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_AshleighMarie_

Can I expand my head voice if I have a whistle register? My head voice gets sharp/airy around F5/G5 and sometimes my whistle register starts around Bb5, C6 or D#6. I don't know if I'm singing in my head voice or not.

GuyChan

Hello @Ashleigh8672

I wouldn't be sure that it is your whistle register. Actually, I have a friend , she's a Soprano (a high one), and she didn't know it. So she were singing some high notes, believing it was her whistle register, but it actually wasn't, it was head as she was told by a classical vocal coach. If it is your whistle, you would be able to go really high I think.

These two registers are distinguishable, though it's true that it is more difficult to make a difference between those two the higher up you go. Is there a break when you go up between head and what you think it is whistle ?

You should post an audio of your head and whistle voice.

I have practiced whistle a little bit, and for me, it was not the same sensation as head voice.

Actually, the whistle register for me is a total different thing from head voice, ans it works with a different mechanism than head. So because you shift to your whistle register at a certain note, it doesn't mean that you wouldn't be able to bring your head voice up to these notes if your vocal folds allow you to do so now or over time.

I've heard some people talking about flageolet, which would be an extension of the falsetto register, just before the whistle (what he said).
I'm only giving my personal experience and what I learned from people around me. I'm not an expert !

Hope it helped !

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_AshleighMarie_

@blondiewales, I'm pretty sure it's whistle register since how high up I have gone but I would also love for my head voice to be a lot stronger and just expand my range ( not too far, just 2 or 3 notes)

Diego

Yeah like @GuyChan said you should feel a break when you reach whistle. The whole sensation totally CHANGES, whistle feels like you have less space than you would in head since the epiglottis covers the cords. The sounds also becomes a little squeaky

_AshleighMarie_

I have audio of my whistles (I've got up to A7) which is why I thought it was whistle and couldn't be Super Head Voice and when I've sang along with songs that have whistles in them, it sounded like them.

Diego

Send 'em over.

_AshleighMarie_

I just posted an audio clip, it's quite short but it's only of my whistle. Btw I didn't hit A7 in the clip, it's just my highest in the whistle register, but the note in the audio is a G#6 😁