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Summary: Learn about the belting voice when singing with singing and vocal training tips to avoid vocal cord damage from bad technique in this free online vocal coaching video clip.

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James Meny James Meny has been teaching the "mixed" or middle voice technique for years. He is also trained in the opera and classical styles and has studied extensively... read more

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by ShallaDeGuzman

I wish you can show us how it's done instead of just talk about it.

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by RolandSiegbert

Actually, at the point I am writing this the first 3 videos are the same one, though they are entitled differently.

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About the Belting Voice When Singing

JAMES MENY: There are basically three kinds of voices that are commonly used here in United States which are legit voice, mix voice and belt. Belt's probably the most common that you hear for untrained voices that you hear in most pop music. And what I mean by pop music? It's anything that is not classical or opera. And so let me tell you the differences between the three. In belt, basically what you're doing is you are taking a bunch of air in your lungs and slamming against the chords and the chords have a natural instinct to close because their main function is not to phonate but as a sphincter. Every human being has three sphincters which keep amniotic pressure inside of our bodies in case of a fight-or-flight response. So if you're running from a lion or if you're having to fight off the lion, the anus there behind the testicles or in the cervix area will closed and the throat will close so you get this sound, this ho ho, to fight things off, just like when you lift something heavy. And that's what most people use when they belt. The positive things about the belt is that it doesn't take much training to do it. It actually takes--not almost--we can do it just instinctually. The other is that it gets a nice, big loud sound if you can maintain it or sustain it.

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