How can I reach higher notes when I sing without screaming? What can help me inc!
Question: Charice Pempengco has inspired me so much. I love her voice. She can sing very high notes and she can sing deep and low notes as well. How do you think I can sing like her? I can sing, but I can't reach high notes like her. Here's her singing very high notes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rTAUYb-PMBY
Are there any singing techniques?
Answers: Charice Pempengco has inspired me so much. I love her voice. She can sing very high notes and she can sing deep and low notes as well. How do you think I can sing like her? I can sing, but I can't reach high notes like her. Here's her singing very high notes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rTAUYb-PMBY
Are there any singing techniques?
Dear tootsiieerollx3,
For starters never think of high notes as something that should be forced. High notes are all about proper technique and proper usage of the vocal mechanism.
Warming up is just the start to solving your troublesome high notes. There is also posture, breath support, and vocal instrument placement, which leads to good resonance, are all involved in wonderful singing. If all of these aspects of vocal technique are not working properly and in harmony problems will arise. One of the more problem sensitive areas of the voice is the high end of the head voice. A lot can be determined about a singer’s ability just by listening to their head voice in action.
Here’s the break down to the basics of proper singing. Remember singing is cumulative. All the steps rely upon one another to be correct.
Before singing one should make it habit to stretch all of the body to release tension and to warm up the vocal instrument. Any tension can and will cause vocal strain and eventually damage.
Nothing should be stiff. Loosen up. Do some light stretching and rub out tight muscles especially the ones around your neck, face, and jaw. It might seem strange, but yes, you should massage your face.
Posture: the foundation of great singing.
(Standing) from the top:
Your head should be level with the floor and you are looking ahead, not up or down. No tension, just placed as so.
When singing everything should be loose with no stiff tension. Tension causes things to be incorrect even when you know the right way and use it.
Next, Roll your shoulders back. Rolling your shoulders back elongates the spine and thorax or chest cavity and lifts the sternum, the bone in the middle of your chest. This allows space for proper breathing.
Keep your knees loose, so that they can bend. Don't lock them.
Keep your feet shoulder width apart. One foot can be a little farther forward than the other if that is more comfortable for you.
Imagine yourself as royalty. This is all perfectly natural and normal. It is simply the way you present yourself--with poise and self-confidence.
(Sitting) additional information:
When sitting it is important to keep all the same posture techniques used for standing.
Make sure you sit as far forward on the seat as possible and keep your feet flat on the floor.
When you have proper posture you can learn to breath properly. Correct breath support and control is the gateway to good singing.
To learn the proper way, you've got to know which ways are wrong.
Improper ways to breath when singing:
1) Clavicular breathing ~ shallow breathing--the shoulders lift
2) Costal breathing ~ heaving like when you are sick
3) Abdominal breathing ~ from just the stomach excluding use of the top of the lungs
To understand diaphragmatic-intercostal breathing, the proper breathing for singing, it is import to understand basic breathing for life. Breathing for life is nearly the same with only a few slight alterations.
How we breathe for living:
1) Involuntary impulse of the brain
2) The diaphragm contracts and flattens to enlarge the thorax or chest cavity
3) The costal or rib muscles expand causing the air pressure to drop within the lungs. The air pressure inside the lungs then equals to the air pressure outside the lungs.
4) Exhale.
Modifications used when singing:
1) More air is required
2) Quicker inhalation
3) Longer periods of exhalation requiring control
4) Voluntary--you determine how and when
**It is impossible to breath correctly if you are not using proper singers' posture.**
Ways to make sure you are breathing correctly when singing:
1) Make sure your shoulders and upper chest doesn’t rise when you inhale.
2) Make sure you are expanding all around. The stomach, sides, and even the back
The laying down exercise is great for practicing proper breathing. You should practice it every night before you go to sleep. When practicing, pay attention to the appoggio, or the moment of balance between inhaling and exhaling just like breathing for yoga.
Before bed breathing exercises:
Lie on your back and wait until your breathing deepens and evens. You will feel expansion around your stomach, sides, and even back. This type of breathing is the ideal form of healthy breathing and the breathing we use for singing.
1. Practice inhaling over a count of 10 and gradually grow to a count of 15 and as high as your lung capacity will allow.
2. Use inhalation explained in (1). Exhale with a hiss of air. It will sound like "tissss...". Work your exhale from a 10 count to a 15 count and so on.
3. Use inhalation explained in (1). Exhale with a hiss of air and pulse using the abdominal muscles. ("tisss, tisss, tisss,...) Work your pulsed-exhale from a 10 count to a 15 count and so on.
Remember: When people refer to singing from your diaphragm it is meant to be a locational reference. The activities of the diaphragm are completely involuntary. You don't control it--your brain does.
Proper breathing takes time to develop. You have to keep practicing to build strength and endurance.
Vocal instrument placement:
We'll start with the voice box or larynx. You can feel it in the center front of your neck. Swallow while touching it. Feel how it lowers? That's the position it should be in when you sing. You can't really mentally control it, but if you've gotten rid of your tension it should be just right.
Your mouth/teeth/lips... It should be opened wide enough to fit two fingers in vertically between your teeth, for some people, even wider for higher notes. Sometimes people just don't open their mouths wide enough for high notes to come out properly.
Your hard and soft pallet... Feel the top of your mouth with your tongue. Upfront, behind your teeth it's hard--that's your hard pallet. Farther back, there is a soft fleshy part. That's your soft pallet. When singing you have to make sure your soft pallet is raised. This allows the air to resonate for a fuller sound. This kind of resonation is especially important for high notes.
To find this position you can yawn. Feel how your soft pallet raises? You could also imagine you have one of those really cool little paper party drink umbrella things. Imagine putting it in your mouth and open it up in there. Now sing like that.
Tips for singing the higher things:
1. Make sure your head doesn't go up. Keep your chin level with the floor. You don't need to reach for the high notes because you totally have them. You need to reach down from above and tap them.
2. Higher doesn't mean louder...don't strain
3. Always stretch and warm up before singing. If you don't get rid of tension and warm up the high notes will never come out beautifully.
4. Don't swallow the sound. Keep the resonance forward in the mouth in the soft pallet and even the nasal cavity for pop singing.
Feel free to email with any questions.
Sadly, your role model doesn’t sing with proper singing techniques either. The notes you are calling high are just the tip of the iceberg. The human voice has potential to reach much higher notes. Not only that but the “deep” sound you are referring to is a result of belting--improper belting to top it all off. I’m afraid this young lady will have a short singing career because of the vocal damage she is causing by singing incorrectly.
These techniques are universal. Opera singers and Pop singers alike should use them. Healthy singing is for everyone.
Good luck and happy singing,
~ moss
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first of all, once u refine your pitch and range, practice pulling with your stomach wen you hit high notes, and never rely on your throat or your head tone to get you there. sing scales every day and practice really really letting it rip when your alone. (i found that i can really give it everything i have without worrying about messing up if im alone and focused.)
OK, I thought I had this problem too...whatever you do DON'T scream! You can try to increase your vocal range but it won't be that much. Your range has nothing to do with how well you sing, but how thick or thin your vocal chords.The thinner your vocal chords are the higher you can sing and vice versa. But singing high isn't always the most amazing thing (and I"m not trying to down talk you, because I'm as soprano myself with a 4 1/2 octave range, I can sing with the tenors on their octave, same with altos, and go to the lovely soprano section -yes I'm biased-) I know altos that have wonderful voices. But with singing higher notes make sure your tone quality sounds good and you are hitting the pitch right on the head. I would recommend voice lesson, and I'm not saying you sing terrible, a lot of famous musician take voice lessons to make them better. I take them at Converse College. If you have anymore questions you can email me at gchomie92@yahoo.com.