Am I doing the warmups correctly?

Roojam

When doing the lip rolls and other basic warmups and moving up the scales my voice wants to naturally break into falsetto at a certain point.  Should I add power and air to prevent this or allow it to break?  My thoughts are that I should add power and this is part of the overall conditioning process. Am I correct?

sspatrick

You don't want your voice to break that is for sure. To maintain chest voice you need to add more support and a little volume to get over the bump. Keep your throat open to Ah and keep the bright tone to your voice. To work on bridging between chest/head voice you need to pull back the volume from the start of the scale so that you can manage the passagio. 2 separate but parallel approaches.

sspatrick

Also you want to cut back the amount of air in your tone. More air gives you the light breathy falsetto tone. Use less air by using a bright natural speaking tone, maintain this over the bridge. Yiu want clean clear full tone.

Roojam

Allowing no break is what I figured was the intent.  

Thanks!  

Roojam

Ah - what i am referring to is "bridging", like you mentioned "bridge", and I found Ken's discussion on my VOL 1 DVD under the Chapter Titled "Intro Into Building the Bridge".

This is such good stuff. I'm simply floored.