Frustrating buzz in my head voice (with recording)
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I have a very frustrating crackling or rasp or fry or something similar in my head voice that I haven't been able to shake off. It's the most apparent around A4 to B4 and the range that you can hear in the recording. When I go lower in my head voice then it just starts to get entirely distorted instead of that constant buzz. I guess for the distortion I just need to find a somewhat different feeling in the throat to sustain the right resonance without distorting the sound, and I guess it is supposed to feel different than the correct resonance in higher head voice. But nothing I can think of seems to get rid of that buzz for when it's not distorted or breaking up. The buzzing problem keeps happening throughout the recording as I try to replicate it, but is the most persistent leading up to and after 0:58 in the recording.
Here's a link to the recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19J4ToYdjWCrCUgUrf0xPlZeJs2oyfaVB/view?usp=sharing
Here's a link to the recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19J4ToYdjWCrCUgUrf0xPlZeJs2oyfaVB/view?usp=sharing
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You’ll notice all the exercises start low, & you ascend with scales or arpeggios. As you get to the top of your range, this becomes difficult. Essentially you need to start using different muscles, & you need to blend these.
This is a SLOOOWWWW process! Months, even years of work!
I’d suggest doing the exercises. Start with the lower notes. As you start getting higher, go much much lighter. You’ll feel things changing in your throat. If it feels strained or sounds strange, you’ve not got it right. But be patient!
Hope that helps!
I do feel like it could be too much air. I'm not finding it difficult though. The way I produce that kind of a fry in parallel to my voice in my chest voice is by relaxing the voice more until it appears, but not so much that the base tone breaks up - just like it sounds near the end of the recording. I'm struggling to find info on which parts of the voice exactly create that extra sound, so I've ran out of ideas on what else to try to tweak in the sensation.
@charlie_v The head voice exercises start at A5 and go down. I guess that's because we want low head voice to resonate just like high head voice. Strange that you say my recording sounds like my vocal cords are strained, as the extra fry sound appears when I relax more, or so I believe. Or maybe I've been unknowingly mixing up the feeling of relaxation with letting more air through. I don't know, it feels like that sound comes in without my control.
To my ears, it sounds like the second sound is coming from the vocal cords. Something
seems to be wrong but I can't tell what. What lead up to this and does it ever go away?
You may want to get it checked out by an ENT.
Ken on how to heal and restore the voice
Perhaps the collagen and glutathione he recommends would help?
Herés what many anomalies sound and and look like though I wouldńt
say any of them is identical to your recording.
Larynology 101
Best get a doctors view on this.
If you're really relaxed, a wonder if something is flapping around, which may be causing the sound.
what happens in chest voice? Do you get a nice clear sound with good glottal compression? What about at the lower levels of head voice? Does it occur there?
If not, then I wonder if you could try and compress a bit more as you go up to the higher levels of your head voice, and see if this helps?