Hey there, this is John Henny. And on today’s singing tip, I want to talk about the definition of mix singing.
Mix is one of those terms that gets used a lot, but it tends to cause some confusion because it can mean different things to different people. I’m going to give you my definition. In the voice, we have two extremes, if you will, especially when we’re trying to sing higher. We have the falsetto head sound who and then we have the intense yell. Hey, now what’s great about that falsetto sound is you can take it very high without a lot of effort, but it’s not very strong.
What’s great about that intense yell sound is it has a lot of volume and intensity, but we can’t take it very high and if we try to can cause a lot of strain and difficulty. But between those two lights, the land of mix and mix can go towards that falsetto sound and get this kind of nice, gentle Julie Andrews kind of approach, or it can keep going up and up towards that yell sound to where you start getting into Adele and Idina Menzel and those real intense singers, but without all going all the way into the yell.
So what it does is mix keeps the strong points of both of those extreme voices. It keeps more of the flexibility of the falsetto head voice, but also the power of the yellow voice. And within there, there’s a whole world of shades of the mix, going from that lighter, softer warmer mix to that really intense mix. But as long as we stay within that mix box, we can do this safely to our voice when we get out of the box, especially as we go to that yell, whoo then it gets a bit more dangerous. So I encourage you to learn how to stay within that mixed box.
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