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by AB-Joel on October 27th, 2003

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What does it mean to sing in your "head voice"?

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  • by Mary Siever on February 24th, 2004

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    I am a voice teacher and a head voice "is" generally in the "breathy" range. It uses MORE air and therefore SOUNDS more breathy. Not extremely contrived breathy necessarily, but it isn't the same as mixed and chest tones. Also, a "head tone" allows more air to escape and in the untrained singer this creates a "breathy" voice. As well, sometimes untrained singers will use "head tones" for some of the lower ranges when they should be controlling the sound better, i.e not letting too much air escape.

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    • This is frankly rather misleading.

      I do not know where you have got this information or idea from Mary. Sorry if this seems rude. I am a professional opera singer and by that I mean I earn my entire living from singing in operas. I trained for years to do this and have never ever heard a 'head voice' explained this way. In fact, I think your explanation is completely wrong and very confusing for a student to understand.

      Patrick

      by Patrick on April 6th, 2009

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