Dave Moffat,
"The Moffats"

Growing Your Vocal Range

You've probably heard lots of different opinions on expanding vocal range. Some say that it can't be done, that your range is what it is and you can't do much about it. Others say that you can improve it by drastic amounts in a short period of time, depending on what techniques you use.  

Everyone has a vocal classification. It refers to the type of voice you have. It's really important to understand what type of voice you have so you can determine what would be a realistic range for you to obtain. 

For men in order from lowest to highest, you can be one of three main types. 

1. Bass,

2. Baritone,

3. Or a tenor. 

According to classical methods of teaching singing, most vocal ranges are about 2-3 octaves (8 total whole tones) in length. For women, there are also three. 

1. Alto, 

2. Mezzo soprano,

3. Or soprano.

These types of voices are also called vocal classifications. They basically stand for what range your voice sounds best in. For example, an alto female voice sounds best singing alto notes. It doesn't necessarily mean she can't sing soprano notes, just that she sounds best singing alto (lower) notes. Her voice may be more powerful and rich lower in the scale. 

The same would apply to a male tenor. His voice would sound best singing higher notes, and his low notes may be weak. 

According to many vocal teachers, the voice is supposed to be made up of one continuous range... even and smooth from top to bottom. Other teacher will say that the voice can be divided up into three or more "vocal registers", being:

• Chest voice,

• Middle, or mixed voice,

• And head voice.

Chest voice is the lowest register, and it's the one that people would use to speak in. Head voice is what you would use to sing high notes, as high as you can before your voice starts to crack. (At that point, you would either quit or work to smooth your voice into the next register, which is whistle voice.)

People that adopt the use of vocal registers into their training improve their ranges by working to move between these registers smoothly, without breaking. 

Breaking is when you are moving up or down in your range, and your voice gets to a point where it can't produce a higher (or lower) sound anymore using the same technique. 

It has to switch suddenly to a different technique to allow for the higher (or lower) notes to be produced, and the result is a sharp, sudden change in your vocal cord coordination, causing a scratchy and terrible sounding break. 

The idea is this: You are able to sing really high and low notes already. A large range isn't developed, but discovered. Have you ever been kidding around and imitated an opera singer singing a really high note? If you can do it kidding around, you can certainly sing it.

 Basically if you can speak it, or even utter it, you can sing it. 

The idea behind improving your range using this method of training is just to smooth out the breaks in your voice to get you from the bottom to the top in one even motion. This is done usually by practicing scales with some very different sounds. 

Scales are usually sung with different vowel and consonant combinations, like:

• me me me me me,

• la la la la la,

• nay nay nay nay nay,

• And no no no no no.

Using this method, you are taught to smooth our breaks in your voice by singing scales with lip rolls and tongue trills. That's basically it. 

Other methods of vocal training would tell you different. Some teachers claim that dividing the voice into sections (registers) is psychologically damaging! They teach different ways to improve the vocal range, like:

• Vowel bending, which is basically changing the formation of the mouth to sing higher notes,

• Proper breath support while keeping an open throat, which is told to carry you right through to high notes,

• And technique imitation. Basically you just teach your voice through practicing to sing higher notes, one at a time with the same technique you used to sing lower ones. (This can be a very slow process) 

There are of course, many other tips and techniques that go along with these methods. Using them the wrong way can make them completely ineffective! 

There is nothing worse then doing something over and over again and not getting the result you wanted because you were doing it the wrong way. 

In the Expanding Range chapter of the Sing Like A Pro ebook, you are taught exactly how to carry out all of these methods, as well as:

• Exactly what a tongue trill and lip rolls are, complete with audio examples, 

• How to vowel bend, (different for men and women) 

• What notes are realistic for you to try and obtain, 

• And how to use your whistle voice!

And that's just the expanding range chapter.

For those of you who don't know, whistle voice is the voice Mariah Carey uses when she sings way way way up high. It almost sounds like she's squeaking out the notes. That is whistle voice, and with a little work, you too can achieve it. 

Click here to listen to me sing in whistle voice!

You can learn how to do this with a little practice. 

In the Sing Like A Pro ebook, you learn step by step how to skyrocket your range,   obtain perfect pitch, microphone control, curing stage fright and tons more. 

Here's what you get:

• Ten information packed chapters with everything from the basics of singing, to razor-sharp pitch, to microphone control and stage presence,

• An entire audio library of scales and exercises designed to produce maximum vocal improvement in all areas,

• Two special bonus articles, about how to fix common vocal problems and advanced stylistic techniques, (vibrato, runs, slides, trills, etc)

• And interviews with band members with multi-platinum status like The Crash Test Dummies and The Moffats!

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