Everyone seems to be obsessed with the head voice, and while many push their way up there, the process requires simple steps that need to be followed.
It is not that difficult to strengthen and develop the head voice.
While you will feel it resonate more in the head, this does not mean you need to spread the back of your throat to sing. The sound should come out not from your mouth, but from your head since you need these resonances in order to produce a healthy and powerful head voice.
Download the Cheat Sheet of exercises that you can use on a daily basis for warm-up and to develop the voice.
Head & Chest
The head voice is always accompanied by the chest voice. When the high notes lack chest voice, the sound will break, or get tensed, or go to the falsetto instead. The key is to introduce more of the head voice starting at the passaggio. And even in low notes, the head voice should always be present.
The chest and head voices are separate mechanisms, yet they work together in creating an equal voice throughout its range. One must co-exist with the other but it is also about knowing how to balance one with the other depending on where in your range you are singing.
Another way to look at this principle is to feel where the notes are resonating. This idea is widely spread in the music world, where the chest voice is felt to emerge more from the chest, and the head voice in the head. You may try to sense that the more you go into the higher range, the more the sound resonates in the head cavities.
Whatever works!
Open Throat
Singing requires an open throat, but not an overly exaggerated spread. The open throat is a result of the passing air, so it is not something that you need to create since the air pressure is doing it for you.
Extra Tips
The jaw is never pushed down but should feel free and flexible. A big opening of your jaw from the front will only close the space in your throat. Instead, focus on opening the jaw from its bone structure just where the temples are.
The tongue usually follows the movement of the jaw, and the lips are rarely engaged since all the muscles are connected. Tensed lips and jaw will only make the rest of your face, and possibly throat, tense unnecessarily.
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