How to Belt a High Note Properly - Vocal Placement

A case study (and basic guide) on popular vocalists and their vocal placements when "BELTING" (hitting or sustaining a high note in full voice). Singers in this video: Mariah Carey, Luciano Pavarotti, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Jennifer Hudson, Celine Dion, Cheryl Pepsii Riley, Kyla, Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, Charice Pempengco, Zsa Zsa, Nina, Kelly Clarkson, Lara Fabian, David Cook, Regine Velasquez, Lady Gaga, Leona Lewis, Stephanie Ferrett and Patti Labelle.

The video highlights some of the proper and improper techniques or placements used in belting.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Resonating in the mask
3. Resonating in the head
4. Mixing (belting with head-dominant instead of chest-dominant)
5. Belting with the throat
6. Resonating heavily in the nose (aka. nasal cavity)
7. Improper placement and failures
8. Test

The purpose of this video is not to bash singers but to educate people so they don't sing with bad techniques just because their favorite singer might somehow use that technique before. Of course, you want to achieve the best production without ruining your own voice. The place you resonate (or vibrate) while singing does affect your vocal health and your production.

Again, the video is criticizing the singers' technique, not the singers themselves!

It also aims to help people differentiate between a good high note and a bad high note because a lot of people are easily impressed by a high note just because it is loud.

Just to be clear, there is no such thing as the throat technique or the nose technique, they are just names I created to describe the unhealthy ways of belting.

What is resonance?

Resonance is power, it is the amplification sound. When you sing, you feel vibrations in different places (in the mouth, head, chest, nose, etc.), the place you feel your vibration is where you place your voice. How you place your voice and your technique affect your resonance (sound/vibration). Belting or resonating with your nose or throat stops that.

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[vivalbertine]

Nice sharing of you.good points.Thank you really.But i think there is really reeeally a big point missing out in here and it is called proper breath control.Right used diapghram support we can say in more ucomprehensible way.None of these placements will work unless we don't combine them with a breath.One of the reasons we fall to the throat or stay in the thin head voice is lack of breah control.We sing with our bodies.We should always remember that. combining these two is the work to be done

[Albana132]

nah i still think christina aguilera is fucking awesome...

[iamfazchan]

it doesnt matter how shitty christina's technique is, she'll always be one of my TOP 3 DIVAS next to Mariah and Whitney.

[FanaticoManiatico]

@Albana132 LMFAO

[Albana132]

@FanaticoManiatico ur opinion. ;)

[FanaticoManiatico]

@Albana132 well she´s an awful vocalist

[Nav1tal]

Whitney - 10 Celine - 9 Jessica - 7 Lara - 6 David - 7 Aretha - 7 Regine - 7 Lady Gaga - 6 Luciano - 9 Kyla - 6 Leona - 6 Jennifer - 10 Stephanie - 8 Patti - 10 Charice - 7 Christina - 7

[NiRie017]

Mariah Carey - 10 XD