Singing Tips - Connecting Head and Chest Voice

[CaptainCrunch4Me]

if your comment doesn't relate to the video..please..just shut up and don't try to get more than 3 digits of green numbers below your comment.

[xox102]

@OlivierOvation that is just my opinion:). I bet you cant sing

[icecreamswag]

@xox102 i think higher notes sound better.. but doesnt mean your not a true singer if you cant sing cos some people have base or baritone voices and sound good! ... i got a baritone voice and i hate it.. i wish i was tenor, i think it sounds better D:

[xox102]

Honestly, if you cant go high on chest voice, you are not a true singer.

[OlivierOvation]

@xox102 Honestly, you clearly have no clue what you are talking about.

[michaelaWrnr]

im so confused

[beakf1]

When i sing in falsetto i get a leaky discharge from my eyes and ears,it smells a bit like toe cheese.My question is are there any creams for this? and will it clear up with pratice ;)

[CatieLeeMusic1]

1:46 I want some chex mix too..

[alxAvtr]

awesome



[TheJohnner07]

por favor Subtitulos en español !!!

[stevenvdp24]

i like his lessons. i understand what he means.

but having personnal singing lessons is always better :D

[kpgpwi64]

go back and forth through 3 and 4 for jacking off..

[SKOBLAVI]

Jerry Louis mouth, right guys :)

[trungtin135]

You have a bit of the sound like Jamie Cullumn.. positive ofcourse

[timbogz04]

holy shit.. im trying not to think that this guy is someone from Chainsaw Massacre film.. and the title of this video clip doesn't help..

[MrJeshu]

Pres 6 repeatedly HAHA

[solonvoice]

My God Brett!!!!!. You must stop telling tales about how the voice works. What you are doing, is not what you´re say your doing. You´re making a jam out of it. People will be confused when you´re not distinguishing between registers/and mix of them and the placement of the vocals you´re using. I hope you good soldiers of singing go hunting somewhere else.

[McAwEsOmE119]

hes seems really creepy 

[FYFTiN]

he smoked that sticky icky icky..

[wagz420]

Press 5... "bitch u ate my vocal chords"

[coreypearson4]

i fucking hate that little "e" that goes MUH-MUH--MUH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! hurts my head

lol

[JameSackey]

i have a problem, when i try to go from head down to chest i get this nasty crack into a low off pitch chest voice. can anyone help me here

[roseanajjar]

@JameSackey If you are going to change the placement of the sound, continue using your diaphram and breath to support throughout the transition. You may not really be going from head to chest but from head to throat instead..if your throat/larynx is relaxed the whole time, this shouldnt happen. must stay relaxed! but push the diaphram.

[thetariqman]

Keep pressing 5. He call you a bitch.

[KerotanMT]

IF YOU WANT TO LAUGH PRESS PAUSE THEN START AND THEN 2,8,3

[SKEETpony]

lol sounds like sheep fuckin

[VotreCauchemar]

You guys make wonders! :D

[apusama]

nice hat bro :D

[001248426017]

from this tip. i actually made 5 octaves from chest to head voice for my very first time! :)

[TheInfectedGod]

Oh Now I Know Whose The Voice Of The Annoying Orange :D

[isawesomelike]

sounds like your pooping. lol but really good advise [:

[winninglikeits2011]

Press 2 repeatedly lol

[boyajaka]

Am I the only one cracking up throughout the whole vid?

[brenee321]

Stoned  But Awesome .......

[yykdarkphantom]

does anyone else think Brett looks like wolverine?

[polimesrl]

@yykdarkphantom Wolverine with a lame hat

[GalaxyofStarrs]

Can I just say you are fucking awesome. I can't sing, never could, but I always wished I could at least not sound AWFUL. I always got stuck in my chest and couldn't figure out the concept of getting out of my chest and into something higher. Thank you for offering these instructions, now I can try to do this and maybe I'll learn to not sound like a frog when I sing all the time!

[The1Music2MyEars]

1:41 "Yes son, what do you want?"

[The1Music2MyEars]

1:10, 0:44

[unmentionedmenace]

does he sing that little intro thing at the beggining?? xD jw..

[XavSch]

1:41 WOW that sounded so much like annoying orange ._.

[itzTatiana]

Thanks man! You really helped! Even though half the time you sounded like a drunk/stoned man making love to a pencil sharpener. . . 0:25 "Ha. . ." 0:43 "Lol!" 1:10 "Lol. . ." 1:21 "ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!"

[biijayk]

while playing, press 6. that's what he'll be saying one day when he is speeding towards a cliff and his brakes don't work.

[randomgal1322]

lol hold 5 he's saying bitch :P

[ForeverxMe1]

hopefully this'll improve my singing for the chewy superstar comp im tryna go in. eep

[shysingerbr]

Hum, hes hot!

[Adriensteamboy]

0:45 & 0:56 & 1:22 remind me when I try to imitate the cat which ate a magic mushroom and yell at another cat

[pyote5]

Nice Hat

[SilenceOfTheMoose]

I feel like im watching the singing version of painting with bob ross...he talks just like him

[TheVideoDoll]

Brett creeps me out a bit

[123NelenaROCKS]

I always wanted to be a piano player and singer :)

[LostShadow901]

what is chest voice ;(

[KurogetsuOokami]

@LostShadow901 Chest voice is the voice you use to speak in. Rarely do people talk in head voice. They call it chest voice because it vibrates in your chest cavity and uses your mouth as a resonator, or a mechanism to make sound off of. Head voice, like its name, resonates in the head.

[TheCivvy]

@KurogetsuOokami I talk in a head voice, unfortunately... So it's very hard to sing in a chest voice, and as a singer, it's very bothersome.

[truerainbows]

i can only sing with a head voice, when i sing with a chest voice it sounds like awful crap :(

[sophie96299]

@truerainbows i can sing in both but when i switch into my head voice i have a defined break in my voice which i can't get rid of. and my head voice is weak... do you have a ny tips on how to sing powefully in you head voice~??

[truerainbows]

@sophie96299 sorry, i don't know xP it just comes to me naturally that i sing with that. it usually sounds airy but you have to project it somehow to make it louder.

[piacassidy]

THANNK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYOU!

[tristano16]

`wow brett manning helped me a lot in reaching my whistle tone :) haha. thanks so much.

[musicdork4ever]

I thought when singing you're supposed to keep your mouth wide open? you can still close your mouth a bit to transition from chest to head voice?

[smparsons111]

@musicdork4ever Yes, you can.

[JudeSantana]

i like these are so short and they help so much

[rem0rsele55]

The like the intro :)

[InnaGee]

what's with the ma ma's?

[89gerardo]

why sometimes my head voice breaks (literally) into a ugly distorted VOCAL FRY?

i am worried about that beacuse it took so much time to learn all this!

[alimomali2]

at 1:44 he says "you're hearing the resonance shit" hahahaha

[yoitskboyy]

@alimomali2 i think he says "shift" :P but idunno ahaha

[majesticglaze]

@alimomali2 He said resonance shift...

[alimomali2]

@majesticglaze i know i know i perfer shit though haha :P

[MoneLouie]

actually, i dunno what the "mix" is, which video explains it?

[bebemec]

I like this man ! :)

[rovingdesertfox]

Ya Lavizzle, Brett is cool .... too bad he looks like he's been living in a card board box for about 10 years. I guess he's appealing to all of you loser kids..

[findyourtwilight123]

la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaa! That always makes me crack up:)

[singkay3]

can someone please explain to me what he's saying?? D:

[GraceOh]

@singkay3 The 'mix' means mixing your chest voice and your head voice. While head voice's resonance is above your mouth area (don't know how to explain properly) and chest voice's resonance is when you naturally say 'ahh'. So to hit high notes, the best way is to 'mix' chest voice and head voice. This video shows how to connect and find your mix voice easily once you done enough exercise

...or that's how I understood it anyway ^_^

[singkay3]

@GraceOh

lol sorry for the 4 months late in reply haha. yea i get it now. it is pretty hard to explain vocal lessons. You really need to work it yourself :D.

[GraceOh]

@singkay3 Always glad to help <3

[ThereGoesEveryone]

This convo has been going on for ever so this is gonna be my last post on it...but listen carefully when you listen to the vids and cds because they explain alot and an understanding of the techniques is key its more important than getting the exercises exactly right when you are starting...mostly because you will know its not exactly right....Good Luck to you in getting the most out of singing

[THESOPHIACOU]

love the "e" from You Tube singing, soo cute

[busybuzzbuzz]

this comes so easy to me naturally that when i hear it explained it makes me confused

[hefra344]

is he fucked up right now

[rhan0324]

he's great he teaches the same as my conductor teaches me.. :D

[jackvincent90]

stoned

[SushiMaster82]

1:49

Chex Mix! :)

[bara1221]

thanks a lot, i was stuck right in the tone of mix voice for a long long time

[Vintexen]

1:23 :( Makes me feel terrible, sounds like his vocally cords are screaming in tears.

[nfarnham2008]

Ok brett, guys, anyone. I have been singing for about 3 months now, and I think I am stuck in chest voice. I sing up and up until I hit a wall, and I am still learning, I can't do falsetto's yet, nor whistle's. But I always feel it in my chest, I never feel it in my head.....help? I am a bass/baritone. I can sing josh turner but not that low, and shinedown , but not quite that high.

[ivaniman]

@nfarnham2008 i had the same problem, that is because you are not using your resonators correctly, you have to exercise every day, remember that is not enought just to sing, you have to do escales, and stop singing like you are doing right now, you have to learn again, in the correct form... good luck.... and remember, try to get hight notes , you dont have to push...just relax

[nfarnham2008]

@ivaniman Resonators? ...>.< I'm not huge on knowing what is what, but I will try to just relax, and start quieter, and over time increase my volume. I am working on my scales and everything. Stop singing like I am right now? Gah...even though it is my chest voice? Also, my tonsils I think are a big problem, I still have them and think they interfere, working on getting them out.

[ThereGoesEveryone]

@nfarnham2008 its not your tonsils sir I would guess you are probably pulling up watch more manning vids...like all of them that have to do with technique

[nfarnham2008]

@ThereGoesEveryone Okay thank you. I have not been singing long. What is pulling up? And I will go through all the videos. Thank you.

[ThereGoesEveryone]

@nfarnham2008 pulling up chest voice mean there is too much resonance in your chest and not enough in your head. Id say that if you are serious about being a singer Def get the home course...BUT....follow it or it wont help you...and keep watching the vids on here again and again and you will learn an awful lot about your voice...and eventually probably be able to tell which exercises you need when your voice isnt quite right ....like after being sick.

[nfarnham2008]

@ThereGoesEveryone yeah I have the Brett manning singing success, I have the audio files and the booklet, with all the diagrams and such. I'm totally lost in some things, but i will learn by watching I guess. Thanks and I will eventually post a video on here, just of me singing to see what criticism I can get.

[ThereGoesEveryone]

@nfarnham2008 Make sure to do your program every day with a rest day every 3 or 4 days

[nfarnham2008]

@ThereGoesEveryone Yeah I am still trying to get the techniques down. The scales and tongue trolls, etc. It is hard.

[rogerstan]

I found this very useful..thanks Bret. it's important to be able to get the proper mix of head and chest voice to sing properly..

[traitorLips]

WHAT A BIG IDIOT THIS ROBERT LUNTE GUY IS!!! HE'S ALWAYS TALKING OUT OF HIS ASS AND SO FULL OF HIMSELF!!! DON'T TRY TO DISCREDIT BRETT MANNING'S(AND ALSO SETH RIGGS,JAIME VENDERA,JAMES LUGO) CONCEPT OF "MIXED VOICE" BECAUSE IT IS THE SECRET TO GREAT SINGING!!! CHECK OUT THE VIDEO "MIXED VOICE IS DEAD" BY ROBERT LUNTE A.K.A. "IDIOT WHO LOVES TO SING OUT OF HIS ASS!!!" :-P

[SocietySecret]

He look like freddy krueger before he was burned.

[charlie190387]

This guy loves himself

[alucard0712]

wow!hell yeah! :)))

[ilastarwow]

Yeah !!! Baby teach to us please

[jakeman1086]

This is probably one of the most useful tips. It definitely helped me find my mix : )

[YoungFlipChick]

i don't get it

[TheSubwaysurfer]

. If I place one hand on the top of my head, and the other on my chest and then start to sing... if I can hear vibrations in BOTH registers simultaneously, does that mean Im "in the mix?" I know of course you cant go on stage doing THAT, but for practice, Is this not a good method for knowing if you're doing it correctly? Also, once you hear the sound correctly, I figured you would get accustomed to feeling when youre in your own personal mix.

[Zero3026]

Pharyngeal voice is the best way to connect the voice even in sick days.

[Thmaxify]

He always looks so reeelaaaxed

[GarrettTS]

could have used this awhile back

[1nspirator]

I love all all the different videos about the mix keep them coming!

[Lavizzle]

Brett is cool... he always seems a bit stoned and somehow that makes me trust him...

[iTellyoueveryting]

@Lavizzle Haha, I trust him, he is incredibly commercial but he knows his stuff and he is a good teacher. Theres lots of people who know their stuff but their are not good teachers.

[jonathanhggns]

@Lavizzle Dude... yes, my thoughts exactly



[TripAir]

@Lavizzle you trust people who sound stoned, hope u live on a farm....

[mrm4xim4m]

cool ill try that out bare that in mind cheers!

[OfficialNickNakama]

I still don't really know how you're supposed to know when you're singing in your mix voice, but this somewhat helped :)

[mharbaugh]

@OfficialNickNakama Buy the CD's.

[reggiegroove]

Awesome tip came to me at the very right time!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Singing Success.

[jakeman1086]

This was the most helpful tip of the week yet! Keep them coming.

[rickytutaan]

Ahaha, it's hard to take these tips seriously; so many funky sounds. Great tip nonetheless..

[GrasiCarter15]

great tip

thank you

[notroxing]

thankies =] yeah my choir teacher wasnt that good of a teacher.

[notroxing]

arnt the head and chest voice already connected? in choir i was taught that. XD

[Seatellite]

@notroxing no the head is your falsetto, and your chest is your "mid" voice so to speak. They are connected in the fact that as you go up you hit your falsetto eventually. But this technique helps you get past your falsetto. The space between your chest and head voice is called the "break." Getting past the break lets you sing in your full voice and lets you achieve a larger clearer sound without going into falsetto. I'm not 100% sure if I'm correct, but I think I'm close...

[Music4LifeNFun]

@Seatellite head voice is not at all falsetto. flasetto is when there is no chord closure and air is going through your throat. Head voice is called that way because the resonance goes from chest to head.

[filteredglitch]

@Music4LifeNFun ya i agree with that. i've been listening to a lot of brett's programs and this is how he explains it to, and it does make sense to me.

[Music4LifeNFun]

@Seatellite head voice is not at all falsetto. flasetto is when there is no chord closure and air is going through your throat. Head voice is called that way because the resonance goes from chest to head.

[mradaChris]

@Seatellite Head voice and falsetto are not the same. I'd say falsetto, which can be produced in higher (head voice) and lower (chest voice) tones, is a form of unsupported/unconnected head/chest voice respectively.