this is one of the better and just simpler explanations I've heard for making this transition. in an era when 'mix' often means dials you play with on a sound board, I personally find the imagery of 'mix' more confusing to practice and share than 'transition' and 'preparation for transition'
hahahaha "Stop Practicing Mixed Voice" Title shows how to actually do the mixed voice properly and naturally. Nice Video!! A great reference for me even if I am male.
Really appreciate this. As a male vocalist learning to transition to head voice, I just could not understand how to switch from chest to head smoothly, especially when singing heavily in chest. It is exactly as you describe, you cannot go hard and expect to flip smoothly. Thanks for the tips.
THANK YOU so much for this video. this is exactly the question that i have been dealing with for a LONG time and i never found the answer....solution...for my soprano voice to deal with the “lower passages”! YOU just answered this for me....and pretty much solved my problem!!
Rebecca Caine talked about how singers use the "estill" technique and I agree with her. In musical theatre now everyone sounds the same with that chesty, belting voice. No more light youthful voices like cosette, christine, etc, used to have. And that was over 10 years ago, now is worse.
What’s funny is that opera and MT have the same, but almost opposite problem currently. Opera these days is almost nothing but overbearing, unnecessarily dark and wobbly vibrato voices while MT is whiny, nasal, and homogenous. They’re still light bodied but that nasal whine is overcompensating for that lightness. I literally told my teacher recently that I miss the days when Christines used to be played by singers were at least trained in opera, even if that wasn’t what they sang on the regular. Voices like Caine, Lisa Vroman (who’s my favorite in this category…she has a lovely rich tone color, but still had the lightness needed for the role) and a few others. The whole point of that role is that she needs to sound different than Carlotta but we also still need to believe she can stand up next to a voice like Carlotta’s…who is more of that stereotype we think of when it comes to opera. It’s a subtle but important story point. These days Christine is sing by the homogeneous MT soprano way to often and it rubs me the wrong way. I don’t want so light and youthful that it’s boring and lacks tone, but not so overbearing and dark either. A good example of a Cosette who falls right in that nice middle was Judy Kuhn. Wasn’t light and whiny, nor too dark that it didn’t fit the character type.
i love this educational info and now I'm more aware when listening to singers when they sing and listening to my own voice when singing. Thank you so much!
Super tolle Erklärung. Ich dachte immer das es eine bestimmte Technik ist, die ich bisher einfach nur noch nicht kapiert habe. Aber es ja viel einfacher als das. Danke!
To me mixed voice = adding bass to my head voice without shouting . I notice that if you can’t sing a song at a lower volume meaning transiting between chest voice and head voice using the same amount of air and don’t crack this means you can’t sing the song at a normal volume because you can’t transition at a lower volume without straining ….so you have to work harder to be able to mixed head voice and chest voice to reach a bigger sound without shouting. Using a straw, lip trill or humming help a lot tho
Microphone technique comes into play here at the transition especially if the band/backing track is loud, it's tempting to stay in chest because you feel if you allow yourself to go into head it will be too soft
Actually we have 4 M0 M1 M2 M3 A lot of what you would consider Chest is just a very good Mixed Voice. Chest and Head were just terms used back when we did not have laryngoscopes. Also a lot of operatic low notes use M0 (D2 in extreme Bass singers C2s) but it so well supported it mimics the qualities of what you would consider "Chest" voice. I am not the greatest singer but i am a biology nerd. So your point is basically to train in lighting up the mix or basically to not compress in the larynx. Which yeah i agree for some reason light mix is very unfavorably looked upon. (Btw vocal mechanisms do not refer to sound quality just the dominant muscles, key word dominant, or other parts of the throat -so that i include false chords and soft pallete)
The problem that I’m running into is that I’m not sure where to place it. My voice teacher just says to use my head voice but move it forward, but I don’t like the way my voice sounds when I do that. Another problem is that when I try to do it, my voice gets tired after a really short amount of time no matter how much breath support I use. Any tips?
My mixed voice just natural achieve by just trying exersice to sing higher overtime, I don't even notice it's mixed voice
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What do you do if you just discovered that your chest voice is not developed? I can still sing with a strong mix with headvoice. It's not like that opera sound you showed, but more like Halle Bailey. My last singing teachers told me that i bring my mix to far down... and that it sounds like i have a "choir" voice. I think she meant because i have a very developed head-voice but not very developed chest- voice so much. It hurts easily for me to sing only with chest voice, because i feel like i need to push to get an even sound.
This is a late reply, but maybe you still have this problem. It's necessary to use exercises that activate the right muscles to retrain your muscle memory. To strengthen your chest voice, you can do exercises with "words" such as go/beh/pah. Start on a low G or A. These sounds activate the TA muscle, which is dominant in chest voice and which many classical singers and choir singers aren't used to using while singing. Stay below your bridge (meaning where the voice wants to go more into head voice). Ney is also a good "word" to use on a three or five tone scale. Avoid using to many exercises with lots of o's and ee's that tend to bring you more into head voice. You can also try singing with your speaking voice starting from G or A and then sing 123454321 (so a five tone scale up and down). Try to keep it in your speaking voice. Chest register is really the same thing as speaking, only on pitch. Hope this helps 😊
BTW, don't push and think it has to sound a lot. Volume will come with time when your chest voice becomes stronger. And chest voice doesn't always have to be loud, it can be cute and nice too.
It took me quite a while before I first realised this. Teachers referring to "mixed voice" rather than referring to a mixture of chest and head voice, create the confusion. They all seem to do so, and one thinks one must be missing a whole register until one realises. Nowadays I have difficulty knowing, when singing a middle pitch, whether I'm using chest or head, or a mix of both. I assume it's usually mix, but perhaps I'm fooling myself.
I've been trying to get mixed voice for half a year now with my singing teacher giving me more and more exercises and I'm still not closer.. its so goddamn frustrating because all I wanna do is sing the songs i write but i just cant because i cant get the quality i need.
When I listen to your voice, I can remember my mom teaching me since you almost got the same voice. xD Especially when she tells me, "Do not get your voice too chesty. Use a little bit of headtone."
If you're a man, what women call head voice is your falsetto (Second mechanism of the human voice -> M2). In classical singing, it is said that mixed voice is between chest and head voice. Head voice for male singers is the range above your passaggio in chest register (M1), you get there by allowing the larynx to tilt. It a light voice that sounds like falsetto but there's no change in mechanism, it's still chest register (M1) and there's also a dip in volume. Usually there's a sensation of higher, forward resonance which is why it's called head voice. Chest voice is in chest register (M1), it's your lower unmixed range with a sensation of lower chest resonance. Mixed voice is between this heavy voice and the light voice above the passaggio, by lightening the voice as you go up (usually around C4), which makes it easier to get into head voice and tilting the larynx. Female and male classical singers use the same words to describe different things, which isn't an issue because women mostly sing in M2 and men in M1. Modern singers sing like male classical singers as you mostly wanna remain in chest register (M1). It makes no sense to say that mixed voice is between chest voice and head voice, if by head voice you mean M2.
Men head voice may sound as is the voice of other person then their own, like a " voice impersonation" Maybe one way is to try to keep the "color" (?) As your own. Not tring to sound as "childish" like the style of "britney spears" or too dark / troat-y like Mickey mouse. Like the teacher demonstrate here.
Thanks for the reply, i try to give it some colour but my chest voice as a male is (i think)a very strong dark voice (is the way my voice is, can't change it fully) and my head voice is always too "clean", either way, i'll try to keep working on my head voice, maybe theres the real issue. Again, thanks! @@SoraiaLMotta
@@manuelcastro5928 are you a bass or baritone? If so when you go higher is normal to not have that extra vibration like the instrument cello. The channel ken tamplin have some cool tutorial about how to sing the higer notes for deep voices. His style of teaching not always goes in deep like Freya does. But demonstrates a lot. I'm your oposite: soprano that had to learn how to do chest voice and lower tones. That extra vibration sometimes sounds like I m trying to do a male voice or vocal fry and not only low tones.
@@SoraiaLMotta i'll check ken's video, i have seen some, i understand that there's a technique to give power to the head voice, maybe i just have to practice more. Either way, i'll take your suggestion and keep trying with different points of views. All the love to you! Thanks
Maybe it’s because you think as Chest voice and Head voice as two different voices but in reality you should train your chest to go up on the head register
👀👉IGHT SO AT FIRST I WAS LIKE WHAT IS THIS LADY TALKING ABOUT..STOP PRACTICING MIXED VOICE..THEN AFTER LISTENING TO WHAT SHE WAS SAYING I'M LIKE HMMM..THIS IS DIFFERENT TEACHING'S BUT VERY INTERESTING.. SO YEAH I SEE WHAT SHE'S TAKING ABOUT NOW🌹👈😎
My problem is my passaggio starts very low like(primo) g3 and go up to b3 then another(secundo)on c#4 to f4#.I heard somewhere that you shoud know how to use both head and chest voice on both problematic parts to have chance to blend it into mix aka balanced voice with no break but I can’t go with head voice below c4# without switching to breathy falsetto 🤪.If I do long warmup like an hour or more it helps but I don’t think it should take so long😅
I am a super newbie into voice techniques. This is the 3rd video I am watching on mixed voice. It is presented with a different perspective on mixed voice and I think it makes sense. A few things remains unknown to me. What pitches one should try to mix and how to identify those pitches. I assume it is a range of notes (varies from singer to singer). Another question would be is mixing happening in the chest register or head register or a little bit of both. If it is a little bit of both then can we not say there is such a thing, a range that can take both chest and head registers in a mixed state as opposed to only Chest or Only Head. In your video examples when you were demo-ing head voice you were dropping Jaw (like too heady) - I didn't know dropping Jaw is required to make a head voice. Also whatever you said in this video is it applicable to both male and female voices? Would love to get a response and Thank you!
So in reality mixed voice doesn't exist? I thought it is a question of resonance by using different muscles and cavities... and there is a register where one can use both these groups of resonances at the same time. Is that not true? Thanks a lot for your videos, they are always very useful with lots of practice and good demonstration!
@@MrZZsharka well yeah, but as much as i can appreciate the clean and smooth let it go vocals, they dont really work for the intense rock sound ive been failing to even begin reaching for the past half a year or so
maybe the mixed voice is a "sound illusion", but to the listener it sounds real...and in fact mix voice "works" for many voices. thank you for the vídeo, it's an interesting view anyway
Just out of curiosity: Isn't Let it go originally belted a lot? I think mixed voice is not really what Indina did there. 🤔 But good video anyway. Keep upt the good work.
The problem with your thesis is that while mixed voice in some sense doesn't really exist, the term has different meanings to different people, and there may be useful techniques that go by that name. Connecting "chest voice" and "head voice" by controlling transition is not very useful for some styles. Many people would prefer to push their full voice way up, like G4-C5 register for guys and find ways to avoid any transition into full head voice. Some of those techniques are also called "mixed voice".
With all due respect, I personally think your singular "war" on mixed voice is just plain silly, Freya. I don't see how what you've shown proves anything? Except that we need to "practice" mixed voice 😉
completely agree! vocal coach here who studied bel canto and contemporary belting/mix voice yet i am a bass vocalist naturally. i have fully developed my chest and head voice and i make a living singing in my mix voice in a tenor range singing a lot of classic rock and top 40..
This is one of the best explanations of "mixed voice" that I've heard.
That was very helpful. It is understandable now not like a mystery of finding mixed voice.
My days! I’ve got such a crush on this singing teacher 😊
@Emmy29nd She a dream! So
Cute and lovely! Im not sure I could concentrate if She was my singing teacher. 🙈
this is one of the better and just simpler explanations I've heard for making this transition. in an era when 'mix' often means dials you play with on a sound board, I personally find the imagery of 'mix' more confusing to practice and share than 'transition' and 'preparation for transition'
love this! As always, you get to the crux of the problem for me. I love your technical explanations!
So well said. Thank you
hahahaha "Stop Practicing Mixed Voice" Title shows how to actually do the mixed voice properly and naturally.
Nice Video!! A great reference for me even if I am male.
Really appreciate this. As a male vocalist learning to transition to head voice, I just could not understand how to switch from chest to head smoothly, especially when singing heavily in chest. It is exactly as you describe, you cannot go hard and expect to flip smoothly. Thanks for the tips.
THANK YOU so much for this video. this is exactly the question that i have been dealing with for a LONG time and i never found the answer....solution...for my soprano voice to deal with the “lower passages”! YOU just answered this for me....and pretty much solved my problem!!
How did you know this is the exact problem I’ve been wanting to work on omfg 🖤🖤🖤
I like that. That makes sense.
Simple and fun 😂😂❤❤
Learnt a lot. And enjoyed while learning
Rebecca Caine talked about how singers use the "estill" technique and I agree with her. In musical theatre now everyone sounds the same with that chesty, belting voice. No more light youthful voices like cosette, christine, etc, used to have. And that was over 10 years ago, now is worse.
What’s funny is that opera and MT have the same, but almost opposite problem currently.
Opera these days is almost nothing but overbearing, unnecessarily dark and wobbly vibrato voices while MT is whiny, nasal, and homogenous. They’re still light bodied but that nasal whine is overcompensating for that lightness.
I literally told my teacher recently that I miss the days when Christines used to be played by singers were at least trained in opera, even if that wasn’t what they sang on the regular. Voices like Caine, Lisa Vroman (who’s my favorite in this category…she has a lovely rich tone color, but still had the lightness needed for the role) and a few others. The whole point of that role is that she needs to sound different than Carlotta but we also still need to believe she can stand up next to a voice like Carlotta’s…who is more of that stereotype we think of when it comes to opera. It’s a subtle but important story point. These days Christine is sing by the homogeneous MT soprano way to often and it rubs me the wrong way.
I don’t want so light and youthful that it’s boring and lacks tone, but not so overbearing and dark either.
A good example of a Cosette who falls right in that nice middle was Judy Kuhn. Wasn’t light and whiny, nor too dark that it didn’t fit the character type.
i love this educational info and now I'm more aware when listening to singers when they sing and listening to my own voice when singing. Thank you so much!
This is the only video that help me understand what mixed voice really is. Thank you so much for this! It helps me sing easier and properly.
Brilliant and extremely useful ❤
Спасибо большое за ваши уроки! У меня произошёл переворот в сознании, когда я нашла вас на UA-cam❤❤❤
So so good!! Thanks. Great video explaining this so helpful
Thank you for this informational ABD demonstration and instruction. I now get it.
so well explained!
Super tolle Erklärung. Ich dachte immer das es eine bestimmte Technik ist, die ich bisher einfach nur noch nicht kapiert habe. Aber es ja viel einfacher als das. Danke!
Great lesson Freya.
The very first demonstration of ‘chest’ voice you did was mixed lol. But yes. Laryngeal tilt is key. Great vid
More beautiful lesson
Thank you for this ! I've always say that❤
beautiful voice
Wonderful information. This is such a tricky vocal issue.
To me mixed voice = adding bass to my head voice without shouting .
I notice that if you can’t sing a song at a lower volume meaning transiting between chest voice and head voice using the same amount of air and don’t crack this means you can’t sing the song at a normal volume because you can’t transition at a lower volume without straining ….so you have to work harder to be able to mixed head voice and chest voice to reach a bigger sound without shouting. Using a straw, lip trill or humming help a lot tho
Fantastic explanation ❤
Thank you so much Freya ❤️
Microphone technique comes into play here at the transition especially if the band/backing track is loud, it's tempting to stay in chest because you feel if you allow yourself to go into head it will be too soft
wow i like this!!
There’s a cover of Unchained Melody by Lykke Li where she transitions from chest to head voice so smoothly and i cannot for the live of me do it 😭
Just started watching 😂😂
Actually we have 4 M0 M1 M2 M3
A lot of what you would consider Chest is just a very good Mixed Voice. Chest and Head were just terms used back when we did not have laryngoscopes. Also a lot of operatic low notes use M0 (D2 in extreme Bass singers C2s) but it so well supported it mimics the qualities of what you would consider "Chest" voice.
I am not the greatest singer but i am a biology nerd.
So your point is basically to train in lighting up the mix or basically to not compress in the larynx. Which yeah i agree for some reason light mix is very unfavorably looked upon.
(Btw vocal mechanisms do not refer to sound quality just the dominant muscles, key word dominant, or other parts of the throat -so that i include false chords and soft pallete)
Thank you ❤
The problem that I’m running into is that I’m not sure where to place it. My voice teacher just says to use my head voice but move it forward, but I don’t like the way my voice sounds when I do that. Another problem is that when I try to do it, my voice gets tired after a really short amount of time no matter how much breath support I use. Any tips?
My mixed voice just natural achieve by just trying exersice to sing higher overtime, I don't even notice it's mixed voice
What do you do if you just discovered that your chest voice is not developed? I can still sing with a strong mix with headvoice. It's not like that opera sound you showed, but more like Halle Bailey. My last singing teachers told me that i bring my mix to far down... and that it sounds like i have a "choir" voice. I think she meant because i have a very developed head-voice but not very developed chest- voice so much. It hurts easily for me to sing only with chest voice, because i feel like i need to push to get an even sound.
This is a late reply, but maybe you still have this problem. It's necessary to use exercises that activate the right muscles to retrain your muscle memory. To strengthen your chest voice, you can do exercises with "words" such as go/beh/pah. Start on a low G or A. These sounds activate the TA muscle, which is dominant in chest voice and which many classical singers and choir singers aren't used to using while singing. Stay below your bridge (meaning where the voice wants to go more into head voice). Ney is also a good "word" to use on a three or five tone scale. Avoid using to many exercises with lots of o's and ee's that tend to bring you more into head voice.
You can also try singing with your speaking voice starting from G or A and then sing 123454321 (so a five tone scale up and down). Try to keep it in your speaking voice. Chest register is really the same thing as speaking, only on pitch.
Hope this helps 😊
BTW, don't push and think it has to sound a lot. Volume will come with time when your chest voice becomes stronger. And chest voice doesn't always have to be loud, it can be cute and nice too.
Thanks for this. So many teachers explain mixed as using both chest and head at the same time. Impossible.
It took me quite a while before I first realised this. Teachers referring to "mixed voice" rather than referring to a mixture of chest and head voice, create the confusion. They all seem to do so, and one thinks one must be missing a whole register until one realises. Nowadays I have difficulty knowing, when singing a middle pitch, whether I'm using chest or head, or a mix of both. I assume it's usually mix, but perhaps I'm fooling myself.
I've been trying to get mixed voice for half a year now with my singing teacher giving me more and more exercises and I'm still not closer.. its so goddamn frustrating because all I wanna do is sing the songs i write but i just cant because i cant get the quality i need.
When I listen to your voice, I can remember my mom teaching me since you almost got the same voice. xD
Especially when she tells me, "Do not get your voice too chesty. Use a little bit of headtone."
If you're a man, what women call head voice is your falsetto (Second mechanism of the human voice -> M2).
In classical singing, it is said that mixed voice is between chest and head voice. Head voice for male singers is the range above your passaggio in chest register (M1), you get there by allowing the larynx to tilt. It a light voice that sounds like falsetto but there's no change in mechanism, it's still chest register (M1) and there's also a dip in volume. Usually there's a sensation of higher, forward resonance which is why it's called head voice.
Chest voice is in chest register (M1), it's your lower unmixed range with a sensation of lower chest resonance.
Mixed voice is between this heavy voice and the light voice above the passaggio, by lightening the voice as you go up (usually around C4), which makes it easier to get into head voice and tilting the larynx.
Female and male classical singers use the same words to describe different things, which isn't an issue because women mostly sing in M2 and men in M1. Modern singers sing like male classical singers as you mostly wanna remain in chest register (M1).
It makes no sense to say that mixed voice is between chest voice and head voice, if by head voice you mean M2.
Am i the only one who hates the head voice? is there a way to make the head voice sound more "real"?
Men head voice may sound as is the voice of other person then their own, like a " voice impersonation"
Maybe one way is to try to keep the "color" (?) As your own.
Not tring to sound as "childish" like the style of "britney spears" or too dark / troat-y like Mickey mouse.
Like the teacher demonstrate here.
Thanks for the reply, i try to give it some colour but my chest voice as a male is (i think)a very strong dark voice (is the way my voice is, can't change it fully) and my head voice is always too "clean", either way, i'll try to keep working on my head voice, maybe theres the real issue.
Again, thanks! @@SoraiaLMotta
@@manuelcastro5928 are you a bass or baritone? If so when you go higher is normal to not have that extra vibration like the instrument cello.
The channel ken tamplin have some cool tutorial about how to sing the higer notes for deep voices. His style of teaching not always goes in deep like Freya does. But demonstrates a lot.
I'm your oposite: soprano that had to learn how to do chest voice and lower tones. That extra vibration sometimes sounds like I m trying to do a male voice or vocal fry and not only low tones.
@@SoraiaLMotta i'll check ken's video, i have seen some, i understand that there's a technique to give power to the head voice, maybe i just have to practice more. Either way, i'll take your suggestion and keep trying with different points of views. All the love to you! Thanks
Maybe it’s because you think as Chest voice and Head voice as two different voices but in reality you should train your chest to go up on the head register
Love this video but your hair got me distracted❤
how do you add power to it though?
👀👉IGHT SO AT FIRST I WAS LIKE WHAT IS THIS LADY TALKING ABOUT..STOP PRACTICING MIXED VOICE..THEN AFTER LISTENING TO WHAT SHE WAS SAYING I'M LIKE HMMM..THIS IS DIFFERENT TEACHING'S BUT VERY INTERESTING.. SO YEAH I SEE WHAT SHE'S TAKING ABOUT NOW🌹👈😎
Nice tutorial but it was confusing to see a JUMP CUT in the middle of the legato lower to higher register example.
My problem is my passaggio starts very low like(primo) g3 and go up to b3 then another(secundo)on c#4 to f4#.I heard somewhere that you shoud know how to use both head and chest voice on both problematic parts to have chance to blend it into mix aka balanced voice with no break but I can’t go with head voice below c4# without switching to breathy falsetto 🤪.If I do long warmup like an hour or more it helps but I don’t think it should take so long😅
Rather confusing because there are videos about practicing mixed voice from you on this channel can you explain? Thanks😊
Thanks lot 😊
I am a super newbie into voice techniques. This is the 3rd video I am watching on mixed voice. It is presented with a different perspective on mixed voice and I think it makes sense. A few things remains unknown to me. What pitches one should try to mix and how to identify those pitches. I assume it is a range of notes (varies from singer to singer). Another question would be is mixing happening in the chest register or head register or a little bit of both. If it is a little bit of both then can we not say there is such a thing, a range that can take both chest and head registers in a mixed state as opposed to only Chest or Only Head.
In your video examples when you were demo-ing head voice you were dropping Jaw (like too heady) - I didn't know dropping Jaw is required to make a head voice.
Also whatever you said in this video is it applicable to both male and female voices?
Would love to get a response and Thank you!
The absolute BEST explanation of mixed voice. I hope more people see this video.
What about the airflow direction?.
So in reality mixed voice doesn't exist? I thought it is a question of resonance by using different muscles and cavities... and there is a register where one can use both these groups of resonances at the same time. Is that not true? Thanks a lot for your videos, they are always very useful with lots of practice and good demonstration!
How to add power?
im gonna be honest. everytime you screamed the lyrics and said "that doesn't work," it worked very much for me and i want to learn exactly that.
Depends on the type of voice. But also if you do that for a whole performance you’ll wear out your voice quickly.
@@MrZZsharka well yeah, but as much as i can appreciate the clean and smooth let it go vocals, they dont really work for the intense rock sound ive been failing to even begin reaching for the past half a year or so
maybe the mixed voice is a "sound illusion", but to the listener it sounds real...and in fact mix voice "works" for many voices. thank you for the vídeo, it's an interesting view anyway
So clickbated, huh? Stop practicing and then showing how to practice......,
Just out of curiosity: Isn't Let it go originally belted a lot? I think mixed voice is not really what Indina did there. 🤔
But good video anyway. Keep upt the good work.
The problem with your thesis is that while mixed voice in some sense doesn't really exist, the term has different meanings to different people, and there may be useful techniques that go by that name. Connecting "chest voice" and "head voice" by controlling transition is not very useful for some styles. Many people would prefer to push their full voice way up, like G4-C5 register for guys and find ways to avoid any transition into full head voice. Some of those techniques are also called "mixed voice".
With all due respect, I personally think your singular "war" on mixed voice is just plain silly, Freya. I don't see how what you've shown proves anything? Except that we need to "practice" mixed voice 😉
completely agree! vocal coach here who studied bel canto and contemporary belting/mix voice yet i am a bass vocalist naturally. i have fully developed my chest and head voice and i make a living singing in my mix voice in a tenor range singing a lot of classic rock and top 40..
I don't understand how to do mixed voice
Thank you 🙏🏻