From the course: Singing Lessons: 1 Fundamentals

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Fundamentals: Part 2

Fundamentals: Part 2

- The other thing that we're going to play with, very lightly, it's not something that I want you really thinking about a whole lot right now, but we're going to talk a little bit about register. And I want to acknowledge that it's something that most singers think a lot about. And we're kind of conditioned to respond, you know, American Idol moments, and The Voice, we're kind of conditioned as listeners to get excited about someone who can belt really high and sing those high, powerful notes. That's the practice of bringing what we call your chest voice or your speaking modal register, like the register around where I'm speaking right now, which is around my speaking voice. ♫ And I can put pitches to it, and I can sing it like this, ♫ And it's in my modal or my chest voice. ♫ And I can sing even a little higher ♫ And make it really powerful And so I've really stretched my ability to sing in my chest voice or my speaking register, but really high and with a lot of power. And it's kind…

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