what is mixed voice? how to use mix voice while singing? and how will i know if i'm using it?

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what is mixed voice? how to use mix voice while singing? and how will i know if i'm using it?

Answer 1

Mixed voice is one of the range, I supposed you would say, of singing. You have chest, mixed, and head voice. Chest is the lower part of your range, where it sounds deep and full. Mixed is the next step and is the medium area. When doing warm ups, you will notice that your voice "flips" around a note or two. Those two notes are usually difficult to sustain and you can hear a break or crack in your voice when going from one to another. This is the bottom part of your mixed voice. Your top part of mixed voice is where is transfers into head voice. Your head voice is the top part of your range, where you think it sounds really airy and light. Again, your voice has a "flip" around one or two notes. This is the border of where your mixed meets head.



Normally, you use your mixed voice automatically when singing in the specific range. You can bring it up, down, or exchange it with your other ranges, but you will naturally sing with your mixed voice in that range. It's a mix between head and chest and usually is harder to pull down into your lower range than to bring up into your higher range.



Ask your choir teacher or some one vocally trained about how to be able to tell exactly which voice you are using when.

Answer 2

Mixed Voice

Answer 3

Mixed voice is basically a mix of your chest voice and your head voice (not falsetto, although i think there is a technique called "reinforced falsetto" which sounds quite similar)



I'm not a professional, but I think Kitty and Monica were right about it being in the middle of your chest voice and head voice, just at your vocal break (where it cracks or flips). The vocal break varies in people's voices. For some it's A3, maybe C or C#4, maybe E or F or F#4, it's just not the same for everyone.



The mix can also be used as a healthier alternative to belting. Belting is mostly just shouting and pulling chest voice. With the mix, you can have the power and loudness of your chest voice but without the strain, and the ease and lightness of head voice.



You can't achieve that with falsetto. Falsetto has a very breathy sound because the vocal cords aren't coming together, which allows a very large amount of air flow through the cords and gives it that weak, breathy sound. But of course the falsetto is very good for effects and beautiful soft notes.



You need to be able to use your chest and head voice (once again, not falsetto) to use your mix.



There is a video that explains the difference between head voice and falsetto. If I'm remember correctly, it's called "Falsetto vs Head Voice Adduction" by RockTheStageNYC on YouTube.

There are exercises for strengthening the mix. Try lowering your soft palate and sing a note just above your "flip" or "crack" in your head voice very softly and increase volume slowly until you get a big and powerful sound, but without straining or forcing your vocal cords.

Or you can check out SingingSuccess.com or SingingSuccessOnline.com. They've recently released a new program called "Mastering Mix".

I don't have it yet, but I'm pretty sure it would be helpful.



I think there is also a mix of chest and falsetto just like Cockney_rebel79 said, but it sounds breathy and soft, unlike the mix of chest and head.



Check out Singing Success, Kevin Richards, Rob Lunte, and some other cool vocal coaches on YouTube.

Once again, I'm not a pro so my answer maybe isn't that precise, but you get the idea :)

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Mixed voice is a mixture of full chest voice and falsetto, and you'll know if yer usin' it 'cos some of the higher notes'll sound much more breathy than some of yer lower notes. With mixed voice, yer constantly jumpin' between full voice and falsetto. Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston use this technique A HELL OF A LOT! Hope that's helped, hon. Happy New Year. Peace and love! Be lucky! :)

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Here is what I found out what worse for me, I keep to the feeling in my throat when I sing "guh" and then I sing with a dopey sound. To your own ears you will barely hear some part of the notes (cause that is where you are connect your voices, I believe) as if they are barely there, but when you get on the mic or on recording, you will hear your miss and it will sound good. I would see singing sing like they are hiccuping in a way and wonder why. They are singing with a dopey sound to get more into their mix voice. I found mines from singing "motherless child" while singing with a dopey technique and whimper but also not pushing back air, but holding back breath like when you are swimming. I hope this helps.

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what is mixed voice? how to use mix voice while singing? and how will i know if i'm using it?

Answer 10

Mixed voice is specifically used when singing in a certain range - between your chest voice and (ack can't remember the exact name right now!) ..."soprano voice." To use it, start singing with your soft palate raised in a high range, then immediately singing an octave lower but without dropping your palate.