Does switching back and forth between chest and head voice give you anxiety?
You’re not alone. The ability to transition from chest voice to head voice smoothly is the source of a lot of insecurity for many singers. And I don’t blame you! The middle voice can be tricky to negotiate and downright scary without good tools. Hopefully, the following insights will help.
Many singers and voice teachers call this part of the voice “the break” because that’s exactly how it sounds and feels for many: like a fissure in your mechanism preventing you from moving fluidly from one register to another.
Personally, I hate the term “the break.” I don’t use it and I encourage you to toss it out, too. The words we use to talk about our voices are important and using something negative like this is a surefire way to not only induce fear but possibly set you up for failure. If we use the term “break,” that’s exactly the experience we set ourselves up for: a literal chasm between the two different parts of our voice. When we conceive of our voice with a “break” in it, we build in an expectation of interruption and instability that we
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