I have a singing instructor to help me, but I was looking for some tips/exercises to do on my own. I need to expand my range for an audition in a few months. I need to be able to hit the D above the staff, ideally. All your advice is much appreciated, thank you!!
2006-08-08 14:59:00 · 7 answers · asked by Remi 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
I'm already a soprano, but I'm a mid-low soprano.
2006-08-08 15:04:56 · update #1
Do some lip trills first, go up and down by half tones, relax your throat and body, DO NOT PUSH YOUR AIR, let your breath and support work together naturally, then start going up, do a scale of 5 notes like: C D E F G F E D C, (DO RE MI FA SOL FA MI RE DO) up and down. and do up by half tones.
NEVER FORCE YOUR VOICE, think it easy and natural, feel your support working but do not push any muscle.
DO NOT SING LOUD either, this exercise is specifically to develop flexibility in your vocal chords. So you don't need to sing loud or scream, you need to do it Piano (Soft volume).
Do it every day for 5 to 8 minutes 2 or 3 times a day.
then when you sing, try to find the same sensation of the exercise while you are singing.
Drink a Lots of water take a vocal rest every day and do not talk loud, do not scream, walk 30 minutes or do any cardio or aerobic exsercise every day to create stamina in your mucles, that will help you to sing your high notes better too.
Hope this help.
2006-08-08 17:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by divacobian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you're singing in your high register, it helps to keep your mouth open as wide as possible. Also, if you go a few notes above the note that you need (so if you need to sing a high D, sing up to about a high G), it will make singing the note that you need to sing seem much easier. It's kind of the same concept that baseball players use when they put a donut on their bat before going up to the plate, if that makes any sense. Good luck with your audition!
2006-08-08 15:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by Magic 8 Ball 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My voice teacher tells me to lift "up and over." Open your ears and drop your jaw. To warm up your voice before doing this, make siren noises by yawning up and down, beginning with the highest squeakiest range of your voice and dropping to the lowest possible range of your voice—not really singing, but just, you know, making noises. You won't hit that note right away, and like others have said above me, just keep practicing. Don't forget to breathe and expand side ways through the ribs. That may help. good luck!
2006-08-08 15:54:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I bet you can hit that D. You should practice breath support/control. The higher your notes are the more air you will need to support those notes. Also you want to open your mouth as wide as you can and drop the larynx.
High D is really high. Make sure that if you just can't do it, you don't. It's better to have fewer good tonality notes than tons of awful sounding ones.
2006-08-08 16:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by ballerina_kim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a first soprano. My best advice is to do whatever you can to relax your throat on your way up the scale. Scales are the best thing you can do to open up your upper range.
2006-08-08 15:05:43 · answer #5 · answered by Cols 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All you can do is to just keep practicing. You'll get better, I went from being an alot to a soprano, it was over a span of three years though.
2006-08-08 15:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by annarenee83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when u find out let me know
2006-08-08 15:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by kayrrie101 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋