how to strengthen your head voice — Transcript

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1. 0:00all right so you want to improve your
2. 0:01head voice my name is Adam Michonne I'm
3. 0:03a singer songwriter and vocal coach
4. 0:05today we're gonna dig right into that so
5. 0:15before we go into a lot of detail about
6. 0:17how to improve and how to strengthen our
7. 0:19head voice we really need to understand
8. 0:21what is head voice head voice is two
9. 0:25things that are occurring at the same
10. 0:26time one is that at the vocal chord
11. 0:29level we switch musculature from what we
12. 0:31call T a dominant vocal production to C
13. 0:35T dominant vocal production probably
14. 0:37losing you right now as far as the
15. 0:39terminology so let me clarify that
16. 0:41there's one set of muscles we call
17. 0:43whatever but they're called ta muscles
18. 0:46that are responsible for the creation of
19. 0:48Ches voice and then there are other
20. 0:50muscles that are responsible for head
21. 0:52voice so that's it's that simple it's
22. 0:55not don't get afraid of all the
23. 0:57terminology really we're just talking
24. 0:59about two different muscle groups that
25. 1:00are responsible for two different
26. 1:02resonances I've already hinted to the
27. 1:04second part of this puzzle which is our
28. 1:07vibration so once it's actually created
29. 1:10at the vocal chords it begins to vibrate
30. 1:13elsewhere in the body
31. 1:14this also separates chest voice from
32. 1:17head voice chest voice it's resonating
33. 1:19or vibrating out of the mouth head voice
34. 1:23it's coming up into the head and it's
35. 1:25vibrating up there so we have two things
36. 1:27happening with head voice we need to
37. 1:30have the CT muscles working and we need
38. 1:33to be using head resonance in order to
39. 1:36hit that those notes so to simplify it
40. 1:38even more chest voice ah head voice OH
41. 1:42chest voice ah head voice so when we're
42. 1:47going into our head voice we need to
43. 1:50make sure that we let go of any TA
44. 1:53dominance so what we don't want to have
45. 1:55is and trying to like pull that chest
46. 2:00voice up into our head voice range
47. 2:02realizing there is a difference allowing
48. 2:05us to go into head voice without any
49. 2:08push or any force now what makes things
50. 2:11even a little bit more
51. 2:12complex is that within head voice we
52. 2:14have two different types of head voice
53. 2:16we have one type of head voice that
54. 2:18involves mostly just the ligament of the
55. 2:21vocal cord and a longer opening time of
56. 2:24the vocal cords in each vibration which
57. 2:27is called falsetto so it sounds airier
58. 2:29there's a rush of air coming through
59. 2:32haha
60. 2:34that's your falsetto and then we also
61. 2:36have head voice
62. 2:40which has a closed court position which
63. 2:43means essentially that the vocal cords
64. 2:45they closed longer with each vibration
65. 2:47as well as the full muscle of the vocal
66. 2:51cord starts getting involved so it's a
67. 2:53different type of process within head
68. 2:55voice so what we're gonna first focus on
69. 2:58is falsetto because if you're not able
70. 3:00and some of you may be able to do this
71. 3:03very easily but for those of you are not
72. 3:05able to do this you can't jump straight
73. 3:07to pure head voice if you don't already
74. 3:09have falsetto in the bag just being able
75. 3:12to do it nice and easy so what we're
76. 3:14gonna start off with is a very light
77. 3:16easy
78. 3:17falsetto exercise that starts way up in
79. 3:20your head and we start to slowly trickle
80. 3:22down into your chest voice so follow
81. 3:24with me a certain point you're gonna
82. 3:47notice that your voice wants to go into
83. 3:49chest try to bring your falsetto as low
84. 3:51as you can
85. 4:07now we're gonna slide down from there
86. 4:12till we land in our chests what this
87. 4:15does is it slowly starts to open up your
88. 4:17falsetto now we're gonna do it in the
89. 4:19opposite way so we're gonna go going
90. 4:26upwards Oh making sure you get a nice H
91. 4:31in between each one of those and so this
92. 4:33is going to train your falsetto now what
93. 4:36many of you might be doing right now is
94. 4:37this uh-huh and pushing and forcing I
95. 4:44want you to think of totally letting go
96. 4:46of all the muscles here if you're
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112. 5:18first thing to check in on is this
113. 5:20muscle right here this is called the
114. 5:22digastric muscle is that muscle jumping
115. 5:24in so stick your thumb under there give
116. 5:27it a good stick like shove it in there
117. 5:29feel that muscle and then do that is
118. 5:33that muscle pressing down and flexing as
119. 5:36you're doing it we want to try to bring
120. 5:37our conscious effort to relax that
121. 5:39muscle second thing is your jaw opening
122. 5:42properly so are you going and holding
123. 5:47the jaw tight we want to open the jaw
124. 5:49there's another trick see this little
125. 5:51part of my ear right here I want you to
126. 5:53stick your finger right in front of that
127. 5:54and I want you to feel when I open your
128. 5:56jaw you get an indent put your finger
129. 5:58right into that indent and make sure
130. 6:00that that opens all the way till your
131. 6:03finger falls into that indent every time
132. 6:05you're doing this so I want you to make
133. 6:09sure you're opening your job properly I
134. 6:11want you to make sure you're not
135. 6:13engaging here so we want to try to make
136. 6:15it totally released all these muscles
137. 6:17are led and go that's the key here to be
138. 6:20able to find falsetto with a lot of ease
139. 6:25good like that
140. 6:32to want to make sure that we're getting
141. 6:34that flow now what we're gonna do is
142. 6:36we're gonna change it into a straight
143. 6:38tone in falsetto Oh making sure you're
144. 6:43keeping that air flowing when I do it I
145. 6:45start with an H and I let that H guide
146. 6:47the whole scale
147. 6:51you're gonna find so much release if you
148. 6:53allow that airflow to guide the sound
149. 6:55you really want to think of writing the
150. 6:57tone on top of a bed of air and so what
151. 7:03we're gonna do now that we've got our
152. 7:05falsetto is we want to start to apply
153. 7:08that to a little bit of head voice so
154. 7:10what we're gonna do is lean into the
155. 7:12falsetto a little bit till we find just
156. 7:14a little bit of connection where our
157. 7:16vocal chords start to come together and
158. 7:17we get more of a full voice type sound
159. 7:19so we're gonna go see if you can do that
160. 7:28there's gonna be a little bit of a shift
161. 7:30where your vocal cords go from that
162. 7:32mostly open quotient to mostly closed
163. 7:35but we want to try to make that as light
164. 7:38and easy as possible now let's do it
165. 7:39here we don't want to balloon too much
166. 7:45into it because again we're trying to
167. 7:46keep it in head voice to keep it nice
168. 7:48and heady so now what we're gonna do is
169. 7:50actually change the vowel around so that
170. 7:52we draw ourselves more towards head
171. 7:54voice by and large the rule is wider
172. 7:57vowels bring us more towards chest voice
173. 7:59narrower vowels bring us more towards
174. 8:01head voice so what we're gonna do is
175. 8:03we're going to use an O sound which is
176. 8:05the narrowest vowel and that's gonna
177. 8:07bring us more towards our head voice so
178. 8:10what we're gonna do is and that way
179. 8:14we're leaning into it from that falsetto
180. 8:16place first and so we're doing a little
181. 8:22bit of an engagement thinking what I'm
182. 8:25doing to be able to get there of that
183. 8:27head voice is I'm leaning it with my
184. 8:28lower abs so I get my lower abs ooh
185. 8:31to get involved to be able to do it so
186. 8:33if I go from
187. 8:34basically no AB involvement to now my
188. 8:39abs are getting much more involved to be
189. 8:41able to project that sound out a little
190. 8:43bit more get the vocal cords to close
191. 8:44around that airflow that's being sent
192. 8:46out that's what we want to do alright so
193. 8:48step number three what we're gonna do is
194. 8:50we're gonna try to jump straight into
195. 8:51our head voice sound we're gonna go from
196. 8:54the top of our range down and try to
197. 8:57bring that head voice further down into
198. 8:59our bottom of our range so we're gonna
199. 9:01go like this
200. 9:09now what I don't want you to do is
201. 9:11suddenly shift into chess so we don't
202. 9:14want to go oh we don't want that sudden
203. 9:19shift to happen I know many of you are
204. 9:21gonna want to do that try to bring that
205. 9:22head voice down as low as you can and
206. 9:24try to eventually merge with chess not
207. 9:28jump into chess
208. 9:34[Music]
209. 9:38the way that we do this is by lightening
210. 9:40up the chest voice making nice light and
211. 9:42soft on the chest voice so then that way
212. 9:44we're able to merge that head voice with
213. 9:46our chest voice if you follow this
214. 9:48three-step routine on a regular basis
215. 9:51every single day you're bound to
216. 9:52definitely improve and strengthen your
217. 9:55head voice over time so try these
218. 9:57exercises work through them if you have
219. 9:59any questions please leave a comment
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