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I'm with Jeremie - in falsetto, it feels like a whole different voice in my body with its own range whereas head voice feels like an extension of my chest voice and requires more breath. My lower falsetto notes (where my secondo passaggio starts) feels as comfortable and easy as my lower chest (my normal tessitura) so I don't have to utilize as much breath.

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I agree with Jeremie. Falsetto and head voice have a completely different feel.

As a male I find head voice and falsetto to be different. Falsetto lacks power, proper chord closure, dynamics and vibrato. Whereas head voice has all of those things. With the right teacher I believe everyone can learn to access head voice, male or female.

You have an amazing voice Ms. Tara!!!!!!... I absolutely love sopranos !!.. you have so much power in your ranges!!!😍

I agree with this man 100000%!!!! And he’s examples are exactly me!!! . I’ve strengthened my falsetto for months but forgot how to unlock it. This video was literally a falling domino that connected EVERY FOR ME! I can sing (Most of) Jordan Rakei, (Most/Some) Daniel Caesar, and (A good amount of) Ariana Grande now! . The part where you explain that your falsetto is where you vocal cords don’t touch helped me the most! For a while I’ve been pulling up my chest voice not understanding or unlocking my truest potential! You guys rock!

Here's what I have recently learned. This is based on the old definition of the 70s apparently : Falsetto is something soft and breathy with a back placement. Reinforced falsetto is the same thing but it has twang to give it some strength. Head voice is a falsetto that has compression added to it. Apparently what is considered a falsetto for men is what is called ahead voice for women, so women don't really have to worry about all this stuff. That could be why Tara thinks that falsetto and head voice are the same.

Hey Tara, can you do a video like this on how to develop a vibrato ? Btw, I really find these videos helpful! Tysm n love you!

I’m with Jeremie - everything feels in the throat for me, even when I bring the sound forward, I still feel it in my throat

as a very lowly trained high tenor, he is absolutely right. Chords are open and not connecting, but you can push the sound around into the front of your face if needed.

As a singer myself, I have a head voice and falsetto. Being such a massive fan of Beyoncé, and a little bit of Whitney Houston, it made it very clear to me. However, I will say that I do agree with Tara, there are times when head voice and falsetto are synonymous. I always feel head voice in my nose, it’s so forward.

As someone who trained and performed as an operatic mezzo soprano (with a voice that went through female puberty) and then transitioned into a "male" voice via HRT, I have to heartily agree with Jeremy. The head voice that I had with a "female" voice just doesn't exist in the "male" voice. There's chest, mix, and then falsetto, and the differentiation between them is really obvious on the inside, even if it's not readily heard on the outside.

falsetto and head-voice are both within M2 (laryngeal vibratory mechanism #2) and Jeremie is basically demonstrating levels of cartilaginous aDduction in M2

Falsetto and head voice feel very different for guys. I didn't feel his demonstration did it justice though. Doing a strong or weak falsetto is very easy- it's connecting to produce a head voice that takes effort. Everything about falsetto is easy but doesn't mean head voice is louder; that might be why is hard to hear the difference. It's easy to produce an extremely loud sound in falsetto (ex: if you hear a guy cheering "woo-hoo" he's using falsetto because it takes less concentration.) But even though falsetto can be powerful, it doesn't sound good that way because it's sounds very different from the rest of the voice (chest mix and head voice) because it's literally disconnected from them. Also, to make it more confusing is that male falsetto sounds almost like a female head voice. I think it's harder to tell when a girls voice is connected through because it sounds so similar 🤷‍♂️. Good video once it got to the tutorial part.

I feel like Falsetto is a vocal range unique to each singer and that head voice is a technique used to help get you into the lower end of your falsetto range.

Thankful for this video. Perfect timing guys. Happy Holidays! 🤩

Very informative for both female and male voices!

This is great! Can you add more posts or reviews of male voices? Bass/baritone voice advice would be really helpful to me. I have some questions and would be willing to sing for you.

Im late joing, but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this channel!

I'm looking forward to learning from you thanks for sharing this with me !!

OMG, thank you so much Jeremie for this!!

Nah falsetto and headvoice are two completely different things for me

This would be an interesting topic to discuss, although I’m a few months out of the loop. But I’m terms of the registers, I believe there are three distinct registers: chest, head, and falsetto.

Thank you for acknowledging the confusion between head and falsetto. A long time ago I realized I don't understand the difference and I spent so long trying to find the answer

Jeremy you're 100 % you are singing using falsetto !! male head voice is completely different. Thanks to you both for doing these videos.. Great work!! Sending love from Australia

i feel like what Jeremie is attempting at 5:20 is what i consider my "falsetto" voice. The way he used his voice before was what i always thought "head voice" meant, as i its a kind of voice that is really hard for me to supportt and connect to my body. super interesting video! Love you both.

Thx Tara for video 😍. Love it.

For me, falsetto and head voice are absolutely different things. Exactly as you said, Tara, more behind my throat than where my eyes are.

I feel a distinct difference between my chest voice, my head voice and my falsetto. I even feel like I can sometimes produce a mix of my head and falsetto which feels again different then mixing head and chest. I can also have my falsetto feel really light and breathy (but not coming in and out like the example in the video) or much stronger sounding (what some people call reinforced falsetto), So I'm definitely in the "they're different" group.

Two diffrent things. My vocalcoach also seems to think its the same. However my toprange is really breathy so I will work on it as suggested in this video. Great content as always.

Very interesting! Learned a lot. Love this way of interacting with us also. :)

Thank you for this conversation.

I've been singing falsetto since 16. I have a KZfaq video singing the song Alika. I've learned it's diaphragm control as well as vocal chords. Awesome video y'all have to help those who want that high notes.

Jeremie is so fine ..

I 100% agree with him.

I have experienced falsetto as well as head voice . The feeling of the Falsetto is on my throat, and the feeling of my head voice is right on my nose. But funny enough, my head voice is stronger on higher notes of that register.

I know I'm late to the game, but for me (classically trained) head voice is exactly what it says, it is sound that resonates through my head and through my mask bust mostly comes from the same spot that my chest voice comes from, however my falsetto comes, basically, directly from just my throat and only resonates through my mouth and teeth.

I’ve been waiting for a video like this! I’m a bass with a chest/belt range of Eb2-F#4, but my falsetto, or what I believe to be falsetto, spans from G3 to E5. I do not feel the resonance in my nose, the placement is like what Jeremie describes. It makes me so curious about the anatomy of the voice. For example when I listen to singers like Leona Lewis and Dinah Jane Hansen, the way they flip from their chest voice to a higher register sounds the exact same as a flip to falsetto for me. But, I don’t hear that flip when opera sopranos sing. It’s so strange lol.

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I feel like him too. I totally can go that high with my falsetto but I also feel like there’s no full head voice for me.

I feel it like him!!!!!

What a very important topic in the world of singing and voices, many years I am looking to such this analyze. Thank you Tara and thank you Jerremie.. In my personal opinion, the falsetto is an existing register and it is completely different from head voice. It requires a lot of practicing to perform it in nice way, other ways it will look funny and useless.

I agree falsetto and head voice are completely different. It's all about placement and support. There is less chest support but core support.

i love this video this is adorable! i came to learn which i am doing but im also getting a show and i love it! also he has a beautiful voice

Tara I like your ideas and opportunities

I agree with Tara the resonance for my head voice is different than my falsetto.

For Mitch Grassi: his high notes are more head voice. For Kevin: his high notes are more falsetto. I think Jeremie is right because I have a falsetto and I think I have a head voice from making a nasally tone (something like Mitch’s)

I love you so much ❤️ I'm a big fan I love how you teach and react to other vidoes💖❤️

another male here and i really like singing in my falsetto even though i am not trained in any way but i have to agree with coach Jeremie that i mostly feel my falsetto in the back of my throat. i often feel like my falsetto is more a different voice instead of just an continuation of my chest voice

Yes i agree with Jeremie, all throughout my vocal journey as male singer, when I'm younger about 9-11 years old I have a range of about an tiple but i did at some point learned to use my upper extentions but I didn't have the knowledge about head voice, hence i only used falsetto. But as my voice dropped to baritone/tenor at 12-13 i satarted to discover my head voice to which I didn't have any sort of confusion between the two registers. But i will say this, my falsetto reached up to G6 when I'm 17, but i stop for a couple of months and i can only reach to D6, you need regular use or practice for your falsetto to be maintained and strengthened otherwise it will falter.

Thanks!

Can't wait to see the new hair colour in full Tara! Very interesting video. The increasing falsetto range thing was an intriguing remark, I wonder if that's why, for example, Dimash has different sounds on his lower note operatic voice sometimes. Wondering if maybe some is proper chest voice and then others are falsetto. Wonder how low some singers can go in that coordination. Also if you fancy something classical to listen to; at a recent event Dimash did a duet with a soprano opera singer (Vienna Opera House Soprano) called Aida; song was called Ulisse. Same night there was also a trio with Dimash, Lara Fabian and Aida singing Ti Amo Cosi. Hope you enjoy them if you do listen to it. (Ulisse is my favourite from that night, he also did a great version of Know) Also there is a cool medley from Home Free I've been listening to alot called Country Fried Pop, like 15+ different songs that they've managed to arrange to sound like it's practically one song, even lyrics wise, it's quite the ear worm. Plus a bass singing pop is always cool. Hope everything is going well for you, take care and I look forward to your next video. If you listen to the songs let me know what you think, no worries if you don't fancy listening to them or are too busy with work. Cheers Rebecca

I can definitely say that falsetto and head voice are two different things. My voice falls under the Bass range; very deep, and I used to have a falsetto, which would allow me to easily sing notes in the soprano or mezzo-soprano range, and very comfortably imitate Elmo’s voice, from Sesame Street, and meow like a kitten, and yodel, as an example. I damaged my voice over the years however, due to forcing my voice to sing in the tenor range. All that strain in my vocal cords over the years made me lose my falsetto completely. I was devastated and I miss it, even to the day. I can now barely use head voice, but it isn’t the same. I can barely reach notes in the soprano range with head voice. I definitely remember how using falsetto felt; how activating the falsetto felt, and it is different, when compared to head voice. it’s placed in a different vocal register of its own. Personally, and metaphorically, I would describe falsetto as opening a door and walking into a big spacious living room, whereas head voice for me is like opening a door and walking into a closet.

I also agree with Jeramie. That’s what it feels like for me.

As a female (low alto) my head voice and falsetto are two different mechanisms

I literally feel falsetto in my head as if my head is filling up with helium. And it feels airy and free. As I come down into mix and down to chest I fell the air and the sound come down through my neck, chest and into my tummy.

Can you do a video with him doing a lower range tutorial, because for me when I sing low notes, there will be times like in the morning when I can hit am Eb2 at lowest but later on the day lowest note I can hit is a Bb2. How can I prevent that from happening?

Falsetto and head voice and chest voice are did headvoice and cheat voice are created when your vocal folds are closed and falsetto is when your vocal folds are open creating a bit more of an airy tone

I can definitely feel a difference between a falsetto and head voice. I can go up to a D6 with my head voice. It’s definitely nasal and more forward and almost squeaky sounding. Whereas my falsetto is weaker, more breathy. I have a hard time connecting it. I thought all people could tell the difference.

This is very helpful.

He’s not lying it’s hard to find true head voice for a male. I’ve found my head voice only a handful of times and it was when I felt really good emotionally and well rested. Otherwise I struggle to get there. The first time I found head voice, I knew I found it immediately. It was amazing. But generally I can only count on finding my falsetto, or mixed voice.

I have to agree with Tara on this one. I think it just is what was mentioned at the end, it is very dependent on your voice. For me, my head voice is, I guess, my falsetto. I don't feel as though I have 3 different registers but rather just chest and head/falsetto. I also find it most comfortable to sing in head voice using E or Ah sounds. In my case, however, my voice is unique in the sense that, I was born intersex, XXY, was given male hormones in my teens, identify as female, and my voice never really dropped all that much and I very much consider myself a mezzo soprano singer because that's where I feel most comfortable singing in. I can sing to songs by Toni Braxton or Cher all the way to Whitney Houston with relative comfort and ease.

For me, I’m not at all vocally trained but I have been singing for some time now in my classes like musical theatre where we learn kinda in a group. So I have a falsetto and like jeremie said, it’s more throaty or placed further back. I do note however that when I push further up past my singable note near middle/upper 5th octave, it is when I get a ringing in my nose which might be what you’re talking about it being more nasally. Not sure if that helps at all, but that’s my take on it being that I only really have a chest and falsetto.

Ok, for me, girls do have chest, mix, falsetto, head and whistle vocal ranges. I have my voice switches to a light airy tone ( mix) for G of the 4th octave and head voice mostly from G of the 5th octave and I can falsetto from there upward then to my whistle range from G of the 6th octave. So there you have it. Men do have the same features, take DIMASH for instance. It just depends on individual, what he or she has, prefers and trains on, ok. And oh, I love to warm-up with EEEEEEE!!!! and OOOOOOO!!! I feel at ease when using them than AAAAA, UUUUUUU and QQQQQQQ. Love you Tara 😍🥰😊☺️😘😚😙😗💕💞💜💙💚💛🧡❤️♥️

Thank you so much for the video ,very interesting.For me falsetto is a different voice register disconnected by the others voice registers.That’s what I feel when I do falsetto.

As far as I know Falsetto and Head Voice are different but can sound slightly similar, it depends on how it is produced and where it resonates. Head voice resonates in the Naso-Pharynx and Nasal Cavity. Falsetto resonates in the throat and sounds very weak and leaky. Tara was right in asking him to sing what she wanted to hear. You can feel when your chest, mix and head registers move from Laryngeal-Pharynx to Oro-Pharynx to the Naso-Pharynx.

The best definition I’ve found is that chest/head voice refers to resonance, and falsetto refers to cord closure. As a guy, it’s possible to sing in a low, chesty falsetto, or a high, head-y cords closed voice (although of course naturally, it makes much more sense to sing with head resonance in falsetto and chest resonance in non-falsetto). From what I can tell, that’s not at all the case with women though. I hope that clears it up a bit 🤷‍♂️

Im with Jeremy. I’ve learned to push my falsetto and make it sound like it’s very forward and in that mask and what I guess women would say is the head voice, But my head voice and falsetto are exactly where he was also feeling it.

love this so much. thank you. i cannot even get myself to understand how to use my abs. love love love to see a vid that helps one learn how to find vocal power from one's core and not just through the chords. danke darlin'. pretty please.

I’m trying Tara girl and I feel it where he does 😭

So I used to think the same as Tara about head voice and falsetto, but I recently found out what falsetto is scientifically, and both men and women have both a head voice and a falsetto. So everyone should have a chest voice, a mixed voice, a head voice, and then a falsetto.

The King of a Natural Falsetto is the late Bobby Debarge. His voice is beautiful and doesn't sound false. He's my top singing mentor.

I have a relatively high pitched voice and for me falsetto is just head voice with less chord closure and more resonance at the back of my head. After getting some training I don’t really have or use falsetto anymore. Even when I sing ‘oooo’s higher than C5 I’m using a lot of chord closure and mixing in a little chest voice to get a loud full sound that rings more in front.

I am not trained but I could go really high and "full" with my falsetto but when I tried head voice it requires more breathing(most of the time struggling) and more warm up is required.

I’ve always defined falsetto as more of a fluty vibrato type sounds versus a straight toned sound

I'm an alto, and honestly head and falsetto both feel the same to me. I have a lower register for a woman, but I don't notice any difference. I have to agree with Tara, I feel it mostly in my nose when I sing up in my higher register.

I tried so hard to do the head voice thing she was saying and I totally agree with him...I just alter my falsetto to make it sound like that

As a trumpet player, I had to tighten my lips like you tightened your vocal cords to sing really high notes. I could play Super G, which is sort of trumpet falsetto. You actually use less air but your vocal cords have stepped up another and gotten closer together. In theory, you should be able to hold a falsetto note longer than a low note. If you need more detail, I would be glad to explain further.

100% agree

I just realized this video was posted on my birthday

Dimash has a strong falsetto and strong head voice

With the generic descriptions of falsetto and head, I have a mix of the two, or a strong and masked falsetto. No idea, but it's stronger than falsetto but "clearer" in the highs than chest. I sing bass in my choir, but I've been in the sops a full times. I do access the whistle register too, it's fun! No, I don't strain.

I used to be able to slide very well from my natural voice to falsetto....I stopped practicing and I lost it. The E and O vowel helps me with the falsetto part

This is so helpful. Can you guys do a video how to control your vibrato

The difference is do to the length and thickness of the the folds themselves. A woman’s falsetto is more closely related to her head voice, and she can get away with a lighter sound being closer in timbre to her fuller headvoice. Where a mans voice(much thicker and longer folds) has a more dramatic difference within the compression levels in falsetto or headvoice, this create a larger change in timbre. Different levels of fold compression really determines everything you need to know. Women and men both have falsettos and head voices no matter what you think those terms mean.

Headvoice/mix and falsetto are definitely not the same. I can do falsetto with ease, but I still haven’t learned to use my mix yet. You can clearly tell when I use falsetto, and I think it’s even less airy than his example of a very mask placed falsetto. There is just 0 chest in it at all, and I think it’s very easy to hear.

Bass voice here. For me, there is a DEFINITE difference in my falsetto and my head voice. I can feel the opening in the chords Jeremie was explaining, but, alternatively, I can also feel the forward, "masky" sensation when I am in my head voice. They also have completely different timbres. My falsetto is, without a doubt, weaker and more breathy. Also, since I have trained my voice, I can typically only access my falsetto when my throat is tired/worn out and the chords don't get the closure they need for a strong, well-supported head voice. MY biggest trouble is finding my mixed voice. My chest goes so low, and my head goes so high (A1-F6 on a good day) that I have trouble finding where the actually "mix". But, I know that is an ENTIRE other video!! The voice is, indeed, an amazing instrument~

As a male singer (F#2 to G#4 in chest ) I feel I have both Head Voice and Falsetto, and I can tell they feel different. My head voice (from C4 to C5) is definitely an extension of my full voice, because I can feel my cords are still connected as it does in the chest register. It is a smoother and rounded sound that resonates mainly in the back/center of my head. My Falsetto (from A4 to only God knows) is something that shows up once in a while usually when my throat is tired. There is no chord connection, is just lots of air passing through resulting in a severly airy sound. The sound gets fuller depending on how much support I put into it and as I go higher. (I go from a Mickey Mouse sound to an opera singing woman). Feels realy differente from head voice because it feels much easear to reach the notes... But it lacks articulation and dynamics.

I wish miss tara can make a video explaining the male headvoice in opera

Falsetto is part of the upper head voice for males it is just that the registers need to be connected from the chest to mix to head ,to higher head which is falsetto, that being the full male vocal range ,

As a male, I feel like I can place it in both falsetto and a more nasal head voice space too, where it can go a bit higher but less stylistically. There is a point where it's hard to know where I even feel it though, somewhere in between lol.

Speaking strictly as an amateur who has sung second bass chorally, both in high school and a decade ago Handel's "Messiah" with a community choral society, there is a definite transition in my head voice to falsetto. I wonder if it would be the same for a first tenor.

How have you still not reacted to Devin Townsend - Deadhead Live at the Royal Albert Hall. You're the only vocal coach who hasn't yet.. hes one of the best out there...surely people have been requesting this already?

I’m not sure. I have a “falsetto” and it does feel like a really light and incomplete coordination. But if I try to compress it, it becomes an operatic sound. If I compress further, it sounds metallic and rock-like (like a head mix and some people say I sound like a belting woman 😬). I’m not sure tho bc that’s the only way I can “mix-“ I can’t mix from chest up only from the top down. 🤷🏽‍♂️

can you plz do a tutorial on breathing and one on expanding your range?

Tara, i've been singing in church for years, 10+, i'm a 34 year old male. i still cant find my head voice. its interesting to me, because in my head i know where it should be , but when i try them i end up attempting it in chest.Its like knowing the car has gas but using the wrong pedal. Is there a regular routine i could use to push myself closer to falling into it? because i feel like it will be an unintentional fall. Much love, -B

Great vid! Trying to learn .. but I think head voice vs falsetto are different placements!

Tara you are so beautiful 😍

I'm a teacher who has mostly taught children and adult women but I've had some recent male adult students come in and am trying to build my confidence teaching men, finding this area so confusing. Any tips for women teaching men to access it and feel difference? this is really interesting and helpful already, just trying to make sure I don't confuse them bt lining it up too much with female head/tilt.