hey Chris Liepe here with the only thing that will actually grow your vocal range
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before we get to the only thing that actually works let's address some of the things that
don't work that most people think do work the first is trying to sing songs that have
lots of high notes in them that does not work because if you don't know how to get there
comfortably consistently and mindfully just trying to hit the notes in the song is just
going to leave you feeling depressed feed it oh let's just sing louder and push or pull
our chest voice up
that in and of itself will not grow your range it will just leave you tense tired and eventually
hoarse but as I will show you in a minute there is a little bit of gold there's a silver
lining to pushing your chest voice to try to hit notes here's another thing that won't
grow your vocal range using proper support although you have to know how to use proper
support in order to fully utilize the only thing that will actually grow your range if
you don't understand how to use support then you won't be able to do anything that I'm
talking about in this video if you need to dial in your support or you're not sure you
have it fully dialed in click the link below and join my free voice course and I will help
you dial that in and the last that I'm going to cover of many things that will not help
you grow your vocal range in and of themselves is doing scale exercises doing scale exercises
no matter how strategically planned will not help you grow your range for the same reason
that singing songs that have notes that are too high for you in them will also not help
you grow your range because if you're just going through the exercise because you think
the exercise in and of itself will work you are not addressing the root cause of why you
can't grow your vocal range in the first place okay so what is it we have to nurture and
grow develop our head voice oh no no no no no no I'm not talking about hitting those
kind of notes I want to hit powerful mixed voice chest voice amazing high note yes it
starts by developing your head voice I don't want to sing like that I want to keep listening
but if you spend a lot more time King in your head voice and using really range-filled Dynamic
phrasing even as you're in regular conversation initially when you start doing this you're
going to feel like you're being very weird and and you might you might very well be being
very weird but as you get in more of a habit you'll find that the rangefield dynamic speaking
can actually be a natural form of self-expression that becomes more a part of your speaking
voice as your head voice becomes more a part of your normal speaking voice I'm exaggerating
quite a bit here but as it becomes that you are less afraid to embrace it when you're
singing and not merely accidentally crack into it because you lack the ability to hit
the note the way you want to which is in your perception chest voice so start by nurturing
your head voice on a speech level exaggerate your speech get into your head voice now what
if you can't find your head voice ah remember one of the things that didn't work just pushing
your head voice higher and higher that doesn't work in and of itself but it does help you
find your head voice if you are trying to push up in your chest voice
oh and you start to feel your voice crack or break or if you just start sawing from
high to low sorry from high to low
there's my head voice
that that sort of Breaky volatile sound is your head voice if you haven't developed it
or gotten comfortable with the muscle memory to normally live up there in head voice all
the time with good closure like this then it's gonna it may very well feel Airy and
awkward that doesn't mean that you suck or won't ever be able to use your head voice
for anything real it just means you haven't nurtured it you haven't developed the muscle
memory you haven't lived with it in enough different scenarios to be comfortable with
it after you've spent time with your speech and getting more and more into head voice
as part of your routine as you're speaking start to and this is going to point back to
another one of the things that doesn't work in and of itself start to sing songs that
are out of your range that have lots of high notes but that you intentionally use your
head voice for well that's gonna sound terrible it's not gonna sound like the original artist
because they're nailing those in their chest voice or at least so I think exactly the point
throw out entirely how that artist does things and just worry about carrying the melody and
be unapologetically head voice as you're doing this think about how you can feel out and
dance with and nurture and grow the sensations you feel while you're using your head voice
don't worry about making it sound better just think about how you can make things feel good
while you're using your head voice while you're singing this song or songs that are would
normally be out of your range because you're trying to nail everything in chess voice as
you make a habit of doing these two things growing the comfortability factor with your
head voice and normal speech and singing songs that would ordinarily be too high for you
that you're going to just sing in head voice uh and carry those Melodies and get really
comfortable without judging how you don't sound like the other Artist as things start
listening to music and the vocalists you love and new vocalists differently see if you can
as you're going through these own experiences of developing your head voice pinpoint times
when these other singers are using their head voice listen for it specifically the more
you nurture your head voice the more comfortable you get with it the easier it's going to be
through the ways that I'm demonstrating practicing here the easier it's going to be for you to
discover your practical usable good sounding powerful mixed voice when you listen to vessel
in the summoning one of your first thoughts certainly mine was wow this guy's got an incredible
range when you really dig into all the different ways he's changing resonances and and using
his voice you realize that he's using a lot of head voice but then you start to realize
that he's not using as much head voice as you initially thought he was that he's going
in and out of head and mix and chest as I started practicing this song and started learning
how it would work in my own voice I noticed the same thing happening when I approached
all the notes that seemed High to me in my head voice and then started to think down
on those notes started to oh I'm going to go up there and I'm gonna hit the note in
advice and then I'm going to see what happens and see how it connects freely and comfortably
because I have spent time nurturing my head voice in all different parts of the way my
voice feels and in different parts of my range things started falling into place in terms
of mixing I'm not saying this is an instant thing I'm saying this is a process that we
have to open ourselves up to by using our head voice
okay raise me up you heard it I exaggerated that flip right I wasn't gonna try to reach
for that note neither does vessel that's why it's such a cool inspirational thing Raise
Me Up no just freely abandon into the head voice even let your voice crack Raise Me Up
experiment with the sensation make sure it's comfortable and floaty raise me lean into
your chest voice then lean into your head voice and then let your voice go down raise
me up again [Laughter] that's what I did there I went down and I hit again head voice again
and then I thought huh that's a lower head voice note is it comfortable to hit a head
voice note and a chest voice the same note in head and chest why yes it is maybe it's
not for you so phrase it differently the key here is abandon an experiment okay listening
on [Music] chest
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I'm trying to reach for it I have to float to it with the experience and the knowledge
I have of playing with my head voice in a thin small way my voice is small up there
I'm playing with this oh my oh very smart sound in a in a speech engagement and then
when I think oh I'm gonna try to hit this really high pitch I'm going to hit it small
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and then I'm going to grow it I've already hit the note I've already done what I want
to do I've already hit the note never mind that it's not really powerful it doesn't matter
vessels isn't powerful either it doesn't it doesn't matter
lastly now what you heard me do here
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what am I doing is that mix is that chest is that head it's a mixed voice and it came
about by being in the posture of small free comfortable and high and then because this
Melody's so awesome for it going down to an area there which is not quite as high that
allowed me to feel out a transitionary area in my voice now this takes a while to fill
out these transitionary areas you have to that's why I recommended starting to just
be really range-filled and you're speaking so that you can figure these things out but
if I start heavy when I'm trying to go high I'm not going to hit those notes if I if I
start high like this line is suggesting and thin and small and then as I'm going down
Beef It Up I start to discover a cool mixed resonance
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right there I did sort of push up in chest voice but I am thinking about my head voice
there I'm not going see the other side no I'm thinking about the same idea that I just
used that as I go high I go lighter and if I abandon in my head voice fine that sort
of mindset of it's okay to go high light and in head voice whatever the results allows
me to be thinner even as I approach and easier and with less tension even as I Pro Tire notes
in my chest voice now listen here
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did you hear the end of that note that was such a hard ER right is that a head voice
note uh there's some there's some mixing that I've started to develop but it absolutely
started with me going okay we're gonna go play in head voice fill as I've learned to
use my support strategically and inject the feeling of compression into my head voice
wherever I'm using my head voice in in whatever part of my range as I've experimented with
that and I can help you that in my free course I have learned to use compressed head voice
as a way to get mixed voice now listen to the end of that again there's actually grit
on that really high note I went from using head voice a pure head voice to a gritty mixed
voice all the way up there on that very high note
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the lines are blurred as you ascend and fall off the note As you move your resonance around
and playfully experiment with the way the note feels you start to stumble on all sorts
of ways that your head voice engages the rest of your voice