Easy Way to Get Rid of Vocal Breaks for Smooth Singing Transitions
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2020
- Hi guys I'm Madeline Harvey and thank you so much for hanging out with me today. Today in our play together I'm going to show you a very effective extremely simple exercise that you can do at home to smooth your transitions and reduce that pesky break. So if you like these video please be sure to give it a thumbs up or click that Subscribe button below. I would love to see you here more often so we can pretty much pinpoint that the voice changes for one major reason and that is a reluctance to change. Now there are two components that we have to manage as we work with blending registration. One is airflow and the other one is Cord strength or cord tension. Now when we speak of airflow we're talking specifically about the relationship between the mouth and the nose how we blend or manage the air pressure between the two is going to give us a nice consistent sound. So we've got to be able to concentrate our airflow from one into the other and then back down and then the second one core tension is we want to be able to manage a heavyweight blending ever so lightly into a lighter weight. Now let's experience that together. Go ahead and place your hands right here on your neck. Now I just want you to demonstrate a very lazy very lazy low energy chest voice sound like this uh can you hear how there's a little weight in that. Now you try. Mr. together. Good. Now what's happening is the courts are contracting becoming thicker and as they do it naturally includes a little bit more muscle fiber. So that's why it sounds the way that it does. So if we were to go to a higher note we'd hear that it's it's a little thin there because the courts stretch and as they do it naturally includes a little bit of a more refined muscle fiber. So everything just thins out a little bit. So what we want to do is we want to be able to address both the airflow and the core tension in one exercise and we want to have a simple way that we can apply it every day. So we're going to do what's called a physical cue now a physical cue. We've all seen them because we've all seen artists going to like using their hands to sort of pinpoint the accuracy of like a run trill or riff or any other rhythmic style with their voice and the voice does respond to this a lot sort of follows along with sort of where they're pointing as they're coming down. So we're gonna use a very similar physical cue. We're going to put our hand out in front of us like we're accepting change. This is going to demonstrate that lazy chest voice coordination that it feels stable. And then as we go higher we're going to slowly turn our hand over to really gauge the subtleties of what that feels like as we go from one to the other. So we're going to turn the hand over and that will be our higher note that we will land on and then we'll come back down. So we're just gonna do a siren and we're gonna use this. We're gonna use our hand to gauge the subtleties of that sensation as we manage that change. So together we'll go. Now I want you to concentrate on feeling just that it changes and that it's OK to change. So if you spot any wobbles or breaks right now just isolate them and use your hand to sort of stay with that sensation. So let's put this in an exercise shall we. OK. Oh that should everything a little bit. OK. So I'm going to start us off right here on a flap. So we're going to feel that sensation. Now can you hear how it's changing the entire time the entire time. And I'm letting my my hand demonstrate that change right away. So let's see if you can hear. You hear that the good. Very good. Now let's try it together. Same one. Can you feel how you're managing that air flow and you're feeling that subtle changing happening here. Go go let's take it back down. Go go. Now I observed a tiny little wobble in my voice. So as you're working you want to just do that again. So I'm going to just do that again. Go. In a way wind. Go. Go go. FC Is not that noble. Go go. Uh. Excellent excellent now you want to move slow with this because it is important. It's more important now that you feel that everything is allowed to change before you worry about strengthening and before you worry about straightening out those transitions. You first want to do that work of making that allowance that every kid everything can make an adjustment. It's how you manage the movement that makes it accessible adaptable flexible multiple shape of all changeable all that you want to almost imagine that your tone is a circle it's equal in all size and it can move in any direction. Right. Very flexible in that way. So the more that you just use little circles of sounds little mini sirens and you use that physical cue the more you can manage that change and the entire mechanism your entire voice is strengthened as a result.
She’s a music Doctor!
So true
Today I watched your videos about accepting our voices and who we are and what our voice says about us. You are truly an inspiration! It is so true! Being an exercise that uses not only the whole body, but our hearts and souls , singing opens us for great vulnerability; which is daunting, but SO REWARDING when we break past that fear. On one point specifically, it is so true that we don’t have to sing the highest notes (or the lowest or have the widest range) to sing well. Singers of all types have made places in our hearts without being/having the “-est” of anything. Karen Carpenter, Sarah Brightman, Josh Groban, and SO MANY MORE all have the same thing in common, where they didn’t/don’t have the “-est” of anything, because that is not what it’s about, it is that they made the most of the voices they did/do have and with HEART.
Another point, I agree that we should not try to sound like anyone; that would be derivative. We need variety and the world is more beautiful with our own unique contributions.
Thank you for the sumptuous food for thought, as well as these wonderful lessons! You’re simply lovely!
i agree with you completely....it's a matter of bringing out your own unique voice so that you don't sound like some other person...only you.
What video is this? I would love to see it
i've been doing this warm up multiple times a week for like a year and GIRL u changed my voice I LOVE U!!! helped me with my mixed voice soo much!!!
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That was brilliant! You are a very special person. Thanks.
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Great! Thanks for all your lovely lessons!
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Best video about vocal break and how to overcome it that I have seen so far! Thank you very much!!!
Awesome lesson! Thank you so much Madeline. I appreciate you!🎶🙏🏽
I really love your videos Madeleine, the exercises are really fun to to, and I am observing the positive change in my voice - especially the higher notes - in time! Thank you so much !
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Thank you Madeline the explanations they create a visual image of your instruction
Thank you for your video lessons Madeline. I practice some of the exercises daily, and they have improved my tone and range. I’m a Hare Krishna singer and we do a lot of singing. I think you’re wonderful.
Thank you! I love your videos with your enthusiasm and spiritual orientation, and I love your opening. It reminds me of some of my favorite JTBC Korean dramas.
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Love this, you make it such a visual exercise for a voice. Thank you. I am sharing with my choral group.
You are the best vocal instructor. I love your videos...
You explain suble concepts so I can understand them. I am enjoying singing alot more since I started using your instrutional videos. Thank you.
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This helped a lot. Thank you!
Awesome exercise! Thanks so much!
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Great concept for the main break.
Exercise Starts at 4:30
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Very impressive and useful. I was only partially aware of the fact that gestures are connected to the voice. This is a very important thing to sediment in the singing knowledge. Also the exercise is confortably in my range. appreciate it!
Excellent!! I so enjoy these drills,
Thanks so much Madeleine.
I’ve also learned to sing from my heart,
Not just my head….
Makes a difference 🙏🎶
Very good Madeleine!!!!
Thanks for this video, I've been able to blend my nose and mouth tones using your previous tutorials, but was still getting a few breaks.
And I just isolated such a break when trying this exercise when trying to sing back down between the A flats, and was still struggling with descends - I was previously doing most of the exercises ascending only which is likely why.
4:23 gets me every time !
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Excellent lesson..... Sirens are my homework for the week. Harder than it seems. 😃
Another great video Madeleine and adorable outfit. Thank you. - Justice Constantine
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Really helpful to have the hand as a cue. I also watched your Irish accent video (which is how I got here) 5 min. before I had to read an Irish role and it helped me fake my way through and lowered the stress I would have felt. Thanks!
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Madeleine is amazing & a godsend 🌟 I suffer muscle tension disphonia and laryngeal damage, she is the Greatest therapy 💕 Tq !! M
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The one that disliked is mad because they can’t sing 😂
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Hi. I'm very grateful for this exercise and others you have presented too... Stay awesome.
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Thank you so much for this video! I am writing a song right now which is forcing me to deal with my break (Argh!!) Anyways, I was searching for ways to help me work through it and I found this video...Your technique is the most helpful by far! Thank you! Thank you! Subscribed :)
She’s fantastic!!! I have very little training and really only have sang in college and in church but she makes it so easy to perform and understand!!! Thank you!!!
because i came here early, i just want to thank you so much for everything you say! youre not only a teacher, youre a master too, i love how you link voice with untouchable energy, i really am so much more relaxed with my voice now without pressure to soound pitch perfect and really explloring my voice. its a pleasura. thanks!
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Hi, Madeleine. I am a loyal subscriber of your channel. I am glad to see you share tips on vocal technique. Thank you for the learning you provide. On my channel, I made a short video recommending this channel...
I can relate. I e noticed when I relax and overcome past abuse as it relates to my voice I sung better.
Thank you, this is very helpful. I have a very low "break" and have a hard time finding music to sing that works with my voice. If I adjust my voice to the song, i feel i'm doing it wrong or not well. Most men who sing Pop have a higher range in their chest voice that I have, so i tend to sing those but the "money notes" (usually near the end) are all in my head voice and sound "wrong" to me. I'm thinking this exercise will help a bit, but i know i have to be okay with MY sound and just make the song sound good, not try to copy... (Do i have this right? Doubt keeps rearing its head!) Thanks!
Great lesson Madeline! I LOVE that "SING" sign in the background.
Haha, at first I was like whaat, but then I felt my soft palate moving along with my hand. That's amazing! 😲 Thank you.
Thank you for your videos, I have a question. When I am doing the siren exercises, when my chest voice flips to my head voice, the head voice does not go to the next note on the siren, it actually jumps one octave higher. So I am actually singing through two octaves with a gap in between instead of a one octave siren. What can I do?
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Will this drill take me from chest to head voice with out the break?
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4:40 exrcise
Can this be applied to talking in general too? I haven’t watched the video yet, I’m just asking based on the title, lol
Watching this because I have a solo in our choir and there’s a high g sharp😅
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For practice 4:20
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thats like managing , time laps of sound or controlls using hands, neck, Shoulder, Its common of using vibratos or timing technique adjustment etc some Manerism Gestures Must Hide
Every time i sing high my voice breaks but when i sing low it doesn't lol. But my old choir teacher was convided im a soprano. How do you know if your soprano or alto tho???
I sing very low (alto) in chest voice, have a low 'break' and get very very high in my head voice. (Most people don't sing soprano in chest voice.) I think these are just categories, and I think they might limit what we think we can sing. Alternatively, I suspect they apply to the natural "easy" part of our voice - but don't let them confine you to a few notes! Good luck!
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it’s so frustrating cause I can do it on the way up but on the way down it just breaks super clean and sharp and it’s so annoying!
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Self note: 5:14
I can’t seem to get this without my voice cracking… 😢
Timestamp for practice ¬ 4:20
is there someone else that feels this exercise works when you're going from chest voice to a higher pitch, but then when you go down again to chest voice, then the break reappears? Maybe it's just me, but i would love to know why it happens
yep here a bit, just repeat gently and brain will fix it
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do you teach private lessons?
Nice lesson and explanation...As a beginner what lesson of yours should i practice first?
I would suggest starting with breathing exercises first
This is the one I started with and it begins with a few very easy exercises for breath, pitch and tone ua-cam.com/video/PQUo7eimhWA/v-deo.html
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My voice still breaks when i try to transition 😪😫
Are their some artists that are naturally gifted that never think about voice It just happens?
Doesn't really matter whether some ppl were given a head start or not. You can be a lot better than anyone "born with it" if you practice.
But after a lot of practice, i think you wouldn't think about singing either. It will just come out
I think my breaks r gone🙊
I feel like my voice doesn't even get that high 😅😂
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Ha ha ha, all these videos about how to get rid of vocal breaks, when I spent months trying to learn how to get vocal breaks…
Thank you!
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Thank you!