hey chris liepe here with how to unlock higher notes in your voice and how to do so freely
and powerfully and in this video we're going to take cues from aerosmith steven tyler
song sweet emotion we're gonna formulate an exercise around that song
talk about things that nobody cares
i can't sit there
you are never going to be able to sing hi freely without first understanding how to support
your voice across multiple resonances if you don't understand how it feels to properly support your
voice in various parts of your range then you're not going to be able to do anything
that i'm talking about in this video so watch this video enjoy it but click that link below
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up so many options for you okay now unlocking higher notes in your voice we have to understand
that it's not about working up to these higher notes from comfortable notes that we already
have in other words if i can sing this note then going higher and higher and it's not about doing
that it's not about pushing up from some note that we already can sing and then straining
up to higher notes this is why oftentimes vocal exercises that have us go higher okay go higher
that's why that doesn't work because we actually put our bodies and our minds in a place of tensing
while we reach higher while we push that doesn't work what i'm suggesting in this video
is actually the opposite of pushing higher or trying to pull our chest up which so many
people do now if you recall the way that i sang the verse in sweet emotion i had the normal
sound or the normal resonance chest resonance and then i had an octave above herein lies our
exercise but first i'd like to point out something about stephen tyler's voice and his style that
allows him to freely sing all over the place yes it is speech level conversational engagement if
you listen to the verses on sweet emotion if you listen to other songs that stephen tyler does walk
this way is another fantastic example even though he's not singing all that high in the verses of
sweet emotion and he's singing higher in walk this way and some other ones he has this sense of like
pseudo not rapping necessarily but he's he's delivering a lot of words and he's singing
or like nailed on some pitches but then sometimes it's just kind of this talking or
speech-like delivery with singing peppered in if we think about our singing this way we think about
expression and timbre or pitch not as notes being the only way we express
but in dynamics based on different pitches not necessarily notes we are going to sidestep the
oh i can't hit that note or i have to work up to this particular note let's talk about
things that nobody cares you talk about things that nobody cares that nobody wears and when
are the things that nobody wears okay i got those pitches those are comfortable we're not going to
push higher and higher until we can hit this an octave higher confidently we're not gonna do it
talk about things that nobody cares i'm just gonna speechify this talk about things that nobody cares
talk about things that nobody cares now as i do this i'm going to observe that my voice naturally
gets higher as i start expressing it in different ways we talk about things and nobody cares
talk about things that nobody cares talk about things that nobody cares talk about
things that nobody cares i'm just going to get more and more heated and amped up and as i say
these lines on a speech level about things that nobody cares talk about things and nobody cares
talk about things that nobody cares talk about things that nobody cares talk about
things that nobody cares talk about things that nobody cares then nobody cares and nobody cares
i'm gonna let my voice do all sorts of things now even when i was just messing around there
i'm hitting pitches that are not technically notes that are way higher than i could ever hit
if i was trying to hit a particular note then what we do is we start taking inventory of how
our voice feels when we express in a higher way this is not how does my voice feel when i hit ac5
this is i just said this ah talk let's talk about things that nobody cares cares cares well there
is a particular area in my voice that i could hone in on talk about things that nobody cares
you hear steven tyler do this even in his lower register sometimes and we
can exaggerate this as a way to unlock higher notes let's talk about things that nobody cares
i'm unaware of the things that nobody wears nobody wears nobody wears
i am hitting ridiculously high pitches if i pay attention enough while i'm screwing around
i can harness the freedom i'm experiencing in my speech level engagement and turn that into notes
let me work through the progress for you talk about things that nobody cares talk
about things that nobody cares talk about things talk about things that nobody cares
talk about things suck about things we'll talk about things that nobody cares
talk about things that nobody cares
and now i'm singing higher and higher and i'm in a mixed voice all over the place and i'm not
tense i can do it a long time huh it's because i am structuring my engagement around speech filled
expression and then harnessing the sensation of a particular pitch elongating it into an actual note
that's it it's that simple i say simple but it does take a while and a lot of patience to make
this connection between speech level engagement and abandoned during speech level engagement
and harnessing those sensations and turning them into notes so how do you unlock higher notes that
you already have you just don't know you have them yet try this ease into speech level engagement
fool around with expression that unlocks different pitches in your speech don't worry
about the notes and then as you figure out how things feel as you go through different ways of
engaging your voice with different pitches lock into a note and experiment with how that feels
yeah yeah it's really really fun and magical once you start to harness these sensations
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