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Jan 2 10 1:56 PM

We have to define the term "pulling chest" or "splatting out the mouth." Whenever Brett demonstrates the "pulled chest sound" all I hear is constriction. Or someone singing with a high larynx. The rule for chesty sounds is this: "If you want something to sound chesty, then you need to have chest." Saying someone is "pulling chest" can have negative connotations. Also, people seem to use the term "pulling chest" to mean a different number of things, but whatever Brett does for demonstrating it I just say is constriction.

Now, there is a variation of pulling chest where someone CAN try to go too thick in their upper range. A high C WILL NOT sound as thick or say.. an E4. There's more head voice involved with that high C. If you try to make the C5 sound as thick as that E4 you will hurt yourself.

Now, what you do need is that compression or squeeze in the voice. If you want to sing mix or high chest you need it. A lot of people hear that squeezy sound and think "constricted" but its not really. The guy from Symphony X does a great job there. He has that compression. Jon Foreman's isn't too bad but he could go a little bit deeper. Of course he's not singing as high as the Symphony X guy. But I've seen on forums where someone shows a clip of a Gospel singer to an opera singer and even though the gospel/R&B singer is using the same coordination as the opera singer, the opera singer says they are pulling chest or whatnot.

http://www.box.net/shared/3el54j301u

Here's me trying to sing Only Hope and trying to explain a little bit that compression. Sorry for the mess up its been AGES since I've practiced this song. I'll have to do one of these with my studio mic so you guys can hear more clearly. But text never explains anything, audio is best for you guys to know what one is talking about.

I explain a coupl things in the video. One is about compression there other is about the high frequencies and the low frequencies in the voice. Some people (like bad opera singers) go way too low and muddy. This is not the ideal sound for ones voice. Some people go the other route though and go too high larynxed for their voices. You wan to stick with a middle ground. Not only does it sound better, but the voice is better balanced. Nothing wrong with going high larynx or low for an effect in the song, but you don't want to sing this way.

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Last Edited By: guitarro777 Jan 2 10 2:02 PM. Edited 2 times.