A question for singers and vocal teachers

I have a question about singing through the breaks between chest voice and head/falsetto voice. How do I practice this break? If you know what I should do, please comment.

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• head
• falsetto
• singers
• speech
• level
• brett
• manning
• passagio
• break
• registers
• vocal
• technique

[RounderJere]

You don't switch, you MIX chump. And your voice is terrible. Just don't sing at all. And you don't even play the C+ scale with the right fingering. Its ridiculous

[laservius]

Thank you so much for your comment! You are so helpful! I'll be sure to work on my C+(?) scale right away!

[BeautifulAccidento]

Try using liprolls. You shoud try to mix. Do not strain or bring the chest voice up! :)

[laservius]

How do I mix?

[imposedlarynx]

yo dude. your not suppose to switch.

you are suppose to blend.

if you sound disconnected, its in falsetto

i suggest you spend some money to get a speech level certified teacher in your region

[laservius]

I live in Japan, in a smaller sized city. That'd be difficult.

[jjj5541]

@jjj5541 continued, So the way voice parts work is that you are assigned to what ever voice part your voice feels comfortable/not strainy in. Bass singers profess in chest voice, Baritones Profess in middle voice, Tenors profess in head voice, and counter-tenors profess in falsetto. Im not sure how it all works for girls, but at least i know the guy part of it all.

[jjj5541]

I'll be pleased to explain it. So the chest voice is the insanely low register of your voice, that's the stuff that makes your chest vibrate when you sing it. The middle voice is normally what you speak in, but you can also sing in it. The head voice is the high part of your normal register, alot of people think falsetto and head voice are the same, which is incorrect. Falsetto is where the crack happens, it is the unnatural feeling part of the voice, it's sorta like, fake singing. Continue

[ridderres]

Well, I would suggest that you find the point at which it is confortable to transision. In my case, I song almost soley in head voice - I have near to no falsetto as I am a female soprano. If I do, go lower, it will feel like breaking to some kind of fleece on your voice. I personally believe that I get the best results singing in head voice - it's not as straining for me as chest - and combining it with the power from lower, so simply tightening your belly muscles. Just don't overstrain.

[g0dvollie]

ALSO, in the first example you give. You sang in chest FIRST, then you sang in HEAD, then you went into FALSETTO, RIGHT AFTER YOU GOT DONE SAYING YOU ONLY HAVE 2!! You demonstrated 3!!! I would say your chest voice is underdevoloped because you're thinking head is chest voice. Yes the first note you sang WAS an octave blow the pitch, but it was chest voice. Then you sang on pitch in head, then you sang on pitch in falsetto. I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU, I HATE SINGING!!! :D

[g0dvollie]

Cont... The mixed voice/passaggio area is the area between these 2 registers. Starting in true chest, take the scale up. The common way is to "pull chest." when you get to the higher notes, what you want to do is feel the resonance "transfer" from your chest up into a place where the soft palate is. When you get it there, using diaphram support to maintain the quality of tone (it will sound different to u) then you can continue up into your head voice (it's much easier when you reach this place)

[g0dvollie]

Cont... When you have found your true chest voice, start going up the scale and don't let the "pingyness" of chest go away. You will probably break around the E above middle C. When you break, congrats you found the bridge. Then find your true head voice (using wee wee, sing it fairly loudly so you know it's head) then take it down on the piano. When you lose the "pingyness" you've found then end of your head voice.

[g0dvollie]

um, you're starting the scale in your falsetto. My suggestion would be start in true chest voice. Try the A below middle C or whatever is right around your speaking voice. When you speak you're in chest, when you started singing you were in head a couple times and falsetto a couple times. The difference between head and falsetto is that head will connect to chest (with practice) and falsetto will not. Falsetto also cannot become very loud, so be careful singing light that you're in true head.

[mradaChris]

What I have found is that sometimes that when you don't have a fully connected vocal folds, you'll end up sounding like falsetto. As I understand it falsetto is being produced on the outer folds. I like to think it is like pulling a rubber band to get a high sound when you pluck it. A person below mentioned that they are losing their ability to do falsetto and the same is for me. I have been singing in head voice a lot for the past year and I cannot even sing falsetto consciously.

[songjidina]

thanks for this video ^_^

[abagab]

actually this is not always the case. The falsetto uses the vocal folds that were developed before puberty. That's why everyone's break is different. So the falsetto is not bad for an adults voice, it just feels unnatural due to a long lack of use.