Tuesday, December 16, 2008

How to Increase Your Voice Range

By Elizabeth Schohl

Every singer has a special range where they can sing the best. If you try to sing up in the higher range, you will know that your voice will not sound as lush or intense because it will tend to sound like a falsetto. If you can hum in a certain range, you will note that if your mouth is closed humming your singing will be the same with no falsetto voice.

If you want to sound like a certain performer you might be out of luck, only they can sing like them. You can practice and match their range but your voice was designed for you. People know you by your voice, so be proud of sounding uniquely yourself.

Keep in mind that if you must extend your voice range, you need to get some practice time at a regular basis. Most people don't like to practice much, but they want to sound good right away without the hard work that it takes. Many expert singers take the time to work on their voice so that you know that they are much better than others.

You can stretch your vocal range by practicing how to speak with an awareness that your are changing your voice with each word. Most people find that when they are upset or excited their voice gets very high and thin pitched, and when they experience a cold the voice has a much lower sound than normal. Well, you can practice the same technique with your voice by expanding the range of pitches.

Reading some children's stories is a great way to express your voice and expand it past what singing can do. You're teaching your voice to expand but not to break, when you lower your voice you're teaching it to relax. Your voice has a memory that tells your brain how far you can stretch your vocal cords before they separate and start to use your falsetto voice.

Try to teach your voice to relax as your vocal cords attempt to reach higher notes. One way is to practice speaking in a dramatic, almost musical way so that your voice gets used to higher pitches. It is possible you may learn to to sing higher pitches as a result.

Don't attempt to make your voice singer higher or lower than it can really go, as it may precipitate harm to your voice. The use of bad habits such as repeated abuse of the vocal cords will prevent the vocal cords from healing. Singers cannot afford to weaken their voice as they need their voices for speaking as well as singing.

Practicing the correct way will help your vocal cords respond to your "commands". After awhile, you will notice that you are able to sing higher pitches so you expand your range. Your vocal cords will be looser so that you can more easily achieve higher pitches as a result. - 16492

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