Head Voice vs Chest Voice: Vocal registers explained 

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Now all I need is to have a conversation with my 2 dogs to get ready for a performance for a week.

I've been singing for YEARS and I've never really understood this but was too embarrassed to ask teachers about it, but your explanation makes so much sense and I feel much more confident now, so thank you :)

Just a note to the guys!: Us dudes have Chest Voice, Head Voice and Falsetto - Dont get Head Voice and Falsetto confused they are very much different! Head Voice is Connected while Falsetto is Disconnected. This means, while singing in Chest or Head Voice the vocal cords are connected! When you sing in Falsetto the vocal cords are disconnected which is why you get the cracking or breaking its the chords disconnecting. You CAN connect your Chest Voice to your Head Voice without breaking or cracking with training. The keyword to always remember is "resonance" Chest voice is so called because the majority of the resonance is in the chest! So in Head Voice the majority of the resonance is shifted to the head! The most important part that gets missed SO MUCH is Nasal Resonance!!! this is VERY IMPORTANT when trying to connect the 2. The ladies head voice is more like our falsetto ;0) Hope this helps you guys out.

This is eye-opening. Two years of lessons as a teenager just left me confused about what I should do with my chest voice. I was left with the impression that I am supposed to use my chest voice to sing the high notes in the range of the head voice. After 40, I started singing again. Well, this short video does a better job of explaining the basics than all of my teachers combined (I had three).

I really appreciate the more scientific approach to teaching this, and how consistent you are with your nomenclature!! I only got one semester of vocal training in my music education program (part of being an instrumentalist, I guess), and your videos are really helping to refresh and expand that knowledge! Thank you so much for taking the time to make all these videos.

Watching this video an ad appeared and it was those paying training, 30 days singers, saying that singers on RU-vid arent helping, theres no training plans and what the teach us arent real vocal lessons. I just want to say that every singer RU-vidrs out there who are making these videos for FREE for us are doing a better job than any paying trainings could! Keep up the good work and your videos are super helpful, do not give up, your work isnt in vain. Thank you for all the time you guys put into these and making it simple and understandable!!

AMAZING! the fact that we're thousands of miles away from each other and i feel like you're my personal vocal coach

i have adhd and ive been singing since forever and ive never understood the concept of head or chest voice in any of the classes ive taken, you not only kept my focus on you throughout the entire video but you helped me understand it so easily

I appreciate the helpful tutorials Ronnie, I look up to you!

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As a teacher (comp sci) I commend you on your skills in breaking down the complicated stuff into small, understandable bits and communicating it beautifully. Congratulations and thanks, these videos have been helping me a lot!

Honestly I’ve looked for so many how to sing videos and they weren’t that good but this page reall is helping I’m seing improvement on my voice. Thanks so much

Hi I love your videos my chorus teacher puts you on every Tuesday, can you please shout out Ms. Dimitriou’s 6th period class in your next video?

You’re so amazing! I’m at a point in my life and singing journey that these kinda of in depth technical videos and visual examples of the vocal chords are very helpful to me. I wish I wasn’t so hard on my chords when I was younger, but it made me very interested in technique now that I am older and understand how intricate the voice really is!

You explain all this so well...years of lessons and I still had a few takeaways! Glad to have found this.

I love how much detail you put into this. I like it less when teachers dumb things down to try to make them more generic for people...but I think as singers we really need to know our tool, and this helped me, personally!:) Thank you!

Of all the videos I've found on vocal help, yours by far the best. You explain it in an absolutely non threatening manner and it's so understandable. Thank you

OMG HI!! YOU’RE AMAZING!! This is EXACTLY the kind of channel I’ve been hunting for. Albeit casually but I’ve been hunting around for years tbh. You describe everything so well. 😍

This was so much more informative than I expected from a randomly recommended youtube video! This is the kind of information worth listening to!

Thank you for explaining the whys and hows of our singing voices. I was ready to conclude that nobody really knew anything about what they were talking about until I came across your videos. Such a relief.

Great video, using the rubber band explained it really well. Thanks 😁😁

In 39 years of singing (and two years of mostly just crying), this is the single BEST explanation of what head & chest voice are and how they work. Like probably most people, I've used chest & head voice (distinct from falsetto) instinctively, just by listening to other singers and copying what I hear. But this is a great explanation. It goes into the science in ways I wish more vocal coaches would do, and the visuals are an especially great addition to the explanation. Thank you so much! Liked and subscribed.

This is the most comprehensive, specific walkthrough of chest, passagio, and head voices I’ve seen yet. This helps me so much. Thank you for educating me!

I have never been able to figure out what is meant by head voice and chest voice, but you just explained it so clearly and perfectly. Thank you! And thanks for the other video recommrndations.

Ronja, thank you so much for posting this! I used to sing very regularly when I was younger, but after many years of not using my singing voice, I have had a really tough time getting back into feeling comfortable again. These videos and YOUR CHANNEL is helping tremendously. Thank you. Thank you. Thank You!

You are the best, no one has explained this like you in all the videos I have seen. Thank you so much, amazing job.

I could watch your videos all day. You've undoubtably made me a noticeable better singer. Thank you.

When I actually tried the “chest vibrating test”, I actually felt the vibration in my chest until I switched to my head voice

Absolutely my favourite vocal instructor!! You make it look easy.

I’ve watched almost every video about this on RU-vid and I can never get a clear concise explanation. You helped me to understand, thank you

This is the second video Im watching on this channel, such a great channel. Thank you for making this content, going to continue to watch all your videos

This is hands down the nest explanation of vocal registers I've seen. I keep getting pulling up my chest voice mixed with head voice and hit a massive wall when I'm practicing where I can't slip into head voice. There are also teachers who almost make you think belting in chest voice is head voice. I've actually never heard about the two muscles that control contraction and elongation of the vocal folds. It makes a lot more sense why the break is there. Thank you for making it easy.

I fell away from singing for years and my voice has dropped. Your videos are making me feel it’s possible again, thank you

crystal clear explanation! Thank you Singgeek for sharing this insight.

That was a great explanation for an abstract concept because we can't see what is going on in the engineering, we somehow must learn to feel the change, and those changes are subtle, so the explanation and visuals give me an additional tool to hang onto to get a grip about, how, when, and where, head voice is in comparison to chest voice. Thanks!

Thanks for the easy to understand explanations you give and for the time you spend on this. It really is helpful for folks. I am frantically trying to better learn about how the voice works because I currently have vocal nodules (from singing, lecturing, and acid reflux) and am seeing an SLP who is giving me all of these, what I now know, are head voice exercises (singing 1-5-1 through a straw). My damaged cords are still hurting and scratchy when I use my chest voice to even talk. He gives me exercises but doesn't give me too much info on the reasons why I am doing them. So I'm digging around youtube to learn things and figure out what the end goals are. I'm hoping when we're through with treatment, that speaking and singing from my neck will be an option again and I don't have to continue to talk to everyone like I am talking to my cat. I'm going to go digging around through your videos and see if I can find something on lifting the soft palate (seen other videos on it and want to see your take on it). Cheers! (even though I can't really drink booze right now).

Thank you for sharing! I teach vocal technique, and use some of the techniques you have described to get the ladies into their head voice. Your explanation is the best I have ever come across, and I'm going to adopt several of your ideas! Thanks once again!

Thank you for sharing precious tips. You explained in very easy way.

That is an awesome explanation of the CT and TA musculature! Thanks!

Your channel is like a secret paradise for singers. Why the hell you only have 3.8k subs? Your content is GOOOLD!

Hi Ronja, wanna let you know that I'm coming back to your videos again and again throughout my singing journey, because they are _so_ good! I've probably watched this one 4 or 5 times by now, and everytime I go into it with a higher skill level than the last time (just from practising), but also witha new question in mind. And everytime the video helps me to connect what I've learned theoretically and practically up until that point. It then also gives me a new goal to work towards, and when I have achieved that, I'm gonna come back again for that "click" moment, until I can confidently say "I know all of this!" ;-D Thank you a thousand times for your work!

Thanks for the information! I was searching for an anatomical explanation for the difference between the registers for a fairly long time and here I found it.

Beautiful! Thanks so much for a concise and accurate description that everyone can understand.

Finally one that makes me understand the difference!! Thank you so much

Thank you so much for your clear & distinct explanation of chest voice & head voice. I’m a singer and I’ve been navigating my voice in a smooth way all my life, but never realized how I’ve been doing it until now. Thanks again!

this is so great! you make it so understandable!

That explanation about muscles with the rubber band was very good and creative :)

Excellent explanation! Thank you! Been singing-performing for 50 years, directed choir, coached singers, took some voice lessons, but never had the opportunity to learn and assimilate this! Thank you so much!

So interesting seeing a technical explanation of how head and chest actually work, thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to help us to sing better. Your lessons are very much appreciated and very helpful.

youre the best singing instructor i have come across and i ve viewed most of them. its just so hard for me to stay focused on the singing lesson. my thoughts keep drifting and dreaming. but im working to overcome with every replay.

Thank you :D I finally have taken the steps to get into singing which I love and your videos are so helpful

Your lessons are by far the most informative, thank you very much

I'm loving geeking out with you! Lol. Great explaination. I like being able to see the science behind and it. Having a visual of what's going on with the anatomy really helps understand it all better.

Thank you very much for making this video. I was not able to understand how vocal folds change when creating high pitch,low pitch, low volume and high volume in voice modulation with reference to anatomy. Scientific explanation really helped me imagine the vocal folds and Have more control over them when doing excercises

Thanks so much Peterson for the lesson, it's really helping me in arranging my voice and find solutions to different problems that I had.

I am so going to practice now! You are so great, I have trouble with tension and your tounge placement video really helped me already and i watched it yesterday!

Love your accent, way of explanation, your voice and your pleasant nature! You are amazing.

That was an AMAZING explanation, thank you so much!

Appreciate you're videos and you are good teacher! All you say and how explain it, just catch my eyes and my attention! Go for it! Thank you!

You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you! Didn't even realize how much of a visual learner I was until you pulled out that rubber band!!

This is the most easy and great explanation I've seen for head and chest voice. Thank you

You are a superb teacher and moreover, you have a great grasp of the relevant anatomy and physiology. Very few people can explain the difference between head and chest voice as succinctly as you have. It is tremendously impressive. My only suggestion would be to show anatomical pics of both TA and CT but that is a very minor issue. In my case the hardest thing was to move seamlessly from chest to head register without an obvious break. As a tenor it always upset me that it was harder to sing between E and G than above G. I could sing up to Eb above tenor high C in full voice without falsetto. I also had no problem below E all the way down to A natural below the treble staff. With more than a 2 octave range it was frustrating that singing for prolonged periods in the passagio area always tired me out much more than above or below it. I never had a teacher that could help address these issues. What you are doing for people is very important and extremely generous. Thank you so much.

This is the most thorough explanation I've found on youtube. Thank you so much.

I've been bingw -watching your vids for hours now, thanks!

I decided to learn how to sing and I've always been confused about head and chest voice but this video is so good and now I know the difference. Also, I found out that I'm so good and so comfortable at using head voice, it's insane

That's it. You're my new RU-vid Vocal Teacher ^^

she just knows so much but you can tell she is really enjoying

Thank you for actually explaining how the muscle together! A lot of teacher just say you have 2 sets if muscles that change for chest and head, so I'm left wondering to what extent the muscles should be used.

An absolutely wonderful explanation of the mechanics of the vocal chords and associated muscles . That answered a lot of questions for me. Thank you so much for that.

Happy to understand how our voice work! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this! I feel so welcome here having only having found your channel today!

This description and demonstration with the rubber band was incredibly helpful! Really interesting as well!

Simply love the way you explain! So beautiful and lucid... and easy!

Really nice video, there's soooo many RU-vid channels now speaking about technique and explaining how voice works, with so many wrong concepts. Is really nice to find one with the right concepts, names and examples. Brava

First video I see of you - awesome. So well explained and straight to the point and based on physiology. Can't wait to devour your other vids! Do you have explanations on distortion, I wonder? Thank you so much!

I’m an instrumental musician primarily, but I do sing. I majored in music but never took vocal lessons. Next school year they’ve asked me to take over the chorus and I am so glad I found your videos. They have been incredibly helpful as a navigate applying my instrumental music knowledge to vocal!

I like this video. You know what you are talking about, give good explanations - unlike others from yt. Congrats!

Masterful explanation here thank you for this! I am enjoying your videos and they are so helpful. You are a wonderful coach thank you!

This is seamless awesome information. Job well done. 👏🏻 Love how you add good example to try out!

I'm a visual learner so I love that you used the rubber band to demonstrate this.

Best vocal intro video evar. And I’m writing this comment only during the first advertisement I have been perplexed forever why my “break” varies depending on the the moment and also whether i am descending or ascending. Also the head/chest voice can venture into the lower/higher ranges of another voice, but i can’t work out how to do that consistently

Your tutorials are really helpful. Thank you so much.

It is indeed a great approach on how to use the 2 registers. And how it will work together. I will definitely share this lesson to my co-choir members. God bless you.

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Your ways of explaining is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much ❤

This explains so much and solves so many issues!!!! Thank You!!!

Soon as you said Apologize, I knew exactly what you were talking about, lol - it's one of my practice songs. Really appreciate the explanations - want to get more technical knowledge so I can get a better feel and idea of exactly what I'm doing, and how to improve.

Thank you so much. This explains why I tend to sing an octave lower to avoid those whispy sounding higher notes. Sometimes that lower octave is below my range.

You are like the angel returning the stolen frequencies! What a lovely find!

Your the only vocal teacher thats direct unlike others.

What a clear and lovely lesson ! I love you!

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Thank so much for reaching us such most important things needed in singing God bless u ,I appreciate

Your videos are very insightful and it reallllyyy helps a lotttt. Thanksss

Excellent explanation of the anatomy! Thank you so much. Will try your exercises.

Excellent explanation of the physiology behind the registers. I have a strong head voice and a strong chest voice, but little control in the break. Now that I know about the two opposing muscles, I know what to focus on to smooth the transition. Thanks!

Thank U ! You explained everything so beautifully!

Man this is a great video. So much useful info in a short time frame.