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Sounds good man. You can sing. I have two things I wanna comment on. When you hit the high note on the verses, you should go a little bit higher in volume or at least give it some more resonance/power. It sounds a little weak and fragile. I wouldn't do head voice (m2), rather just belt it out with a lot of twang and good support. I'm curious to hear how that would sound. Some places I think your vibrato is too slow. But most places it sounds good. I guess this may be a matter of taste but this is, however, my honest opinion.

I won't say you are twanging to much. You may need to twang more to stay in full voice up your range. Twanging in the part of the voice you are singing in sounds a little funny. It's mainly country-singers who does that. But I know you're just showing off your twang here so... When singing lower notes you only need a little bit of twang to make it healthy. Add more twang as you sing higher.

I would suggest that you learn the song better before you record anything and post it here because you sound passive (maybe because you are not familiar enough with the song). Learn the words and melody, try to listen to some of the details in adeles singing like when she hits a note you can hear that it is resonating well. Try to get the same sensation. I suggest that you sing louder. Not shouting, but just enough so that the notes are more sustained. That will make it easier to do ornamentations and vibrato as well.... Gives you more control And one more thing. You have to pronounce the words better. Try to focus on the consonants. A good way to practice would be to overdo the consonants. Good luck practicing. Just by singing a little bit louder (with good support and some twang), you will get some results fast, I think.

Well, hitting a D5 is of course not possible if you define chest voice by where it resonates. That makes the limitation clear. We all get that. Many of us define chest as full voice and head as the not. full. We should use full voice instead of chest and maybe neutral (cvt)/not connected/not full instead of head voice. Yeah you can train your headvoice to sound more full and chesty but they will never sound the same.

Gina: Yes, by your definitions of what is head voice, you are probably right. I think we understand each other. For me, chest voice is the full voice while head voice is the non-full sounding where you get the falsetto, compressed falsetto, and compressed falsetto with twang (that often sounds almost like a full belt)

I hate using the terms chest voice and head voice, it's so confusing because it's really no such thing so it leaves many of us confused after being introduced to it and it destroys a lot of discussions and threads on the net. It's so much easier talking about modes, because that is in my opinion the only correct way to seperate ways of singing. Owen: I don't really know what you guys are referring to as pulling chest. I really think we should just drop chest and head voice and just put it this way: What I am referring to is belting which is just twanging your "full unbridged voice", which means that you don't have to coordinate and time a bridge somewhere. I've never heard anyone who bridges early that creates the same sound.

I use what many refers to as a belting technique or in CVT, "Edge". I'm twanging the epiglottis funnel and "pulling chest" up. But the twang makes it perfectly healthy. The tricky part is to be able to keep the twang above C5 and that takes a lot of exercise. I disagree with you when you say that the best option is to bridge early. As long it's healty, it's fine. Just listen to Adam Lambert, he belts a lot during concerts without sounding strained or getting hoarse. Just listen to this clip: You can clearly hear that he switches to belting technique. You can hear that his belting is perfect because you hear that thin and screaming tone underneath the whole time. Another clip: This time he "overtwangs" a little to get some distortion added.

What do you mean with chest voice? Is it where the sounds is resonating from? Or is it how high you can go without breaking/briding into head voice? I can easily go up to a D5-D#5 without bridging. That note you are singing sounds like a head note btw.

Well, I think you sound better the higher you go. My opinion is that you should bridge later or not bridge at all, and sing the lower parts more chesty using a high larynx and maybe "jawn" a little so that you make enough room (curbing in cvt terms). That's what Adam does. Not saying that's why you should do it, but I think it sounds better. Or are you just doing headvoice all the way for the practice of it?

Good luck But be careful. If should feel easy, not strained. But it MUST be loud.

Nice singing dude. Keep it up! I see a lot of talk about headvoice, falsetto etc. What James Labrie did most of the time back then was belting. In CVT-terms it's called edge. Which means adding a lot of to twang the chestvoice to a thinner and sharper sound to reach those high notes. No bridging (like Mr. Lunte teaches) is done until the very end of the range when going from chest directly to neutral or "head voice". You can try it yourselves. Try the vowel "e" like in the word "edge". You should keep a broad tongue and make sure your tongue is in contact with the upper teeths (first/second molar). Try to pretend that you have a pea on the back of your tongue that you have to sqweese against the back of your soft palate. It sounds almost nasal but it's the way to do it. If you do it correctly it will sound very free and healthy. Having good support is of course essential as well. I'm not saying that the TVS approach is wrong. This is another way of singing in the upper part of the range and it's quite common. Pardon my english :)