/ davidkahnsings Another highly requested video from y'all! Hope you enjoy:) MY DEBUT SINGLE IS OUT NOW: open.spotify.com/track/6ivq3d... Also here is a link to the rest of the tour I am currently on: www.elvis-musical.co/termine....
Vocal fry low to twang falsetto! Singing is more about tone, timbre and pitch! At some point we started chasing range! Lyrics and melody are also above the aforementioned! If you can sing melodiously in the low and high ranges - stop and rethink! Singing is more than noises is the air! It is more than "notes"!
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I’ve been practicing ever since this video came out and my comfortable range went up from a C4 to and F4. And my highest belted note went from a G#4 to a Bb4, so it’s been a great process and I can’t wait to see my progress in 3 years when I get to senior year.
I feel like I have the same range you had, I just started practicing and I feel like I'm a baritone and not a bass, because without fry I can't hit an E2 and everything under F2 is really low in volume. And yeah I can sing all the time on E4 so what type am I ?
@@chris9yearsago698 I think I'm a baritone. Last week I did actually scream a clean B4 mixed, but I s^till have trouble to "sing G4s" etc, even though I can etchnically go higher. Are you a tenor ?
What type of bass breaks at an F4?😂😂 freak of nature to start. My natural break starts around a C4. Still tho you give me hope of singing high. Your tips are amazing man.
I guess at the moment he's more like a bass-baritone. Voices get a little lower as people age, so he'll probably turn into a "full" bass when he's around 30. Just a guess though.
Bruh this hits close to home. I was stuck at c4 from 16 till 19. I had no clue how to use other registers, so I was stuck with a strained sound until I learned mix and head voices. It was only after that that I could bring my chest voice up easier. I top out around g4 on a good day, but only because my voice knows how to slip into falsetto when it gets tired. Before, I couldn’t go above c4 without actual shouting and pain. ANY basses/baritones around, take David’s advice to heart here, even if you never wanna sing like a tenor range, the ease and power you get from his techniques here will save your chords in the future.
I'm a basso cantante and my natural chest range goes from C2-F#4. I can force a G4 with enormous straining but I wanna stop that non sense and learn how to use mixed voice. It might just be my opinion but the problem for me has been that 99% of vocal coaches don't fully understand the bass voice types. You have been really helpful so far. I still sound like a broken copy machine from time to time when I'm doing the exercises but my throat feels a lot healthier when I'm using the range from C4-G4, so thank you and greetings from Germany.
Omg,thank you so much for this.It really makes a difference for a lot of bass singers like me.You are amazing,you never fail at amazing all of us.Keep up the good work❤️
This seriously is the most helpful singing video I’ve ever seen! The way you explained everything really made sense and I’m excited to do these exercises.
Man i usually don't comment any video, but the way you drove the tips and the reflexion about having a the voice have make progress a lot!! i mean, i've been looking trough a lot of mixed voice videos and your videos really made sense for me, because i also have a very low voice and couldn't find the right video. Thanks a lot!
hey man thank you so much for posting this video and putting yourself out there. It means a lot bro and definitely inspired me in many ways to not give up on my own voice. Was literally searching through RU-vid to gain some confidence on my own voice to see if it was possible for a person with my voice type (probably baritone) who could sing. Although my voice doesn't go as low as yours, it's surely a bit on the deeper side so watching this video gave me a lot of inspiration to not give up on my dream of being able to sing. Thank you man! I watched some of your covers. You have an amazing voice! I subbed and keep up the great work!
After watching this very inspirational video and after only with the first lesson w my teacher I was able to hit a clean A4. I’m gonna be honest here the way I was able to get it was not through the exercise here but just trying to reach for those high notes and trying stuff on my own to at least hit the notes of the song i really loved with no falsetto . The bihb bihb exercise from my teacher was what probably helped me learn what it feels like but but it was still sounding very heady but I always kept this tip of yours in the back of my mind :start with the falsetto and and bring chest voice down.. I’ve used today to make my my mixed voice sound better and it worked sounds a lot fuller and chestier still not as good as your A4# on the cover u made but it’s a huge step. This was a huge revelation to me though and probably the second happiest day of my life...the happiest was when my teacher told me yes you can sing tenor!!! It doesn’t matter in contemporary music!!! You’re gonna get that A4 just practice!! So yes there is hope for us baritones!!!!!! And heck i have acid reflux and can’t practice that regularly if ur healthy then u can do this even faster!!!! Good luck to y’all . It doesn’t have to take 10 or 5 years !!!
This helped build on stuff I found a few years back. The rubber band analogy helped me beat my d4 limit when my voice dropped originally. I wasn’t able to hit anything, ANYTHING, in the 5th octave until I found how to stretch my voice for falsetto and add more gradually, and my top note went from b4 to over g5. So happy to hear more of this advice being spread. Take my like👍
Hey sir, thanks for the 20 minutes of worth knowledge you share to us. I've been trying to expand my range, but since i don't have any vocal coach im afraid I'll end up hurting my own voice. And then I'm starting to search more on RU-vid and i found you. This is one of the most usefull vocal exercises and tips i ever find.
It's kind of funny, tenors like me need to pay attention to the other way, singing low notes with a high voice. Some tenors can go really deep, my deepest chest voice note is an E2, F#1 with vocal fry/subharmonic singing. But we just don't have the power and volume the likes of you, Avi and Tim have. So we try to make up for it by putting a little to much weight into our low notes, which is not exactly that healthy. I'm happy as a tenor but sometimes I wish I could be a bass. The resonance you get when singing those low notes or just speaking is absolutely incredible.
thats why im grateful to be a baritone, we can do both with a bit of training lmao, ive trained my voice to go up to B4 and down to D2, i would maybe prefer being a tenor but they both have their benefits
I really hope this helps me. 'cause it really frustrates me not being able to sing how I want to. Thank you for openimg my mind and now I know where I need to focus on.
As a singer who has been through a long process of discovering and rediscovering the mix voice and finding different gradations of fold used, I can say that this video is completely valid in all the tips that it provides. Thank you for making this awesome video. Also, Make It on Our Own sounds great! Instrumentally and vocally.
Thanks for giving me a great insight....great analogies with such honesty I feel like you shared your experience and struggles with me....I think your techniques are going to work for me. Cheers
I think learning how to do subharmonics helped me to do this😂 it has helped me to relax my vocal chords and then instead of sliding down, I took the idea to slide up. I can’t believe how universal some of these techniques are, this is awesome!
I have been feeling very bad about my voice and this helped me. I do theatre and would love to go on to a professional stance and go onto bigger things with theatre as I feel I am a decent actor. However I am a bass. And in theatre (musical theatre) as in broadway, I would get told that as a bass you will not be able to play young characters. This has some truth as many broadway actors in male leads must be a tenor or a high baritone. And being a bass is very demotivating when you get told that you won’t ever be able to hit high notes. However this video helped me see that I can. And that I can use my voice and become more versatile.
Oh, I feel you, bro! I´ve always been trained as a baritone but pop music requires sometimes a high C. It´s been so hard to develop the speech level singing mix and the nasal constriction mix by myself. My classical teachers (in Mexico they are the cheapest) said I had to use apoggio to reach high notes and that only allows me to reach a high A, and the estill teacher I had last semester wanted me to belt with apoggio too but without the operatic passagio (like classical teachers trying to teach me pop singing), he was very disgusted when I told him I don´t wanted to use pulled chest voice anymore and the worst came when I told him I wanted to develop a dark nasal mixed sound (like R&B singers), he said that was not correct and as I said "it´s my voice and I want to decide my sound" he asked the school for a change of student. I know a great teacher who knows SLS and Nasal Constriction very well but because of covid-19 right now I don´t have the money to work with her. So sad. But you know what keeps me hopeful? Last year when I was starting to develop my mix I was asinged to a classical teacher who really thought I was a tenor because I was able to reach a high Bb (mixed) and he really thoght it was my "tenor range" and not a mixed voice so I gues I´m going the right way lol
Omg! This is it - for me at least. Finally I am able to sing beyond my break (F#4) all the way up to d5. And i am sure that with more practice i can make it sound good too. Thank you so much!❤❤❤
Thanks a lot man, seriously. Even if i try to find a vocal teacher on México they don't care about increasing vocal Range. I mean i know is not the most important thing but you really Help me out. Love to you c:
Your videos are really good, awesome job... I'm a low baritone, but I struggle around D2/D#2, and it is really hard to go below that for me, except early in the morning when I wake up when my voice goes down to like B1/C2. Could you make a video on how to sing on the bottom of your range or increase low range in chest voice? Thank you.
Hi @David Kahn :) I hope you see this comment because while I listen to all of your covers and I'm generally not into those styles of music, it's still impressive to see someone with such a range. I think if I had started singing normally my voice would have been a baritone or low tenor but the bass range is fascinating to me. I figure I won't be singing much higher than the 4th octave but I'm trying to extend my low range. Chest voice I can sing Eb2, I can reliably get a G1 with subharmonics (which I learned from yours and @David Larson's video) and I can hit an F1 with growl. I still think low chest is the best sounding of all these registers, however, so I'd like to be able to get to a C2. I want to be able to sing Avi Kaplan's bass part in Pentatonix - Run To You. Again, while I'm comfortable with the top of my range and don't plan to expand it much, I enjoyed this and found it helpful because I think these techniques are applicable to any note. Thanks for listening :)) (Speaking of listening I listened to your song Make It on Our Own and it was great. Your range blows me away)
I'm a bass too currently struggling around G4 with some vowels especially "o" and "u". Always feel i automatically tighten my throat.. And i can barely hit B4 with a weird cat noise.... Really grateful for this video! It feels so reassuring to know that i still have some undiscovered potential if i work for it... Will try those exercise tmr in the shower hahahaha
I would say this is a valid point. However, a Tenor voice has the same 1st passagio (E,F,F# above Middle C) area as most regular Bass voices, and also Baritone voices, their voices may not be quite as hefty, but the change from Bass to Tenor classification is not abrupt enough to change the passagio to a higher area, so getting stuck on the F4 is possible for a Tenor as well, and even if they can sing higher than that and you can't, Tenor voices will not be able to comfortably sing all in chest voice into an F4 without making a transition. Their less hefty and less thick classification may make it easier for them to have tension that they can pull through F4 that a Bass has a harder time with, but that tension will usually catch up with them in the 2nd Passagio (A,Bb,B,C above Middle C). So, regardless of your range, all singers need to know how to sing smoothly through the 1st Bridge, or passagio which for most male voices ( Regular Bass, Baritone, Tenor, Counter-Tenor) is E4,F4,F#4. Only then can we all effectively cross the break and have a strong powerful head voice. The 1st passagio has to be free of tension before we stretch our voices up. Its the same concept with females as well. An Alto voice, despite being lower than a Soprano, is going to have the same 1st Passagio (A,Bb,B,C above Middle C) as a Mezzo, 1st Soprano, or the less common Coloratura. Unless you're dealing with a Contralto (Deeper Alto) voice, the change in the other voices is not enough for the 1st bridge to be lower or higher.
@@DavidKahnSings sorry, but I don't squad, and I don't know how to use it. But I will definitely reccomend your channel to everyone, who has the same questions as I have. BTW do you teach singing classes in person?
This video makes much more sense to me on how to hit high notes. I'm still young and I'm going through puberty. In middle school I could hit so many high notes, but then in 8th grade my voice started getting lower and I had to push more to get high notes. I asked my music teacher about how I can reach high notes again and they told me it's some kind of feeling in your throat, but I still didn't get it. I tried doing your exercise in this video. Whenever I try to switch from head voice to chest voice I have to do a little break in between and I can't do it continuously. I really don't get how to open up my vocal chords during chest voice, I have to push everytime. Thanks for the vid, it really helped me with identifying what my problem was (pushing) and I know it's not as hard as I think. Can you give me some exercises to work on to improve my high notes voice?
I'm going to try this start light idea. and maybe do some things to increase my chest range. that makes sense then it'll at least hopefully let me sing a few notes higher w/o feeling like I'm dying. haha
Warm-up: Descending Scales - 15:20 Ascending Scales - 15:57 Mix Transition Exercises: F Mix - 5:10 A Mix - 7:10 Vocal Slide (B) - 11:06 Baby Goat Groan - 17:07 *Do not squeeze, move your head side to side and you should still be able to do the exercises*
Baritone too, just tried it out, everything was quite comfy (except for that G#4 in the chorus at first, but then i nailed it with no problem after a few trys).
Wow, that's interesting.I'll try it and tell you if it worked with me. What about a tutorial of how to get lower in chest voice? I know, you made a subharmonic tutorial already but I find it pretty difficult to switch to subharmonics in a down-scale like in Rachmaninov's Vespers
10:54 => slides through the registers 12:20 => realizing you are your best teacher (listen to yourself) 15:19 => warm-up going down 15:56 => warm-up going up 17:04 => baby goat yelling + moving head left to right
Could you do a video on falsetto singing for bass singers? I’ve gotten better recently, but still have a ways to go. Any help would be much appreciated!
I finally found my mix a few months ago, and have sang up to C#5 as a bass, but I'm struggling with consistency and making the tone more pleasant. I've sometimes been able to use the 2nd harmonic to make it sound thicker, but it's still too bright imo.
I also find that while I can get a very similar mixed voice sound in a nasal way like you mention here, it has a serious volume limit that makes it unusable for very loud rock stuff because it just does not compete with the aggressive top end of my lower register. So instead, although it's much harder to develop the strength and coordination for, it's more valuable to learn to make that same very bright tonal quality by having good placement and projection, almost in an operatic way. This gives it cut and a fullness that, while still not the same as a lower register sound, at least competes in terms of volume over loud electric instrumentals. It's very similar in sound, enough to confuse most people, but it's easy to tell the difference because it's not at all impacted if you plug your nose while making it, it's a bit harsher and it's probably about 10-20db louder on average than the nasal tone you described here.
Was it really you in Dublin on the bridge today?? Omg..your voice so so so good..I don’t know much about music but I love how you sing with so much passion.
I need some more of the technicals behind bringing in the chest voice. Can sing the F4 in head easily but don’t know how to bring in chest. C4 is highest in chest for me and it’s very strained. Fantastic vid btw!
it’s all in the exercises believe it or not, slowly adding support starting from very quietly up and down the scales and then with more volume each time. i may possibly make another video on this so thank you for your comment!
That's an interesting video. Honestly I got the theory for quite a while now (to the point I can actually teach what you're showing) but doing it is another thing. I'm actually a professional operatic bass so maybe my problem is there (like singing with too much fold in full chest for years). I can sing strong covered F4 and can go as low as a good strong D2. As for head belt, I can do really good belts from C4 to maybe A5, even some good heavy metal screams like manowar with healthy saturation. But man, between E4 and C4, two options, first is having a weak head voice full of air, second one is try to add more folds but end up sounding like a duck and it's very instable and it seems impossible to bridge this with chest voice, even light one. Do you have an advice ? Of course I'll try those few exercises.
I like bass low voice even though I'm tenor my voice is too light I can't go down from f#2 but I can belt f4 easy but stain on c#5 my falsetto can go up to f6 which I like the most
Can vocal nodules prevent you from being able to mix chest and head? I don’t know for sure if I have them or not, but I screamed a lot as a kid. My head voice reaches down to A2 and up to D6, but it sounds like a radio shorting out if I try to mix chest and head (Chest goes from F2-G4)
Ive noticed when you belt that high your tongue is rather depressed is that intentionally and what would you recommend for positioning? Is the back of your throat open like a yawning formation?
11:11 can this exercise help me to find my mix and cam it be a muscle memory like any other exercise?i think sliding from each note to another octave is the best i can do...i think its more easier than nay nay and the others...i've been dying to sing high
Very Helpful, I devolved my own style of singing highnotes and I wanted to know if it was safe or not, but after watching this video I relized it’s the same method!! So thanks now I know it’s safe
Man, you struggled at a D4 when you started? I broke at an A3 when I started... I had to work like hell just to be able to sing a C4. I can now use my upper register at solid volume with enough strength/stability to do some very fun upper register notes with subharmonics and rasp and weird overtones and all kinds of party tricks. Even up over C5, right up to around G5 now. And I can sustain a solidly loud D5 for in excess of 15 seconds. But for the life of me, I still cannot seem to smoothly slide between registers. I'm not sure what isn't clicking for me, but I just cannot seem to get a handle on bridging.
My current range is like E2-F#4. In the morning I can sometimes do a D2 but any "note" lower is usually like a whisper. I really want to get to A4. I'm not too interested in lowering my voice, but I imagine that's likely impossible since you can't add girth to your flaps?
Hello, I've been using your advice for quite a while and it did work. I got my chest range from c4 to an F4, sometimes f#. But I can't get rid of the strain above B3 for some reason, although I feel much more relaxed now than before. More practice, I guess?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have a question. Is possible for you to do those exercises without vibrato? I assume that they kick in naturally for you, but if it doesn’t for me, should I try to add it?
it really sucks not being able to sing, like all my favourite songs are way out of my nonexistent range and when i learn them on guitar not being able to sing them actually makes me sad. god I wish i could sing.
Dude I feel like i can relate to this so much and it’s so frustrating lol. Singing low notes is a breeze for me and I feel like my voice has so much potential and power but I just can’t get down the certain nechnoque I need to use. A couple times I think I accidentally unlocked my whole sing range and it was crazy I swear I could sing literally any song with ease. I was so happy trying to remember all the high songs I usually struggle with so I could sing them lol. I have no idea how it happened but it felt almost magical lol. Would there be any possible way you could do a 1v1 vid or audio chat to tell me what my dumbass needs to do? Lol
