Head Voice vs Falsetto: How to Sing Both with Confidence!
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Introduction 0:00
Difference between head voice and falsetto 1:25
Recognize them in songs 4:38
2 reasons to do falsetto exercises 7:26
Octave Repeat Bratty “Nay” Males 8:27
Octave Repeat Bratty “Nay” Females 9:27
1.5 Octave “Gee” Males 10:53
1.5 Octave “Gee” Females 12:35
Have you always wondered what the difference is between head voice and falsetto? If so, you're not alone. These two vocal registers have confused singers for a long time.
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But there's no reason this confusion! As a matter of fact, as soon as you learn the difference between head voice and falsetto, you'll be amazed at how much easier it is to hear the difference.
In today's video, I'm going to show you the difference between the main vocal registers, what creates the difference in sound, and how to actually find and refine falsetto in your voice.
To get started, you need to know the difference between the two main vocal registers. The two main vocal registers are called chest voice and head voice. And basically, the largest difference between the two is that in chest voice, the vocal folds are thick and closing completely. In head voice, the vocal folds are thinner and closing less.
While head voice and falsetto share the same range of notes, the difference between them is really small. Actually, head voice and falsetto are just two ways of singing the exact same note.
The primary difference between head voice and falsetto is that in falsetto, just the outer edges of the vocal cords vibrate and in head voice, more of the vocal cords or a vibrating, they have more body, and therefore there is some connection to the chest voice.
If you're looking for different examples of falsetto and songs, take a look at the song Reckoner by Radiohead, Skinny Love by Bon Iver, and Want to Want Me by Jason Derulo.
The fact of the matter is that falsetto can be used for a fantastic vocal effect! However, there's a lot more control, power and richness in the sound of a full head voice. So I would recommend learning to control singing in your head voice before only singing in falsetto.
Often times, if you sing in just falsetto, there is a really breathy and flutey sound. This is not optimal for many of the notes in the range. So if that's a problem for you, I'm going to show you to exercises right now to improve your falsetto.
In the first exercise, I'm going to show you a vocal warm up that will help you if your high notes are weak because you're backing off too much. In this case, it's the octave repeated bratty “Nay” exercise.
For our second exercise, if you feel that your top notes are breathy and falsetto because you're actually pushing in too much, we'll try an exercise to help you loosen up those top notes. In this case it will be the octave and a half and key exercise as in geese.
Regardless of what exercise is working for you, continue to work on it so that you can continue developing your falsetto into a fuller head boys. It's always easier to go from a fuller sound to a thinner sound, than it is from a thinner sound to a fuller one. - Hudba
Love this video and your demonstrations! It sure is really confusing, everybody seems to have their own definition... I've watched countless hours of these kinds of videos, and only yours clear it up. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful for you Piotr!
me too this video made me clear
@@ramseyvoicestudio The problem I have is when increasing head voice volume my voice will tone will start distorting and ill lose pitch, it's something I can't control, what causes that?
Sooo Falsetto is basically reducing the pressure and using the top part of the vocal chod, and the breathy sound is because the vocal cords are not completely closed. thanks sooooooo much
you're welcome
bruh if your vocal chords are closed then you can't make a noise, when you are singing you need vocal cords open
Thank you for the breakdown, it’s very helpful. I love all the people who take the time to do this❤️
That's the undeveloped detached falsetto. The goal is to integrate the falsetto into the rest of.the voice. For opera anyway. For pop I guess there are benfits to keeping it detached. Frankie Valle is detached. Roy Orbison was more integrated.
@@savageclasher1014 You can open them via air pressure from your lungs, AKA...singing lmao! You're a genius.
Timestamp for you guys!
1:25 - Difference between head voice and falsetto
4:38 - Recognize them in songs
7:26 - 2 main reasons why do falsetto
Exercises
8:27 - Octave Repeat Bratty “Nay”
9:56 - Ladies
10:53 - 1.5 Octave “Gee”
12:35 - Ladies
wonderful!!
Tyyy
Thanks!
This information is absolutely critical for new singers! Having this information 20 years ago would have fundamentally changed my life! Please learn from my mistake and take this to heart!
can't tell you how much hearing this means to me, Evan
My dad sometimes said if I didn't have power behind it, it was falsetto and unless I NEED a falsetto sound, it wasn't right. My dad also did some opera singing, so his high notes had SO MUCH volume and power behind it, so I didn't have as much self work on developing control in a head voice or mixed, just full falsetto and chest voice because I didn't even know what a head voice was before these videos
That's sad your dad never tried to teach you
For me who only sang in falsetto for a long time, it is very much about practicing vocal control constantly. Cuz the extra air from falsetto essentially covers up for any of the bad sounds or squeaks that you would make. I'd also recommend exercising the diaphragm regularly and drinking tea to keep your throat nice and open
Your dad was right lol
I appreciate your identifying the keyboard pitch you start on when you demonstrate an exercise. It helps me imitative without being distracted by finding what note to start on.
Oh Anne! You're so welcome!
What I've noticed unique about you is that unlike other modern coaches you seem to consider "head voice" and "mix" to be synonymous. I find the distinction between the two to be useful: head voice is like you say - like falsetto but fuller and less breathy, while mixed voice is head voice melded with chest voice - which in practice means notes that are too high to be comfortably belted out in chest voice alone, but still have a much chestier quality than if they were sung in full head voice, so to uneducated listeners they still pass as the "full voice", as they like to call it
I LOVE JEFF BUCKLEY YESSS. I’m so happy you shouted him out. He was such a fabulous vocalist and his music is really inspiring me to work on my upper register with my head voice and falsetto. I have such a difficult time with those two registers so thank you so much for this helpful video!!!!
damn this whole time i was using head voice well and thinking falsetto was my head voice so I thought I sucked lmao
glad you found it
Me too 😅
I have the opposite problem, I sing in falsetto thinking it’s my head voice-
@@yuriponcee same 🙃
@@yuriponcee same
love it, love it, love it!!!! Thank you for the breakdown Really great content!
Thank you so much for making this video. For the longest time I could not make the distinction between the different voices because no one adequately explained it. They always said location and completely negated to state intensity. This allowed a switch to flip instantly.
Omfg this has been so helpful!!! I have been struggling to sing in head voice and keep going to falsetto. Your videos have been so helpful!! Please keep it up!!
Dude I sing opera and I have been looking for hundreds of videos about this topic. This is may be the best. Crystal clear. The only thing I would nuance is what you say about falsetto in opera. Even tenors sing in this head voice because biologically talking we can't stay in chest mechanism much higher than around middle C for male voices (generally) this what my ORL explained me. Thanks a lot
you're welcome, and thanks
Thank you. This is going to help me with training my choir on the different techniques.
i love that you use reckoner and skinny love as your examples. and you have a great voice. great videos. keep them coming.
Thank you! Will do!
Your way of teaching is both funny and clear
I would love to learn more from you
Holy poop, this was exactly the break down I needed of falsetto and head voice, thanks man. Good stuff!
you're welcome
Your videos are really helping my vocals improve. and I'm 73 next month! So never too late to improve. Many thanks.
timestamps of exercises
octave repeat nay for males 8:50 & females 10:00
1.5 octave gee for males 11:57 & females 12:24
did this for the challenge
Yes!
How did I live so long without ever hearing such a clear explanation between head voice & falsetto, geez!! Ty for this video, I’m going to begin practicing your tips right away, better late than never!! I do both naturally but I couldn’t have pinpointed the difference & explained it verbally until just now. I want to be able to stay in head voice much longer instead of reverting to falsetto which I find much easier. I have definitely been a person who was confused by the myriad of made up definitions regarding these two modes of singing. I have been thoroughly schooled today! Tysm I am very grateful for this instruction.❤️❤️❤️
Falsetto for women??? I think no. Women sing naturally in their head voice 'cause of the nature of their vocal cords. Only men use falsetto for reaching the highest notes.
@@victoremmanuell_ptbr1902 so I guess I’m still confused, lol. However, I don’t naturally sing with my head voice, my voice is most comfortable using chest voice. I just sing! All of the labels involved are confusing, but I thought this explanation was excellent, bcuz I never really heard a big difference between head voice & falsetto, they are both high notes. I never received professional voice training when I was young, I just learned by hearing & practicing. I am very familiar with anatomy & physiology used in medical practice & am now learning how it applies to the voice. I always wondered why ppl would ask me how I could sing so low & still be able to hit those very high notes; I had no idea how I did it. I simply copied from my mother who was a master at it. So I guess I will be learning for a long time, what I should have learned long ago. Then there is my brother who could sing in a baritone & then sound just like me singing high notes. No one in my family could do what he was able to do. He sounded like a man with a deep voice & could just flip it around & sound like an Ariana Grande!! Still don’t know how to explain his voice, but sadly he is no longer with us & we miss him terribly. Well, ty for your input.
I've been looking for singing lessons and your videos coach Ramsey are very informative. Through these I am more motivated to pursue my singing dream. It helps me a lot, but I need to strive more to be better in singing. Thank you very much.
Awesome video! This was the best explanation I've heard yet. Thank you for sharing your insight
Glad it was helpful!
I think I sang so quietly as a kid because I was painfully shy that I thought my falsetto WAS my head voice. I totally thought my head voice was my mixed voice because it was stronger than I thought it should be lol
sounds like you're doing better
After 38 yrs I finally understand the difference😊hankyou that was very helpful
Wow, there's a LOT of information in this video. Very well explained.
i am in love with your personality and the way you teach! greetings from Brazil
Yay! Thank you!
thanks for the clear explainati0n you've shared to us💖
This video is incredibly helpful
Love your head voice, mixed voice, whatever you call it! :-) falsetto is harder for me to sing. My voice will lock up if I try to sing falsetto. Used to be easier to sing higher but I have been noticing a lot of clenching going on in my throat... enjoyed this video!
This has been educational for me. Thank you so much! Will you please do a video about how to sing in mixed voice? Please. Thank you. ♥️
Done: czcams.com/video/ePJImWCk1Tg/video.html
I love all your voice lessons it's really helpful
This is so helpful!!
You are the best vocal coach... You dont deserve a like but a heart. Thank you for the tips...such a big heart.
You are so welcome, and thanks
Very excellent. Reassuring, & technical ideas made simple
thanks so much
Thank you so much for this video. It answered my biggest questions and gave me the hope I needed to keep working on my voice!
Man, I love your videos so much
so great to hear
This indeed awesome ❤️!!!
Thanks so much for this, Ramsey! My vocal coach sent me here. Amazing stuff, man!
Thanks for watching! Who is your vocal coach? Sorry for the late reply
You need more subscribers!
Bookmarked! I really didnt thought that my voice can do it wtf haha
Excellent!
Thanks you've really made me understand the difference between the two
Now just have to exercise in it
this guy is a great teacher
I came here from beatboxing and ths helped me learn a lot of vocal-heavy beatbox techniques like double voice, polyphonic voice etc. Thx a lot!
Happy to help!
Wow! this is really great tutorial! Great job mate! Kudos from the Ph!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank so much sir Ramsey it helped. A lot to us
I just subscribed! Thanks for your insight!
Thanks very clear explanation🥰
Thanks you've made me understand the difference between the two
Now just have to exercise on head voice
Thank you for lession sir🙏😊
You're very welcome!
Thanks you've made me understand the difference between the two
Now just have to exercise on head voice 😊
This is really interesting and a great instructional video. I've always been convinced that Falsetto is the male register of the voice that males would use before puberty when their voices 'broke'. So when a males voice 'breaks' in adolescence the Falsetto register is still available to them, but harder to utilise as it is above the natural break-point in their voice. I remember when my voice was breaking there was a period of time when my voice would uncontrollably slip between my old pre-pubescent voice, and my new manly voice. So I've always thought this could not apply to females whose voices don't break in puberty so cannot sing Falsetto.
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Awesomely explained narrative 🎼🎙️🎵🌹🙏❤🌹
This video was helpful
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This is great!
Thanks Malek!
This is so helpful! I've always wondered if I'm singing in head voice or falsetto... turns out it's been head voice and I have no clue how to do falsetto.
don't give up!
so helpful!! thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Falsetto is great as a stylized singing, but I once heard a vocal coach to say never start singing with falsetto. It's basically the easiest and teaches you no skills about any other types of singing, so it's best to get the basics first. I made the mistake of learning to sing with falsetto from like age six to age 26, and now at 33 I still have a lot of shortcomings and obstacles to overcome because of that. So falsetto = great, but not great to start with
Excellent!
You are great man thanks greetings from Itlay
Benvenuto!
You’re amazing :)
great video! going to work on my head voice!
Go for it!
So learning about the differences between falsetto and head voice, now I'm pretty sure Whitney Houston was singing falsetto in "Run to you" and head voice in "I will always love you".
in most cases, they're the same thing, depending on tone
Good job Brother keep it up i learn much fhom you
Glad to hear that
Thanks!
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I do have a sense of humor
Thank you sir
Am already a subscriber so am just here to do the usual, LEARNING 😊😊😊
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thanks sir for this
Thou hast altered my voice, good sir
I have always been interested in learning to sing. Was in a reddit deep dive learning about Billie Eilish's voice and read something about her effortless falsetto vs head voice and wanted to learn more about that. Excellent teacher. I wish he was local!
amazing!!1
Roger Love Exercises
Nice
Can you make a video on how to sing in mix voice please? Would love to learn
You support with chest .
You connect both , so there s no break register between low to top
But it depend what style of music .
In certain more agressive ways , James Brown , Or Guys in Metal like David Coverdale or Phil anselmo even in Early days .
Or me haha , with Distortion too , it can be an extended chest voice even at 4th octave or 5th .
What neoligism thoses Rubbish academist with " reinforced falsetto " with Nicey sound its a mistake perception comparing to the fuller and Nastier sound of originals , confuse , its in thoses singers , like Rob halford too in some places , its belting , but modelled sound ( and note depending what you want to do )by the throat and high larynx for the piercing sound due to the compression ( like a Oaaaaarg sound ) you have that kind of Upper piercing sound , like an overtone thing at the top of the note , its great if you have a killer wide vibrato doing it .
But thats not a falsetto basis at all like some teachers specialist claim but sound again ( sorry ) a lot more pussiest than the guys they talk about , who themselves are rif raff singing in comparaison
Reinforced falsetto mean nothing .
Like explained , and i thank that guy above , Falsetto is a derivated from headvoice , airy , with no folds vibrating .
You cant improve your scream with that basis .
If you reinforce this , its head voice .
If you support that with a great connexion with your bottom and chest voice , its mixed voice
So its Not falsetto anymore .
So i really don't understand that term . Coming from others , among them that famous Ken..
personnaly , I never worked my headvoice to support it with my chest to do what i do .
I went for the bottom chest and progress higher and higher years after years , slowly even i began at 14 , so the vocal chords mould quickly into it , i began to sing and scream high at 16 .
I reached up the 4 th octave around 19 , and begining of 5th at 24 with that Larynx technique .
But after like a second maturing mutation dropping as a Baritone you can have ...
My cartilages are quite large , and around mid 20's , end 20's , the harder making of cartilages of larynx make this , more adult voice
Deeper voice .
For the Roar thing , like Scream Bloody gore's death thing scream ,i can't go as high as i used too but in the old style , i have more power and Can go way higher than i could .
But i try to switch and cross the 2 for re gain my top register in that extreme raspy stuff , with the nasal points .
Mid and low register much fatter than before too.
Textured but i think that was due to the studio takes i did with a Producer in swizterland , the extreme metal mutt lange , my voice did survive , but 30 min pause on a 4hours take .
It pushed my distortion gravel more and agression .
Hey Nathan, I just published one here: czcams.com/video/ePJImWCk1Tg/video.html
I can do Falsetto and Head Voice on the 5th Octave,but unfortunately, I cant belt. I really wanted to know how to belt very high notes just like I do with Head Voice and Falsetto. But I can't find videos on CZcams that will help me on that. Btw, I just learned how to sing in the whistle register from one of your videos. I really liked your voice coaching because it always work all of the time.
thanks for that! here is a link to my article on belting: ramseyvoice.com/belting/
I love how I'm so good at falsetto, that i can literally mix it with my chest voice, but i can't use my head voice for sh*t.
gotta keep working on it
Lol me
thank you
You're welcome
Hi! Thank you for your great videos! I have a question: I'm learning to sing and I'm baritone. How can I know when to use pure head voice and when mixed? Does it depend on the genre, on the song, on a pitch of a note etc.? Thank you!
Thank you for explaining this. 🙂
I don't know why but I've always thought falsetto is what it is called when a guy sings head voice. I don't know why. I think it's because I had only heard the term falsetto in connection to the male singers in choir.
now you know!
The problem for me is staying in a higher register like falsetto or head voice without cracking or going back to chest voice
try this:
ramseyvoice.com/fix-vocal-break/
Another «falsetto song» is See you again
thanks
@@ramseyvoicestudio charlie put h attention we don't talk anymore
Thanks for the video. It helped with my head voice and my falsetto. It's just sometimes that my dumb brain forget how to produce those sounds
that's where practice and muscle memory come in
Amazing video thank you so much! Question - where exactly should the tongue be while doing the nay and the gee exercises?
The tongue should be flat and touching the bottom front teeth at the gum line.
@@ramseyvoicestudio thanks!
Wow ty. Fr bro
Hi there...I love your videos btw...I just wanted to ask if you have a video on increasing your vocal range in your chest register because my vocal range is just from F2 to D5 and I flip into my falsetto at a E4 so I just wanted to extend my chest register till atleast a C5.....have a good day btw!
Yes, it's about increasing your power:
ramseyvoice.com/increase-singing-power/
I sang in clubs for years. I could hit high notes but the strength sounded falsetto, like eddie kendriks temptation like.
My brother could hit full voice about 5 notes higher so he got different gigs.
It was never explained. My voice teacher said I had a softer voice so we didn’t have the same character in our voice.
Then, I saw some motown doc. The guy says, you can sing quieter now that you don’t compete with a live band volume.
If not having to belt higher notes out, the blending seems different than trying to blend a energetic chest voice with falsetto sound in head voice. HELLLP Lol
I need the version of this video for female voice and examples of Aretha Franklin!! I need to understand her voice! Great overall, thank you!
Can you do a video for opera singers with head voice?
Nice explanation! What about breathy chest voice? Would that be considered falsetto?
Hi Ramsey! Such a fan of your work. Can you react to Gabriella Cilmi's "Keep On Keeping" or her early hit at 16 "Sweet About Me" from 2008? You won't be disappointented. I promise you!!!
I will check it out
Sir, from head voice can we hit high notes of falsetto? Sir , I mean without using falsetto can we hit high note from head voice ? Sir, because I can go high till C5 from head voice and from falsetto till A5 without training that landed me to vocal injury. Would I able to hit D5 or E5 from head voice if I train my voice properly? Sir, why falsetto goes too high hitting all high notes like G5 and A5 than head voice hitting only C5 note ? I am 17.6 year male .
I remember Brett Mannings through your lessons.
Hi, I just want to mention how thankful I am that this mystery is finally solved. "finding your mix" "its just falsetto mixed with chest". All these conflicting information made me think that singing is just spiritual at this point, somehow I have to find the magic mushroom to suddenly make me be able to mix both of my head voice and chest voice together.
flageolet
i can't unsee it, once i realized that Nicolas cage was teaching me how to falsetto
another double
Hmm. Enlightning. I always thought that falsetto was an octave above the head voice. But you actually say you use both voices in the same range, but one is kinda just with more air (less closed chords). Since i never thought i head a real falsetto I guess i've been singing my high notes (to A5) always in my head voice.
Could you please share the notes for 1.5 Octave "Gee" arpeggio?
Tips to write song please
Hi Mtt. Thanks so much vocal trining fun and interesting. im 66. should a person keep exercising and singing with a very sore throat. THanks