How to learn to sing high notes

High notes can be difficult for beginner vocalists, and more so for those who did not sing in the choir during their childhood. You can learn to sing them correctly at any age. Learning will go faster if in school years the vocalist already had singing experience.

Many performers are afraid to take high notes for various reasons, but in fact, with the help of special exercises, you can learn to take them correctly and beautifully. A few simple exercises will help you learn to sing high in the upper part of your range without additional amplifiers and reverb. But first you need to figure out what prevents you from singing easily and beautifully and staying on top in a complex head tessiture.

Why high notes are hard to sing even soprano

The reasons for the difficulties of singing in the high parts of the range can be many. The vocalist begins to be frightened by them both due to physical and psychological factors. At the same time, his voice can really sound ugly on top notes. Here are some of the most common reasons why it is difficult to sing them:

1. Singing on the ligaments with incorrect breathing. Compensating for the lack of air and trying to control the intonation, the vocalist begins to sing high notes not with the support of the sound, but with ligaments. As a result, not only narrows the range of the upper part of the voice, but also quickly gets tired, there is pain in the throat, tickling. An unpleasant sensation leads to the fact that the vocalist begins to experience an eaves before high notes. The formation of deep sound on strong breathing will help to save the situation. A test can be a feeling after singing. If you have a sore throat (especially on high notes), then the vocalist squeezed the ligaments. You need strong breathing and singing with resonators, not bundles, then the voice will sound beautiful and you can easily take even very high pitch.
2. Imitation of other singers, especially performing works in the folk style. The vocalist begins to subconsciously imitate singers with a similar voice, most often to those he hears on the stage or in a minibus. Almost always, such performers sing high notes incorrectly, vociferously, or with a strong tension of the ligaments, which can lead to difficulties in singing tops. Therefore, if you hear that a performer with a voice similar to yours sings incorrectly, immediately turn on the player with instrumental music. Imitation can harm the correct formation of vocal sound, especially to singers with a strong and naturally loud voice.

   

3. Forced sound. Some teachers, trying to achieve a strong sound, begin to force it, especially on high notes. It sounds loud, but over time, too loud singing can lead to hoarseness and professional diseases of singers. Quiet and soft singing in a high Tessiture can be a test of the correctness of a loud sound on high notes. It is impossible to sing softly on the ligaments during a hard sound attack - the voice disappears. Therefore, the attack of sound on high notes should not be forced, but soft, so that you can sing softly and softly in the upper tessiture. To do this, you need to learn to gently take high notes in falsetto.
4. Incorrect vocal position. It is necessary to take them not from the bottom up, but from the top down. Singing in a low position is inconvenient for the formation of the head sound of notes, so even the sounds of average pitch for the voice seem to be inaccessible. High notes need to be taken with the feeling that this is not the limit. and that you can sing higher. If you learn to sing in a high position, the top notes will begin to sound easy and free.
5. Why is it difficult to sing high notes at 12 or 15? Most likely, the reason for the age mutation of the voice. At this age, the voice may become dimmer and high notes begin to sound hoarse. After the end of the mutation, this phenomenon disappears, so during the transition period it is not necessary to study vocals intensively, so that the restructuring of the voice takes place without injuries, because the trauma of the ligaments during the mutational period increases the likelihood of complete loss of voice.
6. Unsuccessful singing experience or fear of high notes. He may appear after the vocalist hoarse or lost his voice on high notes, or due to an incorrect psychological attitude. For example, a girl can convince herself that she contralto, and if so, then there is no need to sing high notes. Overcome the "complex of high notes" can be regular vocal exercises on a soft attack. Gradually, fear and tightness on high notes will go away.
7. You do not like how the voice sounds in high Tessiture. For many performers, high notes can really sound shrill, harsh, nasal, but all these sound deficiencies can be overcome with the help of correct soft singing, because they are based on a clip in the voice, throat singing or improper sound formation. Performing vocal exercises regularly solves this problem, and the voice begins to sound beautiful in all parts of the range.
8. It is difficult to take high notes in the piece, especially at the races from the bottom up. Sing them in a comfortable key and try to take an uncomfortable sound, imagining that it is average and that you can sing even higher. And it is better to regularly do exercises with jumps at long intervals, starting with the fifth and higher.

Tips and Exercises for Singing High Notes

1. Chant within the fifth with a leap upwards from the primo. You need to sing the completed fifth up and down, then jump to the same interval and return to the example again.
2. Sing down the chorus from the fifth to the example. So you can smooth the problematic part of the range and overcome the fear of the top notes.
3. Singing within an octave with repeated repetition of the upper sound. You can even stop and sing it as long as possible. The main thing - to avoid throat sound. On it you can make crescendo and diminuendo to learn how to control the voice in high tessiture.
4. When you sing high notes, notice which part of the body starts to vibrate a little. If you sing high notes, then the nose and eye area will vibrate. With a sharp wrong sound, there is no sensation of vibration.
5. Achieve a soft and beautiful sound that sounds smoothly on all parts of the range. Then it will be easier for you to sing it and enjoy the beautiful sound of the voice.