From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
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Singing in a high register: The stratosphere
From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
Singing in a high register: The stratosphere
- Now we're headed to the stratosphere and I'm talking about that part of our modal register that is just above our chest voice, that's the head voice, what we typically refer to as the head voice. It's part of our register of our normal speaking voice, but in the higher realm and we're going to do a little work in our falsetto which is the next register above that. That's where the vocal chords are, they're not behaving like they do in modal voice, and head voice. In head voice the entire vocal fold, the entire vocal chord is vibrating, but in falsetto which is higher even, a higher register than modal head voice, in falsetto if you remember only the very outer layer, the very edge of our vocal folds, that ligamentous edge, that top outer layer, is the only part of the vocal fold that actually vibrates when you're doing a falsetto voice. It's harder to distinguish between a woman's head voice and her falsetto. It's much more pronounced when a male voice goes from chest or head into…
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