How to get rid of a nasally head voice?

Question

When I sing in head voice, it sounds fine but I recorded myself and it sounds kind of nasally. I asked my friend and she agreed, so how do I make it not sound like that?

Answer 1

wats a hed voice?

Answer 2

breath from your diaphram. that means that when you inhale, your stomach pushes out and when you exhale, it goes in.  

Answer 3

When you speak you should feel a vibration if you put your hand on your chest.  You may not feel this if you have a naturally 'nasal' tone - but play around and see if you can make your chest cavity resonate when you speak or sing.  (It helps if you think of the sound coming from there and if you choose lower notes too sing - just to get the feeling.)

Words also play a part.  American speach is naturally quite nasal so you have to make the vowels more neutral.  Try speaking like a posh old english woman and then try and use that same accent when you sing.  It should give a deeper resonancy to the sound which should level out the nasal quality a bit.

Don't forget though that the nasal qualities of the voice help with focus and brightness of sound so it is not altogether a bad thing - you just need to learn to mix it with some more mellow, deeper qualities of the voice to gain a richness of sound.  Just try singing from a deeper, more physical part of your body rather than just you head and mouth.

Answer 4

Practice singing laying on your back.  It'll force you to use your abdomen more - that's where you should be singing from.

Some people have nasal voices due to their nasal cavities (Barbara Streisand, Barry Manilow) and the only real way to correct it is surgery (which both above chose not to have).

Good luck.

Answer 5

You keep your mouth shut.