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  1. Hi Carol,

    I saw your message from back in 2011 about Diplophonia and wanted to ask what vocal techniques you used to overcome it?

    im a singer songwriter and do session work too and have had an issue as I go from my full voice to falsetto and get a machine gun effect. It can creep into my speaking voice too. I’ve had it looked at and I’ve been told my voice area looks normal and healthy.

    i looked at the Swedish vocal coach you mentioned by can’t find his techniques anywhere.

    many thanks

    Douglas

  2. Good advice above...I actually do like the way I'm sounding now, it's just hitting certain notes. I'm heartened by the overall sound, which is good because I've been working hard these last two years. But it's uncanny, how I can hit a soft high note in TA-dominant mixed voice, just singing along for fun, and then muff the note while recording. I do think it's a balance-in-my-head problem that causes me to push when I don't need to. Today I tried just using 2 earplugs and listening to myself strictly in my head. That helped. I do need to record more but my setup is very basic and not ergonomic.
  3. well I actually lose control of my voice in the passagio area..my support goes all whacky or something. My voice cracks or I go flat. I usually just keep going but geez. Singing in the car rules! I don't know what it is but the sound bouncing back off the windshield and dash seems to be just right.
  4. This is driving me crazy! I've been singing for years but a couple years ago started changing my style from all-chest belting to mixed voice. I took lessons and worked pretty hard on transitioning between registers...and I did a lot of home recording to see how it was going. (I've posted a couple things here but it's been awhile.) But I still cannot get my recording voice up to where it is when I'm just messing around. I can be singing in the car or while working out or whatever and think wow, it's really coming along. Only to freeze up as soon as the recorder is going. What is up with that? Anyone else have that problem? Does it just take lots more recording or what? I have to limit myself or I rag my voice for weekend band work and lose a bit of range.
  5. From what I understand, constantly training in your head voice will help keep your belt voice from burning out. This is from an old web site but there is some good info on rock singing and voice problems if you scroll down. His recommendation to constantly work on the thin edge of the cords ie head voice helped me repair some damage to my voice from trying to scream blues like Koko Taylor. http://www.voiceteacher.com/speech_level.html
  6. Ah that was nice. Are there any women teachers doing this? Sometimes it's hard to relate.
  7. Regarding Roger Love, prior to using his book I could get into head voice easily but had no idea the fuller sound I could get with the techniques he uses. I assume "middle voice" is just a teaching device, a sound rather than a physical state, and it worked for me. I don't think even my teacher here could have gotten me there as quickly as RL did. I took lessons 30 years ago from a classical teacher, who for some reason never spoke to me of resonance or singing in the mask...he made me sing art songs and I hated it because my phonation was so breathy. I was clueless. Last week I actually requested Caro Mio Ben for my next lesson.
  8. Yes it sounds like my middle range, though I was starting to feel like a freak. I'm working in the Love book too and he's pretty convinced women's chest voice goes up to Bb4, as mine did back in my professional career, but it seems awfully hard now. I don't know if my hiatus from singing just uncovered the underlying range limitations that I pushed past or if something has changed. I emailed him and he encouraged me to build my chest range back up slowly but I'm still a little leery. So I'm interested in the answers here.
  9. I use three of Roger Love's exercises every day including octave jump, but I don't think of it as a siren because it goes straight to the higher note then back down. I think of sirens as being a little more leisurely. It's actually easy to bridge up quickly but slowly is something else. My favorite is the octave and a half jump, which I sometimes do legato for more of a bridging workout.
  10. Sirens? sorry this is the only example I have, lol http://tinyurl.com/4bkmpsz
  11. I was over at the CVT page on the 4 modes, and it says this: "Overdrive is the most limited mode in terms of pitch, especially for women. The upper limit for women is D2/Eb2 and for men is C2. There is no lower limit. " Isn't that rather LOW?? I can't go below D3! http://tinyurl.com/24fvrxg EDIT - never mind, I see that their C1 = C4... :/
  12. That seems like real falsetto from the definitions I've seen. I just don't know why so many books always bring up the 4 Seasons and the BeeGees as examples of falsetto, when they were less airy than that.
  13. I guess I still don't understand falsetto..sorry. If falsetto is light and airy, I don't see how Frankie Valli and Lou Christie could be considered falsetto singers, because their sound was loud & mixed sounding to me, with little or no air escaping. (showing my age there ) Anyway, I'm having same problem with n my head voice, though it gets better by C5. Too much air getting out, and me running out of breath.
  14. I have some diplophonia, but when I went to a local ENT I couldn't reproduce the sound. He did diagnose swelling..in here in BFE with no real singer ENTs and I emailed Dr. Thomas, but he said the same thing, if you can't reproduce the sound there's no use making a long trip to see him. It does seem to go away as I train my head voice and progress through the day..
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