Develop Your BLEND- How To Sing In Mixed Voice
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- This video is about developing your blend between chest and falsetto and how that can be further developed and coordinated with specific exercises in order to gain more vocal options like mixed voice.
Here's the flageolet tension video I mentioned in the video: • The Missing Link to MI...
Here's my falsetto mix video which pairs very nicely with this blending technique: • How To Sing In Mixed V...
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00:00 Intro
0:06 What this video is about
0:38 Explaining the “blend”
2:32 Entering the blend from chest
3:36 Finding the restrained, held back, cried sound
5:40 Connecting from low to high on a pitch glide
7:53 Restraining and holding back falsetto to connect it smoothly
11:25 Doing glottal pauses to try and switch from falsetto to mix.
16:12 What you’re trying to do with the glottals
17:37 Using creaking as a strategy to add closure
18:30 My vocal folds moving from falsetto to chest using creaking and glottals - Навчання та стиль
I've said this before but I will gladly say it again. You have helped me so much in working out my mixed. I come from a classically trained background but sing contemporary and I can't stress the amount of teachers that I've gone through that just can't explain this like this. thank you
Same here. Classically trained vocalist, now I finally understand.
#3:14 ---> First Exercise
#3:54 ---> Second Exercise
#5:40 ---> Third Exercise
#8:16,9:20 -->Fourth Exercise
#12:05,13:00, 13:32 --->Fifth Exercise
#18:21 --->demonstration!
Falsetto with vocal fry just unlocked my Mix super fast. BIG THANKS GREGORY!!!
Really 😭 omg I have to try I need to learn mixed
Best singing videos out there, keep going Greg 🔥
Greg, you are doing an amazing job. Thank you for being awesome!
I've been looking this my entire life! Thank you so much!!! 🔥🙌
I'm really gonna support you always if you make content like this forever bro ❤️
I've never seen a vocal video soooo good like this explained ever before !! Thank you very much!!
Your videos are some of the most technical I've seen on UA-cam. Thank you!
THIS VIDEO HELPED ME SO MUCH!!! Thank you!!!
I'm glad you're still making videos, i missed your content my friend
Thank you so much Greg , great video !
This just demystified sooooo much about my voice. Much appreciated.
Dude you can explain things in a way that makes it so easy to understand. Thank you so very much for your videos!!
You are so amazing! you can make something difficult look easy, thank you a lot!
I THINK THIS VIDEO ACTUALLY HELPED CREATE MY MIX!!! KNOW I JUST NEED TO KEEP IT AND TRAIN IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Hey bud! I missed u... you helped me a looooot with my belting lately, I've never felt so free, you really have a big talent to teach singing 🔥
I've never enjoyed watching videos on UA-cam as much as I've enjoyed watching yours. Thank you so much for putting out these amazing and well-thought-out videos that are so full of your unfailing good humor and great charisma!
What makes this content so valuable, is your clear rational explanations combined with lots of examples of how to do it and how to not do it.
You have helped me so much man, your video so easy to follow. especially you demonstrate before talking
This video is a damn treasure. I learned so much and it all works in my voice ❤
Missed you! Finally!
Omg you did it. Showing it with the folds.. This is so so so great a real proof physically talking. Bravo! 😍
Thank you!! This is so detailed and great! I learned a lot! Thanks🤩
I really like that second exercise. Thank you. Great strengthening for our bridges... 😎 Last one is cool too
OMG this is just what I need!! You're an Angel!!
Now I can finally sing the song was so difficult for me cuz it never got so smooth but now I'm slowly learning to blend my voice at transition! Love ya so much!!!
Love how you show the folds and all the exercises
dude, literally, i`m so glad to find your channel, even if i still need to practice every day to improve my technic, now I undestand so much more then I did a month ago. THAT HELPS! you`re amazing! I wish I could take your classes. and your way to explain? I`m in love! Thank you!!!!
First time watching you. I’ll definitely be watching more. Good stuff! Thanks.
Great, dear greg!🥰
The exercise with the glottal pauses was my mixed voice breakthrough - thanks!
Great Job, man, thank you very much!
Love the way you demonstrate. So much easier to understand compare to other coaches . Thanks so so much👏👏👏👏👏👏
This “should” be the number one channel for singing on UA-cam :)
Amazing video, amazing tutorial, great teaching
Helped me so much
I couldn’t do this so well and understand what I was doing or looking for until now
Your videos really help me, you provide multiple examples and explanations. I'm trying to learn what's probably Tilian technique, that is not easy!
I have learned so much so quickly from your videos! Hoping some room opens up on your waitlist for lessons. Any quick ideas on how to stay mindful of technique while playing guitar?
You are amazing. I was able to sind Adele today for the first time entirely thanks to you!
I've been starting to practice what you are teaching us on your videos but my parents laugh at me when I try it. They said I look crazy LOL. But you teach great. Thank you for your free singing course.
This is superb mate
man, I love your way of teaching, I have always been struggling to learn both belt and mixed voice at the same time, but your way of teaching is really easy to get in as someone we have been sing for very long, the only issue I have is that I didn't realize the concept of mixed voice and belt that well, so I use the nay exercise while learning belt, and use the belt exercise for mixed, doing something like that makes me always lost track of my progress when it goes to singing high notes, your way of teaching is outstanding in like few hundreds of tutorial I've seen in the past few years.
Fantastic explanation. No college voice professor in about 5 years was able to break down as well as you have in 30 mins.
You are the best voice teacher i've ever seen
Watching here from the philippines!🇵🇭
Great video. I was able to understand what was required to get out of falsetto. I’m not even a singer, but really wish I was one and really enjoy singing in the shower! I have never had any voice training but was still able to follow you. My shower will be thankful.
I'm gonna share and download this... imma a Big fan of ur Transformation
super sympa tes vidéos. Merci beaucoup pour toutes ces démonstrations d'exercices à pratiquer. 🥰🥰🥰Merci. Laurent
Awesome, buddy. I really love all your "crazy lessons".hahaha
Look who is back ❤️
Hey cool vid, Greg! I'll try this out tomorrow :)
You vanished my breaks !!! Thank you my man !!!
I know a lot of singing teachers so I know what I'm talking about when I say: You are the best teacher ever!
Appreciate it :)
Awesome stuff
Very nice video sir. I had nasality issue which I found out today due from my tongue posture. Got to keep the thing under control lol. I know how to stop it now. Just keep down and relaxed. This is going to take me another 2 months to correct.
This is going to be a long comment but i have to give a long thanks for how much you've helped me. I'm a baritone and i've been stuck for over the past year developing my mixed voice, i've watched various videos from so many different channels and struggled a lot to find even a bit of mix, i was thinking it almost impossible and was about to just stick to a lower range of singing. There were so many moments where my confidence was completely destroyed.
Then I discovered this video 2 weeks ago, this along with your other videos have helped me immensely in finally finding a mix, of course i'm still in the beginning stages so my voice isn't perfect, but i've made more progress in the past 2 weeks than i have the entire year and i'll always be grateful for you taking the effort in creating these videos.
For others reading that are in a similar predicament to mine, don't give up, be patient, with enough practice you'll find your mix too.
hey :(( are you making progress with the break? i know how to mix and even belt but its been months and still cant sing songs because in the D#4 area im super uncomfortable
@@sonkoro-sama4040 Hello! I just found the start of my mix and it has been getting better, but you're definitely more adept than me if you already know how to mix and belt! With consistent practice, your range will increase and smoothen out the transition. Are bad habits like pulled chest still cropping up when you're singing around the higher ranges? Are you lowering your larynx at the upper ranges? Can you comfortably mix using all the vowels? Do you have good diaphragm support? Do you have a strong chest voice for a good foundation? These are all questions i had to ask myself to progress.
The main thing is to be fully focused and engaged during practice to rewire your brain when it comes to singing, and don't get discouraged when you hit a bit of a block! You know how to mix and belt, that's a very foundation! One thing i'll mention is that adding strong diaphragm support and bit of power (by using the mix and without straining of course) heavily helped in improving my mix, and through that the transitions have been getting smoother. I've still got a long way to go but i have definitely seen progress, you've definitely progressed and will continue to get better.
@@HMCarsSOAhey can u let me know what exactly u did to finally find ur mix, like step by step if possible, thanks!
@@arnaudsebastienblaze8333 Sure, i'll give you the rough steps that i took, but keep in mind, i'm still developing my mix. I first honed in on getting a strong chest voice and repeated 5 notes from G2 - D3 and C3 - G3, all with different vowels, so aaa, ooo and eee, with decent volume. I also developed a falsetto early, for this i watched a video by Doug Zed titled how to improve falsetto. One thing that is immensely important is engaging your diaphragm to sing and the breath support. Singing along is very important for me personally, and although i couldn't hit the ranges of a lot of my favourite musicians, singers like Thom Yorke and Chris Martin were extremely difficult to emulate, so i settled with trying to emulate a baritone who sings in the lower ranges such as Damon Albarn. If you can't sing comfortably in the lower ranges, then you'll struggle immensely with your mix.
Then i moved onto trying to develop my mix, for this i was relying on exercises from channels like Power to Sing who kept on repeating lowering the larynx through exercises like yawning, i also did exercises like doing an exaggerated "nay" or the "mum" with a cry tone with the larynx lowered from scales like G3 - D4, i tried the bubble lips but for some reason i couldn't sustain the bubble lips. When i had a breakthrough is from watching studio west's mixing videos, i did all the exercises in this video consistently and they've helped immensely in fighting the start of my mix. Exercises that particularly helped me in this video were the glottal pauses and the creaking which brings out the mix from the falsetto. It is extremely important to still practice singing with your favourite artists. If you feel embarrassed doing this in front of others or want to keep the noise down, sing into a pillow if you have to!
To summarize, develop a strong chest voice with good diaphragm support, develop strong falsetto whilst maintaining diaphragm support, do exercises to prevent full chest, then do the mixing exercises in this video. That has been my personal path i've been on. Consistency is key, and don't get discouraged!
Bro, when you post a new video, I feel that I have to study, hahaha
thank u bro!
regards from spain
Thank you for this! I think I love now lol
Gregory, love your content on vocal technique!Very comprehensive and unlike other modalities, it's great you're adding this breath pressure aspect to these coordinations. I think in other modalities, such as SLS, this support aspect never gets mentioned!I'm currently studying with a CVT teacher and what you're describing here is the mode curbing in their method!I'm currently working on this mode with my teacher, so this is confirming what I'm being taught, which makes me feel I'm on the right track to finding that elusive mix, that I've never been able to do!Best wishes from U.K!
@@StudioWestLessons Thank you so much for your response!I hear you, and sorry if it sounded like I was minimising the subject material to the curbing mode!Is there still a waiting list for your internet lessons?
Always been a natural singer, so I never looked into how to be any better. I would just try and pull chest to hit the high notes. Thanks to your videos, I've found there are better ways to sing. Its not always easy for me to find that mixed voice path but your videos help! Thanks!
This is $1 million video I don’t know what to tell you good for you this is the video for mixed voice specially at 11:39 minute that is the best exercise for mix voice you nailed it 👍That is the 🔑 to the mix i’m proud of you you have my respect
Dude, showing for every examples what not to do is amazing.. I discovered I was doing always what we should not do.. And having the right way following so that I can really feel the difference and give a right correction to myself is pure GOLD. Usually when we are alone we can't know if we are right. With all thoses wrong ways we can check and correct.. You are very very great. Very precise on every aspects. This is from far your best and most effective tutorial. Everything is crystal clear. Amen
PS. This contained sound what do you think it modify in the vocal track which brings right sound?
Love this video dude! The footage of your cords is amazing! Keep going.
Very helpful video
I ❤️ this channel 🤗
your vids are amazing
I just wanna say Thankyou bro
thanks bro🔥
That video was honestly soo GOOD Today I found my mix voice, and with this I practiced and I could do all with practice, my Voice is still Terribel xD But I could do them and hit the notes, techs.
Just watched the whole vid glad you're back :) so im not a good editor or anything but personally i didnt like the colour corrections on on the parts where it would say "Chest" "Blend" and "Falsetto" i get its to help people differentiate the 3 things but it was too much for me personally, i really liked the text pop up that said "Gregory West Vocal Coach" and the part when you told people to subscribe in the middle of you vid was cool hope this helps :)
Aside from the excellent explanations in your video's, I appreciate the fact that you are not so full of yourself. A lot of channels are ran by people that never get enough of hearing themselves and as a result, it isn' very enjoyable to watch. Subbed, keep it up!
@@StudioWestLessons Watched it. With pleasure. Found it very helpful. Don't let anybody judge you for being a bit sassy girl! :)
Hello. meanwhile, congratulations on your new location. and I congratulate you your videos are always explained very well. I want to ask you my curiosity. how long did it take you to learn the mix? because it seems to me it takes a long time. and sometimes I get discouraged when I don't see results. thank you
another banger
youy amazing bro greetings from Perú
I’ve been trying to achieve mixed voice for 2 years so I hope this really works ;-;
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Man it's been forever since an upload but its always a banger. Yo Greg it's been forever so much has changed for you I'm happy for you. You deserve it. I know you're not accepting students at this time. I emailed you asking for advice. I highly value your thoughts on it. Could you please help me? For me it's a big deal. Because now I'm questioning my own singing. Hope to hear from you soon 😋. If not it's okay you've done enough for me.
Ty bro. More vids. Me here Philippines
Thank you, the breaker is such a problem
Could you do a whole video doing the glottal mixed voice exercises in each vowel if possible
Hello! Thanks for watching.
Probably not, as I think the point is sufficiently illustrated already and it would likely be repeated information. Why are you interested in the vowel differentiation? Your focus should be on the laryngeal level and maintaining that glottal tension so that the vowel is irrelevant.
-Gregory
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Honestly these are exercises i thought of back in the day and i noticed whenever id do them my break would disappear for a day idk why i didn't think to continue consistently
Noticing that flageolet on OO with a glottal onset really is darkening my chest voice, and making it stronger. Not only that, but the flageolet and falsetto have also gotten louder- especially falsetto. My friend couldn't believe that falsetto could get so big. Around G4, it starts to sound like mix.
@@StudioWestLessons That is freaking cool man! I never in a million years thought that we would be on the same page. It is really awesome that you are finally teaching this concept that we used to talk about in Salman's group chat. I have been trying to figure out the best way to approach it, and arrived at the glottal pause thing only this week. Huge improvements already. Not sure if we do flag the same way, but I like to do it with the larynx in a swallow position, tall open jaw with an AH in the throat and an OO at the lips. Then, when I go to sing, I just lower my larynx a little bit and it has this stretchy resistance to it that it didn't have before when I only ever practiced falsetto. It's weird how this indirect approach benefits the falsetto more than trying to hammer at the falsetto by itself.
Where did you learn the falsetto mix?
Thank you, this was very helpful. But I will definitely need a lesson with you, do you plan on excepting new students any time soon?
This sounds so much like what my coach Philippe Hall teachers me.
ur amazing
Thanks, man. I've been learning a lot from your videos. Do you have any videos on vowels? I have trouble with Oo and Ee. So when you did the exercise on Oo on a high note, I could do it in falsetto, but not in mixed voice with a good tone.
@@StudioWestLessons Thank you, Gregory. I'll keep working on them.
@@StudioWestLessons I think I understood them better now. I watched the video again and when you said the feel of the mix shouldn't feel much different than falsetto, that opened a door to new things, and I think I'm getting it now. Before everything past my bridge area I thought I had to drag at least some my chest voice up, and OOs and EEs on very high notes just weren't happening well. Thanks again!
18:30 lmao reminds me of the independence day movie. Thanks for the good videos!
Can you make a video showing your vocal cords while doing subharmonics? I'm sure it's a tricky one to pull off though lol
Thanks for the video, it's really great!
For me, when starting in the falsetto range it's very hard to distinguish closure and squeeze (presumably false vocal folds, "grandpa voice"). From below everything breaks down around E4/F4 and my folds feel so stiff they won't vibrate and just stay closed, and eventually blow apart into a very airy phonation if I increase breath. Could it be because I'm just tensing up too much with my neck and jaw and tongue in an attempt to force closure and keep my larynx down? I don't know how to stop that.
How to sing fix you by Coldplay, voice exercises and singing tutorial please.
Hello Gregory, Great vid as always. around 21:00 where you say adding creak in to the falsetto... i kind of feel the samething when i try to add grandpa,(squeeze) to falsetto. do you think that could be the same thing? Sound gets beefy and fuller
Bros making really convincing noises😂
Hi Greg. First of all, this is an incredible video. I've started working on the exercises, and I'm feeling optimistic. Second, with regards to the first exercise involving chest voice ascending to a light and airy sound, there's a tendency for my soft palate to not fully lift and go slightly nasal. Is this common or should I be trying to focus on keeping the soft palate raised and preventing the nasality?
@@StudioWestLessons I indeed saw it. Thank you so much for responding!
Thank you for the amazing video! I have a small question… when I do the glottal stops and the creak thing, my voice sounds really “squeaky”. Is that supposed to happen? I feel like your voice sounds way more clear and ringy.
Mr. Lispy angel, where have you been? We need your guidance!!
Hey man thanks for this inspiring video! Is it normal that when I try to compress the sad falsetto vowel into mix with vocal fry the sound shifts a bit into the mouth? I feel like the falsetto is higher as position
Thanks!
plz make a video about tongue tension
I HAVE A QUESTION, does adding the glottals to the falsetto is almost the same like when we sing the belt at a very high note where we started transition to full head voice (falsetto) at the end?
Can you make a video about how young men find their heady mixed and chest mixed or you can just explained here
The higher I went I had to try not to allow flagellet to take over. It seems to give that part of the voice a release from tension.