What You Need To Know In Singing Higher Notes

For most singers a huge obstruction to singing high notes is psychological. You consider you can’t sing those notes, as a result you can’t! Perhaps someone at one time told you that you couldn’t, or even you have just heard recordings of professional singers and thought, “there’s no way I can do that.”

When you are starting to produce your upper range, there are various prerequisites. Good breath support is essential, as is relaxation of the face, jaw, and throat. Another way to accomplish that relaxation is to hum while moving your jaw like you are chewing.

Singing high notes calls for use of your upper vibrancy, often referred to as your “head voice.” You wish the sound to resonate in your frontal sinuses; envision it as coming from the triangle between your eyes and the bridge of your nose.

You should experience shaking in your nose and sinuses, probably also the roof of your mouth (soft palate). Do a number of yawn-slides, and commence each one at a higher pitch than the last. Visualize the tone as being vertical rather than horizontal, and imagine the sound as coming from your forehead and the top of your head. Think of it as riding up in an elevator, and your breath is the means that makes the elevator crest.

A difference on this exercise, which also helps with breath control and tone positioning, is the “buzz-slide”. It uses a system that goes by several names: buzz, bubble-lips, lip roll. After a perfect deep inhalation with good expansion, exhale by means of loosely puckered lips so that they vibrate. When doing the buzz, try to feel the vibration in your nose and sinuses. Just like the yawn-slide, begin at the top of your range and slide to the bottom.

Following, sing arpeggios. Take in a good breath with full development of your midsection; lightly sing an arpeggio (do-mi-so-do-so-mi-do) on “ah” or “oo”. Begin at an easy pitch, and commence each new arpeggio a half-step above the last. Let your mouth open broader at the top of each one, but avoid facial contortions. Maintain an easy, relaxed, erect posture.

When you are comfortable with the exercises, go for a song to work with that has a few high notes in it. Firstly choose one that has only a few high notes that aren’t sustained; the majority of the song should be in a comfortable mid-range. Eventually you can focus on songs that stay in the upper range and require sustained notes.

A strong upper scale won’t appear overnight, but if you work persistently and diligently at the exercises, you will be happily amazed with your results.

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