Hey friends, welcome back to The Singing Studio. I’m really excited about today’s video because we are going to be talking about different voice styles. So you’re probably wondering what does that mean – voice styles? I thought I just had one voice. Yes, our voice is capable of many different styles of singing. So today we are going to break down the voice and hear different examples of these different styles.
To begin, I just want to remind everyone the importance of not copying your peers or people you hear on the radio. I just want to say that again because our voices are unique to us and if we’re trying to copy someone else we will run into a lot of vocal issues. We’ll run into vocal strain and fatigue and we don’t want that. We want to be able to focus on our voice and our breath support because our sound is beautiful and no singer sounds the same. Just remember that we can take different styles and different embellishments from other singers, but we should never ever try to copy their voice.
So the different voice types that we’re going to kind of talk about today are based on the different styles that we hear. Sometimes when we hear a pop song the artist is using a more contemporary style of singing and a more “pop” sound. Same with country – they’re using more of a country style voice. And then if you’re watching opera or a more classical, lyrical song they may use a little bit more of a classical sound to their voice. So I’m going to talk about today how we are able to access that part of our voice and how we are able to implement those same styles into our voice. Because believe it or not, yes we just have one voice, but our voice can do multiple things. Our voice has a lot of layers to it and if we just learn about these different parts of our voice then we will be able to pull it out of our pocket and be like, “Yeah I can sing that in a classical way” or “Oh I can sing that in a contemporary way.” So I’m really excited and we’re going to jump right in.
To begin, I’m going to review two concepts which we’ve already talked about and that is our chest voice and our head voice. That part of our voice is connected by a bridge. So our lower registers are chest voice and our upper register is our head voice. If you remember, we have worked on certain exercises to strengthen both our head voice and our chest voice and also the bridge in between. It is so important that we are trying our best to smooth out that bridge so that we can have an even and connected voice. Chest voice – lower register. Head voice – upper register. Here is an example of chest voice. Twinkle twinkle little star. Here is an example of head voice. Twinkle twinkle little star.
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