Question:
If I strengthen my now weak head voice will my chest voice improve?!?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
If I strengthen my now weak head voice will my chest voice improve?!?
Four answers:
anonymous
2016-12-20 19:38:00 UTC
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qrau
2015-05-19 05:24:17 UTC
No offense, but you guys have it all wrong- the chest voice is supposed to be stronger than the head voice. Not overly strong, and not higher than it was designed to go.



The reason is that when you develop your mix, you sing with the purity and lightness of head voice, mixed with the strength of your chest- and it creates one balanced instrument with the head a little louder because of the echoes bouncing around in your skull. If you try to artificially strengthen your head voice, your chest voice will be weakened, so when you go into your mix, it will sound weak and at a low volume until you get through your passagio, and then it will be LOUD AS HELL.



Similarly, if you make your chest voice too strong and too high, it will make your head voice weak when you sing in your mixed resonance register (mix voice).



I have personally tested this accidentally by trying to make my head voice strong It made my chest voice weaker, and now my mix does not sound as powerful, but my head voice by itself does! You want to have a balance, and that means strong but naturally limited chest voice range, and wimpy head voice. The two combined balance each other out and you get an amazingly loud singing voice in mix.
E. A. Weatherfield
2008-06-14 22:51:37 UTC
Yeah, that happened for me. Actually, for me it's kinda the opposite--I have a strong head voice and a weak chest voice. But basically it's the same--once you strengthen the one, the other usually gets at least marginally better.
jwils068
2008-06-15 00:35:44 UTC
Yea, I have always had a pretty strong chest voice. My head voice is decent. The one thing you want to be careful of though is not to try to push your chest voice past your break (it's the point in your range where you feel that "switch" from chest voice to head voice). You can work on improving the range of your chest voice to blend better with your head voice, but be sure not to push it too hard. Belting in the higher range can really damage your vocal chords if you don't have enough airflow. That's why many amazing belters lose their voice.


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