Saturday, July 31, 2010

HELP! I love to sing, anybody pls give me some tips on my FALCETO! i'm dying to ask advice from anyone!?

i really do love to sing but when it comes to the falceto part, it just ruins everything. Is there any vocal exercises to improve it? Is diet an important thing in improving one's falceto? please help me out guysHELP! I love to sing, anybody pls give me some tips on my FALCETO! i'm dying to ask advice from anyone!?
If you are a female, you do not HAVE a falsetto. That term applies to the MALE voice, when mature, being able to use a portion of the vocal folds to sing in a higher octave - think Frankie Valli, although this technique is used by classical countertenors - who still have perfectly normal baritone singing voices, when they choose to use them. And no, countertenors are no more likely to be gay than anybody else. Neither were the famous castrati of earlier centuries - their permanent soprano voices were the result of scholarship-hungry parents have them surgically altered to retain their high range, but grow into full male power. Actually, they were often in big demand as escorts (!) at court - but I digress . .





I would assume ( after teaching voice for 35 years) that you are speaking about HEAD voice - the most developed, clear, and projecting sound in your technique. This is in contrast to BELTING , or chest voice - using your chest for resonance, rather than using the facial mask to focus your tone. If you are blinking, or reading this twice, then is just further proves that you need to be evaluated - and more than likely taught - by a true professional voice teacher. You cannot figure this out be reading online - you need to be with a good teacher.





No diet or anything else is going to do this for you. There are NO short cuts. You learn how to do this, just like you learn to read, or ride a bike, or do algebra. It is not *mysterious*, or something you have to be born with - you just get lessons, or at the VERY least, get into a voice class at your HS or college. I feel bad when people who LOVE to sing ask questions that clearly are full of suffering and disappointment - it does not have to be like that! Get lessons, and prepare to SMILE as you improve!HELP! I love to sing, anybody pls give me some tips on my FALCETO! i'm dying to ask advice from anyone!?
Diet has nothing to do with it. Women have a harder time reaching into any sort of falsetto due to the fact that (if I am remembering this correctly I'll look and see if I can find my source or notes on this) the vocal chords differ than those of men and lack the vocal folds needed to produce falsetto. Women can achieve a type of falsetto, but it is not the same as a true falsetto from a man. Where are you in your vocal pedagogy? What is your age? Do you drink plenty of water (OK I guess that diet somewhat matters if you include water)? These are all factors in what you want to do, but I would not really recommend it. You could, without proper training, really hurt your voice.
Diet does not really have an affect.





Work with a voice teacher in your area. (Ask a local choral director for your school, university, or church.)





Only a trained professional can help you increase your range.


Also each person can only sing so high. Maybe you are just one who can belt out the low notes. The grass is always greener...some would kill for that ablity.





But keep working. Just don't overstrain your voice.
A diet is not important. Just skip out the falsetto (isn't that only for men anyways, in women its just signing soprano), if you can't do it, don't strain yourself. If however, you really decide you must learn to sing that high, try to master a new note each day. As the days go by, move on to higher notes, but keep practicing. Soon you might be able to sings a scale up really high. As your family how it sounds, and if you are still not satisfied and won't give up, save up money for some lessons.

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