Belty

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Sung using a chest voice above the singer's break or passaggio.

    "I recognize now that my voice was changing in middle school because singing in my chest voice was easy (especially in a belty fashion) but singing anything moderately high was challenging."

Example

More examples

"I recognize now that my voice was changing in middle school because singing in my chest voice was easy (especially in a belty fashion) but singing anything moderately high was challenging."

Etymology

From belt + -y.

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