How To Sing: Part 4 – Falsetto | 30 Day Singer

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I’m Camille, singer & voice teacher with 30 day singer, and this is How To Sing: Part 4 – Finding Your Falsetto Function.

Falsetto is a function of your voice, meaning your vocal folds (or vocal cords) are operating in a specific way, and there’s a distinct sound quality that results. With falsetto function, your vocal folds are stretched out longer than they are when you’re speaking, and only the thin edges of the folds are making contact. Pretend my hands are the vocal folds, and the difference in contact would look like this in falsetto, compared to this in your speaking voice or what we sometimes call your chest function.

Falsetto has a light, sometimes breathy quality, and is usually used for higher pitches. Think Billie Eilish or Justin Vernon from Bon Iver. The difference between falsetto and head voice is the strength and duration of cord closure, but functionally they’re the same! I, and many other contemporary voice teachers, may use the terms head voice and falsetto interchangeably, but you can think of head voice as your high-pitched, lighter sound, and falsetto as a softer or breathier version of that.

Why do we care? Because your speaking voice (also called chest voice) can’t be used throughout your entire range! Even low, deep voices reach a point where their speaking voice no longer works, and they have to use a different approach to keep singing higher.

I know this is hard to believe, because many singers we hear sound like their chest voice goes on forever; we don’t hear noticeable breaks or cracks in their voice. But that’s because they’ve developed their head voice (or falsetto) function, and they’ve also worked on something we call mixed registration, where we utilize a balance or blend of both chest AND head function.

First step, though, is accessing head voice. Try a high-pitched, excited “woohoo!” sound. Now try a hollow cuckoo clock sound. I love this sound, because that hollow tone quality encourages us to create a lot of space in our throat, and constriction in the throat usually results when people try to sing higher.

How To Sing – Part 1: Matching Pitch – https://youtu.be/-PExRMSit_I
How To Sing – Part 2: Speaking On Pitch – https://youtu.be/QCacgX2b4Cs
How To Sing – Part 3: Breath To Sound – https://youtu.be/Ubk05SojvbQ
How To Sing – Part 4: Falsetto – https://youtu.be/MkqQ2SyHhgE
How To Sing – Part 5: Sing Higher and Lower – https://youtu.be/37gYT7-ObxQ
How To Sing – Part 6: Improve Your Vocal Style – https://youtu.be/Y-JHCxY65b8

0:00 – Intro
0:31 – What Is Falsetto?
1:55 – Why Care About Falsetto?
2:39 – Exercise
5:51 – Outro

5 Easy Tips on How to Find Your Singing Voice – https://youtu.be/vE6Lns2f9oY
Daily Exercises for Great Singing – https://youtu.be/LbL-xmTAswg
Avoid These Singing MISTAKES – https://youtu.be/kugobqj9Gt0
5 Minute Vocal Warm Up Exercises – https://youtu.be/4Qkr0REH_Fk
Beginner ALTO Vocal Exercises – Easy 10 minute warmup – https://youtu.be/4Qkr0REH_Fk

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