From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
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Working in modal: Part 1
From the course: Singing Lessons: 3 Essential Techniques
Working in modal: Part 1
- Let's do some work in the register in which we live. We occupy most of our time, we are occupied in our modal voice. That's the register of our voice that's closest to our speaking voice, our speaking register. And, as singers, we use that register all the time to sing. We also change our resonance, depending on where we are in our register. As we move higher, into higher registers, we have to change our resonance in order to accomplish higher notes in that register. And we can hear the change in tone as we change and adjust our resonance to get up into what we call head voice. The vocal folds are behaving, essentially, the same; they're doing the same basic action. What we're doing as we move from chest to head voice is actually changing in very subtle, sometimes dramatic, ways the resonance of the sound that we're producing. So, one thing that a lot of singers are concerned about when they are working in their chest and head voice is trying to make that transition smooth and not…
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