How to Get a Thicker, Beefier Mixed Voice (Combine These 3 Steps)

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[@tysonreesmusic]

As soon as he says "exercises" with the rabbit ears, it's time to warn anyone you live with that extremely strange sounds are inevitable for the next 20 minutes

[@chrisliepe]

Indeed!

[@RodKruz]

Huh hah heh!

[@aktv5507]

I live in a house share and they are all cool about me singing but when I was learning how to hit guns n roses it's birth place sounded like a crow and a cat were having a pay per view mma fight in my room. Bless them for accepting that. I also use a tc helicon doubler pedal if I'm tired or ill so I can step off the gas but still sound full.

[@kristinadjokic1481]

Impressive that you keep going without bursting into laughter after hha-he-huh!

[@teamtony9746]

But this dude’s weirs exercised really helped me figure out mixed ❤❤❤

[@DeAguaMusic]

Oh my god, my neighbours can't stop laughing, but I don't give a fuck, this is super helpful and fun! I'm reaching that thicker voice little by little. Thanks as always, Chris!

[@chrisliepe]

You're very welcome!

[@lippi2171]

Lol I once heard one of my neighbors mimicking my singing when I used to practice a lot! Somewhat painful but funny experience

[@Molitoth]

3:39 LOL. You are awesome Chris.

[@kietro8319]

I’ve watched it 7 times, which I’m sure says more about me than it does about Chris.

[@stevengrantofthegiftshop1549]

This wasn't a screaming lesson, but I experimented with these exercises and it's helping me to scream properly FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! It sort of happened by accident!

[@chrisliepe]

Those are the best accidents and way to learn!!

[@Brandovibe]

Great accident! That's how I leaned how to do my AC/DC voice

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

Video game grunting voice-over at 3:39 😂 In all seriousness, this was a great video. Very useful tips.

[@DigitalRelay]

Your teaching is so incredibly effective for several reasons... First, you break things down into manageable chunks that anyone with the basics or better can work on without ever feeling overwhelmed, then move onto the next chunk. Second, you're extremely encouraging but realistic. Anyone can do this stuff, but you'll have to put in the work. Third, you've made it not only okay to sound ridiculous while working on this stuff, but expected, because you lead by example. "If he can do it on KZbin where it'll live forever, surely I can do this in my office or car." The more I've watched your videos and taken your class, the more I realize how uncomfortable I was in the past with any sound coming out of my mouth that I didn't think was pleasing. I've learned that to discover what sounds pleasing, you have to work through a ton of stuff that doesn't. From warmups to exercises to performance. It's not all going to be pretty. Not only is that acceptable, it's a necessary part of it. Embrace it.

[@chrisliepe]

Yes yes yes!!! Thanks so much for the great comment!!

[@ehLeanne311]

@@chrisliepe I'm confused, is it the second head voice or third mixed voice sound that should be leaned on to beef up high notes F4-C5?

[@kjdavis1]

3:39 pretty sure i've heard this exact noise sequence in about 5,000 different fighting games.

[@HotRefuse]

The opening song is Burden In My Hand by Soundgarden in case you're looking for it to practice.

[@facelessgames94]

I've gone from choir boy, to nothing, to gritty open mic-er. Your videos, the few that I've watched, help me alot. Thanks for your amazing content

[@chrisliepe]

You’re so welcome!

[@sonoftyme9789]

Your Cornell covers are awesome. Your voice is incredibly close to the real Cornell take. If I heard it without the video, I would assume it was him. Killer cover at the beginning, great tune.

[@RoganRogers]

This helped me finally find my mix! Thank you so much Chris!

[@H3Y0o]

I have lived a few decades in life and I still can't believe that we are getting these for free. Knowledge should be free Thank you Chris Liepe! Mad respect for you! Edit: Could you also do a song cover for the Soundgarden song that you did in the beginning? It's too darn nice not to be known!

[@analogdistortion2906]

Man if remaining members of Soundgarden wanted to tour you are like the only person who could pull that off.

[@chrisliepe]

That would be my dream come true!

[@frankunodostres473]

check out richie kotzen

[@user-oy7gz5bf2h]

@@frankunodostres473 Or Big Wreck's Ian Thornley.

[@chrisliepe]

@@frankunodostres473 LOVE Kotzen!! Videos coming on him someday!

[@chrisliepe]

@@user-oy7gz5bf2h Big Wreck/Ian Thornley are KILLER!

[@longjohn84]

Freaking nailed that intro song. So good

[@brandonsmith581]

I’ve told you before but thanks so much for these. I like the explanations of how it should feel I always heard use your chest or sing from your belly but never really understood till now.

[@danielteer4471]

I love that you teach based on how singing should "feel" and how that translates to experiencing progress and finding cool new sounds in my voice I never thought existed before!

[@goodmaggie]

Wow Chris, you've opened up a range of colours and textures I didn't know I had. This makes so much sense. You've explained and demonstrated this so well I was able to grab it and run with it. It's also got me supporting my breath better. This will be added to my practice schedule. You are da man!

[@stebolian]

Well back 2 years later and realise i now have found a lighter way to do this. I waa trying to bring the old man up to my mix head. Thanks man ..i will work on this . A new way

[@ikaros110]

exactly the lesson I was waiting for!!

[@tomhanratty6056]

This was a massive breakthrough for me! Muchas gracias. Looking forwards to checking out the rest of the channel

[@neilxpeart]

exactly what I was looking for, thanks Chris!

[@twthathug]

Once again you hit the nail on the head far better than anyone I've heard explain it before. Thank you so much

[@iamjay9410]

I’ve been looking for this video forever👏🏽

[@nick_vanderwood]

This is your best mixed voice video.. really beginning to feel it!!

[@adrianjagerarraya1343]

what an awesome demonstration!

[@dreamcat4]

this was amazing! very cool lesson to follow along with, and it really helped to see at least 1 new way for me, for how to go about improving the otherwise very thin mid and higher tone of my voice. thanks so much! really appreciated this

[@aeolos70]

Always enjoy your videos man

[@Rosannasfriend]

Have to say I haven’t finished the video yet… But I’ve already tried your thing about using the stomach compression from “the old man voice “in your mixed voice and head voice, and it’s already making a huge difference! This is going to change everything for me. Thank you so so so so much! What I get from this is that it’s not really about using more chess voice in your mix in order to achieve “chest“ mix. That’s really a misnomer. It’s just about using your mixed voice with more compassion. That makes so much more sense.

[@doolyskating]

Amazing Cornell cover. The best I’ve ever heard for sure. He was a huge inspiration for me as well!

[@GiantontheMoon]

Me: What does the Fox say? Chris Liepe: Hoo, Haa, Hee Me: Perfection!

[@goodmaggie]

You're so clever Chris in the ways you give us to access and produce these sounds. The unexpected outcome I've had is that I'm supporting my high notes much better with my support dialed in and producing a much bigger voice in the upper part of my register. I feel like a Wagnerian opera singer he he. I like my other head voice too, it has a pure quality. What an abs workout! I can't thank you enough for opening so many doors.

[@jordanheyvaert6204]

This video, and Chris's other videos on mixed voice caused me to unlock my mix voice. I wasn't able to sing in mix before this.

[@rahxx]

Another great video! Your methods are extremely helpful, thank you.

[@peymanfallahiansichani8777]

Man! You are the best teacher I have ever seen! ❤

[@jamiegunn]

Great lesson, and amazing singing. You are the master of communicating the feel of singing.

[@RobertMichael]

This guy is absolutely brilliant

[@Unclejack72]

You are the most incredible speaker - your annunciation, cadence, and mindfulness approach to what you say - the way you articulate - is AMAZING - the best vocal coach I have seen in my 30 years

[@debansuini9600]

OMG!!! Such amazing voice!! My heart is beating and my fingers are tingling

[@joshvalle5521]

oh man your singing in that intro was GOLD, great control, loved the video man, helped out a bunch

[@kelpocoverzzz]

this channels explains so easy, great video!

[@DigitalRelay]

Vocal teaching gold, Jerry.

[@codycriswell]

Chris you’re a badass. I watch almost all of your videos, and this stuff works. 🤘🏽

[@imanoljesusdelpozo4907]

My dude! This is exactly what I’ve been exercising for like the past month with my teacher, it’s as if I had requested this to you. Thank you so much

[@chrisliepe]

You're so welcome!!

[@FlowRen]

I've really enjoyed your teaching methods, I've definitely learned a lot from you, keep up the great work ❤️

[@woodoyoy]

This is what I discovered not long ago. You have to develop compression in head voice, otherwise there's nothing to mix with the chest voice

[@chrisliepe]

YES YES

[@ronjcharity]

have been working on dynamics and emotion last couple years - breathing, pitch and range were a focus for a long time linking chest, head and falsetto using scales etc. we have the same taste in music :) im doing acoustic solo past few years to round out my skills...guitar has taken a back seat.

[@jeremiahagravante5454]

And it's all Soundgarden... And i love it Chris...

[@ilmizarnanda]

Chris,i can't thank u enough.ur tutorial really help me.i started really into singing when covid kicks in january 2020.i'm 25 yrs old,i never received vocal training before.and now,at least i can sing much better than before.

[@TheColdrush22]

This is absolutely amazing.

[@LeslieWojszak]

I'm so glad I found your channel, your approach to teaching really works better than any other I've tried. Thank you so much for the videos! It would be awesome to see you breakdown the style of Burton Cummings (the Guess Who), the songs: Share the Land, Hand me Down World and American Woman.

[@barryhoward4205]

That was an excellent lesson!

[@FreedyMercuryForEver]

I've been following your channel for some time now and I'm leagues better now than when I started, 1/ for the FREE amazing content sure but also, 2/ just from finding inspiration for my voice in the nuggets of knowledge that you drop here and there throughout your videos. Honestly Chris, this is million-subscriber channel in the making, it's got it all ! I was there at 10K, I'll be there at 1M. Thank you so much and keep up the good work !

[@chrisliepe]

I appreciate your continued engagement and I'm so glad you're learning and being inspired!

[@dougie2150]

Great cover at the beginning!

[@Mike-ye6sl]

I swear Chris,you making it clear as (I dont know who)) Much thanks for your info that most of people can easily manage vocal techniques because of you

[@mestacey8120]

Thank you so much! Very interesting! So useful! Great!

[@sciexp]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@aimeetigar]

Finally something my brain can understand. It has been a matter of muscle interpretation and you had definitely open my eyes 🤯

[@DragonBiscuit]

Awesome video - extremely well explained

[@whatevsimbulletproof]

Thanks so much Chris! I wanted to sing since i was a kid. With your help I feel like I'm really getting somewhere!

[@chrisliepe]

Glad i could help =D

[@kerrylynnzahradka5027]

This is incredible and helps so much

[@JamesCastadyKristament]

So good. Thanks Chris.

[@ricklesshorse8159]

YOU ARE AN AMAZING SINGER!!

[@georgehenderson1756]

Hi Chris. You really explain singing very well. I'm a hard case. This lesson on getting a thicker sound, I believe will with practice, get me to finally; getting a mixed voice with understanding what I'm doing. And sound, good. Thank you greatly.

[@janelleagda3345]

Wow. Amazing! It really works.

[@mrburtblinker]

Just what I was looking for with my previous comment! Thanks!

[@Robrette74]

This is good. I experimented and felt what you were talking about. I’ll continue exploring.

[@-byko-8423]

This cat is a freakin' GENIUS! Love this channel ❤

[@AngelaJohnson-ex7mc]

Awesome lesson; immensely helpful. Thank you so much.

[@christiansmakingmusic777]

As always, Chris, thanks for making all of this seem so possible. I’m kind of gathering videos from all across the web on mix. I’m noticing a tremendous number of similarities in what is being said. Basically, our chest voice is often the strongest at first because it sits down where “shortener” muscles dominate, and they get used a lot there. We all one day discover we have “another” voice that is higher. This voice almost always starts out sounding really thin because the “lengthener” muscles ten to thin out the chords, but the “shorteners” are not able to keep the chords bulky against the tension. At the highest end, it becomes literally impossible to have a true “chest” timbre, these CT and TA muscles (along with many others in the system) have to learn to balance and can only do so when enough practice has trained them in their place to do so. The other issue seems to be the aryepiglottic sphincter, which can give huge resonance boosts as the sound head toward the soft palate. There are also the forms that boosts. Overall, I suspect that vocal pedagogy is on the verge of some pretty significant anatomically driven understandings of how to build the human voice to its full potential.

[@dialogicmusic5879]

Really helpful, Chris, thank you. For me it highlights that the feel of compression in mix is a bit different from the feel of compression in chest, and it'll be good to lean into that awareness in my practice. I'm working through your Mixed Voice Method and Madness course at the moment, so this is a really timely extra lesson!

[@chrisliepe]

Yes! Nailed the connection!

[@-breakofdawn-]

After watching this video I’m not worried anymore about what my neighbours might think of me. 😁 Thank you for that!

[@evananderson4299]

Chris you are friggin awesome I love you you’re cool as shit not tryna be weird but how open you are to put yourself out there is very inspiring

[@kelvinthein111]

Chris singing chris, beautiful 😁

[@samsancheziii]

15:16 That was a good HAW!! 😂 This guy is the best. 👏🏻💯

[@8odycount]

I always had the opinion, either you can sing or not. but with these videos I learned, why my voice was sometimes better and sometimes not. I am talking about live gigs. I make music since 27 years. I also learned, that you still can improve on your voice. But I always want to sound authentic still.

[@fancythebold]

This helped alot!

[@PolivetsAlex]

Great, man!

[@billykennedy8058]

Wow you must be a mind reader exactly what I've been battling I'm sure it will help with "" unchained melody "" THANK YOU "" CHRIS""

[@Joshbrewer32]

Hey Chris your videos are awsome and a great inspiration ive learned so much from you over the years. I have a video request on the topic of getting your band to tune down to better fit you voice. One thing thats always held me back and made me tense was i would always try to sing songs out of my vocal range where my voice wasnt comfortable so i always thought i was a bad singer even though i felt i had good technique. I had a vocal instructor suggest this to me once and the problem was i couldn't get people on board to tune down its some weird stigma i guess with musicians. Usually the differnce between a tenor and a baritone was just a couple notes and as a guitar player ive noticed certian bands playing down in C standard tuning. I started transposing songs by playing what i would play in a e standard With my guitar tuned to C standard. I was able to better sing the songs i couldnt before with more comfort and freedom and it gave me alot more confidence with my voice. I think this would be a good topic for people who belive they have the so called baritone curse or feel they just arnt good enough to sing cause they cant sing high when really its about singing with freedom and quality. Its really not a common topic anywhere and I think it coming from you it would help this stigma cause i know when i was lost in my journey i would come to youtube channels like yours for inspiration and guidance. Thanks Chris keep up the good work!

[@kelvinsalomonsklingenfuss5650]

I f*cking love you Chris!! This is exactly the video I have been wondering about for like 3 months, and now the whole picture got way clearer! Thank you very much, and, yes, as everyone said, your cover at the beginning was stunning. I'm hella curious to see you performing "Show Me How to Live"! :D

[@chrisliepe]

I've done Show Me How To Live a bunch live... SUPER fun song to sing... not recordings of it yet though! Maybe soon. Glad you liked the video and in the intro :)

[@kelvinsalomonsklingenfuss5650]

@@chrisliepe Sounds good! Definitely looking forward to this recording! That's the very first song that dragged me into CC's stuff, always nostalgic for me! Also, seems like another wonderful example of the concepts presented on this video. :)

[@kroyerucla]

GENIUS.

[@LightCyrus]

Nailed the Chris Cornell vox. Damn.

[@PulseX10N]

Best song ever!

[@waderzr]

Chris...this incredible! I drove from LA to LasVegas and did Huh, ha, hee the entire trip - to Soundgarden. My "hees need some work. I'll practice more before moving on to the next lesson.

[@frankunodostres473]

I jumped up when I heard burden in my hand. that's when I knew this would be a good one :D

[@BVNmusic]

bro you're like pro pro pro. inspiring.

[@jakedaniel3763]

With your videos, I’ve learned the singing is about layering sensations, rather than aiming for a sound.

[@chrisliepe]

Yesssssssss

[@Mithrandier]

You are a god send

[@itspabbs]

This just came up in my feed. Damn that was a great Soundgarden cover!

[@chrisliepe]

Thank you!

[@neosonic08]

3:39 My first real LOL moment after watching 100 hours of his videos. Amazing video as always.

[@tigermccarthy359]

Love the cornell videos. Could you possibly dive deeper into his early singing techniques with songs like tears to forget and the early version of heretic from the deep six album?

[@jameslagramada-dp7rn]

Great tnx..

[@beehype46and2]

Comment for da algorithm Streak count: 92 8 left until 100 🎉

[@chrisliepe]

So close!!

[@mishaelvasko418]

Reply for da algorithm Streak count: 1... Honestly I lost purpose to continue replying, anyways I'll comment and watch every next video, they are amazing. Stay cool)

[@eddie-sf7hn]

Your singing technique is amazing. I've discovered a way to learn how to learn other musician's charisma, which is the missing link. I'd love to show it to you, and maybe we see Soundgarden live again.

[@JulianManzara]

We need a loop of 15:45 X) Thanks for another GREAT Lesson!

[@TemperedLion]

Transitioning resonances is definitely the hardest part for me! Been trying to figure out how much compression and air to use for each note lol.

[@zeynoben9196]

8 aydır bu Allahın belası Mix ses kafa sesiyle uğraşıyorum.Hatta şu sıralar ses tellerim mahvolmuṣ durumda .Fakt ilk defa bir eğitmenin bu olayı bu kadar iyi anlattığîna denk geldim.Muhteṣemsiniz❤sizi tebrik ederim.Bir Türk sözü vardîr, "Kişi ancak kendisi çok iyi biliyorsa, bir başkasına öğretebilir"You're amazing❤

[@chrisgoodrich46]

I mean hey man at least you're making learning to sing entertaining. Tbh I really like this channel lol. I like to practice singing in my garage and sometimes I make noises like these and throw it around my voice. It's like you can't help it lol

[@jonathansmith4525]

This is great content, but also one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. 😂🤣

[@accousticlee9843]

Opening vocal is killer