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What does it feel like to sing in mix and head voice?

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    What does it feel like to sing in mix and
    head voice?
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    This week I received this question during
    my weekly Tuesday Power to Sing Live broadcast:
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    “Is there a certain feeling in the vibrations
    in mix and head voice that I will feel, to
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    know if I am singing in those styles?”
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    Inside this video I’ll give you 3 ways to
    identify the feeling of singing with a mix
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    and head voice to help you recognize when
    you are doing it right!
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    Also I’ll give you 3 ways to recognize when
    it can not be mix or head voice.
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    Hi I’m Chuck Gilmore with Power To Sing.
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    This was a question I had for several years,
    even though I was sing in mix and head voice.
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    But I couldn’t really tell if I was doing
    it or not.
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    Here are 3 ways to know when you are not in
    head voice and mix.
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    First, location.
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    While mix can be throughout your entire range,
    (that’s an advanced subject to discuss another
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    day) you can easily identify the specific
    range that must be mix and head voice for
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    men and women.
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    For men, Mix is on the E (just above middle
    C),F,F#4.
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    Head voice is on the G4 and above.
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    For women, Mix is on the A (just above middle
    C), Bb,B,C5, C#5.
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    This Mix continues until F#5.
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    Head voice is on the G5 and above.
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    If you’re below the E4 for men or A4 for
    women, you’re probably in chest voice.
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    Second, if while singing in these mix or head
    voice pitch ranges, your voice breaks into
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    falsetto, you’re not in a mix, you’re
    in falsetto.
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    Third, if you are singing with very slightly
    adducted vocal cords so there’s a lot of
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    air escaping, or if you are pulling the chest
    voice high into the mix pitch ranges discussed
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    above, you’re not in mix.
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    You are in a light chest voice or a pulled
    up chest voice.
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    Also, if you are on these pitches and the
    vowel widens and splats, you fall out of mix
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    and into chest voice.
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    What does it feel like to sing in mix and
    head voice?
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    First, let’s identify the feeling of mix.
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    Do this exercise: [Demo Oct up sustain with
    word change New-No]
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    You must keep the more open vowel in “No”
    feeling like the more narrow vowel in “New”.
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    [Demo]
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    As you do this, get louder as you hold the
    “No”.
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    [Demo]
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    But don’t open the “No” wider than the
    “new” and/or let it drop into your mouth
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    and become chest voice.
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    [Demo]
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    Men
    sing it on the F4.
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    [Demo] That’s Mix.
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    Now sing it on the G4.
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    [Demo] That’s your head voice.
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    Women sing it on the B4.
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    That’s Mix.
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    Now sing it on
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    the E5.
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    While not 100% head voice, it’s close enough
    to feel like head voice.
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    What does it feel like to you to keep the
    “No” in the “New” place?
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    That’s the feeling of mix and head voice.
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    My descriptions have changed through the years.
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    Now it feels like I’m singing on overlapping
    resonances of chest and head.
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    And when I press or lean into it, it feels
    like I’m pressing into tone rather than
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    grabbing vocal cord.
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    It’s a very individual feeling that mainly
    YOU identify with.
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    Everyone feels and describes it differently.
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    Second, do exactly the same thing you just
    did, only on the words, “Goo-Go”.
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    [Demo]
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    What does that feel like to you?
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    Can you describe it?
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    Third, On the same pitches above sing this:
    [Demo Oct up with oo-oh-ah vowel change and
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    sustain] Keep the “Oh” and “ah” in
    the narrow place the “oo” established
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    first.
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    [Don’t open them beyond the more narrow
    “oo”.
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    [Demo]
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    What does it feel like to you?
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    Can you describe it?
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    I have a student who calls maintaining this
    feeling in a phrase during a song, “staying
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    in the pocket”.
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    I can identify with that.
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    To me it’s like [B-Roll ... take my arms
    that I might reach you, but my words, like
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    silent raindrops fell...]
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    If I fall out of the “Mix Pocket” if would
    sound like this: [.. take my arms that I might
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    reach you].
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    This is a process that evolves over time.
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    When you begin to identify the awareness and
    feeling of mix, then you can better monitor
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    yourself and progress faster.
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    friend.
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    How do you describe the feeling of mix in
    your voice?
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    Or are you still developing your mix and head
    voice.
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    Let me know in the comments section below.
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    A great way to learn to sing with a mix voice
    is to discover your vocal type and then do
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    exercises designed to get you into a mix voice.
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    Do you know your vocal type?
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    Your vocal type is what you tend to do when
    you sing through the first bridge and into
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    your head voice.
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    Visit PowertoSing.com and take the vocal test,
    which I call the Power Test.
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    Take the quiz and discover your vocal type.
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    Then visit the Knowledge Center and watch
    the videos about your vocal type.
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    Download the free exercises for your vocal
    type and start working on them immediately.
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    You’ll progress rapidly toward developing
    a mix voice.
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    I’m Chuck Gilmore with Power To Sing.
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    You can sing higher with beauty, confidence
    and power.
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    I’ll see you inside the next video.
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