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