One of the most common frustrations I hear from singers is that they can’t sing high. Range is a tricky thing. To some degree, our voices are all physiologically built for a certain range. Longer, thicker vocal cords constitute a lower voice. The shorter and thinner your cords are, the higher your range is. However, within the boundaries of your physiology, I believe that any singer can begin to increase their range and access higher notes with more ease by experimenting with a few simple tools. Here are two:
1. Access your siren. Give yourself the freedom to explore your range outside of the pressure of singing. See what it feels like to “siren” around freely like an ambulance at the top of your range. If you can siren up there, you can sing up there. Ladies, use your head voice for this. Gentlemen, stay in the higher part of your chest resonance and don’t flip into falsetto. Don’t think too much about the sound you’re making. Instead, use the freedom of the siren to play around with phonating in the higher register of your voice and notice how much easier it is to vibrate up there when you think, “siren” than when you think, “sing.”
With a siren, most singers
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