Both of the linked videos have tips. If you need to, start with an /ou/ vowel, focused towards the front of the soft palate. There are ways to color the head voice with chest voice musculature (among other things) once you get used to singing in a more resonant head voice.
Everyone understands your problem Noah.
Noah, a word of advise... don't look for "tips". Tips don't make you a better singer and you don't need "tips" because you purchased my training program which is 170 lectures and over 300 training files that tell you and show you EXACTLY what you need to do. Don't look for short-cuts Noah... you have to practice.
To build the head voice begin by learning how to get there with bridging techniques... "Lift up / Pull Back" in your TVS program.
Then master the onsets that are in your training program, they are used to isolate muscle strengthening ... The following onsets are good for head voice work.
- Attack & Release
- Dampen & Release
- Messa di Voce
- Contract & Release
- Quack & Release
TRAIN ALL OF THEM!
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Wow, thanks so much for the reply. Seems very in-depth, and I think you totally understand my problem. One follow-up question: do you have any tips or exercises for training the "correct" head voice?
Hello all. I posted this as a Q&A on the TVS course, and Robert advised me to repost it here to see what answers the community might have. Thanks for any help you can offer:
I have gone through most of the course materials on Udemy and everything has been very helpful. However, there is one thing I am not understanding or getting: how do you sing in "head voice" with as much power as you do?
What I find is that I can sing in what I feel as my "chest voice" up to about an F4. However, above that, the only way I can sing with any decent quality is in falsetto, which is obviously not desirable. Falsetto is the only "head voice" that I can grasp and sing. So I am wondering: in order to sing high notes with power (make them sound "chesty") should I be slowly training my chest voice to go higher or do I need to somehow alter my technique to transform falsetto into something else that is more powerful?
Thanks again for your help,
Noah
ill give u a short answer. the falsetto means the vocal cords are mostly open. You have the level of strength and skill to close the vocal cords to make good notes up to f4 which is, as you said, chest voice. Thats basically the same voice you speak in so you are pretty well trained in configuring and using your voice that way
BUT, that type of setup will only go so high and then its starts getting really tight and strained, right?? I think most people, including me, start off that exact way. I was the same, I had chest voice which went to a certain note and then choked out and then i had falsetto
in essence, you need to learn how to sing in head voice. You can take that falsetto and work with it to make it brighter, tighter and more focused and eventually you end up with a legit head voice. You are going to feel most of the vibration etc ABOVE the lower throat. In other words you wont be feeling the same sensations as in a strong chest voice. You might feel it buzzing up in the nose some, or up on the hard or soft palates (roof of the mouth) or behind the eyes or on the upper back of the throat or who knows where, somewhere in the head area lol.
Good vowels to play around with are 'ee's and "oo"s. if you can take a nice "ee" or 'oo" and maybe add a bit more compression to it and get it nice and buzzy and bright, then you are probably getting into good headvoice.
Then its a matter of learning to connect ("bridge") the chest and headvoices together. I struggled like heck to bridge, mainly because I didnt have a headvoice yet. once I felt a good headvoice for the first time, I bridged down into chest voice like 3 seconds later lol
I was trying to sing this certain rock song. I was straining to get higher, but stuck at a certain point in chest voice. Then id sing that part in falsetto but it didnt sound right. So that was my thought process. 1) chest voice wont go that high and 2) falsetto doesnt sound right so the magic answer was: THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE. That something else is correct headvoice
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As far as trying to keep pushing chest voice higher. Ok, in general as u continue to get better etc, yes, your chest voice can be developed higher. BUT, thats not a substitute for learning how to sing in a good headvoice. ESPECIALLY if you are already sort of straining and getting stuck and choked at a certain point in your chest voice.....straining even harder wont help.
instead of straining harder youll have to learn how to let the sound move up out of your lower throat only and move up higher more onto the roof off the mouth etc as I described above. The sound may also feel as if it moves "back" into the back of the head as you sing higher notes. Just squeezing chest harder and harder wont work
if you are yelling to try to go higher, then you need to do the opposite instead. Instead of spreading the sound out really big and wide (splatting) and losing control, you need to keep the sound tighter and more focused and let the feel of vibration move out of the throat and higher into the mouth/nose/roof of mouth etc
You mention F4. Generally an average male tenor type of voice will start feeling sort of tight etc as he starts getting into the sort of d4-d#4-e4 area. Sounds like thats about right for you and then you sort of lean into it and strain and squeeze it u to f4 but then that strategy runs out of steam. Instead, as you start to get into that d4e4 area, start letting the sound move out of your throat and up higher as I describe above
Peace, JJ
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