hey chris liepe here with how to access and use your whistle register in a musical creative way
now i've gotten so many requests for videos on whistle tones flagellate whistle register all
those things and i've always responded i will make a video on it when i can demonstrate it
not just do it sort of but really put it in use in a song or a part of a song and that time has come
thanks to your requests i've been experimenting with this and have gotten it down enough to
show teach demonstrate and in the process learn even more about what my voice does
so i'm excited to show you how to get into using your whistle tones
now using your whistle register is a very advanced and sort of out there unconventional technique but
it requires understanding of how your vocal tract works how your body works to support your voice
yes mainly your support and airflow usage it also has a ton to do with being able to use compression
holding back air in strategic ways if you don't have fundamental support and airflow understanding
about your singing you got to click the link below and join my free course i'll help you dial that
stuff in and then what we're doing in this video will be much more accessible to you all right
let's start unlocking our whistle tones now there are lots of ways that i have
seen other people demonstrate this stuff and it didn't make sense to me it always
seemed like they would say something and then demonstrate it and i couldn't make the leap
between what they were saying and what they were doing i happened to stumble on this stuff
while working on inhales it made sense if you think about whistling when we whistle
we can exhale when we whistle but we can also inhale
right you can go out and in and you can have the same pitch whether you're going out or in
also but it requires an adjustment again if i'm looking at whistling
there's a little bit of an adjustment i have to make in order to make that pitch the same so
what i started doing was comparing i thought well whistling why
why why would it be any different with my voice so i started using notes in my normal range
and then trying to inhale those same notes
good head voice note
then okay it's not that pretty but who cares we're experimenting so hit a note exhale and
then try to hit the same note inhale and except the fry stuff and the ugly stuff that happens
as cool because you can use that for inhale scream
you can do all sorts of cool things see my other video on that
but if we want to focus on just pitch let's let's pitch match our exhales and our inhales
choose different vowels
so it works for me to use head voice notes and then inhale and match that same pitch
and try to make them as musical as possible work with your airflow work
with your placement it should be placed high in your throat
like so many other things like compression it should feel like compression when you're going in
i feel that in my upper throat now it's it's really difficult to be agile but the
next step here is again in comfortable ranges that you can hit in your ordinary head voice
start being a little more exploratory
with your whistle tone or with your with your inhales in this in that same area so i might go
and then do the same thing inhale
and it's going to be a little rougher it's going to be a different texture but it's kind of cool
you can practice tone shaping and doing all sorts of things
with it but not all that useful i mean we could do something like
there's all sorts of interesting sounds and textures we can make if we really focus on what
we can do with our inhales but if we want some good clean whistle notes out of our voice i found
the coolest way to do it at least for now is with inhales so we take a a note that we can
hit inhale and we add more pressure in other words we add we compress the inhale more until
we start to feel and hear our voice crack up into some of these whistle sounds let me demonstrate
i've moved the placement up in my throat and it starts to sound like a shriek
really cool sounding you can hear this whistly sound happening let's dial it in and clean it
up so that it sounds less like a shriek and more like a tight note and the way to do
this is to go out and in we're going to combine the sensation of inhale pitch with a normal
exhaled note inside except i'm going to go in on side inside
yeah but that's boring we want to we want the high one right inside
let yourself dial it in back and forth what i found is that as you go back and forth between
your your exhale and your insane at your inhale and you do this over and over again your mind
starts to focus on the pitch that you want instead of all the other random stuff so ends
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cool huh it cleans up and it starts to sound really neat so take this around to different parts
in your range and what i came up with after doing it 900 times was this but i like the way i feel
inside you emotion but i like the way i feel
notice i had this i have the s and then i made sure and put the d on the end really really neat
to experiment with and as i have started to do more and more with this i started to get
the a little bit more of that mariah carey feel where you can actually navigate the pitch around
then even have a little bit of vibrato in there and stuff so i'm not done experimenting
with this stuff i'm having a ton of fun i thought i'd pass it along to you again if
you want more help dialing in the fundamentals so that you can start experimenting confidently
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