How To Sing Higher Notes

How To Sing Higher Notes

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2Locate Your Vocal Range

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Exercise: You will need a piano or keyboard to continue. First you will need to find middle C, often referred as C4. If you are using a full-size piano, middle C will be the fifth C from the bottom. Please see the diagram below:Once you have located C4 or Middle C, play the note and try singing using the commonly knownsolfgescale:Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, and back to Do.

Make your way down the keyboard, singing each note in the reverse order, until you reach the lowest note you can comfortably sing, while maintaining good tone.

You have successfully located the bottom of your range.Now, again starting at middle C, repeat the process moving up the notes until you find the highest note you can comfortably sing.

4Once Youve Reached A Comfortable Range

You Have Located Your Tessitura

5Tessitura:Tessitura is the rangeyou are most comfortablewith, in which you are able to sing the notes consistently, on-pitch, and while avoiding any strain.

This term can also be used to describe the average pitch range of a song or choral part.

This is your starting point, your foundation, or benchmark in which to stretch your range.www.vocaltips.net

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Stay Connected To YourBreatheBreath

8Breath Support Singing High Notes&It takes a considerable amount breath energy to sing higher notes than lower notes.

9 IT DOES NOT MEAN PUTTING PRESSURE ON YOUR VOCAL CORDSAvoid straining to reach higher notes

10Proper breathing requires resistance of airflow using your diaphragm.

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12Breathing Exercises For Hitting High Notes

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>Keep everything expandedwhen exhaling with the exception your abs,which you use to control the rate of exhalation.

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>Focus on your upper resonance, better known as your head voice.

Imagine that thetoneis vertical rather than horizontal, and visualize the sound you are creating, coming from your forehead and the top of your head.

To illustrate: its the same as riding in an elevator, as you go up, your breath is like the mechanism that makes the elevator ascend.

Feeling the vibration in your sinuses and the roof of your mouth (soft palate) is very important.

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>Shape your mouthso that it is horizontally narrow but vertically tall inside.

Some like to think of it as someone trying to swallow something unpleasant while opening your throat just enough to allow whatever it is to go down without touching the sides. Yawn while dropping your jaw.

16>Start with yawn-slides or the vocal sirens.The yawn-slide is fairly simple. Start by inhaling and opening your mouth like you are trying to yawn.

When you go to exhale, make a hoo or hee sound. Beginning with the top of your range, then slide rapidly to the bottom of your range. Each time you try, continue to progress one a bit higher.

Vocal sirens are similar to the above, with the exception of starting at the bottom of your range and moving up. Its much easier to do it as a hum at first.

Gradually your breath support will become stronger, as you do the siren up and down several times on one breathe.

17>Try scale climbingbyrapidly ascend and descend a five-tone scale. Begin in the middle of your range, using either a buzzing (also known as a lip roll or bubble lips) or a vowel sound, like oo or ah.

Do you remember the famous song fromThe Sound of Music, Do-Re-MI?

Well, we use a similar pattern as that, only we go from: do-re-mi-fa-so-fa-mi-re-do.

Basically you start the second pattern a half-step above the first and continue in the same fashion. Its important to havegood breath support.

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18>Sing staccato, meaning that you singshorter and lighter (less weight), the notes you wish to singhigher. Keep your neck completely still in order for your larynx to remain steady.

Its important to discover all the little muscles involved in creating these types of sounds. Rememberto use less pressure when hitting those high notes, thus avoiding strain.

Clarity is key, so start with a longer note, progressively singing notes that become shorter in order to hold that clarity.

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20Lose Vocal Weight

21defined as too much thicker vocal fold mass used too high in pitch often involving taking one register higher than it is designed to function in pitch.Vocal Weight is..

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22In other words..You have two main registers or areas where you create your sound known as your Head Voice & Chest Voice

Head Voice is naturally where the lighter part of parts ofyour voice is created. The higher notes and thinner tones. This is where we use the thinner, more vibratory control over our vocal cords.

Chest Voice is the area where the heavier parts of your voice are made. The lower notes and thicker tones.We will use the thicker parts and less vibratory control over our vocal cords.

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23The Point is..

24Focus on using your Head Voice

When Singing Higher Notes

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