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Jul 21 07 7:22 PM

Re: A Bass Needing Some Range Advice

Hi, Brainstem. If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? Listening to your recordings, you don't really seem like a bass to me. Maybe a heavier baritone or a bass-baritone, but not really a bass. Your voice is kind of like mine. What you are really isn't important; learning to sing in a coordinated way is. In "This Jesus Must Die", you show a pretty decent chest voice. Could use some fine tuning, but it's not too bad. In "Suddenly Seymour", you sing with less chest, so maybe that's what you perceive as singing as a "baritone". As you go higher in this clip, you pull off of the chest too much to the point where it becomes very constricted. "Drunk Again" shows a very constricted falsetto, hence the strain you mention when trying to sing higher. If I were you, I would work on freeing up my falsetto, then learning how to coordinate it with the chest as you go higher so you can keep your full sound all the way up.

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