How to Sing - Warm Ups Part 2 - Rock the Stage NYC

Part 2 in a series of vocal warm ups. Falsetto slides are another simple way to warm up your voice without stress or volume. A little harder than lip bubbles but a nice, tension free way to glide through your vocal registers.

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[AtariMaxiToriyama]

Singing low like this, I don't have a break or clunk. But when I sing a bit louder, like a bit louder than speaking voice, I get a scratchy feeling right at my break, around G4.

[RocktheStageNYC]

@AtariMaxiToriyama - you have an undeveloped ability to keep cord closure as you ascend into head voice. Typical of 99% of singers.

[p0kgai]

1 question, you say its a falsetto slide but what im hearing is your sliding from your headvoice down to your chest. Shouldn't falsetto have the airy tone,

[RocktheStageNYC]

@p0kgai - falsetto most of the time has a breathy/airy tone but it can be somewhat full sounding - also know as "half voice". That's what I'm doing here.

[GambiTheSlave]

Hi mate, still doing my best, but now I wanted to check out again the first lessons and then I hit this one and I have this problem you mentioned at 1:50 and I feel where it is, I'm slowin' down totally but still can't win with that weird jump/break. Any ideas? :(

[Hurplepaze]

When i slide from falsetto into chest voice i automaticly find my vocal break on the way down on the lowest notes of my falsetto and i still haven't got rid of the hickup sound on the way down, but i think i can learn to get rid of it. My biggest problem is when i slide from chest voice into falsetto, i cant find the right moment to switch or slide into falsetto. My voice automaticly continues up into head voice. So i'm not even close to sliding softly into falsetto from my chest voice...

[RocktheStageNYC]

@themcdaveee - do them in your less powerful head voice first and get them right. Its best to do them light first, get them well executed then work on power.

[themcdaveee]

@RocktheStageNYC at the moment i am having trouble getting a mix, i can achieve it sometimes but not others, while this is being worked on do i carry on trying to reach for the big notes up high in my chest voice or do i do them in my less powerful head voice? will the head voice continue to become more powerful and full if i keep at it?

[RocktheStageNYC]

@themcdaveee - that "sing quietly" can be one of two things - falsetto or light connection. But that's how you start accessing head voice without strain. Never sing a note in full voice you have not sung in falsetto first.

[themcdaveee]

@RocktheStageNYC I do a small practise session followed by a big practise session containing all of the exercises i have picked up along the way on alternating days e.g. monday - small practise, tuesday - Big practise and so on...

i have recently found a technique that is very helpful when trying to find the correct head voice which is to sing quietly and softly and not force or push at all, that way the transition between chest voice and head voice is much easier! is this a good technique?