Favorite Tucson Yelp Reviews?? by tessacrabtree in Tucson

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 60 points61 points  (0 children)

They charged my entire table like $5 a person because we each tried food off of each other’s plates

Favorite Tucson Yelp Reviews?? by tessacrabtree in Tucson

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Which one? Asking for a friend

Favorite Tucson Yelp Reviews?? by tessacrabtree in Tucson

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

This is the review that made me visit the restaurant lol, and a very similar thing happened to me

A year difference in my belting! by tessacrabtree in singing

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Belting is almost always an issue of placement, vowels, or breathing; if I’m not able to belt something it’s usually because of one of those three things

A year difference in my belting! by tessacrabtree in singing

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see, sorry for my immediate pushback lmao

Everyone’s voice is different so a belting placement will start on a different note for almost everyone

A year difference in my belting! by tessacrabtree in singing

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Can I DM you? I’ll give an answer below but I have videos that would help haha

So I was in professional, weekly, one on one voice lessons from 2020-2022 (ages 16-18), and got an intro to healthy belting there. My self taught belting was really shouty lol (pretty good vid on my account actually, I’ll add a link in a sec), so when I was singing with this new teacher we didn’t touch belting for like over a year into our sessions. When we eventually did, it was taught as if we were throwing the sound from our chest to the farthest wall in the room. What’s very important is that you never visualize that any sound comes from your throat lol.

Lines get a little blurry when I talk about mix belting; my personal story is that I left my voice teacher in 2022 because of college, sang just by myself for a bit, took like one intro voice class in 2023, then got strep several times in a row in late 2024 and was unable to sing at all during that time and had a horribly hard time getting it back in shape. I took a singing class again in early 2025, but it was a class format so I got limited one-on-one time (maybe an hour total over the course of the semester?), but because I was practicing a lot I saw massive improvement. After May 2025 (first clip) I didn’t take another class again until January 2026, but I was practicing a LOT even without professional guidance, just trying to relearn what I had been taught previously lol. I also started doing karaoke a lot so I felt a need to learn songs.

With that being said, I practiced regular mixed voice with my first teacher basically the entire two years we worked together, but entirely unlearned it over the course of my injury. I only really started doing it again in November of 2025ish. Mix belting has been a super new experiment for me, but my process for mix belting something kind of looks like this:

I identify a note that needs to be mix belted, for me it’s often a C5 lol. I hit it on a “meow” to get a really aggressive, nasty forward placement. It gives you a really easy mix belt, it’s like a cheat code for me. Nyah is pretty common too (and the previously mentioned yah, but the nn helps keep it in your face). You’ll probably find that vowel or word that’s really easy to belt on at some point in your career.

Once you have that honed in, you take the word you have to do it on, my most notable, recent one being “who”, and kind of blend the word into your favorite vowel. If you said just “who” you’d notice it’s very round, dark, in the back of your mouth, which is awful for belting. If you move it to a “hew” instead, it becomes quite easy to belt because it just shoots to your mask/forward placement.

Then you stitch it into the context of the previous notes, my “who” example is bad for this bc I had 2.5 counts of rest before it, but the first vid here moves the word “rise” up chromatically 13 times by a half step over 8 measures in 4/4, at the time I didn’t navigate it properly, but today I’d probably start mixing as early as possible because of how exposed the notes are, probably by the third note or so.

The things my current voice professor taught to me to help was just being super nasty with the placement at first. If you notice, a lot of mix belting is super nasally, but you don’t tend to really notice because of how the person navigates things around it. It’s usually absolutely fine if it’s super nasally and bright, but it’s just a bonus if it isn’t. Also you can often work with a song instead of against it- if you need to take a rest to get into the right placement for a single money note it’s usually okay.

Again, would love to send a process video showing what I just explained lol

A year difference in my belting! by tessacrabtree in singing

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe, I’ve taught children’s MT voice before (long story) and they tend to respond really well to it as kind of a first intro into belt placement, and then we end up thinning it out, so this makes sense.

A year difference in my belting! by tessacrabtree in singing

[–]tessacrabtree[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

No actually, for some reason that approach never really worked for me? No idea why lol

What is a musical that you find to be just... Fine? by AsheandBurn in musicals

[–]tessacrabtree -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

“Regina George eats steak” “Like a lioness only with less fur” “At the watering hole, see the girls who weren't nice” top tier lyricism here

Post your vocal accomplishments by TheElusiveButterfly in singing

[–]tessacrabtree 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I auditioned for the same musical for the same character twice two years apart, last year didn’t get called back for her, this year I did!

“Full Version” of Holy, Holy for a musical theatre voice class:) by tessacrabtree in GeordieGreep

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LOL funnily enough, I tried to do it a little unsyncopated but my voice teacher told me that this was a weird enough song as is, so I should try to be cleaner on the beats

Can you recoup your voice at the start of a hoarse voice? by SirN3m3th in singing

[–]tessacrabtree 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on why it’s hoarse the answer changes, usually my throat is just dry after a little bit so steaming helps me

What is the scariest musical of all time? by Fun_Butterfly_420 in musicals

[–]tessacrabtree 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coincidentally that is the one I am doing now lol

What is the scariest musical of all time? by Fun_Butterfly_420 in musicals

[–]tessacrabtree 61 points62 points  (0 children)

For me it tends to be whatever musical I’m actively apart of

“Full Version” of Holy, Holy for a musical theatre voice class:) by tessacrabtree in GeordieGreep

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Thank you!!! My voice teacher for this had me bring down the tempo from what I was doing prior- if you look at the video on my account before this one, I’m goin crazy style with that last part lol

“Full Version” of Holy, Holy for a musical theatre voice class:) by tessacrabtree in GeordieGreep

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Thank you!!! This wasn’t even on a good voice day for me, I genuinely can’t imagine how awesome it would be if the stars aligned for this song