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Summary: Singing high notes using a belt voice is very different than other voices. Learn some tips from this vocal expert on how to stretch your throat and hit those high notes in this free video clip.
Michelle has been a professional singer and actor for 25 years and has appeared all over the country. She runs a private voice studio in Arizona where she coaches all styles of singing.read more
"The next thing I'd like to talk about is high note in the belt voice. Most singers really want belting high notes. What's important to remember is your high notes won't be as high in the belt voice as they were in the legit voice. Now most important remember to breathe and remember the back of the throat still needs to be wide. Sometimes when singers try to belt they'll close off the tone and it'll sound forced. That's not a good singing voice and it's not something you would ever use. You still want to keep it wide but it will it's going to be more forward. So it will be at the front of the mouth as opposed to sitting right here at the sides of the mouth. An example would be this. Ahhhh..... Notice how big my mouth looks when I sing that. Notice that you can see my front teeth and my lips are slightly up. You don't want to have too much of "Singer face" but you still want to be in a position where you can hit that note. Let's try one higher Ahhhh.... If you we're to look inside my mouth right now you would see that the back of my throat is down and my throat is very very wide but I'm still forward and I'm still putting a lot of air. You might also notice that the bravado disappears in the belt voice."
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