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Hi Mike. As a gigging singer, respectfully, I believe there is an element of shouting involved, but it's controlled. Many people wanting to become great Rock belters simply don't realize how demanding belting can be and the work and discipline it really requires. Thinking of virtuoso level Rock belters, early Steve Walsh, Lou Gramm, Jimi Jamison, Paul Rodgers. Where they took their instruments in their heyday was nothing short of incredible. Your examples were excellent examples of well executed mixing, but I would not consider them belting. Everyone wants the easy way to become a great singer, but if it was easy....
I love the singers you mentioned! And my voice is nothing like theirs...haha Mine is much more musical theater. They all sing much more dangerously than I do with a chestier quality up high that just isn't my voice. What I try to do is to show the proper technique and how to access the high notes and belt correctly. When singers like the ones you mentioned do it the way I suggest they will sound much different that I do. Their strength, style and ability is their own. But the production of sound is similar...
So at the highest point of a singer's range, will the notes have progressed from mixed to completely head voice or do the great singers have some element of mix in all the upper notes? I'm thinking of singers whose high notes I would love to achieve such as Ray Charles and Paul McCartney. It sounds like they're screaming but they are still hitting the notes so it sounds musical.
It's a great question. The way I look at it is the quality a singer is using. Is it a 'chesty' quality or a 'heady' quality. One could say (for the ease of simplification) that anything above chest is all mix and the singer can 'mix' in the chest quality or the heady quality. Or one could think of that area of the voice as mix until the quality looses all its 'chesty' sound and then call it head voice. To me it doesn't so much depend on how high it is but what vocal quality it is. Vocal science may have a different definition based on formants and harmonics but I like to keep it simple.
@@MikeGoodrich OK, thanks. I can see it's best not to get too bogged down in the terminology since there's not a universal consensus. But It sounds like I should be able to add some depth to even the highest notes although I'll have less and less chest to throw into the mix. Something to work on.
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Get everything here - Free! www.innersingerhub.com/fsoptin
Fearless Singing will show you how to have a winners mindset, perform in an authentic, connected way which will give you confidence, stage presence and a technique that will guarantee great high notes, a dependable and powerful mix, strong belt, and overall vocal health.
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You can read it in less than an hour and you'll love the bonuses!
Enjoy!
Hi Mike. As a gigging singer, respectfully, I believe there is an element of shouting involved, but it's controlled. Many people wanting to become great Rock belters simply don't realize how demanding belting can be and the work and discipline it really requires. Thinking of virtuoso level Rock belters, early Steve Walsh, Lou Gramm, Jimi Jamison, Paul Rodgers. Where they took their instruments in their heyday was nothing short of incredible. Your examples were excellent examples of well executed mixing, but I would not consider them belting. Everyone wants the easy way to become a great singer, but if it was easy....
I love the singers you mentioned! And my voice is nothing like theirs...haha Mine is much more musical theater. They all sing much more dangerously than I do with a chestier quality up high that just isn't my voice. What I try to do is to show the proper technique and how to access the high notes and belt correctly. When singers like the ones you mentioned do it the way I suggest they will sound much different that I do. Their strength, style and ability is their own. But the production of sound is similar...
Nicely said Mike. If I knew how to sing????? I'd have you teaching me. Hey.... TIP TOE THROUGH THE TULIPS..... 😂..
I remember it well!! haha
So at the highest point of a singer's range, will the notes have progressed from mixed to completely head voice or do the great singers have some element of mix in all the upper notes? I'm thinking of singers whose high notes I would love to achieve such as Ray Charles and Paul McCartney. It sounds like they're screaming but they are still hitting the notes so it sounds musical.
It's a great question. The way I look at it is the quality a singer is using. Is it a 'chesty' quality or a 'heady' quality. One could say (for the ease of simplification) that anything above chest is all mix and the singer can 'mix' in the chest quality or the heady quality. Or one could think of that area of the voice as mix until the quality looses all its 'chesty' sound and then call it head voice. To me it doesn't so much depend on how high it is but what vocal quality it is. Vocal science may have a different definition based on formants and harmonics but I like to keep it simple.
@@MikeGoodrich OK, thanks. I can see it's best not to get too bogged down in the terminology since there's not a universal consensus. But It sounds like I should be able to add some depth to even the highest notes although I'll have less and less chest to throw into the mix. Something to work on.