How To Sing High Notes Easily
Without Pushing Or Straining
On this page are some great tips for how to sing high notes.
Before I give you these tips, I want to tell you a few things about how the voice works when you sing high into your range.
You may be familiar with a spot in your voice where everything seems to come apart. At this point, your voice tries to push higher, but all of a sudden, you loose all power and your tone quality completely changes.
This point in the voice is known as, “the break”.
To sing magnificent high notes, you need to learn to sing through the break in a smooth way, and *connect* with your voice on the other side.
When you do this correctly, it’s called “singing through your bridges”. Now your voice actually has three or sometimes even four bridges, but once you get through the first one, things get much easier.
In fact, many singers find it difficult to sing through their first bridge, and keep their voice together. If this is you, don’t worry… by the time you finish this article, you will know exactly how to sing through your bridges, completely effortlessly.
So what’s happening when you come to your first bridge? And more important… what needs to happen to slide easily through this first bridge?
To explain this, I want you to imagine you have a guitar in your hands. Now, if I asked you to play the highest note possible on your guitar, what would you do?
I’ll take a guess that you would place your finger on the last string, as far up the fret board as possible. And you’d be right!
When you sing, there is a very similar thing that happens. Your vocal cords actually have the ability to “fret the string” as it were, and shorten in length. What’s happening, is your vocal cords are forming a new muscle coordination… where there is less length of the vocal cord that is left to vibrate with the air.
This new muscle coordination is what should happen (if you’re singing correctly) when you sing through your first bridge. When your cords shorten for the first time (singing through your first bridge), you move into a new vocal register called your “mixed voice”.
If you can learn how to sing high notes in your mixed voice, you will be able to get power, great tone, and clarity on your highest notes.
What Stops Most Singers From Finding Their “Mixed Voice”
The biggest thing that stops most singers from finding their upper vocal range is this: They use too much air when they go for their higher notes.
Think back to what I just said about shortening the vocal cords as you move into your upper vocal register.
Now think about this…
If you have are using less vocal cord to sing on high notes, what else do you need less of?
You’ve got it. You need less air.
You use less air to sing high notes.
Which means that if you’re trying to blast your way into your upper register, you will probably never make it!
Ok, so now you know what happens when you move up through your bridges. And you know that you need to use less air as you sing higher notes.
This is a good start. Now let’s further this with some tips that will help you find a connection in your upper range.
How To Sing High Notes-Tip 1
When you move up into your first bridge correctly, you must understand that you will loose most of the sensation that you feel in your throat.
This is a very important point.
It seems that you should feel sensation in your throat no matter what note you are singing right? After all, that’s where your sound comes from right? Well, this is not true.
This is the type of thinking that causes singers to “break” every time they go for a high note. They try and “hold onto that sensation” and this stops their vocal cords from making the correct adjustments.
What you need to do, is *allow* your voice to *let go* as you sing higher. When you do this correctly, it will actually feel like your voice has *lifted* into your head.
How To Sing High Notes-Tip 2
Try singing on the word “Gug”. Use a scale that takes you up past your “breaking point”.
The word “gug” seems to have a quality that allows the voice to “release” as you sing higher. It stops you from “grabbing” at your voice, and releases you into your higher vocal range.
Some other words that are worth trying are:
"Go"
"Now"
"Goo"
"No"
Try singing with all these words and see which one allows your voice to *let go* and move into your upper vocal register.
When you find one that works, stick with it! Use it as a tool to get to know your higher range. When you know how to sing high notes easily with a certain word, then try a new word.
More Range Increasing Exercises
The best exercises for learning how to sing high notes can be found
here.
It's a vocal program that is based around exercises from the "Speech Level Singing" method.
Speech level singing is a vocal techique that teaches singers how to sing with a large vocal range, great tone quality, with the same effort as it takes to talk.
I highly recommend you check out these exercises by
clicking here
It's the fastest and most effective way of learning how to sing high notes that I know of.
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