If a 15-year-old, who’s going through puberty, can keep his larynx down, anyone can.
Watch this!
Hi, I’m Chuck Gilmore with Power To Sing.
For guys, there’s no other time in our healthy singing life more difficult than the vocal
change at puberty.
We are locked out of head voice and it seems we’ll never have any high notes again.
When we try and sing a few high notes, we stretch our necks up, the larynx goes up,
we squeeze and push for higher notes.
The results is never good.
So what do we do?
Give up?
Only sing songs in our lower voice...the chest voice?
We must find a way to start moving through this ceiling in our voice.
Once way to do this is to keep the larynx down so the vibration can shift into our head
voice
Watch this young man, who is a student of mine, demonstrate keeping the larynx low and
stable.
Yes it moves a little, but it’s not disappearing up into the neck...like when you’re straining.
There are a few cracks, flips and bumps.
But careful listening will reveal in many instances he is beginning to connect the tone
between chest and head voice as he sings through the bridge.
It get’s easier the older you get.
However, what he’s doing is what most of us guys must do to begin developing
head voice.
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There are other exercises we do to develop head voice, and this is one of the great ones,
especially to gain the ability to keep the larynx at speech level, that is, the level
where you talk.
I taught Lex when he was young and he could sing some amazing high notes.
Now that his voice has changed, we’re working on regaining his head voice.
It’s even harder to do when you have a lot of depth and heft in your voice like Lex.
That’s what makes Lex’s demonstration even more impressive.
Thanks Lex...great job!
It won’t be long and you’ll have your head voice back and using it in songs.
Lex’s vocal type is Pulled Chest/High Larynx.
Can you guess why?
It’s because of what happens as he sings higher through the bridge.
Knowing this allows me to recommend exercises to him to help lower the larynx and stop the
pulling up of chest voice.
To discover your vocal type and get exercises to help you, click on the link below in the
description or click the card icon here in the upper right corner of this video...here.
Get this and other exercises that will help you get your head voice working again.
I’m Chuck Gilmore with Power To Sing.
You can sing higher the beauty, confidence and power.
I’ll see you inside the next video.