BASS Mixed Voice Vocal Workout - Daily Singing Exercises

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This is the Aussie Vocal Coach Lower Mixed Voice Workout for Bass Singers.

This workout focuses on the lower mix, where your lower and middle voice meet. In classical terms it is referred to as the primo passaggio. This area of the voice can often be overlooked by beginner singers as there is usually a tendency to pull the lower voice, or chest voice, up closer to where the head voice resonance becomes dominant. This transitional area of the voice is called the secondo passaggio. Here's the thing though. If the transition into the lower mixed voice is not engaged it is very common to have a break in your voice at the secondo passaggio. Leave me a comment if that's happened to you.

So the exercises in this vocal workout are designed to dance around this first transition and stay under the secondo passaggio. In every exercise avoid pulling your voice up to the notes. Relax and maintain an energised vocal tone and flow of breath.

The first exercise is designed to engage your nasal resonance. The NG sound is great for this. Notice when I demonstrate the exercise my mouth is open making this sound. This will help lift the roof of your mouth which is important for singing higher. I will alternate between the NG sound and the A vowel. The goal here is to place the vowel in a similar space to the NG.

The second exercise is a lip or tongue trill. The purpose of this exercise is to get your air flowing while maintaining a relaxed throat. The notes of this exercise jump around more than the first. This will help to relieve any tension in your vocal cords as you ascend into the primo passagio.

The third exercise focuses on the resonance of your mouth, also called Pharangeal resonance. The sound we will be using is the baby cry WA. The hard A vowel is very mouth dominant. It's not the nicest vocal tone but the brightness allows you to create quite a strong sound higher in your range without much effort.

Try and maintain a connected slide between the notes when you do this exercise and resist the temptation to over-sing on the higher note as it will create tension around your vocal cords.

The fourth and final exercise is slightly longer to allow you to develop strength in your lower mix. You will be singing MIEA over an ascending scale.

I have included a slightly higher range for this exercise to accommodate singers with higher transition points. Please make sure you only sing up to a comfortable pitch. This workout is not designed to extend your range, it is designed to strengthen the notes around your first transition, your lower mix, so that you will be able to sing confidently into your higher range without strain and vocal breaks.

Before you go please leave me a comment to say hi. Like and subscribe if you want me to create more of these singing lessons and consider supporting the channel using the links below to help me dedicate extra time to creating more content. Bye for now.

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I LOVE YOU FOR MAKING BASS ORIENTED DEMONSTRATION!!! IT MEANS A TON!

bluecosmo.

Thank you for all your videos! I am using this almost everyday and after a couple months I already feel quite a difference. Really Thank you.

HumbertAntoine

Alright Ian! I love your videos. I do one every day while in the shower at night.
The 10-15 min format is perfect to keep it to the point and efficient, without wrapping my head in spaghetti doing it alone.

Simple and very clear, with interesting variety of melodies.

carlsonmatthewt

I can do this one, the baritone one, and the tenor one 🧐.
Now i just need to get a decent tone!

anthonycaminiti

This is an excellent exercise! Ive noticed change!

hauntedchannel

im a baritone but apparently this works better for me, maybe my transition is a bit lower

kreole

Thank you for your very professional training exercises. But, especially for finally putting to rest my problem of not knowing what voice type I am because I have a range of over 3 octaves, though the extreme high or very low notes are not very strong and it's hard to sustain these for long periods. Some said Lyric Mezzo. She was a good classical singer so I believed her but when she said I could also sing up to higher soprano I stopped believing her because it seemed totally impossible at about age 19 but now I can. It just happened one day when I just gave up trying and just sang for fun. Then I ventured from the classical world into the modern world and was told I was a mezzo contalto and to start using the belt and chest voice and stop all the warbling but that seemed impossibly low and hard and people trying to play and sing with me were getting pretty frustrated because they thought that since I could speak in a deeper voice, I ought to be able to just belt out all this rocky stuff I likedbut I couldn't sing that low, kept running out of power. Then I met a female singer who could and she said "You'll have to do mysong because my ribs are too sore to sing today... I'm feeling too wrecked..." She sang a lot of pretty intense blues and also did a lot of heavy drinking, smoking, "men" and a few other not so healthy activities so I figured that had gone off the rails the night before so I did not ask her why. But she volunteered it: I was doing all this very heavy breathing last night... I wondered how or why but decided to be polite and not ask such potentially rude questions. She then mentioned a song she wanted to sing but kept running out of steam for when the hard sustained dark low notes came, some very crazy, utterly deranged song one of her many debauched musician boyfriends wrote for her before they had a fight and he stormedof but now she wanted him back and figured he might return if only she could sing this impossible song he had written for her, to please him.So she stayed up do8ng these incredibly strenuous breathing and other physical exercised to "get strong", as she was, like me, very petite and slim. Hence her inability to sing for a performance theywere booked to do. I wastold "You do it... Just sing like you talk when you get angry about stuff.. . Low and strong...Cold andmean... Heavy metal. Dark and gothic!" No way could I do that style. Or so I thought but there was nobody else so I just had to try and do it. It wasn't the best but they were happy with it. That was my foray into singing in low female voice after being classified originally as a lyric mezzo. Then I met an ethnic European singer who liked to sing very exotic world music type stuff with weird scales. She said I wasa mezzo like her. I said "Yeah, lyric mezzo, like Dame Janet Baker, or so they say..." She replied "There's nothing pretty or lyrical about you. You are strong and exotic and exciting, different, like me... Let's go! " She began to sing weird exotic stuff and dance and clap out strange rhythms at the same time and she blew me away. No way could I do that, much as I liked it. "You got to really feel it inyour body, your soul, your blood... Feel this!" She put my hand on her diaphragm a large solid tall woman, very beautiful face with long black hair cascading down. "Go on! Punch me in the stomach... See if you can knock me out!" She joked, laughing and dancing, clapping and singing. Someone yelled to stop all this noise and that we were "flaming wogs" and a few other choice words. "You see how rock hard my chest is. That is how you must breathe to sing. I show you. Lay down..." This singing meeting wqs getting crazier by the minute but I laid down. Then she put this heavy door stopper weight on my chest and said "I promise not sit on your chest with my bit butt. All you have to do is breath so hard that you lift this weight on your midriff 4 inches higher as you breath in then it falls 4 inches as you breathe out. I will count so you breathe in time" She started her exotic singing and dancing clapping out a ryhthm as she counted in various languages she knew I knew, too because I had toldher I was ethnic origin myself and loved some of the music from other cultures. It was very hard tobreathe and my ribs and midriff ached so much. But, thatday, I learned how to seriously "deep breathe" but I still did not feel confident about low notes. I fizzle out the C below middle C, but, even though I would never sing a full song down there or up around C5 or C6, it's nice 5o know that, with regular practice you can occasional hit some of these extreme high or low notes, do a momentary Dame Joan Sutherland or Minnie Riperton impersonation or shock people doing a rapid dive from an extreme high note to some dark "down in the dungeons" very low note and be called a"diva". Must have something to do with being able to five fromhigh so low notes or something like that, I guess. But I just think of it as singing a song because one feels like, well, just singing a song...Others can call it or your voice whatever they wish. It alters nothing. You can't change the voice you were genetically allocated. But you can develop whatever you weregiven and make the most of it. Whatever it is. Theycan all sound good with proper practice.

joebloggs