Understanding how your vocal range works—and how to transition smoothly between registers—is a key part of developing flexibility and control.
This section covers topics like head voice vs. chest voice, mixed coordination, range extension, and the science behind register shifts.
Whether you’re looking to sing higher, blend more evenly, or reduce breaks, these articles give you the tools to unlock your full vocal potential.
To sing well, we must learn to move from chest voice into head voice. We need to be able to dance back and forth without difficulty – this requires cultivation of different bridging strategies. To be even more precise, we must learn to transition across multiple passagio/bridges, and to tonally match the bottom to the […]
Something that comes up time and time again with voice training is “when will my vocal tone be thicker?” or “deeper?” or “fuller?” or “more powerful?”, “how do I get better vocal tone?” or words to that effect. Well, there’s no easy answer to that. There’s so many factors that go into development of tone,
One of the most common questions I get asked regarding voice training is “how long does it take?” Now generally what people THINK they mean is “how long does it take to train a voice/learn to sing“, but often what is really going on, is that a given singer has the beginnings of their sound
Here’s a slightly controversial blog post, and one where I’ll be honest about things I used to think that now I don’t… which means… *gasp* I got stuff wrong! None of these are straight-forward, so do read the explanation of each to understand the principles I’m talking about. 1. You don’t have to have a
One of the things I’m asked a lot is how mix voice works, and what mix voice exercises people can do to improve their voice. It’s hard to describe, it’s far easier to demonstrate… but while demonstration makes people go ‘ahh, that’s how it sounds’, it doesn’t go quite far enough to explaining what they
Things like ‘I can’t increase vocal range’ are just not true… To increase vocal range, you just need the right tools, it’s not something you’re stuck with. While we’re on this topic, let me tell you about some other misconceptions… Here’s another short and sweet post on some interesting points. This one is focusing on five
