Full Version: Hitting That Higher Note!
I want to learn how to hit those higher notes! Is there any techniques that i can use to stratch my vocal chords?
Hitting those higher notes should be done with the supervision of your teaceher. Be careful!
We're always told to think high in choir at school 
.... dunno if it would help you though!! If you're a little bit flat though, raising your eyebrows makes you go in tune and if your a little bit sharp lowering them does the same. You look stupid, and don't do it in concerts, coz you'll look even stupider!! Don't knock it til you try it.... it does work!!
.... dunno if it would help you though!! If you're a little bit flat though, raising your eyebrows makes you go in tune and if your a little bit sharp lowering them does the same. You look stupid, and don't do it in concerts, coz you'll look even stupider!! Don't knock it til you try it.... it does work!!
yeah i agree with Emma C...it's better for u to consult this with ur singing teacher...
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| If you're a little bit flat though, raising your eyebrows makes you go in tune and if your a little bit sharp lowering them does the same. |
ha ha! ha ha! that's funny! you would look really stupid! how does raising your eyebrows help? does it make you think high and bright?
imagine a whole symphony chorus in a concert having to sing a really high note
and they're all thinking they're flat so they're all raising their eyebrows so much at the same time! and then when they're all think they're a bit sharp, they all lower their eyebrows so much at the same time! they're all doing it so much that everyone can see their marks on their forehead! hee hee!
sorry if that is a bit stupid but i was just thinking about that!i have never ever, ever, ever, ever had a singing lesson in my whole life and i am not a singer !! but at my old school, we were told to think low. this was AGES ago, but also at my old school, (i was in yr 3 at the time,) at christmas, the junior department was having a rehearsal for some of the songs for a nativity that yr 6 were doing. we were practising as with gladness men of old (do you know it?). there's a high note near the end of each of the verses and everyone couldn't quite reach the high note so the yr 6 teacher (who's an old witch and has done some degree in drama and music and english poetry and history and whatever!) told us to tuck our tummy in! i don't know how it helps, but it does in some way, and it's wierd! and i don't do it, i just sing it any old how! hee hee! but imagine a whole symphony chorus again all tucking their tummies in really hard on the high notes. they're doing it so hard, you can see their rib cages! hee hee!
by the way mimi, are you called that because there's a character in the opera by puccini, la boheme called mimi. she's the main girl i think, and a lead soprano plays her. 
Tucking the tummy in is a simple way of telling people to use the diaphagm for support.
This will help in the same way it will help when playing a wind instrument.
This will help in the same way it will help when playing a wind instrument.
as someone with experience, it will take a long time to work the very high notes.I'm 17 now and it took me 4 years to get to the top D.you just have to warm up every day and see if you can work your way up but you do really need to be careful.
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| as someone with experience, it will take a long time to work the very high notes.I'm 17 now and it took me 4 years to get to the top D.you just have to warm up every day and see if you can work your way up but you do really need to be careful. |
Be glad you're not a bass - you guys are aiming for top D, i'm struggling to get the F above middle C, so that I have a 16th range - i warble in and out of falsetto on that F.
hey MBC_Tiger...i'm the same age as u...have u done ur grade 8 yet? i have...i'be posted this question before.... do u know any famous singing competition for teenagers... i mean classical...
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| hey MBC_Tiger...i'm the same age as u...have u done ur grade 8 yet? i have...i'be posted this question before.... do u know any famous singing competition for teenagers... i mean classical... |
sorry, i don't.I'm doing my grade 8 next spring or summer.
Would arpeggeos help?
Hi Mimi,
I know others have said this but...be careful!If you aren't getting the note theirs obviously a problem; either thats as your voice will go for your age therefore dont force it and cause damage, or you havn't acquired the correct technique in order to get above the note. If your situation is the latter (you should be able to tell the difference between the two) the problem will lie not with your diaphragm but with the soft pallette at the rear of your throat. Its a soft spongy muscle that when is lifted correctly allows the full voice to be 'thrown' out of the mouth at a high pitch, it enables a sharper sound. you must be careful though and use it correctly otherwise you can end up straining the tongue and throat muscles, let alone the vocal chords. When you sing high before you sing the high note, breathe in deeply as you normally would making sure you do everything correctly with your diaphragm. As you inhale you should feel a space developing inside the mouth and if it feels like you could fit an orange inside (silly i know!) then you are doing it correctly, you then need to think above the note and let the sound out. you wont get it first time and you should practice with slightly lower notes first but the exercise to do once you've got the hang of it is go up the scale in thirds so:
b-d,b-d,b-d,b
c-e, c-e, c-e, c
d-f etc
Obviuosly using the chromatic notes in between aswell. Hope this helps and I cant emphasise enough that if your in any doubt dont aim higher than what you can currently sing and ask your singing teacher to show you.
Oh, also look in the mirror while your doing it, If it is correct there will be no movement at ALL in the upper part of your body or throat as you prepare, by doing this you will tell what it feels like when you can see youre doing it correctly.
Good Luck
I know others have said this but...be careful!If you aren't getting the note theirs obviously a problem; either thats as your voice will go for your age therefore dont force it and cause damage, or you havn't acquired the correct technique in order to get above the note. If your situation is the latter (you should be able to tell the difference between the two) the problem will lie not with your diaphragm but with the soft pallette at the rear of your throat. Its a soft spongy muscle that when is lifted correctly allows the full voice to be 'thrown' out of the mouth at a high pitch, it enables a sharper sound. you must be careful though and use it correctly otherwise you can end up straining the tongue and throat muscles, let alone the vocal chords. When you sing high before you sing the high note, breathe in deeply as you normally would making sure you do everything correctly with your diaphragm. As you inhale you should feel a space developing inside the mouth and if it feels like you could fit an orange inside (silly i know!) then you are doing it correctly, you then need to think above the note and let the sound out. you wont get it first time and you should practice with slightly lower notes first but the exercise to do once you've got the hang of it is go up the scale in thirds so:
b-d,b-d,b-d,b
c-e, c-e, c-e, c
d-f etc
Obviuosly using the chromatic notes in between aswell. Hope this helps and I cant emphasise enough that if your in any doubt dont aim higher than what you can currently sing and ask your singing teacher to show you.
Oh, also look in the mirror while your doing it, If it is correct there will be no movement at ALL in the upper part of your body or throat as you prepare, by doing this you will tell what it feels like when you can see youre doing it correctly.
Good Luck
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| I'm 17 now and it took me 4 years to get to the top D |
eek!
It's really weird you know - I have had one lesson with a new teacher today, who used such a different technique I think it is going to take me some time to get used to it.
However, in the warm ups she used, I got a top Eb above high C. I couldn't believe it! And I used to have a mental block about anything with a leger line.... I've been singing for about 18 months now, but I'm older than you guys, so not so much of a worry about damaging a changing voice.
I am SOOOO excited about my new teacher!
However, in the warm ups she used, I got a top Eb above high C. I couldn't believe it! And I used to have a mental block about anything with a leger line.... I've been singing for about 18 months now, but I'm older than you guys, so not so much of a worry about damaging a changing voice.
I am SOOOO excited about my new teacher!
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