hey chris liepe here with why your voice cracks unintentionally and how to fix it
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and before i go any further yes i know that there are
other youtube vocal coaches discussing this same thing and yes i've seen
those videos and i thought i need to weigh in on this topic because i think i have a
unique perspective that will help and add to the wisdom that is in some of those other videos
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working with me as well joining my free course is the best place to start so there are two
primary reasons your voice cracks unintentionally the first is you're reaching for a note
and you can't quite hit it you're not supporting well enough and your voice cracks
right the second and this is the more vexing one
you feel like you're supporting you're pushing really hard and you know you're
singing from your diaphragm and in my language you're using your poop muscles
and you're focusing your attention downward and you're not tensing your throat and your
voice still cracks and you're not even trying to sing high it's like it gives out for a moment and
there's this like what what's going on here why is my voice doing that sometimes it's not even a uh
total crack either it's like your voice gives out and adjusts pitch unintentionally like this maybe
it's not a full-on crack but it's something so what i'm getting at here is your voice can crack
either because you're not using your support in the right way
to hit a note that you want to hit or because almost because you're using too much support
to mu and in the wrong way so if we want to eliminate unintentional voice cracks we have
to start by looking at support as not oh my voice is cracking i need to use more support
i need to support my voice better and then my voice won't crack because there's a there's a law
there's a point of diminishing returns with that mindset we need to balance airflow
balance how we're using it obviously and and this should go without saying what i'm saying
anyway we don't want to be using our neck to try to articulate our moving around with our pitches
or our dynamics either we want that to come from support so if i want more more more i'm
going to get louder but i'm also going to use compression i'm going to moderate my airflow
using a healthy amount of compression while you're dialing in certain notes and while you're singing
even if you're not trying to be gritty is going to help you stabilize your notes so
you won't run into the problem that i just showed there where we're sort of just blowing
so much air over our cords we're going so hard on our cords they just kind of go like
compression will will keep that from happening as
long as you're dialing that in so dial in your compression take a single note hey hey
and practice lifting something heavy while you're singing that note hey
in keeping the pitch you're going to notice your tone is going to change and
you might develop a tiny bit of sort of clean rasp this is good experiment with those sensations
now you want to make sure you're doing this in a way that doesn't you don't want to go
too high when you're experimenting with first dialing in this compression right because we
don't want to crack because we're reaching for notes either this leads me to my second thing
that we can do to make sure we're not unintentionally cracking might sound kind of weird
here's how to fix those hi i i reached for a note and i cracked ah intentionally crack intentionally
do it feel out your voice around those pitches so that you get good and comfortable with going
in and out of your chest and your head voice because that's really when when we're cracking
we're going in from head residents to chest residents unintentionally
that's usually the crack so if we can get more comfortable with with this concept of
if i'm pushing up to a note and i start to crack okay well let myself crack and hit the note
well yeah you could throw more support behind that and probably get it
oh my voice just did what was in that little sample there i'm pushing too hard
i'm not using enough compression and my voice is i can't decide what i was doing
that wasn't a full head voice crack that was sort of this like just vocal confusion
crack i'm so glad my voice did that by accident so that i could illustrate it
now i've gotten that sensation and can modify it and and do it over and over again but if we
want to hit that note without doing this and without cracking or without being pure head
voice we need to embrace this problem area both from an airflow perspective and from a
a head voice resonance perspective okay the first thing i'm gonna try to do is i'm just gonna
i'm gonna i'm gonna slide the note and let my voice crack into it on purpose
sometimes i'm blending my break but the point is to recognize that i'm
transferring i'm switching resonances
now i'm gonna push up to it and just add support like we kind of want to
okay i'm going to try using more compression
that's better still not where i want to be though i'm going to combine these approaches
a little bit more i'm going to crack into it then i'm going to add compression to
it how much clearer and cleaner and freer that note sounds hey
no
that's not what we want either
hear how free it is what i'm doing is i'm going into my i'm cracking into my head voice i'm
realizing that that's where my break is and then i'm experimenting with air flame
experimenting with compression after i've already accepted that i've hit that in my head voice
this doesn't work for everybody and it doesn't work particularly right away you really have
to spend a lot of time feeling these things out balancing airflow moderation compression support
and getting really comfortable moving in and out of your head resonance
because if you're not afraid to go into your head resonance
when that crack comes you'll be able to lean into it and make
lemonade out of lemons essentially here's a few more noises to help you internalize this
who's a big one for cracking right
okay well that's not cool
i can push more and my voice is still going to crack a little bit
i also open that vowel up a little bit which is very good placing your vowels a little differently
as you're as you're working with those vowels can help you dial in your resonance as well
without cracking but i hope you can hear and see the struggle that my voice isn't any different
than anybody else's but as you learn to place your voice in different ways and get comfortable
with it doing what it's going to do and then learn certain work arounds to coax your voice into the
right muscle memory positions you can go a long way thanks for watching we'll see you for more