thank you I just saw this thats a very nice comment..

LOL!

I think just knowing what the vowels are would help a lot. If it requires the studying of formants, so be it! For me, a twanged OH does not want to go to oe/ER until around A4. Before that, it sounds like more of an UH/OE (cup). Wikipedia has a nice article about all of the vowels we use in singing along with their F1 and F2 frequencies. So once you understand how to interpret the chart (a high F1 means that the vowel can be belted and a low F1 means that it can be sobbed or cried; a high F2 means that the vowel can be screamed or whined), it becomes easier to see what vowels you need to modify to and why. In other words, the higher the F1 number, the higher the native frequency of a "chest voice" vowel, and therefore the higher the pitch a "chest voice" vowel can be sung/yelled/whined on. The higher the F2 number, the higher the native frequency of a "head voice" vowel, and therefore the higher the pitch a "head voice" vowel can be sung/whined/screamed on (as a yell can only go so high before vocal strain and a scream can go much higher). If the F1 value is too low, the vowel can only be sobbed at a medium volume and will exist in a limited pitch spectrum in "chest voice". If the F2 vowel is too low, the vowel does not even exist in the high range and must be modified to one that does. Because the OH vowel has one of the lowest F2 numbers, it can not be shouted past C5 and has to be twanged instead, morphing it into an ER or UU (rounded AH that does not exist in English). OO and EE can be hooted or whooped loudly because while EE has the highest F2 vowel allowing for this, OO doesn't- but it does have a cousin (W) which can go higher than the pure form of OO. Part of the confusion about what vowels can be sung high has a lot to do with the fact that many of the highest first and second formant singing vowels do not have an English equivalent, so they are not generally present in English speakers and have to be learned in the context of singing.

There is a practical reason for studying formants, and not just to use big words and seem knowledgeable- it's actually to decode what vowels work best for which part of the voice so that singing the right vowel for a given pitch or range of pitches is more intuitive for the average reader to understand-especially for English speakers, given that it's the hardest language to learn to sing in due to all the dipthongs in its vowels (as opposed to pure monothong vowels, like other languages). All of this is governed by acoustical physics which has limitations for all voices. For example, there are some pitches that a few vowels do not exist on due to the fact that they are incompatible with the particular vowels' harmonic frequencies. The world of singing has long needed a "De-Babelizer" or "skeleton key" for vowel modification WITHOUT unnecessary verbiage, and that's what Kristopharoah and I are working on- a chart with all the different modes you can sing in with terms that describe the type of sounds they make and the corresponding vowels you can use so you can see how they are related to each other. The whole process of understanding and applying the matching of pitches to their overtones is tedious, but we're going all-in on this in order to benefit anyone who is curious about it so that they can sing more difficult songs without thinking about it and-gasp- maybe even get emotionally involved in the words they're singing so that their performance sounds more sincere than just *technically* good in terms of competent technique.

+Marios Mantselis yeah that is what worked for me at the time. you want to keep the movement of the breathe steady . And don't flail out ward and change the vowel you want to keep it uh.

daniel formica Tried and it works..What about power because bridge notes dont sound that full...Will it come over time or i have to do something specific?Thanks for the advice!!!

power comes with resonance and technique. lots of exercises out there

GOLD!!!!!

The way you deal with mistakes in yourself and others says a lot about your qualification as a teacher. Daniel is being transparent, you're being disrespectful.

@@tobias.mueller Daniel actually sings songs showing a wide vocal range. The dude from total singing dojo doesn't have live covers only shitty low to middle notes recorded covers.

@@aionlover3981 Yeah, Kevin can't sing for shit. He just likes to criticize other teachers. Haha.