To: <vocalist>
Subject: MOUTH VOICE
Date sent: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:29:11 -0200
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I've been reading a lot about chest voice, head voice and falsetto here ( I'll be sending some considerations upon these two last ones next ), but noone talks about mouth voice. I have a video: 'The Ultimate Beginner Series- Rock Vocals- Step One, with tim Bogert', from DCI Music Video, where he
says that the best-quality voice is the mouth voice, which is the one that's projected to the mask, so that it gets that resonance. He says that the chest voice is mostly used in the chorus and, although he refers to the head voice, he doesn't really say when he would use it.

My singing teacher, who has the best male voice I've ever heard in my whole life, confirms that it is the best-quality voice one can develop, since the chest and head voices don't have the same harmonics produced by the mouth voice. He says that many vocalists avoid that because it's too hard to
achieve. I had a teacher who taught so-called 'speech-level singing' and she wouldn't let any student sing his/her AH's with a mouth voice, and would teach to change the resonance of some vowels from mouth to head voice as we went to upper notes. Many teachers seem to do that ( at least here in
Sao Paulo, Brazil ). although my teacher can sing his AH's with a mouth voice with great quality. He says that most prog metal singers use the head voice, but people like Sebastian Bach, from the late Skid Row, and Joey Tempest, from the also gone Europe, used the mouth voice, and I can hear the
difference.

what can you say about that?

Best Regards,
Caio