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Unit 1 · Find the flip

Two voices

Hear your voice's two sounds, chest voice low and speech-like and head voice high and hooty, then hold a "ho" below your flip and a "hoo" above it. Free.

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What it teaches

Your voice has two sounds: chest voice, low and speaking-like, and head voice, high, light and hooty. A yodel flips between them.

A gear change. Chest voice: the vocal folds thick and short. Head voice: thin and stretched

"ho" below your flip. Chest buzzes

"hoo" above it. Head floats, light and quiet

What you sing

  1. Find "ho" low in chest voice, then "hoo" up high, light. Each note waits until you find it.
  2. Hold "ho" in chest voice, easy and low.
  3. Now "hoo", light and easy, above your flip: 4 beats. If your voice cracks on the way, you found it; a light voice may waver a little, and that's fine.
  4. Sing "ho" then "hoo" once more, and hear yours beside the guide's.

Singing safely

Voices that are still breaking should wait before yodeling. Keep every flip light and at a medium volume, land gently, and stop if anything tightens, tickles or hurts.

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