Has my falsetto been damaged permanently?
boundforlife
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Hello all! I am a professional singer from Florence, AL. I have been through the various pitfalls and growing pains that many other singers have gone through, including being on vocal rest for 6 weeks around 4 years ago! After my voice completely healed I sought out a vocal coach who trained me very well and I learned to sing correctly, especially powerful high notes. But ever since my injury my falsetto has been maybe 50% of what it used to be. any exercises ya'll would recommend to help me possibly get it back? Ken talks about your falsetto atrophy over time if the powerful notes are not grown into. I think I did a fairly good job of pacing myself but my falsetto is still lacking, i miss it! help please!
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@boundforlife,
What Ken talks about atrophying is your upper mid voice. You have to build your chest voice up to the point of not crossing over into head voice until the latest, highest possible note you can manage. This happens in your upper midrange. This area will atrophy if you cave in and go into head voice too early, so we build and strengthen this area of the voice. We keep this register strong, and keep it from atrophy.
Ken also has a program called "Building Head Voice". This program builds a strong, timbral head voice that resembles chest voice in timbre. Falsetto is a form of head voice that is largely unhealthy for the vocal cords, as it is an airy vocalization that does not utilize good cord closure. Once one builds head voice using the timbral method, the head voice is stretched in both an upward and a downward direction, so that the upper chest voice and the lower head voice overlap for the largest number of notes possible. This allows for a massive overlap in range of the two registers. This forms the basis for the strongest mixed voice with the greatest number of options at the ready.
One or Two-octave sliders are often recommended to build the midrange and transitional areas. Practice them in both light and heavy configurations of the voice.
Bob