. Mixed voice is on key

Sophie can you make a video on "How to sing like Charice Pempengco". Her technique is lowering her larynx to have a bigger tone. Thank you!

I saw: How To Sing Like Hayley Williams. I clicked.

Can you do one on Jenna Mcdougall, she has a very strong powerful voice

Wooooow✨

Im a guy and this is probably one of the best vocal videos i have seen.

How do you that? Can you please do a cover? Thanks and GOD BLESS. GOD gave Hayley such a powerful voice and thanks for teaching us, I love how you sung it. GOD bless.

The mixed voice is the only way I can sing! It's just my style, I guess.

my high notes became more nasal. how can I get rid of nasality? or just minimize it? thanks a lot.

how long would you say to do this everyday if you’re trying to achieve the best level of your voice without damaging it?

I belt a lot, I need to learn how to use the mixed voice

This is awesome! Could you give me a few examples of other songs by female artists where that technique is evident? I want to try it.

Thanks for watching, Ana! For more vocal tips, be sure to follow me on Twitter: @SophieShear

Thank you for the reply. One more question, I have vocal tension dysphonia, and I tend to strain throughout my entire register simply due to the muscle memory of it (believe me I am spending everyday working to fix it, its horrible).. I haven't ever experienced a feeling of mixed register, do you think I need to be strain free in my lower and upper registers before I can begin to blend the two??? -Dan

Thank you so much! I've been trying to figure out how to reach the note or how hayley does it without messing up the tune of the songs for so long. THANK YOU :)

Ma'am I tried so many Videos but still unable to sing in Mix voice 🙁

on repeat 0:43-0:48 oh my god im gonna throw up laughing. im sorry.hahahha

how long is the content within your male program??? (What I'm asking is if you put all of the recordings together, how long would the total play length be). the techniques seem priceless, but it would also be nice to know what you get for your money :) Thank you for the free help also, it has helped a lot

thank you for uploading very helpful tips for us.. really appreciate it. ;] i really wish you could be my teacher.. ;((

so basically, we can access the mixed area by adding the vowel "e", cant we?

Yeah i agree with you, it's saffer to use mixed voice, in opera they say that belting it's aggressive for the voice, like you just said it, it's like driving fast in you're car with the first gear, though some people say that belting can be mixed voice with a dominant chest voice, what do you think about it? also belting isn´t pulling you're larynx high? just like you did in the video

~0:47 reminds me of Christina :D

my gigg is coming near so i m gonna sing highway to hell ...so could you give me some tips to sing that song i tried but i couldnt

I used to just belt all the time, and now since I've learned a new way of singing I can't really get into belt mode easily. I can switch between different vocal styles but I'm thinking I just can't belt like I used to :/ I did really push my vocals back then. I think what I do now is mix but I'm not sure, all I know is that I'm struggling with finding my tone/ hit my old tone (tone as in character in voice)

Hey sophie, I thought the siren sound was for the head voice (that's what I see on your video) , how can I know i'm in mixed and not in head if you use the same exercise for both? Thanks =)

I went into those Heavy Metal scream LOL

hello sophie shear i had problems with my voice.... i already learned the coordination of a mixed voice but whenever i sing in the middle area of my voice around E4-G4 i get this unintentional rasp how can i solve this?? thank you in advance :) _sorry for my english

Wow. Your vowels for reALity and CAN'T were more pure than Hayley's. She really punches the attack (especially on her /k/ and /g/) and does more of a KENT than CAN'T. Is it her strong use of pharyngeal that makes it sound so resonant and twangy without going too bright? I love her voice because she can do a very punk sound without getting shouty or splatty, so I'm trying to emulate some of her more efficacious modifications in my mix (it's hit or miss with a male voice, though). Without throwing anyone under the bus, she did change vocal coaches and her stamina increased despite carrying more power up higher. Some called her previous technique problematic (for her style, not inherently... also complicated by her poor warm-up habits by her own admission) mostly because she "bridged too early" for the sound she goes for, so her mixed D5-F#5 used to get a bit shouty and crack. Knowing that she has the same power in her D5-F#5 that she used to have about three semitones lower, why do some people insist that bridging "later" is inherently harmful when she can do it now, sing higher with resonance that used to be reserved for relatively lower notes, and can do world tours without cancelling shows and ending up in doctors offices like she used to suffer through with trying to bring her old technique up higher? Is there not a safe way to bring more chest into the mix just a few notes higher?

I have a question...so the highs in the mixed voice sounds a little bit nasal right? You have to try to sing like that or it just come by trying to sing high with your chest? I hope you understand my question, English is not my first language

I can't get it..

How do you have like no audible break?? I feel like I have a decent mixed voice(although it doesn't sound as chesty as I'd like), but you can always tell when I switch into a mixed resonance because the sound is so much different from my chest voice. My mixed voice feels strong and sustained, but it still doesn't really sound chesty enough for me to be able to sing songs like "Wizard and I" without you knowing I'm not in that iconic chest-sounding "belt" voice. Also, it feels like I can do two different kinds of mixed voice: one where I stay in what feels like chest voice with some nasality and one where I switch to what feels more like head voice with some nasality. I know this vid is really old, but can anyone help me?

Does this work to all kind of singers? You know because, I'm a soprano who came here from classical singing with a more "coloratura" sound and I definitely don't have a connection between my head voice and chest voice, they sound too different. And when I sing pop and stuff, if I belt the notes out with chest voice it works but sounds forced, and if I try to have that mixed voice I sound extremely nasal. So is that something that can be fixed or just me being untalented?

There is another way, by strengthening your diaphragm through diaphragmatic breathing exercises, that's the secret to loud powerful big belts safely and without strain. It takes a lot of patience which most people don't have which is what separates the good from the great singers.

Hey Uh, quick question that doesnt exactly pertain to this lesson but, what type of singer am I if I am in the vocal range F3- B5 and highest I've ever hit was a C6 or something near that? I am 15 years old by the way and my voice is sorta different sounding, a lot like Sia or Rihanna what does that mean as well? Someone told me that I naturally sing in Mixed voice but Im not sure....

whereto do i need to breathe in in order to support the mixed voice properly: into the chest or into the stomach?

But c'mon keep singing, your voice is beautiful!

My problem is that my siren/wah/meow-sound doesn't sound like that, and higher notes don't feel much effortless with those sounds, I still feel like straining. But I guess I just have to keep trying till I find my mixed voice, maybe I'm still doing something wrong.

Can you do a video on singing runs? Everytime i try to sing a run( in chest voice), the first note is loud but the note that comes after is really soft. Help!:(

Sophie, how do you know so much about engines? You are awesome :0)

Hi Sophie, I just came to ask how powerful is muscle memory. Whenever I'm ill or having a cold, I'm afraid to stop singing in fears of losing my voice.

Nice :D so you're also a fan of Paramore? Nice, really :D :D :D

When I sing in mix voice, my notes starts to sounds very "opera" the higher I go. Is there a way to prevent this ?

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I already did follow you on Twitter.

that exercise is good to access the mix voice but when u did it you were only mixing pharyngeal, nasal and head resonance but not chest, but when you sang paramore you were mixing with all 4 of them, so you need to explain that to pleople because they will truly believe that they will achieve a full mix voice just by doing this excercise and they wont. There is comment by an user "Anzor Khawaj: I just went into falsetto", thats what im talking about They will need some other exercises to really feel how a full mix voice should be done, like compression exercises for example. I know this video is from 2013 but if you do a new one put a link so they can fully understand mix voice, this is a nice start but lacks some necessary information. Nice voice by the way.

Belting and mixing are technically the same. You can pull chest voice up, you create a chest dominant mix, you can balance chest and head, then you have a balanced mix, if more head voice is more dominant than chest voice, then you have a head dominant mix. But still, you are belting. Belting isn’t a register, it’s just a term. Mixed Voice is a register. You have Chest Voice, Mixed Voice (where you mix chest and head voice), and Head Voice.

rip my ears. i wasn't aware of that sounds

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ur speaking voice sounds like britney spears!!!

wAAAH wAAHH wAAAAH

bitch sirens went WEE WOO for me u need help me a different way lol

press 3 on your keyboard

the title is clickbait..

nice one.. am the 77777 viewer

I want to sing like Mom what the frick

Please, belting and mixed voice are two different things. Of course you have to perform belting in a healthy way but that's not mixing. Just listen to Christina Aguilera, what she use is not mixed voice, it's pure belting.

Does anyone agree that she looks like Demi Lovato...huhuuu

Noooope sorry. Hayley Williams belts lol. That's why she has nodes...she ruined her voice. Like Demi Lovato. They're shouters. But that's what their sound is and it's pretty damn impressive. Anybody can mix and sound like a little girl (ahem Ariana Grande). If you can teach people how to belt properly and well, you are a good vocal teacher in my book.

You were really good at explaining things, too bad you're not a guy

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