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Introduction: 0:00
Difference Between Falsetto and Head Voice: 0:30
Remedy for Breaking Voice When Doing Falsetto: 6:02
Reasons Why Voice Breaks at Falsetto: 8:14
Exercises to Try: 9:26
Summary of Difference Between Falsetto and Head Voice: 11:20
Final Words: 11:41
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For way too long there has been confusion about the terms head voice and falsetto. And it’s for good reason: these words are incredibly confusing for singers. They lead us to believe things are happening outside of our voice.
But with the help of modern science, we know that in head voice, the voice is not really coming from the head. And falsetto is not false; it’s real and useful sound.
So let’s talk about the difference between the falsetto and head voice and most importantly, learn how to use each in singing.
Falsetto is a type of singing that sounds like a breathy, flutey and hollow sounding tone. It’s usually found in the highest registers of male and female singers.
We’ve all heard someone sing in falsetto voice before. The breathy falsetto is used for effect to sound otherworldly and beautiful or young. Some of my favorite singers have used falsetto for effect: Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Sam Smith have all used falsetto.
Other times, falsetto comes from the voice breaking and is completely undesired.
We’ve all heard this too. The voice cracks as it rises and a breathy quality is all we hear, usually with a big drop in volume.
But in order to completely understand how the voice disconnects falsetto, we need to talk about what’s happening in falsetto voice in the vocal mechanism.
Falsetto voice is nothing more than a breathy phonation in the higher register of your voice. Phonation is the sound caused by the vocal folds when they vibrate.
So how does this happen?
When a singer is straining and too pressed in their singing, the muscles in the vocal folds can give up and stop vibrating at their full caliber. So rather than having an even tone at the top, the voice goes from pressed to too breathy.
Falsetto can also happen when a voice that starts breathy loses even more resistance in the higher register.