Why Vocal Technique Is Simpler Than You Think

Vocal technique is simpler than you think.

Today I want to show you why, if you can find an easy clean speaking voice.

You can use that as a starting place to get into your higher notes. At the end I’ll also share with you a simple exercise to use your clean speaking voice to develop your higher range .

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Let’s start here.

Vocal technique is simple.

I know there’s a lot of great videos out there that talks about technique and building higher notes

What I’ve found to personally help is chipping away at this question.

Can you change pitch without changing anything else? No change in volume, vowel, even posture.

Because you can do this, you are will be engaging the correct musculature.

Now whilst this is simple.

For some of us, this doesn’t necessarily mean easy.

If you’re anything like me, you’ll notice on a simple scale, just changing pitch can feel extremely tricky.

You might feel like you have to push, there’s this build up of pressure, you start to strain and force your voice through.

Or it goes the other way. The voices gets weaker and even flips.

If you’re in this boat, try this.

One thing that has really been helping me is starting from the place of easy yet confident speech.

Let’s just say “HEY”

Why do we start here?

Now what I love about speech is that it encourages the cords to come together in a fairly balanced way.

It shouldn’t feel to hard to do.

Now basically as I change pitch, this shouldn’t have to change.

Now let’s try it like this.

See if you can find that speaking feel on a NO or MOM. Whichever feels comfortable for you.

Because what we’re going to do, is do an octave jump.

Why?

We’re going to try engage more stretch on the folds. An octave jump is a pretty big gap, so it’ll make that sensation much more obvious to you.

So let’s try it a few times.

Now as I’m doing it, there’s a few things I’m trying to keep in mind.

(1) Try to keep the overall volume, pressure, and even the way I pronounce the N exactly like the bottom note.

(2) If I notice it change, I redo it again.

(3) I also do this scooping thing, because this is basically pitch change happening. Try this a few times.

Now if you don’t get it.

That’s okay, keep trying and see if you can figure this out. You might even have to start a bit lower.

Now for some of you, you might be fairly close.

For example, you accidentally push through a bit more air/volume and you get to the note. Or you don’t push, but you fall flat.

This means you’re close! You just need to keep chipping away at it. The smoother the transition the better.

If you can get it! Then congratulations, this is clean technique. See if you can go higher.

If you want to see how you build from here and bring it to your singing. Check out episode 222.

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