Chuck
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Hi Brayden: How old are you? If your larynx is high, you may be able to pick up a few notes if you get the larynx to come down. But this largely is a matter of genetics. Your lower range puts you into baritone/tenor range. Which is a great place to be also. This video may help too: https://www.powertosing.com/how-to-sing-low-notes-four-reasons-you-struggle-and-how-to-improve/
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How To Sing Low Notes - Four Reasons you Struggle and How to Improve - Power To Sing
Do you have trouble singing low notes? In this video I’ll reveal important tips that will tell you how to sing low notes with ease and confidence.
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Hi Joseph, not really. If I do the exercises wrong, I won’t get the results I seek in my own voice. Personally, I’ve resorted to taking some voice lessons to see if I’m doing it wrong or right. I remember after about 2 years of listening to Seth’s tape cassettes I took a lesson from one of his master teachers. One of the first questions I had was, “is that falsetto or head voice”. After all that time, I still couldn’t tell. The answer was head voice, which is what I thought…just wasn’t sure.
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Hi Kanye. let me know how the Fast Track course and exercises for pulled chest high larynx work for you.
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Hi Tom. Even though I’m a Basso Cantante and bridge at the A3, I didn’t discover that until I’d been singing for 17 years. Also, I can vocalize up to F5 and I have sung a C5 in a song…(passing note). At this point in your development, it is too early in my opinion to know for sure about your voice. Your goals are awesome and you I believe you can achieve them. If you are wanting to progress as quickly as possible private lessons will be much faster than self study.
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@William Daniel
Hi William. You can take any of the exercises and use them as a substitute for the words in the song. Suppose your voice was cracking in an area of the song. Instead of singing the words, sing the exaggerated Ney instead…doing it exaggerated enough so it doesn’t crack.
Do this until your voice is not cracking. Or try a dopy gee instead of the words. Or “No”‘s or Mum’s. Once you are able to do it with the exercise, put the words back in and see if it will hold.
This is a very effective way to apply the exercises to the songs to improve they way you are singing.
Hope this helps,
Chuck
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@James Eaton Here’s the answer…which may not be very satisfactory, but he is in light chest voice in both his songs. You can tell he is in chest when he gets louder and it starts to pull a little bit. He’s a very gifted singer with a very high range.
In the first video the notes he is singing at the beginning are all pitched in the chest range…and he sings them in light chest or soft chest voice.
The first video at 0:58 seconds he pulls chest. If he were singing in mix….he wouldn’t do that.
The second video he sings the F4 in a lighter chest voice…and because he has such a high voice, it sounds pretty good. At 2:55 (I think it’s on the word “ocean”) in the second video you can hear him pull chest. This is how I know, he’s not in mix….just light chest voice. As soon as he sings harder or louder…it’s easier to hear it’s chest.
I’m not saying he’s a bad singer. On the contrary in the words of Seth Riggs, he is so good he can abuse and sound good. Mainly because he has such a high tenor voice he can pull chest up higher and it’s harder to recognize until he sings louder.
I suggest in the lower notes you can do the same. If you are below the first bridge, sing it in light chest voice. It will give you more “presence” with no adverse consequences. On the notes in and above the bridge, you can mix.
Hope this helps.
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@Stu Thaler Thanks for the question. I can say that it was my nemesis for many years and I didn’t realize it until I stopped squeezing during a lesson and my vocal cords responded favorably that I could feel the difference. That didn’t mean I didn’t sing until then. I did. In many shows. But I definitely got better once I realized what I was doing and started focusing on a better coordination while singing.
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@angela-delaney OK Thanks Angela. I was hoping that was the case and that we didn’t delete your entries. Thanks!
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@angela-delaney Hi Angela:This is so great you have kept track of your practices. Congratulations on your progress. I have a question for you. I changed the hosting of my Singers Impact site, and I wondered if you are missing any practice logs? Or is this the last one you entered? We migrated the site around the 20th of August.
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Hi Adam: Bass, Baritone, Tenor etc, is more complicated than just how high or low can you sing. It also has to do with where you bridge, the timbre of your voice, the area in your voice where it tends to thrive and all of these things unfold over time. And much of this changes when you learn how to get into your head voice.
A simple starting point to give you general guidance is your lower ranges. If you can comfortably sing as low as E2, you are likely a bass.
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Hi Jim: Thanks for your comment (and email). As you can see, I was able to make the name adjustment.
Leaning or pressing down into your voice will continue to get easier and the voice will get stronger. But there is a caveat. If the vowel in your word begins to spread open, it will begin to pull chest voice. This is where a slight narrowing of the vowel will save you. Narrowing the vowel will allow you to lean more firmly into the voice and stay in mix or head voice. When that happens you can sing as loud or soft as you want and you will stay in the right coordination of mix or head voice.
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@stu-thaler Hi Stu: I like this idea. There are so many exercises to consider in a project like that. Any ideas on what might be the top 10 or top 20 that would be the most helpful?
