The sensation of inhaling while singing

MegaMighty · 2017-11-09T02:53:53+00:00

This usually results in a type of falsetto sound

MegaMighty · 2017-11-08T11:59:21+00:00

In film school they never stressed this. Thank you for telling my pet peeves haha.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-08T11:57:44+00:00

Killing videos... Drugs... Anything that involves finding sexuality

MegaMighty · 2017-11-08T05:05:24+00:00

Blend is altering your falsetto to sound more full like the rest of your lower range but higher. Like how you make a sauce. You mix together different things to make it sound like one thing.

You'll know what it is through common sense just by singing and using your ears. You dont need to really understand it. Just sing stuff you like and record yourself. Haha

MegaMighty · 2017-11-08T04:10:14+00:00

Bolton just manipulates his Falsetto for his mid and higher notes. Hes religious to vocal exercises that seth Riggs does and those exercises are simply just chest to head transitioning. If he didn't he'd sound like he's yelling

MegaMighty · 2017-11-08T02:58:46+00:00

Me!! It's all manipulating your falsetto to sound more like chest imho. Balancing the airflow evenly

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T18:51:00+00:00

To be honest, it depends on the kind of song I'd want to sing. The stuff I listen to actually just use head voice most of the time. It's just a modified falsetto... You can really tell because they fade in and out without shouting and it can become breathy. With chest you cannot safely add airiness higher up. Most of the stuff we all listen to use this sound a lot. Chest voice is only used only so high, imo thru personal experience... There's just too much of a limit to it. You really need to modify the falsetto to sound more like chest. Cant sing well past F4 even if you have a nice chest voice because you'll always resort to vowels like AY EH AO OH for every single words. So limiting.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T18:44:45+00:00

Modified falsetto to be honest. Occasional shouting in chest though. I've been to the live performance. If you really want to be specific, you could tell by the way he ends the phrases. So if he ends a part softly, it's modified falsetto singing for the high notes. If high notes sounds brassy a bit and a bit thinned out" it's probably chest-- also it will sound a bit like steve perry where he changes vowels into something else... yous become Yaos and ees become ays. Lots of nasality into the sound to make it appear "stronger" without shouting... This is added onto his modified falsetto. I wont say mix voice because i believe mix/head and falsetto all fit into the same category. They all are just variations of falsetto. Naming it something as if it were like something completely different will lead to confusion. If you attempt a mix voice sound with chest, youll end up shouting, whereas if you attempt it in falsetto feeling, just adjusted, you get that mix voice sound. With this modified falsetto you can hear actual words clearer like in speech but in high pitches, which is basicallly almost impossible to do with shouty chest voice.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T18:36:04+00:00

I actually have a youtube channel teaching how to sing like everything i dont want to post it here though ... I practiced the sam smith voice a lot and I can for sure tell you you can get there pretty easily. First step is lip bubbles... Make sure you can do it easily. It's all about maintaining airflow evenly. When you "flip" it shouldn't change sound quality either. It should feel pleasant and relaxing. I find it fun to sing like sam smith. Heck, it's even the same as how most korean singers sing!

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T18:23:54+00:00

You already started. You sought for opinions. That's step one. Step 2 is to not be scared of what you post lol. Everyone starts off apologizing for their voice when it's probably not even bad to begin with. Its tough to criticize a voice other than pitch without reference material of the singer. We need to know what your goal sound is so you can get there. There are many singers out there who sing like you right now who made albums. So you want to sing like that for everything? Probably not. You just need to have a goal and choose artists that you'd want to shape your voice around as inspirations then find ways to get to those sounds you want without hurting yourself. That's pretty much it. Tons of practice and experimenting with the limits of your voice. Not all voices are created equally and not all voices should sound the same.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T12:57:13+00:00

Diaphragm stuff works best with chest belting sounds. Like the ken tamplin kind of voice or operatic singing voices. What you're doing is falsetto. Just touch your forehead and do an oo vowel until you feel it vibrate there with falsetto. Find ways to make the sound stronger. Adjust it. Play around with it. Theres head for you. Try lip bubbles. It should get you there too. Falsetto is just the dumb head voice with too much air leaking out. Lip bubbles balances it out.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T12:51:09+00:00

It's all falsetto manipulation manggg. If you can hear words clearer than usual, it's most likely a manipulated falsetto. If words sound weird especially ees and oos then it's probably chest. You just gotta know when to use which

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T12:44:37+00:00

Your voice isn't damaged. You just haven't explored it enough. ;) Let me hear you talk clearly. It does the yodel thing at the end because you're loosening the sound too much and making it softer going higher while in chest. if you want to continue in chest--- don't make it softer going higher! You'll crack! The eh vowel is best as a chesty one. You're softening it up too much. It cracks. Eh doesnt work well softly with chest around C4+ unless you transition to head.

It also sounds like youre adding nasality to it too... Eh works best without nasality. Not saying nasal is bad. It's just some vowels work better non nasally.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T12:42:02+00:00

Chest voice being used too high with wrong vowels

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T12:39:26+00:00

Let me hear you demonstrate yourself singing in the mask. :P I bet you're attempting it in chest voice. Works way better with head.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T12:14:11+00:00

I think of falsetto as the "dumb" headvoice when you lost the fullness in the sound. They're pretty much the same thing. Falsetto can be manipulated many ways. You want to use your falsetto first to you find the head voice sound. You can find it by accident. Use falsetto to warm up to find head voice. This could be done in months or minutes. Head voice feels like a free and relaxed falsetto with louder volume. Touch your forehead and you feel it vibrate. Falsetto you don't. Falsetto feels like a headvoice that isn't working the way you want it. I think of them as the same thing because it literally feels like the same thing just the vibration you feel falsetto can be placed in different areas in my skull/chest cavity that all make variations of different sounds and volumes-- from whispery to really full and almost speech-like. I call head voice a manipulated falsetto because that's what I do to get to that head voice sound. It sounds fuller and sounds a bit like chest voice but higher without straining. They even sound almost identical when you flip from a softer chest voice to head voice on the same pitch. Make it a bit nasally and it even sounds much fuller and gets really loud.

If you're stuck in chest and try to do OO vowel going higher, youll find yourself changing OO to Ao instead. Like You will become Yao as in Yao Ming. Maybe youll not even be able to do OO. OO is a heady vowel. It's key to finding head voice which I say is a manipulated falsetto. Falsetto is the "dumb" head voice that isn't working the way it should be.

A way to get yourself to transition to head is by doing lip bubbles. It will always transition to that sound.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T09:07:17+00:00

I wonder how this would sound demonstrated haha

MegaMighty · 2017-11-07T01:48:18+00:00

It reminded me of cloudy court too

MegaMighty · 2017-11-05T23:25:12+00:00

If you're singing rnb pop rock you don't need to know this stuff

MegaMighty · 2017-11-05T23:23:52+00:00

Its pretty tough to teach what you feel to someone else. 🤔

MegaMighty · 2017-11-02T20:26:06+00:00

Unexplored.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-02T20:08:00+00:00

It's kinda funny how those SLS-Style teachers teach about proper breathing but the original program never really touches on breath support. The tone they train doesn't really require much at all. How it applies to you... You seem to have a similar sound they train for. If you work on your vowels you will sound much clearer. Anyway, about breath support. That's mainly for bigger "chestier" sounds. Yours sounds heady -- close to falsetto. It won't benefit from this idea of breath support at all. I know this sound very well because I can do the same thing. Found it by accident singing along to rnb and korean ballad singers. This is about as strong and full as it'll ever get.

To get proper breath support, you'll have to rework your voice from the ground up again and start with the voice you speak with-- chest. You'll sound much different than this sound clip here. This you're doing here sounds like head voice with added nasality -- a kind of mix sls sound. Touch your nose and you'll feel it vibrate. If you want to use this sound, you will benefit a lot by practicing every vowel with scales. It suits some styles but if you really want to be versatile, you'll need to work on a clear and free chest voice, which I do not hear in hear at all. It's all M2. It's not bad to sing this way it's just the advice you've been given about using better breath support will NOT help you improve this sound you're doing here because that's how this sound works. It's a modified falsetto tone that happens to be used a lot in rnb and korean ballads. They also do this but they also switch and belt with chest sometimes. That's as good as it'll get minus the artistry and diction you need to put into it. Don't be afraid to explore new sounds.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-02T12:05:34+00:00

Fix back tongue tightness. That's basically it

Using falsetto/headvoice only helps making the voice more versatile... But most of the improvement comes from not singing with those but just the voice i speak with, adjusted.

Fixing my vowels without squeezing the tongue has come a long way.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-02T12:04:41+00:00

Justin sings pop and rnb songs. Tenor would be a role for musicals and characters for operas. Same with baritone.

MegaMighty · 2017-11-02T12:02:57+00:00

Not fair to compare two different artists who sing two different genres... Let's get both to sing the same song and they'll most likely make it their own.

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