Head Voice vs Falsetto: Can you tell the difference?

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Many singers get confused about the terms head voice and falsetto.

Often, these terms are used to mean the same thing.

But actually, falsetto and head voice are completely different and this is a mistake I see a lot of singers make.

So here's the difference between head voice and falsetto so you can always hear the difference!

[scflair]

That effortlessness in his head voice. Great voice.

[amandashelton]

I took years of vocal coaching to use my natural vocals. My mom paid for my coach and I ended up paying for it after I graduated high school. My coach told me I have an amazing voice and helped me use it. 👍 I am grateful too. I have a rare movement disorder and vocal lessons helped me accept it and control it a bit.

[dantarctica]

I always doubted if my head voice was legit or just a weird falsetto. But now I know it’s real. And I also always thought I was weird for accessing my head voice easier through the E vowel. But your video helped validate me. Thank you.

[cannonhall]

Your falsetto sounded exactly like the intro to Where is my mind by the Pixies

[mradaChris]

That's a very good explanation. It's amazing how even classically trained people assume that you're singing in falsetto when you're really singing with the head voice! Confounds me. But what I usually tell people is to try using a device like a spectrogram which can analyze your voice and show you all the overtones produced. The less overtones the tendency towards falsetto. The more tones the tendency towards head voice. But then again I've heard people sing in the bass range in falsetto

[BH-iqic]

Excellent! I have to say, that you give really good information! Thank you always for the advice you give!

[Juli-uzky]

Him at 0:16
My brain: stop (guitar starts playing)

[minnesotajude]

Just talk like Mini-me in Austin Powers:

[lowkeymizzles]

Tine and rae cant help but enjoy his content! And his reaction is funny too lol!

[collinstaten]

I’ve always thought the same thing thank you. I can finally show my choir teacher that I’m not tripping

[aidandavis]

If we're going to give breathy head voice a special name (falsetto) and call it another register, why dont we do the same for breathy chest voice? It's not a different register, it's just a matter of how close the folds are together.

[Xavabbadabba]

So falsetto is breathy head voice. Got it

[chadguindon]

Surprisingly at 16 and 17, I was training my head and mixed voices unknowingly. It is crazy to me when too many people think I use falsetto when I actually don’t. I have to explain to them the differences in the placements.

[AnguishForYourGreedIL]

Easiest way to get head voice if you cant get it from this excersise is to do a siren up from chest voice (REMEMBER TO MOVE RESONANCE IN A SWEEPING MOTION LIKE AN OVERHAND THROW AS YOU MOVE UP) until you feel no chest vibrations, for me this was the F# below middle C. Then get used to singing in that area of your voice with that resonance placement and tone.

Falsetto needs to be supported a specific way for it to not feel tense or wrong (or tire your voice faster), one that in itself feels indescribably wrong/different from chest voice or head voice. I can't really describe the support for it other than like your chest is being deflated


Hope this helps somebody

[mikemill]

Excellent tips and info. Thanks so much, will be using the Gee technique lol💗

[dylxio]

How to expand your chest voice higher? My head voice I can reach up to C6

[theboyjames]

I love how you used FOO to access your falsetto, but with more of a HOO sound, and then concentrated on a more dominant OOO sound to pin down head voice. 👌

[morgangatzke]

Whenever I tell Falsetto and Head Voice apart I immediately think of Billie Eilish. She sings in a really breathy falsetto, like in “Lovely” or “What Was I Made For?”

[nolanbennett]

“Zingamama
Pailywaddle
Harpy with a screech
Fairy King Zing Zing” as a more complex version of the original

And then I’ll do “Zimmerman Telegram” in scales until the end where you hold out the sounds bzzt or beep.

[ALT_]

I'm rooting for all of the girl's because they have abilities and good gifts given to them 😊