{"id":2315,"date":"2012-12-30T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockwellblake.com\/blog\/?page_id=2315"},"modified":"2014-11-28T08:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T12:32:04","slug":"belting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rockwellblake.com\/blog\/what-is-it-about\/glossary\/belting\/","title":{"rendered":"Belting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBelting\u201d is a term that seems to postdate Garcia. By the end of his life, he may have heard the term used, but I have no knowledge of him ever using the terms \u201cBelt\u201d or Belting\u201d in anything he wrote down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In technical terms, to\u00a0belt is to sing with a brilliant sound which is almost always the result of \u201cChest Voice<\/a>\u201d. Ladies belt by singing in chest voice above the normal chest register<\/a>. Garcia argues against this practice in terms of taste as well as vocal health. Guys belt most of the time without intending to do so. The chest register for boys is all there is for registers, but the function of falsetto can be imposed anywhere in the male voice. (see What\u2019s The Buzz<\/a>) A boy who can\u2019t belt is a boy who is confused or, in the case\u00a0of Donald O\u2019Conner singing with Ethel Merman:<\/strong><\/p>\n