How to Increase Vocal Range

Most singers wonder if they can increase their vocal range. Usually this means reaching higher notes. When you sing, you manipulate muscles in your body that shape your voice. Some of them work better than others at reaching certain ranges. Here's how to train your singing muscles to reach beyond your normal range.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Work on your breathing techniques. The higher ranges require more breath but this can kill your low notes. Increase breath intake gradually when moving to the higher notes during your vocal exercises.

2. Breathe in while pushing your stomach out five times before doing your warm up exercises. Notice what your diaphragm is doing when you sing the notes. Correct use of these muscles makes playing between the ranges effortless.

3. Do your warm-up vocal exercises with care. Start with the lowest note that's comfortable for you to sing and travel up to the highest note you can without straining your voice.

4. Access your chest voice by working on the lower ranges. Notice where you feel the notes vibrating. This will help you when you start to work on your head voice.

5. Relax your singing muscles by concentrating on your diaphragm and jaw. You should be moving your abdomen out when you inhale. Your jaw should move freely so the vowels come out clearly but not exaggerated.

6. Practice your head voice by singing an open vowel like the short "a" or "e" sound. Feel the note vibrate in the back of your nose. Take care the vowels don't sound nasally.

7. Perform vocal range exercises by switching between low and high notes. Use the power of your diaphragm and the manipulation of breathing.

8. Increase your range by feeling the lower notes vibrating somewhere between your chest and nasal passages.

Tips & Warnings

• Work on increasing your vocal high ranges gradually to prevent straining your voice.
• Hire a voice teacher if you want to sing professionally.
• Good posture is important in hitting those higher ranges. Stand straight but not rigid with feet spread slightly apart.

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on 4/27/2008 This does not explain how to increase your range, at least not the important range. Head voice is sort of a "cheaters" way, in my opinion... It's like having a surgery done to your body to lose weight instead of just eating organic foods and exercising for a year... Yeah. Any note sung in head voice will almost always, always, always die in comparison to any note sung in full chest voice with correct pitch and control. Basically... I'm looking for a way to increase my FULL VOICE, or chest voice, because I try to stay clear and away from head voice as I possibly can (unless a portion of a song is MENT to be sung in headvoice). Thank you. =)