>> So there are different parts of the voice that we
use to create various sounds.
In the pop and R&B genres,
we use the chest voice a lot.
It's the big full sound that sounds like [MUSIC].
It's like speaking on pitch,
if you think of it as speaking on pitch,
you can sing it low,
it actually lies lower in the voice
than the upper register
where you hear opera singers going,
[MUSIC] which is going to be your head voice.
But this particular part of the voice is used
a lot in pop and R&B music,
and it lies a little bit lower in the voice.
It sounds a little bit like
the speaking part of the voice, so if you have,
[MUSIC],
it can be a little softer as well like [MUSIC].
But it should never sound like [MUSIC],
it should never sound breathy like that.
And so when you are singing a song by
Aretha Franklin or Christina Aguilera or Etta James,
generally, you hear them singing with
a very full sound and this
is generally in their chest voice.
So if you have [MUSIC],
she's singing that in her chest voice,
so it has to sound a bit like your speaking voice.
And so in order to access that,
we have to access that some people have access to it,
and some singers don't.
And generally, those who don't just haven't had
an opportunity to work on that and practice that,
and that's what I'm here for,
to help you to access that.
We started middle C,
[MUSIC] and this is
not stylized we haven't gotten to the ribs yet.
If we just do something very simple like this,
[MUSIC], just three nodes,
[MUSIC] and try to keep it as full as possible.
You should never feel pain,
you shouldn't feel like it's constricting,
so your mouth should be open
relatively or generally wide,
not completely open as if you're biting an apple.
If you're singing in the lower register,
it should be like that,
[MUSIC] and it should be nice and full.
You can also use descending scales,
five-note scales,
five-note patterns
[MUSIC].
An huh is the best vowel to use for this,
because if you use oh,
there's a chance that you may wind up in your head
was like, [MUSIC].
There's more space behind the tongue when we use ooh,
so here if we use huh,
we can get a better access to the chest voice.
[MUSIC], you can put an M in front of it.
[MUSIC] So practice that
and try to keep that nice and form,
we have something that's called a register
break when you get to a certain point,
if you're ascending [MUSIC]
it may feel like
your voice has hit a wall and feels like it gets weaker.
This is your register break where the voice is
going from the chest voice to the head voice.
Now, the head voice is
the other part where we're talking about the sounds
that Opera singers produce [MUSIC].
If you're singing R&B and if you're singing,
[MUSIC] chest voice for you,
so the you is generally in
Whitney's head voice, for you.
So it's used in this context and in these genres,
but it's a little thinner than the sound that
we hear rather when we hear opera singers.
[MUSIC] All of that is
chest voice for you, head voice there.
So here we can do, [MUSIC]
and here's where I suggest using an oh vowel.
When you get to that place where
it feels like you can't go
any further or it's feels like it's flipping over,
change the vowel to an oh vowel,
[MUSIC]
and it may be thin
for some singers if you haven't been
used to singing in that part of
your voice in the upper register in
your head voice but the more you do it,
the stronger it will be,
so just trust that it will become
stronger as you continue to practice it.