Get More Control On My Singing Voice

Here is an easy lessons for those of you who wish to gain more control over your own voice. We always start on some simple vocal warm ups first to get your singing voice started! One important thing that My Singing Lessons finds useful is getting a deeper grasp and understanding of is the difference between thick voicing and thin voicing. For most of us, we might know and understand this as the difference between Chest Voice and Head Voice. (but we can be more specific than that).

My Singing Lessons found that we were using too thick a voice when singing up high towards my passaggio notes, and that was causing students to strain and pull their voice up too much, making it difficult to achieve a smooth passaggio.

We were effectively trying to use too much of a thick speaking voice to sing my high notes, what we should be doing is to move towards a thinner voicing as we start to transition into our ‘head voice’ register.

Do any of you experience this same issue? Do you feel your voice feeling heavy and do you often try to pull that ‘heaviness’ up into the high notes and find that you get stuck or you just can’t get the lovely smooth sound that you want up high?

Well, what we found most useful for us was to thin out our voice more as we went higher and higher. So, doing a siren on an ‘ng’ syllable really helped me because that allowed us to go from low to high on the ‘ng’ sound in a light and gentle manner, and we were consciously thinning out our tone and allowing ourselves to move from ‘heavy’ voicing to ‘light’ voicing as we went up in our range.

Of course, when you thin out your voice up high, try to differentiate between a thinner voice and a falsetto voice. Some of us may go so light that we just move straight into a falsetto singing voice! But you will find that a falsetto sound may not have the ‘body’ and the strength that a head voice sound would have.

So, try out some of the exercises that we have on My Singing Lessons, and see if you can try moving from a thick voicing to a thin voicing on these exercises!