Why Singers Might Want to Break Up with Vocal Registers
I know most break ups can be messy and heartbreaking, but this one could in fact be LIBERATING.
I'm talking about ditching vocal registers.
Now I know you might have grown attached to them.
Using the terms chest voice and mix so often that they feeling like family. Familiar. Comforting.
But hear me out.
What we know as registers is really a way to CATEGORISE what is happening physiologically and aurally.
What our muscles are doing and the sound that is created.
(Which is already trying to distill a vast number of possibilities and colours into two or three definitions)
But those categories aren't usually the fastest way to CREATE THE SOUND YOU WANT.
They define what happens when it's created but it's not a PATHWAY to get there.
Hence why when someone asks you to sing a note in your mix instead of your chest voice, you might fumble around a bit or freeze like a deer in the headlights.
Let me explain a little more...