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The Secret to Belting Easily That Nobody’s Telling You

1108 Vocal Studio

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Creator of the Mix-Belt Method™ - helping singers find a powerful, effortless mix-belt
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Most vocal strain isn't because you lack talent. It's usually just not knowing how your voice actually works or how to develop your mix voice in a healthy way.

If you try to force your vocal cords, you'll just get tense. But if you treat them like a finely tuned instrument, those high notes feel easy. The Mix-Belt Method™ helps singers develop a strong, effortless mix-belt by understanding how the voice is designed to work.

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0:00 - Intro: The 2 secrets the vocal industry hides from you
1:30 - How we got a 100% success rate with the Mix-Belt Method
2:30 - Lie #1: "Squeeze harder" to hit high notes
4:38 - Lie #2: Chest voice, head voice, and the missing "staircase" register
7:25 - Exercise: The Vacuum Cleaner technique
9:43 - Applying the technique to a real song
13:55 - Submit your singing video for a coaching reaction

20 Comments

@irvana1271 2 months ago

i might be out of that 100% rate though

@JoniMIller-ee7cv 2 months ago

Ive been practicing this for a while so I was able to do this right along with you. It's opened up a whole upper range of my voice that I was always afraid to use. Now I'm going up to those high notes all the time and I've discovered that I have a 4 octave range!! 😊😊😊

@bilgebahtiyar 1 month ago

I am a self-trained vocal coach (because I graduated with an opera degree, and opera actually doesn't have much to do with contemporary singing), and your videos just changed my life. I was trying to teach my students how to belt, but somehow we were stuck at some point with a few of them. They usually pull up chest voice too high, and I couldn't figure out how to lighten their voice. Whenever I tried to lighten their voice, they immediately flipped into head voice. But this video made a huge difference in what I think about belting. Even when I'm practicing (I am still learning too, and I will always try to learn for the rest of my life), I was so confused sometimes because of the 'belt' term. So anyways, I am grateful. Thank you for these videos, the internet has a lot of garbage. These videos are the pearls in that huge garbage. Thank you.

@GracieTricks 1 month ago (edited)

I am crying with so much relief and joy. I thought the break was from the thyroid cancer operations I had 20 yrs ago. It took yrs for the hoarseness to settle but then my muscles were weak I think so I just gave up. I few yrs ago I sang in a choir but It was tiring. and again assumed the nice natural tone and range I once had was no longer my voice.
I think the gap between my head and chest - the staircase as you say… -well I’d never been taught how to join them and I had a few different teachers in my teens and twenties.

This exercise has given me so much more than I ever expected.
I’m obsessed. I haven’t even looked to see how many vids you have or… omg 😇😇😇🌈🙏
I spent the arvo thinking about getting antidepressants and now I’m on a natural high!
Thank you, sophie
so very much! 🙏🌈😇

@JeanJamesOfficial 2 months ago

I've been struggling so much to acces my mixed voice, but this has actually helped, thanks!

@86tkobinski 1 month ago

I can't sing but I want to do karaoke to Cucurrucucu Paloma in a Mexican bar and get a standing ovation.

@LiDolly05 1 month ago

Who else felt silly doing the vacuum but once u started putting words in was like, wooowww?? This is great! I followed along the video it really helped!

@vherrerasong 2 months ago

I’m gonna try this on The Goodness of God and I’ll report back how it went!!

@rdnugent1 3 weeks ago

As a classically trained singer, this just feels like a narrowed flipping up into head voice.

@MarinaGaber-s5n 1 day ago

Thank you so much I was tought to put more power into my high notes but his way is showes much more progress!

@11KT11 2 months ago

This is excellent!
I used to do a similar thing with an Ng on a melody and let that guide my voice to where it should to be moving to but once I'd added lyrics I would always lose the placement. But your way already has more of an open, rounder, louder quality to it and still guides you in the same way the Ng does. So good. Thank you!

@Kusola49 4 days ago

Out of all the sound effect mimicry examples I've heard from hundreds of YT coaches, the vacuum takes the cake! I can't thank you enough!

@CatterpillarToButterfly 1 day ago

I definitely still can’t do it properly, I don’t understand physically in my own body where to put it practically speaking, theoretically is fine but in practice I can’t seem to get there anymore. I used to be able to belt so beautifully but I started Testosterone and now I can’t quite seem to be able to figure it out anymore

@JOYCE1990XOXO 1 month ago

You know what's crazy? I was singing "I have nothing" and wanted to sing along to the song. So I went on YouTube, and this was on my suggested videos before I even looked it up. And you're using that song!

@kaoachara 11 days ago

10:12 pinning this for my practice

@andreatrue3054 3 weeks ago

I want to practice this now but I'm at the Laundromat

@Joy-ej1tl 1 month ago

You look like Kelly Clarkson!!

@aliciamarie83 2 months ago

Shoot. I didn’t even know I can actually sing! 🥴

@pepperandi8064 3 days ago

So glad to have found this before my call back audition... IF I get a call back! You're my kind of teacher! Very much like the one I had when I was young and miss very much.