Chesty mixed voice? Powerful upper mixed voice? (feat. Wintertide)

are you trying to find your chesty mix maybe you found your head voice in this video I'm going to share everything that I know about it and why I don't like the term my name is Leo Maya I'm a singer and a progressive rock artist I compose and I sing in this channel I share everything that I learned on how to sing hi especially if you have a voice type like mine which is a baritone which is a little lower for the style and it's all about techniques so let's get started the number one question that I get is how do I make my head voice sound beefier how do I get to the chesting mix and I think this mindset is actually very harmful I'm going to tell you why but let's first Define what chassis mix mean and what it does not mean mixed voice is the area between your head voice and your chest voice where you kind of blend the two this is a very oversimplification of the topic but is enough to Define Jessie mix from that perspective chesty mix is a mixed voice which is closer to your chest voice than your head voice and by closer I mean when you're ascending in pitch and start to mix you start with the chesty mix then you go into a balanced mix then you go into a heading mix and then you're going to head just a natural transition from chest to head mixing them both and gradually changing registers but usually when people say I want to have a chassis mix they're talking about a very upper range like A4 B4 C5 and they just want that to sound beefier and it really depends from person to person where your brakes are but on my case for example at A4 I'm already almost all on head voice so there is no chesty mix on that range for someone with my voice type in the end people just want to sound more aggressive more powerful so it's very counter-intuitive to pursue a chesty mix because when you want to sing on that range you need more head voice if you're thinking Chastity mix if you're thinking about adding more chest but you are on that range you end up yelling you end up straining you end up stuck in a belt where you cannot really reach the notes unless you really strain all your neck muscles and you cannot sing E's and oohs and if you've ever experienced what I just described let me know in the comments below I think a lot of this has to do with context you see in a rock or metal band there's guitars there's bass there's keyboards drums and they take a lot of frequencies on the mix what's left for the voice really is the mid-range to Upper mid range so the lower undertones of your chest voice they can't really be heard on a dance mix if you record a head dominant mix with doublers compression EQ vocal harmonies you end up sounding huge in context although you might sound thin when you're singing by yourself in a room with no instruments I'm going to demonstrate this with winter tide which is a power metal song by Jeff black that has my vocals on it I know exactly how I recorded it I'm going to demonstrate here how it sounds like and then we're going to here in the mix and hopefully you will understand what I'm talking about before I do that if you're liking this type of content please subscribe to the channel leave a comment a like anything helps and if you like this song check out wintertime in its entirety I'll leave the link in the description you will also find in the description links to all my music and Jeff's music the chorus of the song goes like this please again way break through this winter time this is heading mix and head voice there's no chesting mix here at the end of this phrase you can hear how I go completely into head voice to sing the ooh from through this winter tide I can't belt that so I just go into head voice the little belt at the end of this phrase with the head dominant mix makes it sound more powerful so you don't even notice the U in context with the mix now I'm going to play you the same phrase but now with the full context of the mix which Jeff black did a great job mixing this by the way [Music] so it's always can you hear how that sound huge can you hear how that sounds like a chesty mix but in the end I'm just using head voice and head dominant mix the second part of the chorus it's very similar but there's one little difference there's a stab at a C5 at the One Touch part of it which is once again head voice but it sounds big in the mix and everything around it sounds chasty although it's not fun [Music] and same thing for the little ending there melt this winter tight it's a lot of head voice and finishes with a nice little heading mix belt I can sing it very Softly on full falsetto just went that died and you can see how closer that is to the actual song than it is to my chest voice which is what I'm speaking to you right now I could actually do half the phrase in falsetto and then a little end with a belt and in context it might sound like everything is chassis mix [Music] nine so once again let's hear through it in context with the mix space so what is the key takeaway that helped me sing the song and other songs in relation to chesting mix in the end Chastity mix doesn't mean a beefier upper range it means the part of your range where you start your mix closer to your chest for me it's a little lower than that it's let's say the beginning of the chorus from like a stone Chris Cornell and it's more like and young house I longed to be this is already above my first break so it's mixed voice but it's very close to my chest so there's more chest than head voice that's what testing makes mean it's not about going up there and singing beefier and the main problem that really hurt me in my vocal development with the term chesty mix and why I don't like to use it but you guys really seem to like it I see all over YouTube is because it implies adding more chest voice when it's not what it is in the end once you find your head voice in full voice in your mixed voice and it's sounding thin and you want it to sound bigger what you need to do is not to bring more chests up instead look at your vowels how are you shaping your vocal tract how how is your space in the back of your throat are you using a vowel that's too wide are you using the wrong vowel do you have the proper airflow maybe you're squeezing a lot because you're yelling you're trying to compress too much are you raising your soft palate and getting a nice round shape to your vowels all of those things are gonna make your screechy thin newly acquired head voice into a rounder more powerful sounding but still thin and still narrow heading mix and then once you put it in the context of a dense band a mix and once you put doublers and eqs and compressors and harmonies that is going to sound how you'd like just be okay with sounding Finn out of context and most importantly you start Finn and you embrace it and you learn how to shape it rather than trying to think you can get your chest up there because that's the worst thing that happened to me I heard my voice I was stuck and I couldn't really develop my voice I couldn't really sing the songs that I wanted to sing and I was just training stop thinking chest think head voice and let me know if that helped you

Channel: Leo Maia

Views: 6,125

Keywords: mixed voice, mix voice, singing, singing lesson, vocal lesson, metal, power metal, metal singer, rock singer, metal singing, rock singing, leomaia, Leo Maia, WINTERTIDE, Jeff black, jeffblack, chesty mix, chest voice, head voice

Id: YpeChy7d4iU

Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 08 2023