How to Increase your Singing range.
Are you struggling to reach your high notes with balance and sustainability?
Learning to realize the full potential of your biological range takes regular and consistent practice.
You might be surprised how many notes have been hiding in the bottom and top of your range.
It is important to recognize that you have an anatomical limit to how high or low you can sing. In the same way, you can’t change how tall you are, you also can’t change the anatomical limit to how high or low you can sing.
However, most singers aren’t nearly singing with the range they are capable of, which is approximately 2 1/2 -3 octaves. Most singers I have worked with haven’t yet learned how to achieve the full breadth of their range.
WHERE TO BEGIN
Don’t start with just screeching out and “hitting” those high notes. Imagine yourself as a dancer learning to do the splits. Would you just drop down into the splits on your first day of trying? Ouch!
This is the same for your vocal range. It takes time to sing in your complete range because the muscles and ligaments need to be stretched properly. As you explore your complete vocal range it's important that you stretch your vocal ligaments over an extended period of time. Don’t try to extend your range by pushing your muscles to their limits.
Begin by gradually singing through your complete range as it is today, but go one or two semitones higher than your current limitation. Don’t let your voice settle for what it knows, but gradually slowly, and carefully move beyond the current boundaries one semitone at a time.
You can develop your range without compromising the health of your voice.
EASY RANGE INCREASING EXERCISES
LIP BUZZ SCALES Lip buzz your way to the top.
Lip trill or bubbles are great for working the voice through the full range.
Sing a scale 12345678987654321 on a lip trill.
It's a major scale plus a note.
Encourage the voice to explore one step higher.
Lip buzz your way to the top.
CIRCULAR SIRENS
Sirens on an NG sound
Sirens should be done at the end of your vocal practice because sirens go through the entire range and you shouldn’t do that on cold muscles. Muscles need warming up before you stretch them to their full capacity.
NG sirens. Sing Up and down through approx five or six pitches.
Lower register up and down followed by your Middle register up and down. Next, add the complete register from the bottom to the top including the flute (females) and falsetto (males).
For more information and help to safely develop your vocal range contact me today.
