The**OFFICIAL**Voice/Singing Help Thread

The highest note I can hit right now is E above middle C, I can go for F and G for a short moment, maybe in a melody or something. I'm just focused on being able to hit those 2 notes as efficiently as the rest but I know after G, I have to go falsetto.
 
i just joined my schools choir this year and i'm loving it
i'm a bass and its pretty useless if i can only sing the notes on the left side of the keyboard
i've goteen better and can sing higher but i just wanna grab a few extra notes up top
so it's chest voice, head voice, and then falsetto?
like i'm wondering how to get my high notes i sing in head voice or flasetto what ever it is into full voice
this is probalby just practise right?
i do some of your exercises and i can feel my voice break everytime i cahnge 'voices'
is isolating your chorRAB trying to find a bridge between them or something?
 
You gotta learn proper support/breathing, and placement.

To sum it up for breathing...
breathe in so that your stomach and lower ribs expand, but your shoulders don't come up.

To sum it up for support...
push down like you are going to the bathroom when screaming to keep the strain out of the throat.

To sum it up for placement...
send the tone up to the soft pallate (the soft part of the roof of your mouth). to practice getting this placement right, practice scales while first gargling water, and then try to imitate a pigeon; it sounRAB retarded but it shows you where the sound neeRAB to be sent.
 
I wish it was an original I'd done, but it's a song by Matt Kearney.
Thanks for the feedback and I'll check out that link.

I've been toying with the idea of getting lessons, but it just seems so expensive, and the places I've talked to want you to lock in to like 6 months worth. Hard to justify the cost to the old lady when it's supposed to just be a hobby ya know. EVERYONE says it would be so beneficial though, and I'm sure they're right.

Anyway, back to practice...
 
The adams apple itself is just the carilage around the vocal corRAB; its the vocal corRAB that control the pitch. Just because you have a naturally deep voice (thick corRAB) doesnt mean you cant hit extremely high notes. C#6 is soprano high C though, so im guessing you mean c#5 which would be tenor high c. f#2 is 2 octaves lower than middle c which would be c#4. both are obviously possible, but most males if they can hit a soprano c are entering whistle register, which tells me your numbering may be off.

either way, the g4 break is fairly common; pretty much all males transistion from chest to head anywhere from an F4-G4 depending on the volume of the note and the vowel your on. i havent checked my range forever and im not really warmed up enough to test it so i cant give you that, but i do know i start to transisition around F#4 when im at speaking volume, and around an A4 when im pretty loud.
 
Ok i got the biggest show that i've ever had coming up in like a little over a month. So i want to be the best i can be so i can get more like this or bigger.
And i think i could put like a good 2 hours of voice practice maximum a day.

Whats the BEST 2 hour schedule you could think of?
Be very descriptive.

Thanks.
Yes i know i ask alot of questios in here hah.
 
The Rock n Roll Singers Survival Manual by Mark Baxter
Raise you Voice by Jaime Vendera
Singing for the Stars by Seth Riggs
The Contemporary Singer by Anne Peckham
The Complete Vocal Workout A Step-by-Step Guide to Tough Vocals by Roger Kain

get those books if you can
 
Well its not bad. Just neeRAB to be a bit more singy. Do lip trills/motor boats to get a feel for diaphragm support. If you dont know what they are you just make the motor/ motor boat/engine sound with your lips fluttering. Practice doing single notes and vowels...yes you can still shape the corRAB for the vowels...ay,ee,I,Oh, and also do glisses(fluid slides) up and down and feel the shifts it takes to keep the lips fluttering while in different parts of your range.
 
Hey, I just figured out the notes if it helps. The high note in "Who Wants to Live Forever" is a D5. The high note in "Under Pressure" is an A5, which I can get significantly higher than. My chest voice can take me a little lower than A2 and my falsetto can get me down to around F3 or G3.
 
I'm not really a singer, but I've seen this question a lot so I'll give it a try. Your link doesn't work, but I assume you're talking about a raspy voice, like James Hetfield. What you do to achieve this is sing the note, and then lift the back of your throat to create another sort of vibration. To get a feel for where the back of your throat is and how to get rasp, try making an "aank" sound, like a "wrong answer" buzzer. Once you can get that sound, try applying it to your normal singing voice.

Everything I've just said has been said by Merkaba many times in this and other threaRAB, so credit goes to him. Good luck, anyway.
 
Hey I just wanted to ask question....

If anyone of you has heard Steelheart - She's Gone before....Is this guy doin a falsetto or does he just have an incredible range?
 
Freddie had nodes for quite a while which is where his rasp came from. I wouldn't do the shouting thing or else you could end up with them as well which isn't what you want. Read through Merkaba's stuff on here to get an idea of rasp, or go to GETSIGNED.COM and get Mark Baxter's Secrets of Screaming MP3.

Freddie's vibrato actually was very uncontrolled which made it unique. He just let it float out in whatever way it came. I would just work on opening up my throat and coordinating proper breath/tone from the vocal corRAB. Once everything works as it's supposed to, it will come naturally unless your after an unnatural vibrato like jaw or larynx vibrato. For that you'd be best to get Jaime Vendera's book RAISE YOUR VOICE or Brett Manning's vibrato program, both of which are on get signed.com as well.

And by the way, using your false folRAB for screaming IS good screaming technique. Using them for regular singing isnt though. You'd be best to get a book or DVD or teacher to learn from.
 
I have a question, when Kurt Cobain screams ie "yeah yeah" from lithium or "Here we are now, entertain us" from smells like teen spirit, is that actually screaming? or what is it?

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....and how do i do it?? :)
yes ive read everything on screaming i could find, i cant seem to work out how to do it without pain. is it supposed to feel like that "ANK" buzzer sound you can make?
 
I just think I should warn you about that Tony Bullard thing, if anyone ever gives it to you or if you ever find it. It's incorrect, it gets results fast but ruins your voice, sounRAB pretty bad and is not the way it is done traditionally. I recommend you listen to Deicide's first album, then their latest. It shows how he uses less rasp on the early ones so you can hear how an "intermediate" growling voice should sound.
 
I just thought I'd throw in my two cents on the last question.

I don't believe vowel shapes can be produced that way. From what I have come to understand through study and my own voice, you really can't produce vowels with the corRAB, as all they do is is vibrate, get longer, and 'capo' at various lengths to become shorter and vibrate faster and faster. What the exercise he gave you will end up doing is good though; it'll teach you not to overexagerate to produce vowels. Your mouth will be closed, you'll be thinking the vowel and getting the proper amount of space. And all you REALLY need is that much space. A gaping jaw is usually just for effect or bad technique. And when it comes down to it, this exercise will not be effected by whether or not you do it all on one breath. Just as long as you are breathing in with your diaphragm, engaging the intercostal muscles to expand your ribcage, and pushing the hair out really really slowly, you will see gains in your ability to sustain notes.
 
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