Wow thanks ! I hope you think so. New video on its way by tomorrow .

@@singingmatterscalder the tip about how to start moving into head voice a bit before the higher notes begin helped a lot

@@Braunfolk it’s often an absolute game changer for everyone! Thanks

Love this lesson too. Learning a lot. 🖤🎵🙏🎸🎤

That’s really great to hear, Thanks and good luck !

Many thanks for the comment and it means a lot to my new page! Well, you can take one section of a song that is tricky and turn that into an exercise by removing the words, for example, and just singing the few notes from that phrase, using different vowel sounds, humming, the ‘nng’ sound, so you can feel where it resonates, before going back to the words of the song. Scales and exercises are a chance to work purely with the mechanics of your voice, away from the magic of songs and music. Many people aren’t ready for this kind of work but you learn so much more when you develop your instrument instead of rehearse songs

Same, the first song I started out on was Bruno Mars it will rain.... and I don't modify keys.

I get what you mean about finding challenging songs too.choosing songs that test you and help you develop.. But try that tip in my previous comment, where I said use the phrase from the song that you find difficult just that phrase and work it with just the notes maybe pick one vowel sound but sing the notes from that very short phrase that is the most difficult and repeat it and play around with it and experiment with it eventually you find a way to hit that part of the song correctly, so that when you come back to it, your voice knows what to do through muscle memory, but turn into an exercise is a good steppingstone between only rehearsing songs and actually starting to run scales exercises. Good luck.

Yeah! That’s a good idea. I’ll think about that for a vid . Cheers

Thanks. I hope it’s useful to you !

Yeah , great stuff. It’s the pulling back but equally letting go of the chest voice muscles too at the same time . The comment there about once a session sounds like there must be a hell of a lot of tension going on . Sounds like the kind of moment where you brace yourself and manage to get something out of your voice but can’t repeat it - sounds like it might be a lot of effort . Hard to tell on text but those sorts of reflections often sound like singing with all kinds of tension. It should be totally more effortless . But it’s hard to say without seeing, hearing. I’m always happy to receive short video clips to help assess for free. Contact details are on my site www.singingmatters.co.uk You should practice the art of quiet high notes - that doesn’t mean falsetto and breathy, still the cords are connected but you can do it with minimal fuss and at low volume . Try it.

Ah nice one !! How’s it going? Thanks , doing my best!

@@singingmatterscaldergood thank you pal, still very busy with music. Teaching & recording music full time, released my 7th album in Jan and still singing thanks to you! I too have had quite the journey. So much to learn. Your videos are great, really in depth and candid. Keep up the great work! :)

Definitely!! Always watch live performances to see what they are doing. If there’s a stripped back version yeah even better. 👌👍👍👍👌💪

Yeah absolutely. People try to mimic what they hear n a heavily produced track. I’ve said this somewhere on a video recently !. Singers really need to grasp what they are hearing and how singers are actually using their voice.

This is really interesting, I have one student who simply cannot find any sound at all above an E4 maybe an F . I’ve never had such a tricky voice , he comes from no musical background . But no matter what I try it’s like those muscles that want to stretch back and encourage a high sound, he just can’t find it at all. It’s really a tough one - I did try to look it up and couldn’t find anything. I want to reach out to some other coaches and see if they’ve come across this or helped anyone fix it . Guys just don’t use this part of their voice at all sometimes but it could also be coz it’s so strained and gripped that access is denied!

The experimentation is all very helpful as I’m sure you know . Sometimes different tones are useful in situations, as well aren’t they. And always remember your voice isn’t the same every day either. It’s all about getting used to what is feeling tight and restricting … and keeping that shape open, even when aiming for the pharyngeal resonance. What sort of material are you singing? How varied is it?

Same as me, I have a few different head voice sounds and I don't know which one is correct😂

I thought i replied so hopefully this isnt a double up as i cant see my reply. Yes i do anything as low as paul Kelly to acdc, choirboys. Queen, CCR , black keys, and many more . I handle them fine but that mix i sometimes get is the holy grail as its closed cords and super high power. Its just not a constant. ​@@singingmatterscalder

@@fenderfox5080They might all be correct ! Maybe it depends on the song. I know what you mean. There are many ways to get a note out of yourself in your higher range. We are trying to notice what feels balanced and not tight. Sometimes this is way more subtle than we realise. It can depend on style . What sort of stuff are you singing? How flexible and free does it feel n those different approaches you can do?

@@stebolianThe power is almost just perceived power. We are always needing to put less into it. Get things out of the way and remove force and effort, strangely it sounds more powerful that way. But our ears just hear those notes as powerful - they sound impressive, they sound louder because our ears respond to those frequencies more. So the power comes from not over doing it. But , also , remember your voice is a moving target. It’s never the same twice . Dont expect it to work the same today as it did yesterday.

Yeah the vowels all play different games with the set up, as you already know. Try lowering the larynx for the ee vowel. And maybe make the oo , more like ew.. hard to type. Ha ha. 😝 Try that. Or try making the oo pharyngeal and bright ! Thin and narrow at the back ... I hope that gives you something to mess about with.

@@singingmatterscalder Thanks, I get what you're saying. Sure can get tricky depending on which other vowels are mixed in there. If only all the vowels felt like ay, lol

I hope it helps ! Thanks

Really the amount of pressure people sing with, including myself when I didn’t have a clue what damage I was doing, is insane. Crazy amounts of force and therefore compensating with extrinsic muscles. . It doesn’t need brute force. Depends on what amount of pressure you are talking about.

I’m not sure if this sounds like a couple of things mixed up. Unless I said it like that, I’ll have to watch back. The voice resonates the chest bones when the n our deeper spoken range, chest voice. As we get higher , you don’t feel the resonance in the chest anymore. The chambers within the vocal tract would not be below the folds, no. That wouldn’t make sense, you’re right

@@singingmatterscalder I guess the trachea would technically act like a resonant chamber below the vocal folds so I correct myself i should’ve been more specific. But the chest cavity isn’t a resonant chamber. The chest cavity vibrates due to sympathetic vibrations :)

@@singingmatterscalder it’s nice to discuss this with someone who doesn’t just go “f off” haha. In that case look into Ingo Titze work on the voice and CVT complete vocal technique. They have a load of studies to read :)

@@digitaltrip3311 yeah I’m not sure what I said that made you think that. I haven’t watched my vid back. And it was done off top of my head. It’s definitely not anything I’ve said before so I don’t know if you misheard me . Yes of course Titze. Maybe I’ll catch what this is about at some point !

@@digitaltrip3311 I’m gonna have to watch everything back to work out what this is about

Gotta strenthen chest voice higher

@@Chris_Lodi Got any tips or useful exercises for chest mix? cheers 👍

It depends if you’ve let go completely of cords and when you try to add it back in , are you adding a lot of weight and strain into that. I always think of it as just a tiny bit of chest voice still holding onto the cords . Have you heard of pharyngeal resonance? You may want to be aiming for that tilt that adds a twangy, bright pharyngeal sound and makes the cords stay together as you get higher . Feel free to send me a video and I’ll see what I can notice. My contact info is on my site. Incl phone number for WhatsApp. singingmatters.co.uk

@@singingmatterscalder thank you, I will try to share something soon, I mostly sing and play 90s stuff, I've learned allot the last year and a half from Chris Liepe as a student of his, but I had to cancel class last month. I think I have a good grasp on a bunch of different things I just don't know how to put it all together. If I could explain it in words that make sense I would say chest voice is great but I've learned to sing above chest, meaning when I sing the same songs now that I used to sing in all chest I'm just moving the placement up a little more in my throat and pallet. Then higher head voice stuff I'm able to do fine without flipping into it the way I used to, I used to flip into head voice but I worked passed that flip. Now when I sing in head voice I'm only feeling resonance in my soft palette and maybe some nasal area, I feel like I'm missing that second part which I'm guessing should be lower feeling? I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense but it's the best I can explain 😆

@@fenderfox5080 I get you! I know what you mean. It’s great you’ve worked through this stuff and started to change the placement. Chris Liepe is the boss! I think I’d have to hear you to know what you haven’t quite put together . Maybe it’s better than you think! What do you not like about it?? What do you think you are missing?

@@singingmatterscalder yes Chris is amazing!! I just can't afford classes ATM but I plan to join down the road so it's not because of anything he did 😆. I feel like I'm holding back or using to much compression maybe? This might be because when I hold back air I have more control but maybe I'm using compression? Maybe I think they are the same thing? When I sing in head voice I feel stagnant when I feel like I should be letting air out, like when you sing you should be releasing pressure while doing it, and I'm holding pressure not being fluent in letting it out while I sing. So it feels held back.

@@fenderfox5080 hmm 🤔 well, you don’t want all the air to escape ! Or you lose support . But maybe it doesn’t feel free and that’s what you mean .

Lower your larynx! Keep the throat open left the soft pallet…. I will add , people are obsessive about that side of things, when often they have a warped sense of what they hear in other singers, and in their own voice anyway. Often people don’t wanna hear the advice because they think it takes them away from some big powerful sound. They are so attached to it when actually that sound they are attached to is being achieved in an unhealthy way that will damage your voice overtime and will never sound or feel free, which always undermines your confidence anyway. But there are always to make the sound bigger like that . Try it