Empowerment Through Singing: Belt Voice Training: Recent Episodes
Dr. Christin Bonin
Raise your voice! Empower yourself through a strong, loud voice. Belting out a song in pop, rock, soul, musical, jazz: You can do it! Learn how to use your belt voice without screaming or yelling. Your unique power voice is only a few steps away. Start today!
It's Christmas Time! Too busy to train your belt voice? Doesn't matter, just keep singing! Would you like to create your own Christmas song? Here is an easy trick! Have fun! And don't forget: My books are great Christmas gifts! Just go to my website and check out my special offers!
You like my song? You can download my songs on my songwriter-website
Merry Christmas! Stay safe and be well, yours
Christin Bonin
There comes a day, you are not satisfied anymore to sing cover songs – you need to sing your own song for your unique voice. As a singer/songwriter, you need a singer persona, the perfect range, and the exceptional grain of YOUR voice. I would like to help you to find this grain of your voice. Listen to this podcast episode to find out more.
Prepare your voice by training it with belt voice training and check out my special offer to get the book for FREE. You can find more exercises in my online shop.
Intro: Excerpt of "More than you know" sung by Christin Bonin
End: "Listen" sung and played live by Christin Bonin
With this exercise, you can learn how to belt out a melody reaching from your lower belt voice register to your upper belt voice register.
To learn this exercise in detail, go to my website https://www.christinbonin.com, visit my online shop and download the mix belt exercise.
Don't hesitate to ask for help by email.
Happy belting!
In this episode I will show you how to reach the highest tone of this song with a belt sound, how to prepare your voice for this tone and how to develop your high belt sound without screaming. More exciting belting exercises are available in my ONLINESHOP. For further help, just send me an Email
It's summertime! Go out partying and having fun and SING! If you like to read about Belt Voice Training lying on the beach, check out the new edition of BELT VOICE TRAINING – exclusively on AMAZON KINDLE – NOW AVAILABLE!
If you prefer the printed book, go on my website to get a special offer with free shipping! You can download more Exercises in my onlineshop or ask for private coaching.
Happy Singing! Yours, Christin Bonin
You would like to sing like Amy Winehouse? Then train your voice with Belt Voice Training! Here is my complete warm-up for you to train your low-belt sound in a healthy and powerful way. Download your personal warm-up on www.christinbonin.com for only $2.99 in my online shop. For private coaching just send me an email.
Happy Belting!
Lady Gaga's song "Shallow” demonstrats her incredible belt voice at its best. I will show you, how you can train your belt voice to sing the refrain and explain to you, why voice placement, voice support and respiration are so crucial for your belt voice and especially to sing this song. New exercises are available in my Online-Shop. Subscribe to my NEWSLETTER to learn more about my 10-Minute-Feedback-Sessions, Workshops and free-of-charge Q&A Sessions.
Next Podcast Episode at the beginning of JULY.
Happy Belting! Yours, Christin Bonin
The bridge of A Million Dreams is the perfect example to demonstrate the importance of voice placement. Train your own voice placement with a really cool exercise from my Online Shop – just download it on your mobile phone and exercise whenever and wherever you want to. next FEEDBACK Session for free on June 01, at 6 pm CEST. Subscribe to my NEWSLETTER to learn more about it!
Pink's Version of "A Million Dreams" is not so easy to sing. I will give you some tipps & tricks! Additionally, I recorded two very cool exercises to train your vocal sound for this and many other great songs and put them in my Online-Shop for you. And don't forget to subscribe to my NEWSLETTER.
Happy belting, yours Christin Bonin
Ariana Grande has a really great belt voice and a lot of musical talent. But the most important is that she remains true to herself and her unique belt sound. What a big personality!
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Belt Voice Training exercises to prepare for my next podcast episode about PINK are HERE and in my NEWSLETTER you can find special offers for workshops und indiviual vocal lessons
Happy Belting!
Yours, Christin Bonin
Did you know, that your life expectancy will grow if you sing?
"But I have no talent!," I hear you say, but that's wrong.
Listen to this episode and you will know, why.
New exercises available in my online shop and
Special offers in my Newsletter.
Happy singing! Yours, Christin Bonin
Today's subject is Relative Hearing, which every great singer and musician like Harry Styles needs. With my first exercise, you can train to recognize the standard pitch.
Additionally, this exercise will also be a mood barometer in your daily life. DOWNLOAD it for your daily life balance!
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Have fun and enjoy singing!
Charlie Puth has the perfect pitch. He can sing tones just by reading a melody or knowing the tone's name without any other musical context. This ability to hear the absolute correct basic frequency of a musical tone is also called absolute hearing. I will also explain why it is really good to find the right tone in your daily life and finally, you will get a personal invitation to my next Q&A Session.
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Happy Belting! Yours, Christin Bonin
In my last episode, I spoke about proper breathing and how to learn that with this song. Today's subject is the end of "No Time to Die" and the long breath you need to sing this phrase. In these times, we all need a long breath to manage life, too, because life is a marathon...
Happy belting – and don't forget to subscribe to my Newsletter and to share my podcast on your social media channels! Thank you, yours, Christin Bonin
Today's subject is "No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish and her really cool effect of gasping for air. However: You need to breathe to survive! Learn proper breathing by singing this song! More special exercises are available for download – and don't miss my very special offer at the end of this episode!
Tell your friends if you like my podcast and subscribe to my Newsletter to get access to my Q&A Sessions for free! Happy belting!
Today's subject is "Let It Go" from Disney's FROZEN, originally sung by Idina Menzel. First, I explain the term pitch and I will give you a great exercise to understand the difference between wrong pitch and right pitch. Then, you could learn how to sing the most difficult part of "Let it go" and at the end, you can get my book "Belt Voice Training" for free!
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HAPPY BELTING!
Today's subject is THE VOICE, Frank Sinatra.
First, I will explain the difference between belting and crooning, before you get tips & tricks to sing NEW YORK, NEW YORK. At the end, I have some fun facts and a very special offer for you!
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HAPPY BELTING
Today's subject is Jennifer Lopez' dance number "Let's get loud." First, I will tell you why loud singing can be life-changing. Then, I will give you some tipps and tricks how to sing this song with a loud voice, followed by some fun facts about "Let's get loud." Finally, I will help you to master the most difficult part of this song – and you will get a very special offer from me! Don't for get to subscribe to my NEWSLETTER to get free access to my next Q&A session by Zoom. Happy belting!
abcdefu by Gayle is a song about a bad break-up and in this podcast, you can learn to belt it out with a strong and powerful voice.
Rais your voice!
And whenever something bad happens in your life, just sing this song and empower yourself!
Today's special offer for you: Use the code "Podcastfan" on my website www.christinbonin.com, to get your personal package of belt voice exercises for free!
Happy belting!
Hello and welcome to my podcast BELT VOICE TRAINING – your free vocal lessons for Pop Rock, Soul, Musical & Jazz.
Today’s subject is the third and last difficult-to-sing part of "Easy On Me" by Adele: The Bridge.
Belt voice exercises are available for download on my website christinbonin.com (–> publications –> belt voice training) for a very small fee. By buying some exercises you not only do something really good for your singing voice – but you also support this podcast to continue!
Enjoy your training and: Happy belting!
Today’s subject is the second part of the refrain of "Easy on Me" by Adele.
If you are interested in really helpful exercises, check out my book
Belt Voice Training – Singing with a belting voice,
available on my website www.christinbonin.com/publications. with worldwide free shipping!
Enjoy your training. Happy belting, yours Christin Bonin
In my last podcast episode, I explained the difficult-to-sing passages of "Rolling in the deep."
Today’s subject is "Easy on Me," Adele’s new song.
My tips & tricks will help you to approach Adele's belt sound and to sing her songs with your own unique vocal expression and timbre.
If you are interested in more really helpful exercises, check out my book
Belt Voice Training – Singing with a belting voice,
available on my website www.christinbonin.com/publications
–with worldwide free shipping!
Enjoy your training.
Many singers would like to sound like Adele – or at least to be able to sing her songs with a comparable strong and dark vocal sound. To check out if you can sing Rolling in the deep or Easy on me, the most useful and time-saving method is to pick out the most difficult and highest passage of each song and to try to reach the same sound as in the rest of the song.
If you are interested in really helpful exercises, check out my book,
Belt Voice Training – Singing with a Belting Voice,
available on my website www.christinbonin.com/publications
with Worldwide free shipping!
Enjoy your training. Happy belting!
This illustration demonstrates the so-called vowel trapeze with English vowels and the position of these vowels in the oral cavity.
Based on the International Phonetic Alphabet, I would like to point out the most crucial vowel sounds a native English-speaking person would use for singing whatever language the lyrics are written in. Check out the cover picture of this podcast episode.
Don’t hesitate to check out my books on www.christinbonin.com/publications and to send me your questions or even a sound file with your specific problem in a song by email
How can I warm up my belt voice? Which exercises are useful to prepare my voice for belting? How high and how low should I sing to train my belt voice? How can I prepare my voice for songs that need a mix-belt sound?
Today, I am happy to propose you warm-up exercises for your belt voice.
More exercises are available on www.christinbonin.com/belt-voice-training
If you want to send me your question, please mail to chrbonin@icloud.com. You can also send me a demo sound file for demonstration.
It is the primary goal of a belter to avoid uniformity and to keep its individual sound.
The range of a typical low-belt voice reaches from the tone A below middle C up to A, B flat, or B above middle C, sometimes up to D above the high C.
A singer who can easily produce the voice’s loudest tone in this range and is able to keep the belt sound at least up to B above middle C or even the high C, needs to be identified as a low-belt voice.
Any questions concerning the low-belt voice?
Just send an email to chrbonin@icloud.com and you will get help
Today, I would like to explain and demonstrate the Pop Belt Sound of Christina Aguilera. Most singers try to copy Christina´s sound instead of analyzing what she’s doing and finding a personal way to do the same.
Let´s take a closer look at her sound. To discover that sound for your voice, train these tricks with a simple song you know very well or with the exercises in my book "Belt Voice Training" you can order on my website www.christinbonin.com
Photo by Raffaele Fiorillo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Next Episode January 14, 2022
Looking at some great belters while live singing, you might recognize that they all have a very expressive face. Sometimes, it looks like they would like to bite you with their tones!
Their facial expression has a very good reason because without activating certain muscles in your face, you cannot reach a good voice placement.
With the following exercises, you can train to get the right belt mouth position and the so-called “singer’s smile.”
The vowel trapeze with English vowels in my book "Belt Voice Training – Singing with a Belting Voice,” shows you the position of English vowels in the oral cavity.
Popular music is, first of all, a commercial product with a big financial interest.
However, we remember voices with an unusual timbre, great personalities, charisma, and incredible energy. A real pop singer personage.
A pop singer has to be unique!
If you want to read more about belting, showbusiness, and how to sing great songs, check out my book "Belt Voice Training," available on my website http://www.christinbonin.com. You can order it with worldwide free shipping.
In my next podcast episode, I will come back to belting technique – tips and tricks to train your unique belt voice.
Happy belting!
Even though his recordings sound great, during live shows, Freddie Mercury sometimes has to cut short the high note because of the forward pushed and cramped jaw. High voices do not like “u.” You can check all vowel positions by looking at the vowel-trapeze in my book Belt Voice Training.
To reach the original version is not as easy as it might look like. The lead vocal is very demanding. One of Freddie’s most recognized live performances took place at the LIVE AID concert at Wembley Stadium, London in 1985.
You want to learn how to sing this song?
No problem, this podcast will teach you tricks how to reach the incredible high tones of this song.
Part 1 explains in detail the first difficult passage of this song.
My book "Belt Voice Training" explains the complete song.
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You will find my book at a special discount price on my academic profile.
The much sought-after belt voice for musical theatre and pop music in general, is the mix-belt voice. It is also the most difficult to achieve.
The singer predestinated to be a mix-belt can produce strong tones in the lower part and the higher part of the voice’s range, but the change from the darker voice color to a brighter voice color is delicate.
In this Podcast Episode, I would like to show you a very efficient exercise to train your mix belt voice.
Train your mix belt with this exercise consequently and you will get incredible results!
Different examples and a piano playback for your personal training are available on christinbonin.com
Even though you might be happy to have reached the full chest voice sound by singing down the scale with the exercise of my last podcast episode, you will need to sing up again and to reach higher notes with exactly the same sound. If you like to listen to some examples or to train with a piano playback, you can download this exercise HERE.
By singing down the scale there is always the danger of dropping abruptly into the chest voice sound and losing vocal control. That provokes not only increasing the existing passaggio problem between middle voice and chest voice but even to fall into a deep hole by trying to make impressive dark sounds, making it impossible for us to sing up again.
Just as in the voice placement exercise, we must stretch the abdominal wall to intensify the support systematically while singing up higher and higher. That exercise does not only enable you to activate your overtones and your highest notes but also to sing these notes with maximum power, energy, and sound.
We stand straight with slightly separated legs (about a foot-length apart), relaxed in the knees. After bending forward and exhaling, we immediately start to inhale while we straighten up slowly to an upright position, as we would like to roll up our spine, starting with the lowest vertebra. It is a natural human reflex to gasp for air immediately when you feel being out of air. That is the reason why we have to be careful now to do that exercise correctly.
The term support is perhaps the most misunderstood expression in vocal technique. Building up your physical condition, the strength of your abdominal muscles, and your body in general, will help you to become a better singer with a stronger voice.
Through that exercise, we learn to use the breathing muscles separately from the abdominal muscles. You will get the most simple and efficient explanation for your voice support.
We speak in general about high and low breathing or respectively about the chest- and abdominal breathing. In the following exercise, you will learn to concentrate on the muscles which need training without pushing anywhere else in the body seemingly bringing us more strength. A minimal but correct muscle impulse brings better and faster progress than falsely used energy.
What is a tone and what are overtones?
How do overtones influence your belt voice sound?
Listen to this episode and you will know a little bit more about your belt voice.
Belting is a singing technique used in pop, soul, rock music, Broadway musical, and other jazz-related genres.
You always wanted to learn how to belt out your favourite song correctly?
Listen to Christin Bonin’s Podcast and learn how to train your belt voice.