Re: A Bass Needing Some Range Advice
If you want a full-out sound, you hold on to every bit of the chest you have, and gradually bring just enough falsetto into it to make the next note. You want the folds to stay thick like in chest, but stretch like in falsetto. If you let go of the chest, then the folds will thin more towards falsetto. It's not belting, though I talked to a teacher at the university near here that calls high-chest (what is being referred to as not letting go of any chest) coordinated belting. Belting, IMO is dangerous and harmful. If it's coordinated, you're not really belting.
As for the amount of chest in C4 and C5, I can do both with just as much chest. There is more falsetto in the C5 than the C4, but I can do it. Both are full-out. If I don't use as much chest as possible, then I'm in a mix, and the C5 won't have as much chest as the C4.
-Joshie
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