How To Transition From Chest Voice To Head Voice

Learn some tips from opera singer, Christopher Jacklin, on how to transition from your chest voice to your head voice, and you will start singing registers which are out of your comfort zone. Enlarge

How To Transition From Chest Voice To Head Voice

Learn some tips from opera singer, Christopher Jacklin, on how to transition from your chest voice to your head voice, and you will start singing registers which are out of your comfort zone.

I'm going to talk to you now about how to transition from your chest voice to your head voice. Chest voice is that rich resident middle part of the voice. It's much more resident, but you can't quite take it as high.

Head voice by contrast is that clean bell-like sound. It's much lighter. You can take it much higher, but it doesn't quite have the same power residents as chest voice does.

An excellent exercise for mixing these two is a very slow controlled voice. So, starting with the head voice, I want you to try to take it lower down in your register. So, start with this.

And then, gradually bring it down into a territory that you wouldn't normally use it in. As you get lower, it will start feeling weaker, but don't worry about that. Let it happen.

Now, I want to do the complete opposite actually and bring your chest voice higher up. To do this, I want to do this little exercise. Gradually, bring that up step by step, all the way up.

You can't take it too far because you're bringing a lot of weight up there and you will start getting tired, but it's more the principle of taking it out of its comfort zone. So, you can bring that, you learn what it feels like to bring the chest voice higher and the head voice lower. Practice this exercise with different vowels and at different points in your register.

Always focus on transitioning smoothly from head voice to chest voice. As with so many other things, practice will improve the results. And there you have a quick guide on how to transition from head voice to chest voice. .