Belting and Mixing

Some of the common things students want from lessons is how to increase their range, how to increase their power, how to belt higher, and how to mix this belt with their upper register effectively. This top belting area is what is known as mix. Belt has many different sounds. It is contemporary (ie, not [...]

Belting #2

So, I have been rereading an article in the Nats Journal of Singing (May June 2007) where Scott McCoy writes about belting “A Classical Pedagogue Explores Belting”. In it he writes about some scientific testing done with students of Robert Edwin. He says: “Almost all of my preconceptions of belting were false.