hey chris liepe here with some very simple things anybody can do with their voice
to get into mixed voice and therefore sing higher more freely
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but before we put the focus on singing higher more freely we need to experience what mixed voice
feels like with normal chest voice notes in our voices this is going to help us create
the posture the vocal posture to go way higher so we're going to practice thickening our vocal
cord engagement and thinning out our vocal cord engagement over a single note and a single phrase
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all right let's take a line from this connor mason nothing but thieves song single note we're going
to have thick vocal cords and then we're going to thin them out or thin the engagement out okay
here's me singing the line making waves to the universe okay making waves through the universe
i can hit that in chest voice making waves through the universe great what i'm going to do though is
i'm going to practice thinning out my vocal cord engagement what this means is that at some point
i'm going to transfer resonances from chest into head voice because this is an upper chest note
making waves through the universe making waves through the universe
what have i done i've backed off pressure and i because i've backed off pressure but i have not
changed the pitch my vocal cords change position they thin out making waves through the universe
every voice does this you might experience a crack making waves through the universe
while you're dialing it in that's fine you want to feel your vocal cords thin out over the same note
that's the first thing we're going to be doing and practicing this in different places of our range
and just being okay one note multiple levels of vocal cord engagement in terms of thickness
or thinness making ways through the universe making waves making waves through the universe
cool let's go a different part of our range lower making waves through the universe
making waves through the universe i'm moderating pressure not pitch here's the next step
and we're going to go to a different line in this song to illustrate this
okay what we do in the power zone that's all chest voice and you can bring this around
and you should bring it around to places in your comfortable range
but the way that i sung this and the way that connor mason sings this is not that it's not
this belted chest in other words we want to think about our mixed voice not necessarily as always
higher we want to think about it as a different tonality a different resonance so instead of
you hear me doing it but instead of what we do in the power zone it's
what we do when the power's out yeah and now let's take this posture what i've done is i've opened up
my nasal passage and i've brought the resonance back toward my soft palate i'm actually bringing
it back as opposed to forward what we do is forward it's belty what we do when the powers out
now what have i done here in bringing my resonance around i have finned
my vocal cords when i replace my resonance i bring it back and i free my nasality like this
there's a little side effect that happens where my my vocal cord engagement becomes thinner and
you can hear it thicker thicker beltier my vocal cords are thicker thinner thinner what
we do in the powers out that's mixed voice what we do in this chest voice this is mixed voice
you hear my voice kind of doing this yes you are feeling out mixed voice because there it's a
thinner engagement what we do how we do what we do there's an element of of airflow control here
that helps you dial this in without cracking but if you are cracking a little bit or warbling while
you're dialing this in this is good practice taking a note that's just a little higher than
the other note what we do in the power what we do in the powers out what we do in the power
once you have that posture and that feel you can go higher and higher with thinner vocal
cord engagement which is what your head voice does that's why when you go higher by default you flip
into head voice but if we think about this sort of vocal posture in our normal chest voice yeah
get that down and then we go higher and higher and higher and higher we harness the support
the airflow management and the power of our chest voice in the vocal posture thin vocal cords of our
head voice experiment with this give it some time let me know what you think we'll see it for more