HELP! I Can't Get Into Head Voice! - Singing 

same here AHAHAHAH XD

i can completely relate. i got 2 octaves of chest voice and almost non existent head voice

SAME SJS im a girl and i sing with my chest and throat and idk how to get into head voice. like i’m a soprano and i strain to sing notes that should be sang in head voice, and when i try to sing in my head voice it’s like just croaking there is no sound 😳, or itll just sound like i’m yodelling like i’ll get to head then immediately chest/throat then head. i’m hoping this video will helpp

FINALLY HHAH YES IM NOT ALONE-

@@mieuklace1013 I have barely 1,5 octave range in chest so I thought I should maybe go to the head voice and my range would improve but damn, I guess that my range just sucks too much xD

Thats my problem too.

I still cant find it

We must practice our chest voice to higher range... head voice later :D sorry for my bad english :D

I feel u bro. My voice also did that when i singing, i thought it was a head voice but it sounds like a falsetto

Thanks guys any tips on how to strengthen cchest voice

Period I have no idea what just happened

This was the most unhelpful load of crap I've ever heard. This was literally just "figure it out on your own."

My story is identical as yours...it took me 5 years, to discover my head voice! it was 2 weeks ago, the trick really is dont push to much and dont panic be relaxed.. same here ( thanks Carl )

love this, yeah don't panic is essential I have to remind myself of this constantly. Agree though any coach who talks about 'open throat' can be disregarded it's a vague term that isn't anywhere near specific enough and could be interpreted in a million different ways. I'm slowly getting better at this coaching and singing, in a few years time I'm confident people will see where I'm coming from more clearly.

Same, did you find a work around?

Sameee

I had the same issue. What helped me was trying to do it really quietly almost like a whisper with slight volume and just try to sing a note in chest voice and go up. Once you feel the strain let go and you will just keep going higher. Ik this is a bad explanation so please ask any questions.

Zezo Fleck thanks man!

but i'm still struggling to find it though. still using chest to hit a b4 or c5 (on a good day), belting and squeezing it like there's no tomorrow. no head voice coming out, so far. tried a few different approaches but with no avail

squeeze is good as long as it's the right kind, that's a challenge for all of us to find.

Thanks Robin, get the basics right and everything else can follow from there.

thanks M, will keep on moving forwards :)

Rekzy me too man , I’m just wondering if there are people who can’t permanently get in to head voice ever

@@deegee9497 yeah, some days I can reach higher notes than others but it just seems to be mostly that I can't

@@deegee9497 I've found that I get acid reflux during my sleep which I didn't know about, so every night this week I've taken two antacids before I go to bed and my head voice is coming back by each day, you may have the same problem

same and i’m a teenage girl.. with a high pitched voice snd a soprano. it just doesn’t make sense 😭

My falsetto is almost non existent most days, but like you, some days it could be there, it could even be 100% there (rarely) and the more falsetto I have the more agile my chest voice becomes. Been like this ever since I'm 7th grade, I'm 18 now.

Cant even hit a c5 properly in head voice... Im 15 too my voice hasn't settled yet but i guess I'll for under the baritone or bass

@@thirdrevoj683 Wow really ? But was your voice always that low ? Or did it happen after puberty ?

@@thirdrevoj683 I completely lost my higher registers

@@raymondtung5439 work on it or u will loose your notes practice every other wise your voice will get very deep and then it will hella difficult to hit those high 5th and 6th octave notes

use lyf hax

You lost it at 35, and how many years has it been now, exactly? Because I've lost my falsetto from 7th grade, can't figure out if it's a puberty thing or what, cuz Iam a boy, but I'm 18 now and it's still not there, there's just a really squeaky forced airy sound there. I can't say that it's a nodule either because there's like a 15% chance for me to have full access to head voice, and when I do, I instantly notice it because my chest voice becomes a lot more agile too. I don't remember the last time that happened, though.

u need to develop support. The flute sound is falsetto and its in fact disconnected because u use ur larynx to go higher. In head voice its like in chest u need to push with ur support to go higher without raising ur larynx,. U can go to D5 in head voice after u will start to strain. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n1-eY_A6Rw0.html in this video there are exercices to strenghten ur head voice and not falsetto.

@@LightKurusan thank you!

hey Stu, nice to meet you, I have some good content coming over the next week or so stay tuned :)

superb carl look forward to it.i struggle with mental blocks i find i perform best when im totally relaxed and the weird thing is i seem to be better when i start practice rather than at the end what are your thoughts?

no

It does help! It's still hard for me tho😕

Yoooooo! I didn't even realise how high I got when I tried that thing! My highest note is normally 4F# and with warm up, 4A... *I hit past my short term goal of 4B*💀

@Driftzey it's tricky, but its improving. I try to relax (all I can...), then start to do vocal fry really softly not trying to make any sound, then I chose a note a bit higher than my range, and do vocal fry again and use the w sound to make noise. When it works, sometimes I do it a bit too tight, and it doesn't feel good, but when it works properly, it feels good like a door opening, and your folds zipping. It sounds like a fly or mosquito buzzing. You just have to make sure the larynx is as relaxed as possible, but but the folds feel like they are stretching. It's hard to explain. What I'm trying to do now though is as soon as I make the sound, try and slide down my range back to my normal voice, keeping the folds closed so I can remove the break. It sounds really weird trying it tho...😅

@Driftzey vocal fry is when you make a creaking noise with your voice, like a creaking door. You start the sound with it, then let the sound continue without it once the high note comes out. The 'w' sound is like the 'w' when you are about to cry like a baby. You don't really think about the stretch. Once you have an easy high note, your folds have stretched like a rubber band. Try and be really quiet and easy with your sound. As you know, I'm not an expert, I'm just sharing what I've been doing to get sound out (lol), so anyone more experienced might be able to share a better way. I'd be glad if it helps though!

@Driftzey yeah, but just do the w part, and let the body make whatever noise it wants

They say age may drasticly change your range, could that be it? Im a mezzo soprano btw

Lynx but I'm only 23

Have you fixed it?

@@Jferraro24 not really. It’s a little better now though, meaning somedays it’s ok, somedays it doesn’t come out

@@ninjadankoo hmmm have you ever had any formal training?

Simple and straight to the point!

Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but that beautiful high ring might never return. I used to be able to sing a D6 on whim. Mostly likely you've fallen to a baritone range, which is hard to adjust to if you're used to vocally dancing on the descant lines. Do not try to strain and close your vocal cords, as he suggests (he's correct (kind of) about the physics, wrong about the rest) it will not produce the tone or agility you're looking for and is liable to cause injury. My best advice would be to learn how to use the range you're in as best you can.

if you were asking this question of me then what happens is I sing with no strain as I get higher and there's no bump as I cross my break area (E/F) and in fact I can cause the "bump" if I choose to do so for stylistic purposes...I feel the chords thin out as I go higher (how else could I go higher without straining?) and if I lean in to get louder my chords don't blow apart - there is a definite "edge" to my voice and this remains as I go higher up...I practice with compression type exercises (to the annoyance of those around me haha) but it does work...believe me I am no great singer but I can bridge without a break and I have more compression than I did before - not sure I understand your question but if I tried to sing to C5 in chest I just could never do it physically if I understand your question correctly?...I notice my voice thinning at around middle C and then as I go up I notice them trying to come apart at E - F if I'm not careful but they don't (unless I want them to) and after that they thin out more and and I seem to get more compression and therefore volume if I need it (See Carls early videos on compression for the differences between pitch and compression muscles) - I write this in detail for you as I don't know your skill level or where you are in your journey and I know that other people don't always explain everything and this can leave people who are trying to do this more confused than before they asked...when you say "resonance is in your head" yes it is and it travels up through my nose area and then up further into my head but the chords thin out and I don't strain - if you're an expert singer then I apologise for all of this claptrap but just wanted to explain as I am pleased with my progress at the moment and I thought it might help you if you needed it.

Oh I'm sorry, I was askin carl if in this video he is talkin about the falsetto-ish headvoice or if he's talkin about the chesty/mixed voice headvoice. Cause some people define headvoice as falsetto and some define it as your belt/mixed voice

No worries pretty sure Carl can answer you on this...:)

I just mean singing high without pushing you could call it many things head / false / release etc. This video is for people who can't get into head voice at all like when I started nothing above middle C without pushing.

I believe that head voice is like a developed falsetto, and that the falsetto can be expanded with no break into head voice, Sometimes the more you analyze the more confused it becomes. No I think it is impossible to sing a high c with chest voice. I hate sopranos it sounds so simple!!!