Falsetto
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andrewtheshredder
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khaninawatsibai said:
DragonForce is not falsetto.. when he sings his really high notes, i think he's using a supported head voice... but strong sound. but totally unrelated to falsetto.
another know-all from me:
Falsetto is a term used only for male voice, whereas girls are often heard singing something of a similar tone, it is not actually falsetto.
I like to think of falsetto the same way we think of ghost notes or artificial harmonics on guitars. Which is why is sound toneless, or timbre-less, as if it has no different harmonic levels. When you sing on falsetto to an extremely high pitch, somewhere near the end of the piano, you find that the falsetto actually sounds more instrumental then vocal, like a violin of sort.
Attaining falsetto:
Falsetto is easily achieved by tightening your thoat on a normal note. Try holding real voiced note and then slowly increase the tension in your throat till your voice sort of cracks. That's where get a gay-sounding voice, it should sound kinda girly and crap you know. If you can get that then hold the cracked note, that would be your falsetto.
Some people find it hard to change quickly, so if you use the tightening method you should be able to figure out the change very fast. Use that method for parts like SOAD's Cigaro where it goes "can you see that I love my c*ck".
Falsetto requires very little breath to hold as it's mostly cord work, but still it takes alot of preparation to jump to a falsetto from a real voice note if you're not well trained. When singing a falsetto note, do not think of the falsetto. You should sing the real, lower note that you can reach with your voice in your head. That way you can stay rooted to a note you can achieve and note strain your vocal cords into hitting something false and hence going off tune.[/b]
Falsetto is a term used only for male voice, whereas girls are often heard singing something of a similar tone, it is not actually falsetto.
I like to think of falsetto the same way we think of ghost notes or artificial harmonics on guitars. Which is why is sound toneless, or timbre-less, as if it has no different harmonic levels. When you sing on falsetto to an extremely high pitch, somewhere near the end of the piano, you find that the falsetto actually sounds more instrumental then vocal, like a violin of sort.
Attaining falsetto:
Falsetto is easily achieved by tightening your thoat on a normal note. Try holding real voiced note and then slowly increase the tension in your throat till your voice sort of cracks. That's where get a gay-sounding voice, it should sound kinda girly and crap you know. If you can get that then hold the cracked note, that would be your falsetto.
Some people find it hard to change quickly, so if you use the tightening method you should be able to figure out the change very fast. Use that method for parts like SOAD's Cigaro where it goes "can you see that I love my c*ck".
Falsetto requires very little breath to hold as it's mostly cord work, but still it takes alot of preparation to jump to a falsetto from a real voice note if you're not well trained. When singing a falsetto note, do not think of the falsetto. You should sing the real, lower note that you can reach with your voice in your head. That way you can stay rooted to a note you can achieve and note strain your vocal cords into hitting something false and hence going off tune.[/b]
CarinaVoiceStudio
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What is Falsetto?
What is Falsetto? Well, in falsetto, singers utilize the head voice eg. the nasal cavity and above, to produce sound. It normally gives you a nasy tune as if you are using your nose to sing. A good example is Opera Singing. The optimum of falsetto is up to head position, whereby after singing, some singers will feel dizzy or headache. This is due to the vibration of the head to produce the desired sound. However, falsetto is not commonly use in pop music, mostly in choir and opera singing.
Hope the above clears your doubts.
Cheers!
Carina (Liqing)
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What is Falsetto? Well, in falsetto, singers utilize the head voice eg. the nasal cavity and above, to produce sound. It normally gives you a nasy tune as if you are using your nose to sing. A good example is Opera Singing. The optimum of falsetto is up to head position, whereby after singing, some singers will feel dizzy or headache. This is due to the vibration of the head to produce the desired sound. However, falsetto is not commonly use in pop music, mostly in choir and opera singing.
Hope the above clears your doubts.
Cheers!
Carina (Liqing)
Vocal Instructor
CarinaVoiceStudio
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Everyone has the same body system. Thus, everyone can produce the desired pitch, provided they use vocal projection correctly. Hence, both males and females can sing falsetto.
turbochicken
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next time you hear a female scream or shriek, pay attention.
that's them doing falsetto.
that's them doing falsetto.
madmonkeykungfu
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the female falsetto is just less obvious than the male, because of our vocal range.
as I've said in my post. Girls are often heard sounding as if they are on falsetto. But no, falsetto is a term used only for male voices, especially tenors. You can check that up in a musical dictionary.
Girls use something called head voice, which is something that I still am unsure of. It's a sharp, rather piercing if untrained, voice that is used to hit rather high notes. The head voice becomes very weak at low notes that overlaps with real voice, which is the same case for tenors using head voice.
Carina seems to have gotten head voice and falsetto mixed up. The more often heard voice in opera, I think, would be head voice. Seldom do you hear falsetto is a standard opera situation because it's usually used for comical effects or to hit impossibly high notes( the tone of a falsetto isn't really tonal at all, so we soloist will try to hit it with real voice or head voice). Head voice is the one that might get you a little dizzy but with proper breathing it shouldn't at all as it's more of a matter of resonance in your head and not actually "vibrations". And the dizziness might be contributed by a lack of air when hitting with head voice as it takes slightly more air than real voice.
Head voice is the more nasal one, whereas falsetto has almost no tonal structure to it. It becomes very hard to make words out of head voice as when you get really high, it's so nasal that only the nose it projecting and not the roof of the mouth.
Falsetto is only possible for guys as it's actually a result of voice breaking if i'm not wrong. It's the same sound as a voice crack where the apple tightens too much and cancels out the main harmonic. At least that's way I see it, just like a ghost note on the guitar but with a constant air flow.
Girls use something called head voice, which is something that I still am unsure of. It's a sharp, rather piercing if untrained, voice that is used to hit rather high notes. The head voice becomes very weak at low notes that overlaps with real voice, which is the same case for tenors using head voice.
Carina seems to have gotten head voice and falsetto mixed up. The more often heard voice in opera, I think, would be head voice. Seldom do you hear falsetto is a standard opera situation because it's usually used for comical effects or to hit impossibly high notes( the tone of a falsetto isn't really tonal at all, so we soloist will try to hit it with real voice or head voice). Head voice is the one that might get you a little dizzy but with proper breathing it shouldn't at all as it's more of a matter of resonance in your head and not actually "vibrations". And the dizziness might be contributed by a lack of air when hitting with head voice as it takes slightly more air than real voice.
Head voice is the more nasal one, whereas falsetto has almost no tonal structure to it. It becomes very hard to make words out of head voice as when you get really high, it's so nasal that only the nose it projecting and not the roof of the mouth.
Falsetto is only possible for guys as it's actually a result of voice breaking if i'm not wrong. It's the same sound as a voice crack where the apple tightens too much and cancels out the main harmonic. At least that's way I see it, just like a ghost note on the guitar but with a constant air flow.
