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Singing songs in lower keys - good or bad for your voice???
kylevox1987
2.0 PRO Posts: 39
I'm curious about this...
If we take a song like Sweet Child o Mine.. where a lot of the high notes are head voice (reinforced falsetto in Axl's style)... is it a bad idea lowering the key of the song so that a lot of the high notes then end up being the top end of your chest voice, and maybe stretching that a little further, or is it safer to sing the song higher (in it's original key) so you're going into your head voice where you normally would, rather than stretching your chest voice to hit the high notes (if the song was a lower key).
Hope this makes sense - I guess what I'm saying is - is it more stressful and detrimental to the voice to lower the key of a song like Sweet Child O Mine and is it more stressful on the chest voice or is it all around healthier, less tiring on the vocals to not not have to go right up in your head voice like Axl does?
Hope you can help.
If we take a song like Sweet Child o Mine.. where a lot of the high notes are head voice (reinforced falsetto in Axl's style)... is it a bad idea lowering the key of the song so that a lot of the high notes then end up being the top end of your chest voice, and maybe stretching that a little further, or is it safer to sing the song higher (in it's original key) so you're going into your head voice where you normally would, rather than stretching your chest voice to hit the high notes (if the song was a lower key).
Hope this makes sense - I guess what I'm saying is - is it more stressful and detrimental to the voice to lower the key of a song like Sweet Child O Mine and is it more stressful on the chest voice or is it all around healthier, less tiring on the vocals to not not have to go right up in your head voice like Axl does?
Hope you can help.
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