Help! Higher Range?

Question

Hey my name is paula and I'm 18 years old. And Well I've just started to take voice lessons. In fact i have one tonight. My voice teacher wants me to sing a High B. I could sing a High G. Is there any way to increase my range so I would be able to sing that high. I think it has something to do with scales, and I know that it will take a lot of work out of my part to sing that high. Thanks for all the help and I would apperiate any suggestion or tip. Thank you!

Paula

Answer 1

There is an exercise called the lip whistle. Purse your lips together and blow, sort of like a kid making motorboat noises (pppp) while making a tone in your throat. When you can do this well, go up and down the scale while doing it, and keep going higher and higher. You can go higher than you can usually sing, but after awhile, you will be able to sing that high.

Answer 2

I assume you're studying classical, and is a soprano. If your teacher wants you to sing the B then you probably should be able to when you're warmed up and relaxed. Most likely the biggest problem is that you're tense.

With me, I find it higher to hit those uber-high notes(b, c, d) doing arpeggios. A great exercise I find that loosens up your range is the slide.

The Slide: Basically, you're making a fire enginbe-ish sound. Breathe in, slide your voice from as low as it can go to as high as it can go -not on any particular note, you're not singing the notes-and back. Keep doing this until your breath runs out, take another breath in, repeat. Do this about two or three times with your exercises.

Answer 3

first of all, this is what you have a teacher for, am i wrong?? but at home, and with a piano, you'll have to work on SLOWLY but surely working higher and higher and expanding your range. now i should be the one to talk, i've got a high E, two octaves above middle C. but just doing a little bit each day, and getting comfortable with one note before you go to the next, you'll have what you want in no time! lastly, if your voice teacher tells you to do a particular exercise, then do it. ten bucks says he/she know's what they are doing! just have faith and practice and i'm sure you'll be fine! good luck and maybe one day i'll see you name in lights!!