What are the benefits of singing low notes in your head voice?
Nearly all the discussion I see of people trying to extend/improve their range focuses on reaching higher notes with the chest (or mixed) voice, pushing your chest voice into higher notes.
What about extending your head voice downwards? Is being able to sing low notes in your head voice a useful skill in itself? Does practising this in various exercises have benefits to your singing in general?
I mean specifically singing notes in your head voice in singing exercises which you would naturally sing in chest voice - does this have benefits?
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Extending your head voice downwards gives you more leeway to establish your mixed voice and/or to choose your register changes as needed. Chest voice gets more overtones as you reach higher with it, leading to a much more conspicuous change into head voice if you transition late. Training to extend your head voice downward also means that you'll not just extend the accessible range but also the volume available in it and your control of the pitch at the lower edge. It also helps you in starting to control your chest voice mouth shaping such that you won't have it wander into a sound not matchable by the transition to head voice.
How much of all that is beneficial for you personally depends on your overall plan of employing your registers. Having a wide range of possibilities and control is never amiss, but if your "money notes" are not actually making much use of it, there are diminuishing returns the further you stray from your central focus.
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