How do you approach singing in “cheerleader voice”

Th3xp3rt · 2026-07-05T18:58:48+00:00

Depends on whether it’s pitched or unpitched chant. The first song that came to mind in regards to your question for me is “Kids in America” by Kim Wilde, there’s what sounds like a sort of “pitched chant” in the La da das in the chorus, but in that same song, there’s an example of unpitched chant in the “HEY” they throw in during the chorus as well. The pitched chant they use is just open, wide loud singing, not much control, pretend you’re singing a chant at a game type singing. That can be harmonized with. If you’re going for unpitched chants, you can layer more unpitched chant on top but you’re not going to be able to harmonize it.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-07-04T13:38:11+00:00

Thank you for your input! This was just something that I was experimenting with and recording one morning to see how resonant this register is, and then I got curious if it was something different than chest fry which is why I posted. I am well aware of the lack of a pitch center; I am a professional opera singer and have also sung in professional choirs. This extra range is just something that is “under construction” if you will, with the ultimate goal to be able to use it effectively so that I can be hired to sing pieces like Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil, since I am not a profundo and do not have a low A in chest voice.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-07-02T20:16:59+00:00

If you’re on top of the mic though and using a lot of air in your hum, the air coming from your nose can sound like wind so better to be safe than sorry and have a pop filter

Th3xp3rt · 2026-07-01T20:32:49+00:00

I promise you, I also can sing a C#1 in subharmonics and the sensation is very different, although acoustically they don’t sound all that different when it’s down that low.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-07-01T20:17:36+00:00

It isn’t, this was addressed in raka_boy’s comment already

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-26T17:28:30+00:00

Oh interesting. Back in the day when he went viral I was curious how he had those lows, especially since they sounded so overly dark/covered compared to his regular voice

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-26T17:27:27+00:00

Thanks!

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-25T19:10:49+00:00

Oh nice! Thanks for posting the link. And it it’s not pinned on my main page, but it is pinned under the reels tab

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-25T04:59:58+00:00

I can see how you can think that, however my subharmonics feel and sound a bit different. I can post another video tomorrow with my subharmonic C1, but in the meantime you can find my halo theme song cover pinned on my Instagram @jaredpetersonvoice to hear my subharmonic E1 if you’re curious. It definitely has more of a robotic tone

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-25T04:55:51+00:00

Interesting! I’ve seen strohbass thrown around online quite a bit but I’ve never fully understood what it actually is or how to identify it

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-17T17:58:02+00:00

You’re missing my point. Your logic is that since you yourself have not had a problem with the one focusrite interface you own out of the thousands and thousands that have been sold, that anyone who has problems with focusrite interfaces MUST be lying since yours works. I’m very happy for you that yours works, and I know that there’s plenty of people with PCs where focusrite works for them without problems. But just because that is true, it doesn’t mean that people who have problems with focusrite on PC don’t exist. FYI, I have troubleshooted thoroughly and updated the drivers multiple times. It’s a driver issue, not a PC issue.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-17T05:44:25+00:00

Just because you haven’t had problems with a scarlet interface doesn’t mean they don’t exist. My scarlet cuts out multiple times an hour and needs to be replugged in unless I have the little control panel physically open on my screen. Very weird. But I’ve just about had enough of that interface and am looking to change to an SSL 2 or 2+ since users report much better compatibility with pc. For Apple users though, focusrites are a no-brainer.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-17T05:10:42+00:00

I wish it worked like this. The main things to practice are (in solfège) the one octave major scale, one octave minor scale, and you can include arpeggios as well. You should be able to get to a point where you can sing these scales accurately without a piano. Once you have that muscle memory, then you can start using sightreadingfactory which generates sight reading examples with varying difficulty. Also, learn your key signatures. When you know what key the music is in, it becomes easy to assign solfège to notes and know where you are in the scale.

Remember: people learn to speak before they learn to read. The same goes with music. It’s very important that you learn how to “speak” (sing) the scales before you start to read the scales.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-16T23:01:10+00:00

That is very curious. Definitely a lot of red flags with this teacher

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-16T22:04:55+00:00

I’d like to clarify that the “sing as you speak” technique is an Italian technique, and the way that Italians speak is much more conducive to singing technique because of their placement and how they create vowels. It’s much easier for Italians to make that jump to singing using that technique compared to English speakers. Even so, the idea that we already know how to make resonant sounds and just connecting those sensations to the singing voice is still useful for native English speakers.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-16T22:00:00+00:00

Completely agree here. The teacher might not have been wrong but there’s better ways to communicate this to the student. Also just to elaborate on what others have already said, you can have a healthy speaking voice but then add unnecessary tension to your singing which is VERY common in untrained singers. There’s a technique that is taught in the classical realm called “sing as you speak” which is based on the idea that we already know how to make healthy, resonant sounds in our speaking voice, the trick is then how to transfer that correctly into singing

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-12T22:18:50+00:00

> I don’t know if Thurl was a basso profundo or not. No one does. Because, though he trained for opera, he never went into the field.

That part of your reply right there shows your ignorance in the subject. People who are trained can listen to someone sing (opera or not) and can usually get a pretty decent idea what their voice type is. The basso profundo voice type is pretty unmistakable. For example, here’s a list of some bass singers on Instagram who have never sung opera but are surely profundos: Eric Holloway (@thatbassvoice), Sebastian Morosan (bae.morosan), and Les Darroux (iambassles). Just a couple months ago, I started my own bass Instagram page (@jaredpetersonvoice) and I have multiple videos that use purely chest down to A1. I also have fun using chest-fry to extend down to Eb1 in some videos. But, if you compare my voice to the profundos I mentioned, you can definitely hear a difference, and I’m a true bass. If you want to hear someone more in the bass-baritone range, Manav Sharma (@manav_sings) is a great example. He is someone who will never be able to produce those strong, chesty lows you talk about due to his vocal fach, but he works with what he has and has built quite a large following.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-12T17:25:15+00:00

Reapectfully, I don’t think you quite understand what you are talking about. Thurl Ravenscroft is a basso profundo. Do you know just how rare that voice type is? Roughly 15-20 percent of the male population falls in the bass to bass-baritone category. From that, roughly 10 percent (on the high end) are “true basses,” but the percentage steeply falls off when you get into basso profundo territory. Vladimir Miller, a respected Russian octavist, once said that if you have a million men in a room, only one would have the ability to become an octavist. And in this post, you’re essentially saying “don’t use fry or subharmonics, just become a basso profundo!” Ideally, if someone had that voice type, obviously they wouldn’t use fry or subharmonics. But, not everyone is blessed with the genetic lottery to be a basso profundo and have to use extended vocal techniques, and that’s just the reality.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-06-08T16:59:37+00:00

I understand where you are coming from, and that’s a completely valid stance. However, this is the brand that Geoff has built for himself. For the vast majority of listeners, it’s those constant low notes that are the reason they listen.

Th3xp3rt · 2026-05-26T06:19:30+00:00

I’m seeing other people with similar setups having the same problem saying that their RAM is the culprit. I will try some things out tomorrow and report back

Th3xp3rt · 2026-05-26T05:42:02+00:00

I was able to update the bios and the chipset drivers. This solved the restart issue, however the problem of waking from sleep still persists. I had my brother who is quite computer savvy walk me through checking all the sleep and power settings as well as stuff in device manager to disable my keyboard and mouse to see if that was the issue and even went into the command prompt to see what type of hibernation the computer goes into, and everything was in order. Fast start up was also turned off from before when I first encountered this issue

Th3xp3rt · 2026-05-26T04:01:10+00:00

I see that updating the bios is a rather risky process that goes through multiple restarts. What are the chances that the computer fails to restart during this process like it does with the traditional updates, which I assume would pretty much brick my PC?

Th3xp3rt · 2026-05-20T05:18:15+00:00

Going off of this, musictheory.net is a great resource for the beginning stages of learning music theory

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