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Increasing Vocal Range With Online CoachingTake Your Vocal Range to Whole New LevelBreaking the Barriers of Conventional
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Your vocal range includes all of the pitches that you are able to sing from the lowest to the highest. Never having benefited from any voice coaching, many amateur singers automatically assume that increasing vocal range beyond what they have experienced is never going to happen. Singing beyond one octave seems impossible to them.
This misconception is actually an illusion created
by the high and low octave notes, which give the 
impression of an invisible floor and ceiling for the vocal range. With proper
vocal training, it is very possible for a singer to exceed the octave limits of a scale.
Many talented singers who are aware of this fact sometimes make wild claims about being able to sing three or four octaves. They can get away with this, because they know how to manipulate their voice to give the impression of achieving very high or low notes. And while their claims may be exaggerated, they possess enough talent to impress an audience and they know that no one is going to question their ability as long as they continue to please.
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Understanding the basic limitations of all singersAll people have three vocal ranges, or “registers.” These are composed of lower pitches emanating from the chest or abdomen, the middle range pitches which are our normal speaking range, and the higher pitches which are created with the throat and head. It can almost be compared to an elevator in a three story building. Learning how to Increase vocal range takes practice and discipline, which is why voice coaching is essential. It is not something you want to experiment with in front of an audience. This is a talent that should be developed privately and gradually over time. Once you have mastered achieving a certain pitch, you can then unveil this talent via a song publicly, much in the same way that a new product is released for the first time to an appreciative customer base. But you first want to wow them with what you can do, rather than what you would like to be able to do.
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But for the average singer striving for expanding vocal range, how do you break the invisible barriers of the octaves? There is an excellent online program called Singorama, which offers interactive audio lessons, a mini-digital recording studio for your PC or Mac, and a Pitch Perfecting software tool. I highly recommend making use of their resources and knowledge base.
You first need to be able to be able sing pitches within each of the three ranges, and to discover your limits within those ranges. The best way to do this is with vowel sound exercises, not by trying to sing actual lyrics or songs. This is because a vowel sound can be held and sustained with a minimal effort, whereas a consonant cannot.
Practice singing scales using vowel sounds while being very careful to properly shape your lips to the sound of the vowels. An old familiar exercise you can use is the scale standard:
Do – Rae – Mi – Fa – So – La – Ti – Do
Or you can try singing phrases composed of just one vowel sound:
Who – Do – You – Sue
We – See –Thee – Bee
Hey – Say – They – May
A great tool which can help with this is something which I use myself, a program called Sing and See, which helps you to hit pitches by showing you a digital visual representation of your vocal pitch, so that you can see if you are high, low, or just right.
With proper voice coaching, exercises such as this for increasing vocal range can be enhanced even more, by using a staccato technique of making your sounds short and crisp, rather than long and protracted. The break between notes, will give your vocal chords a chance to adjust to the next pitch, whereas, if you sustain your notes, you vocal chords will be forced to adjust mid-stride. Practice hitting the octaves and get a feel for what your limitations are. You can identify the notes you are hitting by using a tool called Perfect Pitch, which can help to train your ear and mind to recognize any note in a scale.
By identifying your range, you can identify what key a song should be played in so that you can be able to sing it to the best of your ability. Not all songs will be in your range, but with a practical knowledge of basic music theory, you can have the song transposed into a key which suits your voice.
This is just a starting point for you to begin expanding your singing range. We’ll cover more about this to come.
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