How does one keep from shouting while singing high notes?

Question

I'm a tenor but when I go to sing the very top notes of my range, I have to shout them or I will go into falsetto. How do I learn to sing these notes without shouting them?

Answer 1

Be sure you have plenty of air in your lungs. You will have better control then.

Answer 2

I'm sure your vocal coach has told you the answer, but you haven't felt it in your body. The answer is support. You need to push evenly from your diapragm: strong and even and controlled. Then you have to try to think of the note not as something you're reaching 'up' to get... that leads to strain. You have to believe and imagine that this high note is just one of many notes you can comfortably hit, and try to come 'down' on it.

Now there is a place between falsetto and full voice that is gotten to when we sing to ourselves. You know what I mean. It's a reedy kind of sound, not really suitable to stage singing, but often used as a microphone voice.

The truth of this whisper voice is that if you practice it early in the day, every day, and you do exercises that open the lower end of your voice, such as humming and me-my-moo type of exercises, the high notes get easier.

It takes time. Be patient. And for heaven's sake, don't strain. Better not to try for a note if you tear at your vocal chords. Come back at the problem with a relaxed throat.

I can't emphasis enough how important it is to do your warm up exercises early in the day. It opens the bottom and top of your voice.

Answer 3

First of all you don't sing from the throat, voice comes from the larynx, the throat is the speaker box that enhances and forms a conduit for sound. Secondly, high notes are fast frequencies and make the note project as the fast speed of the vibration naturally projects it out of the mouth. If you are sing too much air with a high note the air will cause a secondary vibration at the back of the throat behind the nose and you will end up with a swollen uvula and redness and therefore sore. get a good coach before you do any more damage, believe me it's worth it in the long run if you want to be a singer who has longevity of voice.

Answer 4

The High notes in a tenor voice are really difficult.

I understand Very well what happens to you.

You need to practice a specific technique excersices to make your falsetto (head Voice)and your chest voice work together and make a mix, that is what is call "Full Voice".

Messa di Voce exceresises are perfect to work with and fix the Problem. Youl will start in a note in the middle-high register.

Start singing piano in falsetto, (head voice) then go to forte and try to start using your chest voice a little bit, until you feel both (Falsetto and chest voice) Mix and then go to piano again. What this excersise do is to make stronger your head voice, and able to sing "Full Sound"

You should do the Crescendo and decrescendo gradually, use your support with the muscles of your stomach, (diaphragm). At the same time you will feel how your soft palate is working going up to give space to your voice to go easily to your natural resonant cavities, what Opera singers call "to sing Foward" . NEVER You NEVER push or tense the muscles on your chest or thorat to control your voice.

You need to practice this at least every other day, until you can control it. At the begining the sound will be weird and even ugly, but once you start controlling the excersise you will notice that going to your high register will be easier than before.

Buy this Book, "how to sing" from Grahm Hewitt, he talk about this and gives you some other excersises.

Cannot explain More, I charge $75.00 an hour to teach people to sing and I am giving it to you for free!!!

Well I hope this can help you

Good luck

Answer 5

holy shiz no! It sounds like you haven't learned how to sing high notes properly period! When you're warming up, work on those high notes. Just go as high as you can WITHOUT SHOUTING, and keep doing that. It should feel easy. Also, go see a voice teacher. He/She will be able to give you much more valuable training than anyone on the internet can, just because they'll be right there, listening to you sing. Good luck!

Answer 6

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Answer 7

It's all about control... you can actually float very softly on high notes if you learn to control the muscles of the soft palate (the back of your mouth -- start to yawn, then stop, you will feel the soft palate raise-- that is the starting position for focusing a good tone.) RElax the face and do an "inner smile" and you open the turbinate valve (connected to your sinuses) Between good muscle tone in the soft palate, an open t-valve and good breath support, without upper body tension, you should be able to learn to control the high notes... not easy -- but it can be done.

Answer 8

You should never feel like you're screaming. You want to feel as if you sending the notes up to your forehead and singing from there. You do that by having strong breath support from the diaphragm and singing in your head voice.

Answer 9

it comes from your stomach. i sing and i have to sing through my stomach. but from the problem you are dealing with is that you don't know how to CONTROL it. when you sing, you shouldn't let SOO much air out so fast at one time...thats why you SHOUT when you sing. try singing by letting out LITTLE air at a time[so that way, you can have control and you wont lose your breath so fast, and you wont shout]. take beyonce as an example: Beyonce knows how to go high and she knows how to go low. thats because she knows how to control her voice. you should practice controling your voice by doing voice excercises. here is an example of voice excersises: try doing notes with vowel sounds like aaaaaaaaaa eeeeeeeeee iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ooooooooooo uuuuuuuuuuuuu. practice doing that as LOOOONG as you can without losing your breath. if you lose your breath too soon then you are not controling your voice.

Answer 10

Great!

How about siging a good song, 'Shout' by the Tears for Fears :-?
You're just in mood for singing right now.
Please don't worry much about the tone! You love singing!!

"Let it all out! Come on!"

Answer 11

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