Nicolas:
A few questions:
1) How old are you?
2) Roughly, do you consider yourself a low, medium, or high male voice? What range do you vocalize in for your "chest" or non-"head" voice?
3) What country are you in?
4) Are you able to vocalise in falsetto? Tell us more about that - range/pitches.
5) What difficulties did you have with the lip trills?
I would quickly add a few brief thoughts...
1) Without getting all complicated about anatomy and muscles, all of "voice" is just the vocal folds vibrating - in chest voice the folds are short and thick, in head voice long and thin. If the vocal folds don't lengthen and thin, one will strain on higher notes.
2) Register "breaks" occur when we try to take maintain a certain configuration beyond where it functions well - a "thick" configuration up too high, or a "thin" configuration down too low. When one has a problem with a break, the tendancy is to focus on the break pitch itself - but likely the problem is several pitches above (if descending) or below (if ascending). If on ascending you "crack" say at e4, you have brought up too much vocal weight and you need to lighten (but not breathy) the production before you get to e4.
3) In "falsetto" the vocal folds are lengthened, but there is a breathiness to the tone because the folds are apart. For young students and those who have difficulty with "head" voice, some teachers feel falsetto is at least initally useful as a way to experience lengthening and an easy feeling up high. However, "head voice" is different from falsetto since the folds are together, and practicing falsetto does not directly lead to "head voice".
Cheers,
Michael Gordon
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