Why Nasality is Important to Your Singing Progress

[@anatolyFct]

Your shit's legit Sterling. Thanks!

[@VoxRox]

First Gear! I loved that metaphor. Put in the clutch and shift gear to access the higher resonant spaces.

[@SterlingRJackson]

Very true 😊

[@9zhivago]

What a powerful metaphor.

[@musicman940]

I've been watching a bunch of your content and it's all been great in particular with the way you explain things. I took voice lessons during college a couple of decades ago and felt I never even got past how to take a proper breath. I know now, but had your content been available then, it probably would've taken one lesson. This particular video on nasality and voice transitioning is an awesome one. Thanks for putting your teachings out there!

[@SterlingRJackson]

Happy to hear that. 😊

[@ScottyK72]

I’m 52 and only been singing with intent for a couple of years. Before that I never even warmed up my voice. Your videos have helped me immensely in a short amount of time, and I’ve checked out your competition. Thank you for making these 🙏🏼

[@TarzanHedgepeth]

Thank you, Sterling.

[@JohnFraserFindlay]

the gear analogy is great!

[@tjw52x]

Useful to know....can't do it myself, but I get the concept 😄

[@guitpizz]

You can have a lot of volume from the nose without pushing any harder.

[@ronanciarulli800]

Love your Spanish parts/ words lol!!

[@JohnFraserFindlay]

more badass!! more cowbell!!

[@cgonzt5636]

Thanks! You have really good contents, I subscribed! I sounded good in my past test recording singing using my normal voice I grew up with, I mean when you grab the mic and just sing without thinking of anything but to deliver a good song. Though after listening to new proper techniques, such as this one, I realised that I need to re learn to ensure good health and longevity of voice. My problem now with this chest+nasal placement, I begin to sound like a ghost, that whooo-whooo-whooo sound we mimic when we were kids to scare friends. That’s how I sound like in my test recording recently and I feel uncomfortable because I know that is not my real natural voice. Thanks!

[@tinkerbellbetty]

Thanks ❤

[@jeremymozlin]

My new favorite channel! Your lessons are great, and I love the little voices you intersperse throughout the material...because it's probably the same shit I'd do if I were making them! By the way, I can't remember what video it was on, but your advice to drop the larynx when doing a light mix in order to go heavier was absolutely groundbreaking. Thank you for that.

[@SterlingRJackson]

Thanks Jeremy 😊

[@cryptomaniac6926]

Very informative! Thanks Sterling. Really appreciate what you are doing. So i think the nasality is the missing piece for the mixed voice to work. Anyway, can you create another video, on this? Like a step by step guide on how to accomplish this, because when i do it, life i forget my throat and focus on nasality, it feels like it immediately flips into head voice. How do we avoid that? How should it feel? Or how do we visualize it happening:?

[@SterlingRJackson]

Hmmm, that sounds like a common thing. My advice would be to keep practicing and find nasal type singers to practice singing along to. Get to know the space. Also practice keeping your head titled downward when you sing. This helps you better place the voice backwards and up through the nose and head. Keep that jaw out of your sound! 😊

[@mattmusic188]

keep it up maestro! thanks for sharing your singing knowledge. PS first comment - made it! 😀

[@SterlingRJackson]

Ha. Thanks Matt

[@stebolian]

I keep hassling you on old vids as I'm a year out and my issue is how to maintain a full thicker high voice as when I get in the nasal region it thins or even sounds falsetto ish. Every coach including you seem to achieve the higher voice with compression. Is it a lighter compression.

[@coreylalone3670]

You need to do a cover of INXS Mystify. You would do that song amazing.

[@stebolian]

But what's the cords doing ..just placing a sound back or nasal like isn't going to raise the pitch. You need to do something in the throat or voice box to like a fry or compression to get the pitch up. I guess I mean , you need to grab somewhere or something in there to shift gears

[@agabrook]

Hi. Is this the answer to the passaggio?

[@SterlingRJackson]

It’s on of them, yes. 😊

[@Chef_Seph]

5:16 I think you lost 90% of the viewers right here 😂

[@NiniRockX]

If you do the nasal exercise, you do it with a "ng"? Okay, you just mentioned it. I stopped your video for a moment