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Your voice’s natural tone may be clean or breathy, and certain musical styles may demand one or the other. In this video, Jeannie Gagné shows you how to get the appropriate tone out of your instrument for the style you’re singing.
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About Jeannie Gagné:
Jeannie is a world-class vocalist who has been teaching vocal lessons and performing for more than three decades. She has sung with Philip Glass, Cher, toured with reggae legend Frankie Paul, and opened for Barenaked Ladies. She has sung on movie soundtracks and on dozens of recordings, been featured on television and radio, and traveled worldwide to teach and perform. On KZbin she's known as The Vocal Genie. Her three solo albums highlight her four-octave range and unique vocal style. Jeannie also co-founded Berklee College of Music’s Performance Wellness Institute, where she is a professor on the voice faculty. She is the author of two groundbreaking books, Your Singing Voice: Contemporary Techniques, Expression and Spirit; and Belting: A Guide to Healthy, Powerful Singing.
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[@writerforlifeify]

The breathy voice IS my instrument & I'm not a singer. Simply talking at length exhausts me physically more than anything else no matter how strenuous the activity. Every syllable I utter rides an involuntary cushion of air, so basically I leak all the freaking time!

[@anissa533]

writerforlifeify me too and I feel so exalted after singing. Sometimes I feel like passing out lol but not funny😩

[@franciscleary6544]

Try engaging your epiglottal sphincter, haha! It's easy, it happens when you hum. Start with the mouth closed and then just keep that with the mouth open, so you can hum with the lips together and then keep the hum when the lips come apart. That'll seal it up so not as much air comes out. We don't need as much air coming through the vocal folds when we speak or sing as we think so feel a little compression build up at the front end of the air going through the vocal Folds and then see how quite powerful sounds can be made without a lot of air coming through.

[@Bonzi_Buddy]

Breathy voice is trash.

[@meera1609]

Jungkook and Billie made me fall in love with breathy voices & that's the reason why I am here,to learn that angelic type of singing style💜💜💜

[@evawhitty8091]

Billie Eilish does has a breathy voice but she still sounds really good

[@billiefanacc3357]

Simply Evie yessss

[@skye7489]

@Alana excuse me?

[@alizapya]

Billie a Eilish is amazing love her sound! The concern is that this tone may not be sustainable long term, especially when she is touring. After hearing a couple of recent performances (of ocean eyes and of when the party’s over), in these particular performances she struggles to hit both super low and high notes, I wonder if it is healthy long term to sing so breathily. She sounds as though she needs to rest her voice for a wile, touring seems to have taken its toll on her.

[@taipearson4677]

@Alana you tried.

[@user28853]

Simply Evie this is why i watch this haha

[@veronicamuha2293]

lmao my breathy voice is literally the worst XD i could take vocal lessons, but i've waayyy too low of self-confidence/esteem for that

[@WitchOnABroomstick]

Hey im having a really breathy voice too, i think your problem is the same as mine: close your lyrnix! This makes a huge diffrence. Also in tone-wise. Hopefully this will help you

[@millenyborg9875]

Same

[@utube9000]

@serendipity And how the hell do you close your larynx?

[@cheahboii]

Trust me singing lessons will help you come out of your shell and gain confidence! I’ve been doing them over a year and they’ve helped me so much

[@williamamos1716]

Fun lesson! That rush you get from singing never grows old. 😀👍 Thank You.

[@5pointrun918]

Great point on singing "breathy" but maintaining good technique to let a little breath out! That method is covered in the Superior Singing Method (I did a little review on my channel). Thanks for the video!

[@samuelcolt1505]

This is how I like to sing

[@turtle3341]

i had too much air in my voice when speaking and wanted a solution, stumbled on this and man, never knew airy sounds can be so cool

[@kevinpeach8129]

How do I sing quietly with a clean tone? I have good breath support (I stand with a straight, balanced posture) and can get a clean tone when I belt or even just sing but to have a quiet kind of acoustic voice, my voice is too breathy. How do I fix that?

[@jeanniegagne9182]

Air support, letting your vocal folds come together efficiently -- you can practice by making very small cat sounds, puppy sounds, even a whine will show you :)

[@Alpha-Andromeda]

Jeannie Gagne this is why you come across as clowns. What kind of response is that? You don’t even prescribe for how long to do the sounds, if pitch should be changed and most importantly WHY cat whines or puppy whines would make a difference for an acoustic breathy voice. So you’re just a clown. And that’s a waste of time for us. And bad sales for your Berklee Online program. Which is extremely expensive. Expensive clowns.

[@user-dc8kr5wk2j]

Involuntary airy voice is one of the result of loose vocal cord, there are pre exercises singers do to help that to tighten their vocal cord and make fuller sound and one of the most effect exercise is doing bubbly do re mi with a closed mouth and pitching it up and down

[@user-rm7rj3ff5i]

@@Alpha-Andromeda i think that Jeannie might have a point because when i go to my singing lessons my teacher always tells me to make animal sounds before I sing because animal’s sounds come in naturally and we should sing naturally! i hope this helped ik that i’m not a professional singer or anything lol. well stay safe and happy thanksgiving!! 🍁🧸🤎

[@huss2600]

Sing a bratty nay like a kid going NAH NAH NAH, make sure its whiny. This compresses the voice in a healthy way where not much air comes out. If that doesn't work its probably your breathing, you might be not managing your air efficiently for example allowing your ribs to collapse into body or taking a expansive breath from the bottom of your belly. Hope this helps.

[@iceberry6250]

but why does its easier to sing a song when im singing with a breathy voice,and i can hit the right notes too?

[@donkeykong6626]

imo singing in breathy voice is harder then singing normally

[@dalokasoka2393]

Same

[@alexis_1077]

Lol same, I kinda find it more easy to sing with a breathy voice too

[@renegade_0886]

I get you. I do the breathy voice thing and I can hit whatever notes I want to and get good vibrato but I can't do the same with the normal voice.

[@tidl1200]

fr cuz when i try to sing "cleanly" i struggle controlling my voice and sometimes i be having voice cracks lmao

[@katewright632]

I love how you said flubble, it happens to me because I usually go to my head voice. i'm glad there's a name for it and it's kinda normal.

[@Jy.Ibarra]

That 2:00 is my freaking problem How I suppose to rid that, like when I sang lower notes it's like I'm at electric fan..

[@leaksnips4u271]

SAME

[@boltbadblades5247]

Breath support, you need to make sure your supporting your breath through your whole range

[@JohnK222inf]

Ray Lamontagne has a solid baritone breathy vocals..

[@bulletproofscoutboysarmy8507]

your voice is amazing 😍

[@sofskyo]

Armyyyyyy

[@uwujun3720]

@@sofskyo I came here because Jungkook has breathy voice. Haha. Ive heard "singing in a breathy sound can cause vocal problem" is just a myth.

[@chrisshorten4406]

I actually find the sound of a breathy singing voice to have a slightly more soothing quality to it.

[@theramseyclark]

These videos are amazing!

[@Foundedbyelly]

I actually love breathy voices! Like melanie Martinez

[@kadenshoemaker6669]

Mid singer and she isnt a good person she was accused of being a pedophile

[@11humss_carlosdanieljoyoho91]

the pov of Ariana grande is so different i can't get the airy what is that? a falsetto or chest?

[@scottfishkind5335]

You rock Jeannie!

[@jajajhump]

When I say breathy voice, I am meaning Mariah Carey's voice!!!

[@tylermills4812]

SAME

[@haroldelliott7845]

Is breathy singing when your breathing out while singing?

[@gojames1239]

Harold Elliott no

[@ono_o_o]

I'm... pretty sure you need to breath out to sing in the first place

[@gergelyozsvar9890]

Thank you! : )

[@christiansmakingmusic777]

It was almost like the trained singer in her had to suppress a gag reflex when admitting that breathy singing can be desirable. Messi de voci. Think pretty much everyone’s voice can be developed into its full range of dynamic expression and range using proper technique. Thought she sounded great both breathy and clean.

[@bryanbadonio3849]

Mariah Carey has a beautiful breathy voice.

[@lorlooney1520]

This is helpful

[@mohammed14155]

i have voice like in (1.22)minutes what i do ?

[@enfpflower5751]

How to do a clean tone?

[@thecouncil8973]

U can start watching classical music performances. The greatest technique my instructor told me is imagining like ur having a typical conversation w someone. So, when u sing, u make it as if u r talking to a person but with rhythm. Also, u can relax ur throat/larynx by not overusing it and switching to chest tone or perhaps ur diaphragm voice.

[@peggypiercefield5188]

Sing out your nose.

[@mokuho]

My voice is airy and weak!😔

[@sophiecheung8379]

Jungkook has a breathy voice and it is the most perfect sound in the world.

[@luniisolar.]

Thats y i came here lol. To learn how the hell he does that 😂💜

[@jayeshv867]

I was thinking about him too

[@maff_cr]

My voice is naturally like that and I hate it 😢

[@RobiFM90]

Breathy voices are nice. Relax!

[@sumathijai6251]

@@RobiFM90 well, it restrains me from going to lower notes, all that comes out is air While everyone else gets the "grudge" kind of a voice, I just get... air?? I mean, I can't reach very high or low notes *because* of it I think you got it-

[@Owen-km5bt]

wait im leaking?

[@timothyfreeman97]

Yes.

[@knighthand]

👍

[@MrFree-vj8qj]

mix it up!

[@RonCecchetti]

Don't flubble

[@liliashort1688]

Ron Cecchetti o

[@nayaleezy]

1:51 what happened here?

[@zach54]

*Selena Gomez has a breathy voice*

[@lilinix7711]

I love breathy voice because of billie eilish lol

[@Curse_of_the_moon]

‘Not trained sound’ the disrespect is real.