Revealed: How to Sing Higher More Easily
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Even if you have practiced and improved your range on how to sing higher notes, you may find yourself unable to sustain it.
Or if you have a song with numerous high notes (as compared with hitting one high note then having to come back down), you may tire out your voice.
The problem in both instances is your tessitura and not necessarily your range. Tessitura is a singer’s comfortable voice range in which you stay on-pitch and sing the notes consistently without tension or strain.
It is also used to refer to the regular or standard pitch range of a song.
A number of mezzo-sopranos can sing a high C note at their maximum range. However, their tessitura is likely a half an octave to an octave lower than it: probably from A above middle C to the second A above middle C. so if a mezzo-soprano attempts to sing a musical piece with a tessitura from high G to high C, vocal fatigue is the most probable result.
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The secret is to know your own tessitura and to choose more appropriate pieces within your comfortable range. It may be that you can sing notes above your tessitura but you incur the risk of tiring and straining your voice.
You may ask, can I still raise my tessitura? The answer is yes but hard work is needed. The solution in how to sing higher notes is breath support accompanied with upper resonance. If you attempt to learn how to sing higher notes with not enough breath support, you would experience vocal fatigue. If this is continued, it could result to harmful long-term effects.
If you want to know how to sing higher notes, you would have to use more breath energy as opposed to lower notes. There is a need for you to use all your breath muscles such as intercostals, spinals, abdominals, and diaphragm and expand fully your midsection every time you inhale. When exhaling, you have to keep all of them expanded except for the abdominals, which will regulate you rate of breath flow.
If you have started breathing correctly, concentrate on you upper resonance or what we call your “head voice”. Imagine the tone as being vertical instead of horizontal and think of the sound as if it is coming from your forehead and the top of your head. It is like riding in an elevator going up, with your breath as the force that makes it go up.
You must feel your sinuses vibrating as well as in the roof of your mouth. Maintain your mouth narrow horizontally but long vertically inside. A voice coach once told her students to think of it as trying to swallow something repulsive and opening our throats adequately so that it will not touch the sides.
Keep it light without forcing anything. Begin with the vocal siren or the yawn-slide. If you opt for the yawn-slide, start by inhaling and opening your mouth as if to yawn then exhale on “hoo” or “hee”, from the top of your range and sliding quickly towards the bottom. You may want to begin each successive session a bit higher than the previous one.
If you want to try the vocal siren, it is similar to the yawn slide but it starts from the lower range going up. It is done in a hum. As your breath support strengthens, do the vocal siren up and down for a number of times in the same breath.
Another good activity for your voice is the rapidly ascending and descending five-tone scale. You begin at your middle range and apply either the buzz (also known as lip roll or bubble lips) or a vowel sound like “oo” or “ah”. Use the pattern do-re-mi-fa-so-fa-mi-re-do. For the succeeding patterns, start a half-step above the previous one. Make sure that you utilize good breath support.
How to sing higher notes is a common dilemma of all aspiring singers. With practice and perseverance, you can improve your tessitura enabling you to sing higher notes comfortably and effortlessly. You only need to be patient, determined, and practical.