Webinar 12 Understanding Head Voice

"Excellent - clarified the physiological aspect of the two basic techniques I use and teach. It has given me a standardised terminology that I'm going to use from now on"

 

"I really like your openness and the way you cover different ways of describing the same thing"

 

"Reinforced the truth and debunked the myths about head voice"

"First time I am attending a webinar about the voice and I think you did a great job."

 

"This was also fun!"

1. Why the confusion about head voice even exists (and boy, is there confusion - 59 different names for singing the same pitch range of a 10th?)
   
   
2. The forgotten part of singing - why the actual movement of your vocal folds (and NOT the resonance you use) is the most important factor in identifying what head voice you are in. We show you what is happening inside your larynx in different set-ups (we've got animations and visuals giving you the exact vocal fold vibration for your choices of head voice). And we give you exercises and strategies to feel them, find them and use them
   
   
3. Demonstrations of chest voice and two types of head voice from both Gillyanne and Jeremy, so you can hear exactly what we're talking about and then match it yourself - and we use examples of repertoire in Musical Theatre, Gospel and Classical music
   
   
4. Breathing we focus on breathing and give advice on when to use certain types of breathing movement, and why in different head voices you might find alternative breathing patterns that work better for that particular sound
   
   
5. Why even eminent teachers think that women have an extra vocal register - we explain why the classical teaching world has developed that myth and exactly what women are required to do when they go in "middle register"
   
   
6. Transitions, those sticky bits between your vocal registers we show you where the overlap of different voice setups happens, in both male and female voice (and why they DON'T happen on those pitches for non-classical singers)
   
   
7. And we give you five different phrase shapes that require careful transition handling. We show you the shapes and then we demonstrate them so you can hear exactly what we're talking about, and how (and where) we transition - and it's not always on the same note! We even sing you the same pitched phrases with and without transitioning so you can understand the concept of moveable transition points.