the secret to singing super high notes — Transcript

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1. 0:00So find that place of release where the
2. 0:02where the sound just feels like it's
3. 0:04almost rolling out of you.
4. 0:06[Music]
5. 0:09Hey everyone, my name is Adam Michan.
6. 0:11I'm a singer, songwriter, and vocal
7. 0:13coach. And today I'm going to teach you
8. 0:14all how to sing super high notes.
9. 0:19[Music]
10. 0:25Singing really high notes is one of the
11. 0:28most sought-after skills in singing.
12. 0:30It's required to be able to sing
13. 0:32basically anything that's on the radio
14. 0:34today. Gone are the days when a singer
15. 0:36could sing in his low range and still
16. 0:39get away with it. It's important to know
17. 0:41that when it comes to singing high
18. 0:42notes, we don't want to push and to
19. 0:45strain. This is one of the major issues
20. 0:48that a lot of people find as they're
21. 0:50trying to sing high notes is that they
22. 0:52will try to reach for those notes. So
23. 0:55you'll have a singer who goes
24. 1:01and it just going it it's straining to
25. 1:03get up to that high note. What you need
26. 1:06to do is take a step back and try a
27. 1:10different approach. This approach that
28. 1:12I'm going to teach you here is a
29. 1:15foundation for singing high notes. To be
30. 1:18able to sing really high, you need to
31. 1:20first learn how to sing quietly. So,
32. 1:23what I'd like to do now is to give you
33. 1:25guys a few exercises that you can do to
34. 1:29try to build into your high range. So,
35. 1:33it's important first to know that you
36. 1:34have somewhat of a chest voice because
37. 1:37we need to be able to sing down low
38. 1:40strongly in order to then go up higher.
39. 1:43So, first we need to start with an a
40. 1:46vowel and we're going to go into our
41. 1:49lower range and as we move up we're
42. 1:51going to move up into our high range
43. 1:53without getting any louder. So, this is
44. 1:56the key. Let's try a
45. 2:02good.
46. 2:07And as you're singing this vowel, you
47. 2:09need to make sure that your jaw is
48. 2:11opening nice and relaxed. It's not
49. 2:14keeping closed. A lot of people will
50. 2:16sing uh
51. 2:20and it's it's very caught in the mouth.
52. 2:22We want to try to allow the voice to
53. 2:25come out and project.
54. 2:27So, we're going to open the jaw. It
55. 2:29allows the larynx to relax. That's this
56. 2:32part in your throat. So, once again,
57. 2:38good. And continue.
58. 2:46Singing with me.
59. 2:55Okay, now that we're getting into our
60. 2:57bridge range, I hope you guys are
61. 2:59keeping up with me. What I want you to
62. 3:01do is bring down the volume. So, we've
63. 3:03brought up our chest voice to a
64. 3:06comfortable place, but now we're going
65. 3:07to find those high notes at a very quiet
66. 3:09volume.
67. 3:11[Music]
68. 3:18Nice and quiet. And I'm not going loud
69. 3:20at all.
70. 3:24[Music]
71. 3:28Very good. Find that nice balance where
72. 3:31you're able to allow the sound to relax
73. 3:35into that place and you don't feel like
74. 3:37you have to push to get there. So find
75. 3:39that place of release where the where
76. 3:41the sound just feels like it's almost
77. 3:43rolling out of you.
78. 3:48Sometimes it can help to put a little
79. 3:51bit of a vocal fry at the beginning. If
80. 3:53you guys don't know what vocal fry is,
81. 3:54it's that morning voice sound that you
82. 3:56have. Ah,
83. 3:58and for more information on how to
84. 4:01produce vocal fry, I have a singing
85. 4:03program that goes into all the detail
86. 4:07about how to do that and many many other
87. 4:09things in the voice. But moving on
88. 4:11forward,
89. 4:14[Music]
90. 4:32Keep it nice and easy. Don't push. If at
91. 4:35any point it's starting to break apart
92. 4:36for you
93. 4:41and you're getting some of that type of
94. 4:42stuff, don't worry about it. Don't
95. 4:44sweat. Just allow it to be what it needs
96. 4:48to be right now. So, if you're not able
97. 4:50to go that high with keeping the vocal
98. 4:52cords together, then what you need to do
99. 4:55is bring it back down and each day try
100. 4:57to go a little bit higher.
101. 5:10Keeping it nice and soft. I'm not
102. 5:12pushing as I go higher. I'm not going
103. 5:16and trying to sing it louder. I'm
104. 5:19thinking nice and easy, nice and light
105. 5:22[Music]
106. 5:24just like that. So the keys to remember
107. 5:29is that we need to make sure that when
108. 5:32we're doing making this sound, it's from
109. 5:34a closed cord position. So when I'm
110. 5:37singing this, I'm not singing.
111. 5:42That's called falsetto. We don't want to
112. 5:44go falsetto. We want to keep the vocal
113. 5:46cords together and keep it at a very
114. 5:48very quiet volume. So the quieter you
115. 5:50go, the more you have to go the head
116. 5:52voice because I I need to give a certain
117. 5:55amount of volume in order to get
118. 5:57falsetto.
119. 6:02It's like almost not going to come out
120. 6:04if I go too quiet. So I need for
121. 6:06falsetto.
122. 6:09My vocal cords are open. So we need to
123. 6:12get those vocal cord closed so that
124. 6:14we're getting the high notes and we'll
125. 6:16be able to build pressure into there. So
126. 6:18if your vocal cords are wide open while
127. 6:20you're singing this, it's time to stop
128. 6:22at that point, bring it back down the
129. 6:25scale, and then try again. Each time
130. 6:28increasing one note higher than you did
131. 6:31the last time. So just going one semmit
132. 6:34tone above. Don't push it too high. Um
133. 6:37so again, it's the difference between
134. 6:41falsetto and head voice.
135. 6:45[Music]
136. 6:47So, we want to make sure that we're more
137. 6:49in a head voice coordination and not in
138. 6:52falsetto because that is not going to
139. 6:54strengthen the voice. When I'm doing
140. 6:56head voice,
141. 7:00I can get louder with that sound.
142. 7:04I just get breathier with falsetto.
143. 7:06Great job, you guys. Practice with this.
144. 7:09And if you want more details and more
145. 7:11exercises and more things to work on,
146. 7:14please be sure to check out the link to
147. 7:16my new singing program, Transform Your
148. 7:19Voice: The Fundamentals of Singing. It
149. 7:21covers all of these things and more. So,
150. 7:24I hope this video helped you guys. If it
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