Singing Lesson - 2 Octave Full Voice Demo - Rock the Stage NYC

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Here is a 2 octave vocal scale done with intercostal diaphragmatic support. No tension or strain in my throat at all.

This is the Bel Canto technique of Appoggio but without the heavy, dark tone of a classical voice. It creates a solid sound with a core suitable for belting, wailing Rock/Metal vocals.

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[GaryGuevara]

Hi Kevin, powerful sound, really smooth and seemless. You said "no bridging early", at what point do you generally move into your head voice? Ab4? or higher? or does it depend on the song or type of sound you want to achieve?

[RocktheStageNYC]

@GaryGuevara - Exactly - where you "blend" chest to head depends on what you are singing and the sound you want to achieve. I start blending from chest to head in a mix sound around G4 and into pure head at around Bb4. But a lighter song will require me to blend sooner and lighter. Its all subjective.

[banglinh222]

So i discover that either i'm singing wrongly the whole time or singing does involve some neck's muscles. So which one is correct?

[RocktheStageNYC]

@banglinh222 - Singing does not and should not involve any neck muscles. Sound is created by air pressure blowing through your vocal cords. Neck muscles are not involved.

[banglinh222]

i had a funny discovery. recently i had an injury with my neck when i tried to do a flip and landed on my face. my nerves and bones are ok but all the muscles of the neck get hurt and it hurts when i turn my head. but i supposed it would have no difference when i sing, because singing does not involve any neck's muscles. however, when i get to high notes, some pain around the neck do come, which means the neck's muscles are activated

[RocktheStageNYC]

@banglinh222 - Not neck but inner throat muscles under the jaw called the degrastric muscles (involved in swallowing) are being activated or you are squeezing the vocal cords closed by force using the muscles around the larynx.

[RocktheStageNYC]

@shamonse77 - Smoking will inhibit your ability to breath properly and maintain an ability to sustain notes. Smoking is essentially pouring hot smoke over delicate lung tissue. How can that be any good for you. Nobody wants to hang out in a burning building, but thats essentially what smoking is like - only slowly.

[RocktheStageNYC]

@Chrislarose220 - Not sure what you mean by "below middle C to the key of F". Either way don't get yourself overly concerned with "labeling" your voice. It means virtually nothing in the real world outside of singing Opera.

[RocktheStageNYC]

@banglinh222 - Yes the higher or thinner a persons speaking voice is, the more natural or fuller the high notes will sound. Someone will a lower or thicker voice can still song those high notes but they won't have the same fullness to them. The vocal cords have to thin more to reach those high notes.

I am a bass/baritone and I can sing all the notes a tenor/contralto can and with the same flexibility, but my notes won't sound as "full" or "round" as a natural tenor.

[banglinh222]

high notes of Sebastian Bach or Micheal Sweet sound "thick" and have somewhat a "cry" in it because their voices are basically high, their speaking voices are high already, and people call them tenors. high notes of Jim Gillette or Axl Rose or other baritones sound much thinner and not as flexible and easy to hit as tenors'. so in the end, voice type still comes to play a role. is that correct? i'm a baritone and can i get that "cry" and flexibility of tenor's high notes?

[RocktheStageNYC]

@calastiur - Its all about how you approach making sound. Respiration, Phonation and Manipulation. Those three things need to work together but all be doing separate things. Singing words on high notes is no different from a breath support approach than singing single, open notes except you are moving your mouth to make words. Its difficult to explain here but thats the simple version.

[calastiur]

Nice, I can almost hit a F#, according to my teacher I'm less than a half note away from it.

I heard you saying that you're a baritone so maybe you could help me out. I'm a baritone too and got quite some range (highest being almost an F#, not sure about my lowest though I can sing 3 octaves according to my teacher) but could you tell me how to SING high notes? I can belt some in the 5th octave quite easily at times but singing is another story. Thanks in advance for a reply back.