Advanced Singing Tips : High Notes in Legit Voice

[antikatreena]

Please please please everyone, get yourself a voice teacher in the REAL LIFE FLESH. This video teaching scares the crap out of me. Any teacher that thinks that is is appropriate to teach over the internet should not be trusted. How can you help someone sing if you've never heard their voice? How can you provide feedback if you don't know what they are doing right or wrong??

[muadhnate]

Wide. Open.  Semantics. Same dif.

[qwerty22198]

yea ummm i think i ummmm will find a teacher uhhhh here where i live 

[stephpyle06]

You need an OPEN throat not "WIDE"

[gdayskater]

I opened and out came a buuuuurp :)

[stephpyle06]

@gdayskater Thats a GOOD thing :D Burping means you're getting enough air! hahah I burp and yawn all throughout my lessons! lol

[kapalutas]

I've found these tips for singers on the internet and just wanted to share with you guys, since it works for me, I'm attending a vocal class at the opera house, although I sing rock, my teacher teaches me the same technique as it is here. bestsingingtechnique.webs.com check it out.

[supergagafan23]

thank u sooooooo much u just help me a perfect high note on glee get it right and i killed it thanks so much

[Samlynde]

@supergagafan23 I was doing the same thing! I just paused Glee so i can sing Get it Right, Lol.

[MDCTenor]

Doesn't anyone on youtube know even the basics about correct singing? It's been taught by experts from generation to generation for 250 years. I REALLY fear for the demise of true (and amazingly not that mysterious) singing technique. I guess I've been lucky to have worked with people from an earlier generation that have stood stalwart against the tide of "progress"...Now, you punk kids get off my lawn, and turn off that boogie-woogie music...Oh! and I'm a singer/teacher too! Just click on me!

[hatcnlkittie]

It helps more to put less breath behind the notes when you sing higher. It gives your sound better tone. 

[LietMonty]

too much talk not enough action in ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS! Stop milking time to make more videos and make mo $!

[Steinstudio]

I yawned right before she said "yawn"... o.O

[makswen]

You mean high nodes! Give me a break.

[iiAngelic]

lol i sound like i'm trying to sing while yawninngg!!

[deathbyheaven]

The higher the note the wider the throat.........yeah sure whatever you say!

[nunchukr]

@deathbyheaven maybe thats not all correct but hey it can actually help opening your throat more :P it can help keep your layrnx neutral like it should be when singing to make sure it doesnt close up too much and cause cracks in your voice

[TheNJTShow]

i tried this & ended up yawning . lol .

[MISSRAYY16]

im singing when i look at you by miley cyrus for my schools talent show and i have a hard time hitting the high notes! this didnt help i dont think, it hurts my throat and i just squeak, but thanks anyway.

[FreeSingingContest]

free singing contest with prizes on our page!

[ThuedeeVang]

I randomly came across this video and I was like, "Eh..What the hell." So I tried it. I ended up screeching. xD

[LaurenNP36]

My 7th grade teacher is soo perfection. Strict but she's fun. I'm in choir, but it's fun

[GaritTheAllMighty]

legit voice? wow. its called full voice, and btw shes not singing in full voice. shes using head voice. again wow...

[lelen89]

@GaritTheAllMighty by legit voice she means falsetto, head voice

[gobipill]

@GaritTheAllMighty Oh please all these names are made up names that people come up with. It doesn't matter; u can just make up a name. For example, I'm gonna call the "belt" a cold voice. Yep I like cold voices.

[elephunts101]

hey... you didn't teach the yawn...

[Samantha123Babe]

I love the ave Maria song By Beyonce nd i can sing and all but sometimes i can have trouble with the High Note Towards the end of the song

[MrWookiemonster]

i just hit a high c and im a contralto ! thanks!

[Shepherdesscb]

Can I sing and should I continue to make this effort?

[funnyfacerful]

"alot of air" ?

buh bow

[evildell]

What does she mean by legit voice? Does she mean classical?

What you want is a wide soft palate, not just high, as a high palate is going to create a narrowing and dampening of the tone quality. Also your throat should always be wide (open) with a low larynx, not just on high notes. If you breathe in correctly then the throat should widen and larynx lower naturally. If you then support with your abdominal muscles and continue with a low larynx it will be much easier to obtain the high notes.

[LesMisFan76]

Thanks for this, it might prove to be very helpful to me.

[THSChoir]

But an E isn't high....

[nitajown]

i coacked and boogers went flying out of my nose. -_-"

[CAHop90]

There's head voice and chest voice... but not legit. lol

[lurvelysooz]

@CAHop90 Actually, there is neither a head voice or a chest voice. All voice is made in the larynx. Chest and head is now very old fashioned and refers to where resonance is felt. Legit is an industry standard term used by, amongst other place, the Royal Academy of Music.

[CAHop90]

@lurvelysooz Legit voice in today's dictionary is a word used to describe a voice trained in an operatic or classical tradition. It says nothing of our lower register and how it is supported by our diaphragm and not the larynx... which leads to the other point you have wrong. Chest voice* is when the voice is supported by the diaphragm. Our vocal chords are our voice..not the larynx. Head voice is self-explanatory and the resonance you speak of is felt then in the nasal cavity areas.

[lurvelysooz]

@lurvelysooz I'm trained under the Estille model which suggests what you say is wrong. Legit is still completely valid in the lower register.

[CAHop90]

@lurvelysooz I guess I meshed two points together. Legit is a way to train the voice... it has nothing to do with "being used" in head voice or chest voice. Sorry for the confusion.

[LizSmiles1]

@CAHop90 Belt and legit are styles of singing, head and chest are where you're singing. Head tends to be higher and chest is lower.

[gp680]

I tried I'm a guy and I barfed when I did this not pleasant -_-

[iamfab09]

Thanks for posting this vid. It's a very big help.

Btw, it's palate, not pallet. :D

[bubblesbuttercup98]

these singing lessons are working for me!!

[xamazinggg]

haha 'legit' voice?

[octaves4]

flag this dumb cunt

1 min of bs

waste

[BrandonColon]

short and to the point great video

[SydOfficial]

thanks, this really helped:)

[jackette55]

... and Per Bristow doesn't have any notes in front of him in his lessons.

[jackette55]

What if someone has a small mouth? Does that mean they can't sing high notes?

If you really want to sing with freedom and not have to worry about breath control, diaphragm support, opening your mouth wide enough etc: The Bristow Singing Method... Google it.

[oksamot04]

best singers those can sing high relly have big mouth..

[rochabeatlesfan]

its okay

[yazroo777]

hhhmmm,

[Dtenor87]

good grief...please look up the Melocchi method and note that Leontyne Price, Leonard Warren, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Shirley Verret, Mario Del Monaco don't have any of this "yawn" b.s. and don't sound fake and actually have their emotions fused

[melrose1996]

i don't understand.... why vibrato don't come naturally?

[GothicBookWorm]

to help with vibrato:

hold A medium-high note, sitting/standing straight

with your arms out, like a "T" . Shake your arms gently up and down as you hold out this note. This begins to get you used to vibrato.

[SolidGold1980]

hey cool that actually works - but does doing that develop vibrato or just simulate it?

[Dtenor87]

It does it's cause by two muscles pulling at each other NATURALLY!! You cannot control it but you can mess the whole system up by TRYING to control it

[SweeneyToddFanatic2]

Just think of the sound spiraling out of your mouth, it's the best way to learn vibrato

[DanceSeejDance]

This was actually quite helpful.

Thank you.

[piccaluteti]

That is really help...

more space like yawning.

Well, i got that sing easier and my vibrato comes naturally.

[fuckthisc1ty]

isnt this for ppl that wanna learn how to sing

all the comments are like from ppl who know it all already

[PhantomKode]

how about a male teacher?

[idareyou2move24]

I feel bad for your students.

[zizou105]

ahahaha so good

[TimeLordGuitar]

Raising her "palate" (correct spelling) is NOT going to stop her from singing in a light breathy falsetto. She can raise her palate,her right arm,her right leg and spin in circles for all I care...the note at 00:57 is falsetto.

[GuitaristRyan]

yeah that was, i can do that lol

[Edelien]

females do not have falsetto.

[TimeLordGuitar]

not true. falsetto is a vocal technique that is not dependent on sex. do women only have "head voice" too? complete nonsense. there are entire genres of music where the female vocals are sang entirely in falsetto (i.e.- hawaiian music.) the woman here is using falsetto. in addition- there is nothing WRONG with falsetto...it is a completely legit technique.

[Edelien]

It is somewhat illogical to speak of a female falsetto, because the female instrument is also incapable of producing a timbre in upper range that is radically different entiated from its mezza voce or voce piena in testa qualities.

The male instrument can do so by the falsetto. ALTHOUGH the female experiences vocal-fold elongation and adduction in upper range as does the male, when her vocal folds are not fully approximated, she merely sounds breathy.

[Edelien]

continued:

While the possibility of male falsetto is largely restricted to sound produced above his primo passaggio, the female experiences no comparable function or timbre mutation in any part of her range.

[classictomatosoup]

Totally agree. The only thing that might be compared to male falsetto is female whistle register, because both falsetto and whistle tone involve a change in the method of phonation... mm?

[BrentCharles]

I don't think that's always the case. For both sexes I think most of that is determined by genetics and training. If you check my page and look at "How Can I Ease the Pain" you'll see what I mean. The various clips will show how I use my voice differently for some of the same notes just varying the placement to produce different textures and timbres. These are just things that I've learned from my grandmother....

[BrentCharles]

That's just a little inaccurate. Women are discribed as using their ''headvoice and true coloraturas and even some lyric sopranos produce clear sounds in all of their registers. For example Yma Sumac, Leontyne Price and others. with women if they can only produce breathy tones in their upper register, they are not using proper technique.

[BrentCharles]

Those two terms are often confused with each other even among singers.

Actually the term "head voice" is typically used for females and the term "falsetto" typically used for males. Some feel that in "legt" singing men never use falsetto, but women use their complete range. There are so many variables, so it's almost not worth arguing about. : )

[tickedoff90]

actually, I think some do, but it's rare. It's called the whistle register. mariah carey does it all the time

[egrewing74]

Men can do it too, but it's really rare.

[tickedoff90]

I would rather listen to a light breathy falsetto that has good tone than a forced, pushed throaty voice that just anyone can produce

[TimeLordGuitar]

Nonsense...she is singing in falsetto,which is completely different than chest/head voice. (Even falsetto is a "legit" technique though...not sure exactly what this church lady is blabbing about.) complete horseshit. Some of the most applicable vocal lessons I've come across on You Tube are by a young R& B insructor named Eric Arceneaux. An open throat on high notes won't "wreck your voice" either...more bullshit from bullshit instructors.

[HMW]

WRONG. your confidence in your lack of knowledge amazes me. she's singing with a raised palatte, which makes an open, classical sound... nothing to do with falsetto.

[UndercoverLeech]

sigh. The open throat technique doesn't work. It tenses up your throat and then causes pain afterwards. When I sing high notes, my voice coach teaches me techniques to help my vocal chords "zip up" and have connection through the break in my voice. The standard open throat technique wrecks voices.

[HMW]

you have some correct ideas, but you seem to have no idea what your talking about. the only reason that you'd tense up your throat is if you aren't doing it correctly. i.e. raising the larynx, cause you're bad at singing classically. also, when your reach your primo passagio, you would just keep going up, none of this zipping bullshit.

[HMW]

also, at your secondo passaggio (which for some reason you refer to as break), which we'll say is at an E, since most men are baritones (but this could range from a C4-Ab4) you would darken your vowels soon thereafter, non of this zipping up bullcrap again. you round your vowels, and "cover" to whatever extent is needed by your particular fach. and then you would open up again for the last few notes of your range (if you're a baritone Ab4-A4, if you're a tenor B4-C4, etc).

[HMW]

furthermore, it doesn't wreck your voice, you're probably just really bad at it, and are doing it incorrectly, and that's why it's hurting you. although, it's true that if you leave the voice wide open far after the secondo passsaggio, you will ruin it. just look at di stefano...

[aubreesmomma]

mileycm that funny as hell! I tried to then read your comment at the same time... not a good combo! ROFL!!

[RyanStilesIsFunny]

LOL I'm confused...wtf does she mean about the tongue thing?

[KittyKaminsky]

she means that you should take the tip of ur tongue to the roof of ur mouth and slide it backwards until u hit the soft part. That part of the roof of ur mouth goes up when u yawn and it also should when u sing high notes. Thts what she was saying.

[diamondjr]

these are good tips.

[makswen]

Just got your comment. Yolu are a fucking idiot and a quack. People like you shouldn't be aloud to profane our profession. Every time I get a student who has studid with someone like you (which means almost ANYONE) their voices are wrecked. I am so sick of fixing your "handywork". By the way most women ARE sopranos. They just have lousy teachers like YOU.

[mileycm12]

i tried and almost swallowed my tongue

[angeliesings]

do you do lessons for contemporary singers as well as classical?

[Blue27Water]

me to that happens to me

[ticklemepoynter]

I just opened my throat to sing a high note and gagged a little, lol. -___-

[libbypotpie]

lol i did too. hahaha

[sphspaladin]

haha so did I. I was like geez woman!

[hankster41111]

thank you so mush

[cassandjoecorby]

good pointss!!!

[RedHotNailPolish]

you know what's annoying? this text in frontnt of the video!

[godsbarbiedoll7]

sometimes when i sing my throat gets as if i had a sore throat

[Corinalicous]

same here when i try to make a different vloice it gets sore

[CarrieRevel]

very good points here! thank you!

[kookookkkayla]

boooooooooooo! this vid stinks

[karldiesen]

lol

[justbombin]

Vitas - Smile. Freakin listen to that dude. Mind Boggling

[pokethunderdude]

I think that, by "legit" voice, she means not the head voice, but the normal voice.

[lemon1xxx]

how do you keep it open????

how do yu avoid tension????

PLEASE HELP!

[Ising4u333]

I m not sure what a "legit" voice is in her world but placement, support,and openness are what determine the difference between broadway, opera, and pop. ever heard an opera singer sing broadway? most are way to open, back, dark and loud= and sound over the top, the broadway singer has to small and forward a sound for opera same as the pop which has even less. that is why placement is important expecially forward placement in the mask for broadway/pop

[BlindsMe]

ughh i hate expertvillage

[petelebu]

ever trust a instructor that cant sing for shit.

[acaciaxtract]

Oh sorry, I guess you can do a lot better than her.

[petelebu]

hey i dont know if i can do better than her on that horrible style called cheap operah, but i can sing much better than that for sure.

[acaciaxtract]

I think you're making shit up. :)

[DeNnaceTheMeNaCE]

She is a world class classically trained vocalist/teacher what the fuck are you talking moron!

[GaryProVox]

Who is a world class classically trained vocalist/singer?

[CorkerDoggy2214]

The best instructors are ones that have encountered vocal problems and know how to correct them... the best singers don't always make the best instructors because they often teach from their own vocal experience, not from the perspective of the students' needs.

[NickyJMusic]

lol. wide throat

[sakurastar22]

Thanks,this was very helpful!

[makswen]

One more comment...the "high note" she demonstrated was an E-natural on the staff. This is not high...let us hear that same technique on a B-flat or C above the staff, and I might be more convinced (probably not!) If you want to discuss high singing it might help to sing high!

[joolzanne7]

Actually if you knew anything about music and singers, for women most can only get up to the e-natural, F and G and a few can sing top A B Bb and C nicely. yea maybe many of us could screech up there.

[beckylink]

joolzanne7 you are mistaken. Many women are sopranos and a good soprano can sing easily up to Bb, B natural, high C, C# and even D and above for coloraturas. I personally can hit an F above high C in staccato. I have performed a high D or Eb several times - held. I have taught a lot of singers and MANY can sing up to Bb and C.

Basic for a good soprano!

[joolzanne7]

Actually I have sung in choirs and no it is NOT the norm for the average Adult women to be able to sing as high as you described. Why do you think that the music for sopranos rarely goes higher than top A unless it is transposed to suit a specific voice range.

[tggold]

Most legit soprano rep goes as high as Becky says. It's just a fact. And, almost all tenors should have AT LEAST a legit C5.

We're talking about legitimately trained voices, not community work.

[beckylink]

I have not just sung in choirs - that too - have been teaching voice and singing and being around singers and studying in NY and LA for almost 3 decades and I know what I am talking about. There is a LOT of literature for sopranos that has these notes! But there are many kinds of sopranos. Mezzos are what you are describing. True first sopranos, if they keep it up, can sing very very high, and are in fact more comfortable there than low. Mezzos can sing low notes more easily...& medium high.

[Spiceofmadrid]

Well mak, those are the notes that most women start getting into head voice. She doesn't want to ruin younger girl's voices by singing notes above the staff. most women are not sopranos, and can't really high those notes like a soprano can. k??

[makswen]

Is the legit voice a classical singer? If so, this woman is not a legit teacher--this is how to sing if you want to sound like a mooing cow with a questionably wide vibrato. Notice how her "Ah" vowel sounds like "uh". This approach does nothing to improve high notes, and only manufactures a darker tone. If you want a voice lesson in high notes go listen to Sutherland, Moffo, Sills, etc.

[Zeliziouz]

Legit, thats a new word for me..

[DBSKLoVe123]

yeah...me2....what does that mean

[TodaySurreal]

it means legitimate!

[ThinkPink913]

and legitimate means? im srry im 12.... :(

[TodaySurreal]

that's okay! legitimate is a hard word to describe, but it pretty much means real. what it means in this situation is that we're learning to sing the "real" good way instead of doing it in a way that might not be as good.

[tggold]

Legitimate, when refering to the voice, means the "true" voice. This is the voice where technique is established as the main priority. It usually means that there is no tension in the voice, that the pharynx is open, and that there is proper resonance balanced horizontally and vertically.

Different genres place things differently. Musical theater, for example, has it's unique soud because it (over)emphasizes singing in the mask, making most MTs nasal. Pop is almost all about chest voice...

[19petar89]

I like your voice. you helped me a lot. now I sing high notes easier :)