SS changed my life and gave me direction, amazing!

Singing isn't really easy as you think it is, it depends on the individual, Some people keep working on their voice Years and years to become Pro... While others can become Pro in just 1 or 2 years .. The most important thing is to think of yourself in the first category, not the second as i did, because if you do that, you'll push your vocal chords hard, and at a point you'll begin to notice that your voice is stuck and there is no progress.. SO, in brief, DON'T go higher than you can comfortably and freely ..

I totally agree that everyone feels like that with whatever passion they have. I see the same tendencies with athletes or actors where there's times when we question if it's worth it and if it's really what we want and need cause at times it can seem so difficult. Truly successful people never let setbacks divert their path and they fight and pass through the difficult times. Sometimes we need to try things different ways but we must never lose sight of our goals and dreams because that will just harbor regret and disappointment which is far worse than those rough patches.

I'm glad you found new focus again.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILKMAN!!!! Have a good one.

Thank you!

Have you tried the dog whimper sound?
It's like vocal fry in mix voice. If my voice is in normal shape, I can use that to find the mix everytime.

TeeHee, I get hung up in the exact same spot. It is not an issue of having poor cord closure on one note. That's like not even possible, as the thinning and the adjustments that you make as you go up are progressive, and we pick back up on the other side like it is no big whoop. Also, who can vocal fry that high? Edgy head voice or something with a cry, but fry? That is a register below chest voice, and you can carry that sound up into chest, but not usually once you cross into head voice.

This is going to sound crazy, but I had a big breakthrough recently with trying to sing breathy up high. It's compatible with the style of my band and so I got in the habit of singing everything with a lot more air. I was scared to do that at first, thought it might "undo" all the sharp closure I had worked up. But, guess what, it actually helped me to close on those stubborn notes. We shoot a blank there, or break there because we are trying to hard to squeeze the cords together in a place where the transition from singing in one coordination to singing in the next necessary coordination is very, very tricky. If you try to sing airy there, and don't worry so much about "closing on it," I think you will see that your cords just come together there with a good seal. And then you will get a feel for how delicately you have to play the A flat. I am pretty sure that with time, we will get a more and more robust closure there, once the finer points have been assimilated. As a matter of fact, my dexterity with trills and things in head voice is reaching that automatic, you don't have to try to do them, they just fly out of you stage. The whole thing started with a lighter touch and a breathy tone. Once I went back to square one and embraced my almost falsetto like head voice, it started to really behave and come into line. Doing otherwise is, without knowing you are doing it, is trying to be a singer you are not, or at least trying to approach singing in a way that's bound to fail for you.

Just my 2c. Try it: Breathier not sharper. Lighter, not squeezier. Just as an experiment.

Yeah, I was wrong, too.

Good luck, man!

Man I end up doing the same thing. It does get frustrating! Before SS I thought I was pretty good too! Ha. Good luck!

@renato well i have alot of chest actually, read my earlier question.
( http://www.singingsuccess.tv/forums/general-discussion/9151/ ) I need a chestier mix so how do i achieve that?

I still insist you have no chest when you blend registers. I recently answered somebody's question about how to get past second bridge. The concepts of a deep mix and going through second bridge are fairly connected. If you can really reach Eb6 its probably not in a chesty sound, and if you do it for sure, you can blend and then let go a part of resonance. But that's just an illustration when we talk about range, which is not our final purpose. The fact is, you lack that deepness, that blend between head and chest. Of course you do mix, and yes, you have chest voice... in the places where chest belong. I don't know if you can understand my point, but in short: If you had not been using so much head voice(less pressure) you would not reach such a high range. Simple? Not at all. Your range can show you two things: A) You are not prepared for using it at full B) Your full range isn't close to your dreamed texture (tone). Anyways... I am losing my point.


So, for your answer: how can you bring more chest to blend with head? Assuming that you have a smooth speaking voice, that your lower range is well balanced, how to transfer? I can't see anything else but a problem of pocket and cord closure. Maybe the only the later, because you cords can hold together until high pitches, but... in only one resonator (besides pharyngeal). Tongue Trills will always save the day.

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why not?

I think is not about low larynx, you are a bass or at least it seems to me... but i think you are using too much pressure, you are pulling your chest voice. Try to practice the vocal fry to know how to zip up your vocal cords. put it on your singing and exercises to reach a pure tone.And your vibrato is great.

OK, I think I've figured it out. Yes, I am a bass, but also a baritone and a tenor. Aren't tenors capable of hitting Bbs and Cs above middle C? Well I'm hitting Bb in "You Raise Me Up" and Cs in practice. The day I recorded the above song I was experiencing a lot of drainage in my throat as well, but convinced myself it wouldn't get any better. I was wrong. The more I practice this song the easier and freer it becomes.

So, just to prove my point, I will also in the near future hit the Db above high C in the C major version of Michael W. Smith's "Friends" as well. This song modulates to Db major at the end of the song.

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Well the voice is a muscle, so it would be as if you hadn't exercised in a year. You probably won't be able to stretch as far in your range for the first few weeks but you should get everything back fairly quickly. Depends on how often and how long you practice.

You may lose some of the high notes, but it will come back quickly with warming up again,, Once i stopped doing the exercises because of a matter of health.. when i came back to practicing a figured out some difficulties in the beginning, but through the days my voice came back even with greater power and i recovered my vocal range, also The techniques that i thought were hard to learn ...

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My state was incorrect. I mean that when you have a loosen jaw you may have little problem with pitches because of your loose jaw. That's because the sound is changed if you change the size and shape of the wave. It is a physics thing.