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Throughout this bridge, the male voice is transitioning through
head voice and thinning to super head voice, which starts on
E-flat. This is the third bridge in the male voice. I've only
addressed three bridges for men, but theoretically, there can
more. If a male singer is able to keep his larynx down and balance
the right amount of air against his vocal cords, he could potentially
reach a whistle range and have to deal with a few more bridges. Women's Bridges Women's bridges take place in a similar fashion as men's: that is, they exist at a distance of about an augmented-fourth interval. They begin, however, where a man's second bridge is. So
generally speaking, a woman's first bridge is on an A or B-flat
above a keyboard's middle C.
Next is a woman's chest voice range,
and above this, up to a D, is mix voice. Once a female vocalist
hits an E-flat (or sometimes an E), she is in head voice. This area of resonation will continue up to an A or B-flat below a keyboard's double-high C. This third bridge puts the female singer in a super head voice, and she will stay in that until she reaches an E-flat above a keyboard's double-high C. When singing most songs, women don't
need to go much past this fourth bridge, but there are a few
more bridges beyond this fourth bridge. Once again, they are
at intervals of an augmented fourth above the E-flat above a
double-high C: the fifth bridge is on A, and the sixth
is on the E-flat above that. These last two areas of resonation
are known as the whistle range, and as I stated, most women don't
use these areas, but they do exist and can be developed.
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