Where Do You Go From Here?

Welcome to Lesson 9.

You’ve completed the core foundational stage of our Strengthening Head Voice module—and that deserves real recognition. This wasn’t just about hitting high notes. It was about:

  • Rebuilding underused muscle systems
  • Developing new coordination patterns
  • Learning how to listen and adapt in real time
  • Giving yourself permission to sound different as your voice evolves

In this lesson, we’ll help you assess your progress, explore what to do next, and lock in your gains for long-term growth.

What You’ve Built
If you’ve followed these lessons consistently, you should now:

  • Be able to access head voice coordination reliably
  • Understand the difference between breathy, clear, thick, and thin tone
  • Maintain CT-dominant posture through simple patterns and some musical phrases
  • Troubleshoot common issues with confidence
  • Begin applying your head voice to real-world singing
    That’s a huge step toward becoming a more flexible, expressive singer.

What Comes Next?

You’ve reached a scenic overlook on your vocal journey. At the start of this course, head voice may have felt distant or confusing. Now, it’s part of your toolkit. That shift—from avoidance to ability—is not small. It’s what growth feels like.

Take a breath. Look back at how far you’ve come. The path ahead offers new challenges, but also new opportunities to sing with freedom, clarity, and control. Whether you decide to continue climbing now or hold steady to enjoy the view, this is a real moment.

Here are three ways to keep growing:

1. Solidify Your Gains

You don’t need new exercises every week to make progress. Continue with the Vocal Function Exercises (VFEs) and Lesson 6 patterns for another 4–6 weeks. Aim to:

  • Increase duration of sustained tones
  • Expand your comfortable range
  • Stabilize tone across descending patterns
    Use Lesson 6 to recalibrate if coordination starts to waver—especially after illness, travel, or extended voice use.

2. Apply Head Voice to a Full Song
This is the core challenge of Lesson 9. It’s time to move from isolated phrases to real music. Choose a full song you know well—something expressive that includes at least one section in your head voice range.

Follow these steps:

  • Mark the phrases that could be sung in head voice. Identify whether those phrases are currently challenging or accessible.
  • Sing the song once prioritizing comfort and coordination. Keep the tone clear and sustainable.
  • Sing it again prioritizing emotional expression. Explore how head voice contributes to the storytelling.
  • Record both versions. Compare them. Ask: where did the technique support the story? Where did it limit you?

If you’re stuck or want input, post a clip or question in the VoSci Community. You’ll get support from other singers working through the same material. This is your moment to synthesize the work.

2. Explore Additional Skills
Once head voice feels stable, you might want to work on:

  • Mix development (blending chest and head)
  • Dynamic control (crescendo/decrescendo in head voice)
  • Agility (melismas, ornamentation)
  • Tone coloration (shifting from breathy to bright to full)
    These topics will be covered in future VoSci courses. For now, stay curious and begin noticing them in the music you sing.

Saving this as a foundation whether you move on now or pause to deepen what you’ve learned, take time to:

  • Save your recordings from earlier lessons
  • Log what exercises and phrases worked best for you
  • Note your default tendencies (e.g. flipping, thickening, breathiness)
    This becomes your reference point—so next time you revisit this work, you can measure your progress precisely.


Head voice is one of the most misunderstood and undertrained parts of the singing voice. By taking the time to train it well, you’re setting yourself up for range, flexibility, and long-term vocal health.
Whether you move on to mix, repertoire work, or stick with head voice development, you now have the tools to:

  • Work intentionally
  • Listen with nuance
  • Make choices based on function, not fear

Take a moment to acknowledge what you’ve built. This is not easy work—and most singers never do it. You did.

Thanks for putting in the time, attention, and practice. Your voice will thank you for it.


See you in the next course.