The Secrets to a Powerful Mixed Voice | Tips for Singing High Notes 

I finally agree with all of this. The early mixing myth got me, too. For years. Finally came to realize that in my own music, none of it was bridged early. Why pay someone else to teach me that? Singing with greater ease these days. More volume, more stamina, more tonal options...Great stuff, and all well explained here.

@@into.the.wood.chipper. That's awesome to hear how well your singing is going!!

@@CalebColesMusic Go gentle, pleeease. xD www.singsnap.com/karaoke/watchandlisten/play/bc9a91749

Thanks

Glad it was helpful!

Same, but I think that his microphone helps him

8:00 the creaky door exercise. Falsetto doesn't transition down to chest voice without your voice cracking, but head voice, with enough practice, does. It is absolutely not the microphone. Check out Chris Liepe's videos on Radiohead and Bon Iver for a better explanation.

@@unknown_character_music my chesty feels at till f4 it's feels little bit vibrate at f4

@@Arijit-BS7274 My chest goes up to G#4 on chest belt, the weird part, on chest mv, ONLY F4 AND PUSHING JUST F#4, that's so weird

@@gamerps4sg898 I can also belt A4 bt it takes much effort bt g#4 is more much more easier than A4

Glad you liked the video. It is really hard to narrow the chest voice at first, because the natural tendency is to push and widen it. It really just takes a bit of time. I'd recommend looking up some vowel modification videos, but also one thing that may help is as you get higher practice sounding 'dopey'. By that, I mean intentionally sound lazy, dopey, almost like a strange yawn. As you go higher, try staing dopey and relaxed, whilst trying to make the sound smaller and you get higher. The dopeyness should help get some of the muscles out of the way that try to push the voice to get wider.

Caleb Coles Music Thx so much. I’ll try sounding as dopey and lazy as I actually am. This time tomorrow I’m sure I’ll sound like a cross between Dimash and yourself!

Thanks! I will make more :)

TOTALLY the same problem i have!

Great, hope it does!! Let me know how you go.

@@CalebColesMusic Ok I'll do it.

Sure is!

Shit, that's good. Can you link to the video that helped you ?

@@Yadeehoo It's on Spanish

Elaborate, are you saying that you should start to mix at f4?

@@thomasglass7223 I would start mixing even lower than that. B3 or so. For one thing, your mix, despite being quieter than raw chest, is going to sound fuller. The folks who just shout everything not only don't sound particularly musical, but they also tend to have a very limited range, no vibrato, and a strident tone.

Stop fear mongering LOL just because you cant do it doesnt make it dangerous

Yeah that is always hard. I have had a hard time with that in the past too.

Stop relying on the AA (cat) vowel. That has made you too strong, and wobbly. UH (cup) will give you a thicker and more stable sound, because its harmonic frequencies are lower overall and high frequencies are what lead to strain in the first place if you use them too much in the low range (overcompression). It's no different from using low harmonics in the high range (leads to breathiness). It doesn't work. Low harmonics are for the low range, and high harmonics are for the high range.

Hope it helps! Let me know if you have any questions :)

Thanks! Big video but hopefully made some sense.

It did! We just had a massive lightening storm in the middle of it, so I had to come back to it. Here's a bizarre question, you were saying how to manipulate the sound in your vocal chords. Does that mean you can feel that happening and do you flex them to make different sound choices?

@@mamatrop Wow, strange! Yeah, a little bit. There is a different sensation in actually putting the cords together a little bit. And yes adding compression and aduction sometimes feels a little bit like flexing the vocal cords I suppose :) At first though it is hard to seperate the sensations from tension in the throat / neck that is unhealthy, so I try to be careful with the language I use. But there is a sense of different energy and flexing within the vocal tract. The trick is to make sure that it is healthy with the breath support and not over-compressed or tense so there is no extra tension :)

This has been a master class! I didn't mean to sound strange, just trying to understand!🙂

Are you a woman? Because if you were a man, then damn you have such a high set voice to be able to start mixing at around B/C/D.

@@marcusdamianbaloyo1336 I am a man. I meant the male part on the piano i think they call it middle C not C5. C5 for me would be mix like most guys. When I first started to learn to sing I was trying to mix around D4 E4 F4 with a lot of strain and power and could never get it smooth which is why i started relaxing my voice which made it mix earlier. The reason I was mixing later was probably due to belting out higher notes in my car when i used to listen to the radio. I never knew mix voice even existed so i used to go higher until my voice used to crack. My voice isn't as high as other guys on youtube, i can hit up to F5 kind of comfortably in head voice depending on how warmed up I am. I can hit up to A5 but it doesn't feel comfortable and i even got horse a few times hitting those notes up there :p. By mixing lower I have lost some range on my chest voice. Now when i hit E4 F4 it automatically mixes.

@@theone4808 Oh ok, I get you! Not a vocal coach but I still think you're able to hit E4-F4 in your chest register. I hope I don't sound negligent, but it might be due to improper breath support on your part. That's why you may be mixing at around E4-F4. Before I discovered the Mix Voice, I was able to pull chest at around G4-G#4. When I kinda discovered how to utilize my mix, I thought that I should mix earlier them where I actually start to mix, around A4. So I started mixing at around G4. It took me months to realize that I was 'instinctively' mixing at around G4. I kinda got worried at that point. I thought I had messed things up. It was a good thing I went back and watched a video on proper Breath support. I think basically, you can belt comfortably and mix better with proper breath support and proper air-flow. It was then I realized I could still hit G4-G#4s in my chest register. In addition to that, my mix started to sound heavier than before. There's still a distinction from mix and chest but it's kinda subtle. You can kinda tell that it's supported. I think you'll be fine. Maybe you just need proper technique in breath support. Again, I hope I didn't sound negligent. Idk, maybe you are using proper technique in that department. I hope I kinda helped based on my experience. You don't need to listen to me if you don't want to. After all, I'm no vocal coach. Keep practicing sir!

@@marcusdamianbaloyo1336 thanks. You are spot on! Breath control is something i lacked and i have been working on diaphragm support. Everything feels a lot more natural this way and less "controlled". Thanks for the tips!

I was same when I discovered I was shouted for hours push hard to high notes sometimes I remember One day I hit F5 without warming Crayzzinesss but I was lucky my range is not affected

I think it is quite normal for an uncompressed chest voice to struggle up past that point. A lot has to do with your voice type. Some voice types just have to be compressed more to get past a certain point or needs a switch of register. I tend to blend a bit earlier when singing softly and blend later at higher volumes. So when I crescendo / descendo at say a B4, the B4 at full volume will be a chest dominant loud belt, and then as a go quieter it'll switch to being more head dominant, then as I swell back to full it'd go back to chest dominant. Even well trained opera singers do this also. Some voices can do a more aspirit (uncompressed) chest voice sound up high, but that is rare and only works for voices that are truly very high pitch naturally.

Thanks for the info ☺ But I can get my head voice down to a point where it's nearly as low as my lowest chest note is.... My lowest chest note is an A2 and my lowest head voice note is a C3... is that bad ? Also my head voice goes to A5 without straining , and I am self-taught . Please if you have any extra info on how do we mix would be appreciated, I have been struggling for ages 😞 and I cant sing past the E4 .... I am about to give up.

@@amrm_a7771 You shouldn’t take your head-voice anywhere near that low, (why would you want too?) it becomes airy and too much air is a killer for the voice. For a Tenor the vocal bridge is around E4, this is where you need to start transitioning into your head-voice. Can be lower for some men. Then you build this area over time into a mix of chest and head, giving you a mix-voice. It’s best to forget about mix-voice and focus on making a smooth transition from chest to head lightly. You can then build on this over time, and I mean time. It can take years before you build a big sound throughout your vocal bridge. My advice is “Think of mix-voice as a strong head-voice at first.” As there isn’t a magical 3rd vocal register call “mix-voice.” The resonance goes from chest to head! Mix-voice is really just a term used to describe the overtones created when you’ve built a good strong “gradual” transition from chest to head and built the voice strong over time. The voice MUST transition into head resonance as you go though your vocal bridge. (E4’ish) This is why the term “mixed-voice” has so many (especially people going it along, without a good instructor) confused. Build your head-voice from E4 (could start a little lower) up throughout your upper range. Build Chest voice up to E4, (or a little lower) but stop if it builds too much tension or becomes uncomfortable. The voice needs to grow without punching it, this is very important. Trust in the process and week by week you’ll see progress. This is my advice anyway, good luck and I hope this helps.

@@jazznotes3802 thank you so much it really helped me , but I am actually wondering if I put my vocal cords under high compression I can reach B4 sometimes D5 , is that healthy or it isn't? But it doesn't sound good at all and it is too weak. Also sorry if I ask a lot I am being self-taught I am really sorry 😞 Edit : If u r curious about since when I started singing , I started sining and practicing 2 months ago and I also developed all my vocal registers (whistle, flageolet, vocal fry, etc ...) and got my vibrato..

@@amrm_a7771 Your definitely moving way too fast imo. One of the biggest downfalls to self-learning is the speed at which you move. Chest-voice and Head-voice up to around C5 is all you should really to be working. Otherwise you’ll likely build bad habits and vocal tension. I wouldn’t recommend practicing by simply following different RU-vid vocal lessons. (If you are) You really need a DIY “teach yourself course,” to follow. Something like Seth Rigg’s “Singing For The Stars” Book/CD. (If your not getting one on one lessons) I highly recommend this book for teaching yourself. But be sure to record yourself and self annualise very carefully. I’ve had private vocal lessons for 2 years, but found I improved more (and faster) by practicing from Seth’s book and Brett Mannings “Singing Success” DIY CD vocal program. I’ve also got Ken Tamplins “How To Sing Better Than Anyone Else” vocal video/mp3 course. Ken’s course is much harder to follow without a vocal coach though. When on your vocal journey don’t focus on learning everything quickly or pushing to get results. The voice need to build slowly, without tension. You need to relax for the high notes first, (not push or compress) building a light head-voice, like a reinforced falsetto almost but without the larynx rising. Guys fight against this trying to force a bigger sound I. Their head-voice/mix-voice, don’t do this. Get a DIY course!

@@jazznotes3802 Thank you so so so so so so so so so so much for replying like you are the only one so far who answered my questions and I have thousands of them xD. Also my head voice goes to A5 , you mentioned that I have to get the head voice to C5 which already is , now I have to work on my chest voice to get it that high , I guess it should be a chest dominant mixed voice , I will work on that 😉 Thanks 😊 🫂