Hey Owen,

Thanks for the feedback!
I try to sing at least one hour a day, even if it isn't formal practise. I also sing whennever i do something repetitive, like household chores. As my spare time has shorten and my voice progressed, i no longer take one full hour to warm up, and can warm up singing a handful of good songs with a progressive difficulty.

How passagio works for me is i would say twofold.

In the first stage of my training, i have discovered mixed voice. It was an epiphany, but the process of strenghteninng it was a bit slower.
This was about half a year ago :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKqb0eAZqU

In the meantime, i found myself that the support training for mixed voice unlocked my pure chest voice, and allowed me to push it far beyond what i thought i could. Unfortunately, my belting peaks around C5, and even if i have tried a couple of monthes to extend it higher, the result was systematically that my larynx would go high and my body telling me its wrong.

Somehow, i have trained with Phil a lot of mixed voice but so far, but so far, the quality of my mix was not on par with my usual chestpulling sound.

The "sls" exercice (i will defs do a video, but you also can ask Phil), ie trying to phonate a staccato sequence with a connected chest voice but as light as possible helped me tremendously to avoid vocal tract shifting while belting, which in my opinion is the MAIN problem regarding high, spready belting.

Since two monthes, i have tried to develop a more chiaroscuro type of mix (that you can hear on Journey). I always had difficulty with this sound, because i often find it energy consuming in terms of support while the result is often a heady sound that does not fit with heavy rock singing.

I Skyped ans asked Phil because at that point (two monthes ago), i was feeling a plateau. I either could scream a C5 in pure chest or being left with a light mix that was not wrong for pop (well, not all pop singers actually ^^) but not strong enough for rock.

We have gone to a training process that is quite similar to Bel Canto. He showed me how to have this darker sound while keeping a bright edge and not sounding like an agonizing dog, although you eventually will sound like a dying dog when you train your chest voice that way :-).

I think that i also gained a lot of freedom and consistency through the progressive removal of my French accent. Man, i just listened to my former Nirvana cover, and i really can do it better now, especially on the verses where my accent is still very noticeable. Its crazy how a hint of accent makes the whole thing sound amateurish...

For the editing, i will try what you just say. Although i initially wanted the voices to be not fully adjusted (to imitate the original feeling of Kurt being pissed), i did not expect one vocal line to be THAT long lol. I will try to make it fade before the other line. Maybe i should also decrease the compression ratio so that the voice doesn't disappear in one go?

Hey Owen,

I deleted one vocal line at the end, and i like the result. Thats what i did on Smells like teen spirit and the result sounded cool as well to my ears.

I am uploading a video showing the exercices that really helped me and how i tackle difficult songs. But its on YouTube and it takes aaaaages to upload... Is there a way to share it without having a fifteen hours uploading time?

@ Sexy Beast, yep, the girls love it

@ Phil : i have indeed to work on resonance indeed. I don't know if you guys noticed but my talking voice is quite shallow and lacks a ringy tone, so i haven't this natural masky voice some people already start with. What you said in your video Phil is very true about resonance and power. When i increase power, my resonance sets in, but i am often losing it when i sing with less level of effort.