hey Chris Liepe here with how to know if you're in or singing with mixed voice two simple checks
it's a question I get a lot how do I know if I'm in mix and not just in my head voice been singing
really powerfully or in my chest voice somehow so these two checks are going to demystify it for you
once and for all but before we go there if you don't have a handle on how to use your support
correctly these tips are not going to work if you want to use your support correctly and learn how
it feels to do so click the link below and join my free voice course I'll help you dial that in
and then these tips are going to make a lot more sense the first is a resonance check the second
is a placement check and you put these two things together that work hand in hand and you will know
so resonance I'm going to sing a note a high note like this you should do this with me now that note
is in my head Voice or is it mix I I don't know and I'm going to get more powerful with this note
if as I inject more support into this high note and I start to crack I am not in mixed
voice I am in a powerful supported head voice but the positioning of our vocal cords in head
voice cannot take the power of support like mixed voice can so if you're singing a high
note and you're wondering if you're in mix or in just regular head voice give it some more
support and see what happens you can do this in a lot of places as long as you're pretty sure
you're not in chest voice yeah boys okay so I'm gonna go yeah well that's a pretty that's
a pretty cool sounding uh head voice note or high note oh is it mix okay let's try foreign
I start to crack it's not mixed voice when you've got things placed correctly yes our
second check the placement check you can give those high notes more
support and they don't break they get more Brash and more powerful
or
there I actually started in head voice and then changed my placement so that I
could resonate in mixed voice so here's our placement test we're
going to be super forward in a chest voice note hey
and we're gonna feel the vibrations in our face that's kind of a belt right
and then we're gonna practice bringing the placement of that note back
I feel it vibrating and yes resonating in the in the this area not so much in this area
can you hear me cracking just a little bit that's okay here we've brought the resonance back ah
that's going to help us initiate this sort of crying or whining Stone which we can't
do really when we're bringing our placement forward ah cry cry a little forward forward
cry cry notice how it's thinner sounding but it's still loud and brash
now as I've got that placement the reason I was cracking before is because I was still working
on dialing in that placement between forward and back but when I get that placement right foreign
as I add more support it doesn't crack it becomes Brasher and louder so two checks the first we're
calling our resonance check head voice am I in head Voice or mixed voice if I push harder
and I crack I am not in mixed voice but if I push harder and I don't crack I am in mixed voice and
I can feel out how to place my voice by moving it forward and backward and when I get it back to the
point I can add more juice from my support and not crack I have found my alignment for mixed voice
now for fun listen to my lead vocal from the sample I sang at the very beginning and listen
for how I'm moving my placement around forward to back as well as switching resonances chest to head
and you will hear obvious differences between head voice and mixed voice based on placement
head voice
you hear that I moved us to know when I lost it's back it's placed back I
was able to inject more support by placing it back
and then there even though that's a lower note listen
lost it all forward and belted pure chest
and then at the end of fear fear
I was actually in head voice relinquishing that support I found a way to build I found a way to
hide from Molly now there yeah resonating back and bringing it forward so experiment
with switching resonances experiment with placement and you will stumble on knowing
whether you are in your mixed Voice or not thanks for watching we'll see you for more