Mixed Voice for Musical Theatre (What it Means and How You Do It)

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This video explains in simple terms what is physiologically happening when you make sounds often referred to as “mix,” and how you can use this info to sing with balance, efficiency, and ease through many coordinations in your head and chest voice.

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
1:25 What is mixed voice?
4:18 Chest voice, and what are Modes 0, 1, 2, and 3?
6:34 The one takeaway I want you to remember from this — your voice is a continuum
8:02 Playing with Modes 1 and 2, seeing their possibilities, tract shapes, etc.
12:51 Using character identity or song quality to guide your choices
14:40 Mode 2 increasing density until you step over into Mode 1
20:40 Playing with different possibilities in Mode 1
22:08 What you’ve probably figured out by now — dispelling the myths about mix
23:08 Ways to practice and coordinate mix, modal mixture exercise frameworks
25:49 Messa di voce mode exercise

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