<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Belting (or vocal belting) is a specific technique of singing by which a singer mixes in the proper proportions, their lower and upper resonances; resulting a sound that resembles yelling but is actually a controlled, sustained phonation .' Belting' is sometimes described as' high chest voice' but this is technically incorrect and potentially damaging for the voice . It is often described as a vocal register, although this is also technically incorrect; it is rather a descriptive for the use of a register . Singers can use belting to convey heightened emotional states . </P> <P> "Chest register" is the lowest register of the singing voice, produced by dominant use of the thyroarytenoid muscle . The term "belt" is sometimes mistakenly described as the use of chest voice in the higher part of the voice . The chest voice is a general term for the sound and muscular functions of the speaking voice, singing in the lower range, and the voice used to shout . Each of those functions requires a thicker closure of the vocal folds and the support of the muscles surrounding them . The term "chest voice" is therefore a misunderstanding when it describes muscular work in the chest - area of the body, or a resonance therein . Proper production of the belt voice, according to some vocal methods, involves minimizing tension in the throat and a change of typical placement of the voice sound in the mouth, bringing it forward into the hard palate, although techniques vary by pedagogical style . </P>

What does it mean to belt a song