Difference Between
Chest Voice And Head Voice
The biggest problem among singers isn’t
being able to hit those higher notes, hold a note for
longer, or deliver more volume. It is something much more
complicated and tricky: blending or “bridging” their chest
voice and head voice. So what is the difference between
chest voice and head voice?
Head Voice vs
Chest
Voice
The head and the chest are the two most common resonating
areas. Try placing your hand on the top part of your chest
(your sternum, or breastbone) and singing a note from the lower
end of your range. Can you feel a slight vibration? Now, try
singing in a high pitch. Where is the vibration now? It should
feel as if the vibration is in your eyes, nose, even your
forehead.
This is because your chest voice and head voice are actually
in different registers. When you produce sounds that resonate
in the top of your chest or throat, your vocal cords vibrate
along their full length, produce long sound waves of a low
pitch. When you produce sounds that resonate in your head, the
ends of the vocal cords close off until only one-third their
length is free to open and close. As a result they move much
more rapidly, producing short sound waves of a high pitch.
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You also have a middle voice. This is when about half the
length of your vocal cords is free to vibrate. The best singers
can move seamlessly between their chest voice, middle voice,
and head voice. When you can do this, your voice is said to be
connected.
You can think of the range from head voice to chest voice in
this way.
- twang
- opera
- sob
- belt
- speaking
The top represents the strongest head voice, while the
bottom of the list, your speaking voice, is almost entirely a
chest voice. Some think of the middle voice as somewhere
between #3 and #4—an excited and forceful sob, or a softer
belt. Notice that the “type” of voice does not have a direct
relationship to how high or low you are singing. You can sing
the exact same pitch with your chest or your head voice.
However, each type of voice adds a different quality to your
singing.
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