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wheninrome	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 9:12 PM hi all. i wanna hit high notes. not godly high, but higher than my current range. i can hit the notes in a quiet voice, but cant really do it very loud. how can i improve this?
TameasDust	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:06 PM a vocal coach ...
twodimensional	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:10 PM practice, too.
wheninrome	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:25 PM well i mean how do i practice.
mattbanx	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:49 PM I'm no vocal expert. But when I first started out, what I tried to do is sing my favorite songs or make up ones in that range and record myself singing accapela. Singing it more softly the first time to get a feel for it and increase my pitch and gain confidence. Because I have that same problem. I also heard that eating lemons or lemon juce before hand is good. But it kills my stomach. I take that same theory with practicing my voice to any instrument. When I first started playing guitar to Pink Floyd albums. Quiet to louder. It's helped with my confidence, anyway.
GeneHilbert	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 1:00 AM I assume you play an instrument. Let’s say its piano.... What is the lowest note you can sing clearly and sustain? Play and sing the note - hold it as long as you can while making it sound good. Do this a lot (each time sing a different vowel A, E, I, O, U,) and time yourself each time trying to sustain for longer periods of time. Now chromatically go up the keyboard one note at a time and do this all over again for each different note. This will help you hear the notes (ear training) associate the note you are singing with the notes name, warm up your throat by singing long notes, and improving your tonal quality by making you focus on the note’s pitch and keeping it perfect (hopefully). Do this for every note until you reach the very highest note you can sing. Also remember to drink a lot of water - a hydrated throat is a happy throat. If you ever feel a sharp stinging in your throat ever -STOP for the day or two and rest – ignoring this will cause damage. When you reach you highest note start over and come down - one pitch at a time back to the bottom. Keep a written record of where you start (Low) where you stop (High). Work on this over, and over and over, and over, (get the idea). Next scale studies, start with major. On your Lowest note sing a major scale up in whole notes (4 beats each) using the vowels all A’s for the 1st scale up and down. Then the next chromatic pitch use all E's for that one up and down. Then I's - then O's until you get back to A's then keep going around again and again. Go up as far as you can then back down. Each time you do this (daily) start with a different vowel for your lowest note so you don’t always start with A. Work on this over, and over and over, and over, (get the idea). When you get the whole notes down, switch to half notes, then quarters. "DO NOT" take short cuts, you are only cheating yourself. When you get this far and can do this properly. Note Me with your progress. Then we’ll go to the next round.
shadowself	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 1:23 AM Gene's got some pretty good advice! Know how I learned to sing? I sang harmonies to all the songs I heard on the radio. Over and over. Once you're really good with harmonies, you'll have no problem singing leads. Singing is the "instrument" that did NOT come to me naturally. Keep singing along to everything you hear, and soon you will be able to sing the high notes, and be able to bridge the gap between normal voice and falsetto with practice. Falsetto is going to sound like Mickey Mouse at first, but eventually you will learn to make it powerful and be able to flip back and forth between falsetto and your normal voice without anyone noticing. That "awkward point" will get narrower, and eventually vanish.
onewhodreams	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 9:28 AM Take lessons.
TameasDust	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 10:05 AM http://notsosynonymous.tripod.com/sing/tips.html http://www.alexandercenter.com/pa/voice.html
GeneHilbert	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 11:26 AM Both of those sites are done very badly. Screw the singing you'd go blind trying to read them.... Then you couldn't sing or see either....
TameasDust	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 12:21 PM true ... most sites were far worse
AdVirus	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 7:30 PM you need a voice teacher! don't try to sing without knowing how to hit the high notes. screaming or shouting from the throat will hurt your vocal chords. find a teacher.
hate9wicket	Date: February 7, 2006 @ 9:09 PM Any singing will improve your range, but remember, the more difficult the note, the more power from the lungs you will need. Posture and proper breathing help. Stand up straight, and inhale using your stomach ( the diaphragm) and remember tone too. Your tongue has to be flat, so have it hanging over your bottom teeth, a little awkward at first, but you get used to it.