In this video we'll share with you a few
simple tips and exercises on how to sing
high notes like a pro.
Once you master these tips you'll be
able to sing with more confidence and
better technique. Stick around and you'll
also get to practice singing a song with
our expert vocal coach Reyna.
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-My name is Reina. I will be your
instructor today in "hit the high notes
like a pro." We are going to be talking
about breathing techniques and exercises
that can grow your range. We'll talk
about some tips just to make those high
notes ring out and then we're gonna talk
actually about how to perform with
confidence because a lot of what we do
when we're hitting high notes, it has to
come with confidence right. So we're
going to talk about that too.
So we have these like little panic
moments right where we're like, oh my
gosh, it's a high note! Or
we go ... and we try to hit the
high note and it's some variation of
that. And if you were to just like, you
know, try to sing along with Mariah
Carey or Ariana Grande and you were
to videotape yourself while you were
practicing that song, I guarantee you at
some point you're gonna find your face ...
if you were to still shot right? In
one of those contorted positions and
that's kind of the main reason that
we don't hit our high notes. We also have
to learn to take care of our instrument
right?
When you first wake up in the morning
don't just wake up, hop out of bed and
start singing high notes. What's a really
awesome way- go take a shower, let the
steam get into your body, drink some tea,
some warm tea. You want to be
taking care of your instrument and you
also want to be drinking a ton of water.
So if you haven't been drinking water
today now is the time to go and do that.
So the first thing that you want to do
is you want to stand up nice and tall
and straight and that's super important
because just like every other instrument
you're gonna have a proper technique. You
want to stand up nice and tall and
straight, you want to have your feet
about shoulder width apart, then what you
want to do is think about
how you have your spine and it has
all those little bones in it (the
vertebrae) right? They stack on top of
each other. So you want to make sure that
your spine is nice and long almost like
there's a little string tied to the top
of your head and it's just helping you
keep that perfect posture. Your head
isn't too forward, it's not too back, it's
just kind of neutral, it's sitting on top
of your spine. From there you're gonna
think about your shoulders. Are your
shoulders drooping over or are your
shoulders kind of loose and relaxed and
kind of in the middle? What you can do is
you can sway side to side. You can
kind of set everything up right. You can
roll your shoulders back and from there
you're just gonna breathe - exhaling
through your mouth, inhaling through your
nose. You guys can try this, actually
this is a really great way to get to
know your instrument. What I would like
you to do is to breathe in through your
nose, out through your mouth like you've
been doing, but I want you to do it in a
way that is very tight and tense almost
like you're angry. And now I want you to
do it as if like you were like floating
on a cloud and it were really open and
it were completely silent on the inhale.
On the exhale you can still make noise but
the inhale is as silent as you can get it.
All right, so we're gonna start just by
"mmm." Everyone do that "mmm."
And I want you to think about where
you're feeling this. Again this is really
important right? Where are you feeling
this? You should be feeling this in your
lips, so if you go ... and then you open your
mouth, your lips should still tickle.
Hopefully that's happening for everybody.
All right so we're gonna start low and
we're just gonna work our way high....
I know that I started really really low
and what I want you to think about is
when you started that low did you feel a
shift in the vibration? Okay so were you
feeling the sensation of these
notes more here in your neck, more here
in your chest, or were you able to keep
that sound in your lips? When I told you
to breathe all nasally and all thick and
all tight, what did you have to do
to do that? You just thought it right? You
probably just thought it. You were like,
okay tense up, breathe! And when I said I
wanted you to open up and I wanted you
to breathe really open, what did you have to do? You thought about it right?
So instead of thinking about hitting the
note, think about placing the note. I want
you to think about putting the note here -
putting the note in the front of your face.
So we did one whole octave in our low
range. We're gonna go up an octave and
we're gonna add in the "aww" part of this,
and then we're gonna check in again. Here
we go...
So we're gonna switch it up a little bit
and we're gonna be doing a lip trill and
if lip trills are difficult for you,
what you can do is squeeze your cheeks a
little bit to kind of give your lips a
little bit of extra flappy space,
but if you know how to do them regular
then that's totally fine. So let's try this again shall we?
And the jaw just drops again right?
The reason that we're
doing these exercises is because they're
all really gentle on your jaw.
So all of these words, they require
your jaw to be really relaxed, so if you
can remember to keep your head and
your shoulders and neck relaxed, where
they're not out of alignment, and you can
keep your jaw relaxed, then the last part
of that is just kind of opening up to
receive a note. Ok so I want to talk
about how to perform with confidence
because it's a big part of hitting these
high notes. Just kind of like we talked
about in class this whole time -
if you rehearse and you know exactly
what you're gonna do, you're gonna be
more confident than if you don't
practice right? So with these notes if
you're practicing them and you're doing
them often and you've kind of like
created that muscle memory, because
again it's about feeling, if you
can remember where these notes feel in
your body, it's just like if I grab the ukulele.
and I can like play it without
looking at it because I've remembered
where the strings are and how it feels,
or people can play video games
without looking at the controller
because they've memorized what it
feels like. So you're memorizing where
these notes are in your body by doing them and practicing them.
Some tips for performing with these
notes - don't tense up and remember to
breathe; don't tense up and remember to breathe.
Okay I am going to sing a little line of
the song and you are going to repeat
after me and we're gonna go back and
forth okay? I'm actually going to sing
this song a little higher today than I
normally would because it's "hit the high
notes like a pro." Your job is to breathe
and get prepared right? None of this... When
you're about to sing keep it open
in your belly and be prepared to repeat
after me. So let me pick a note that's
higher. Yeah this is gonna work.
"There was a moose named Fred, he liked to drink his juice in bed.
There was a moose named Fred, he liked to drink his juice in bed. Sing way oh way oh."
Yeah. So let's do one more.
"He drank his juice with care, but he spelled it in his hair.
He drank his juice with care..." And if it's too high for you ... right? "But he spilled it in his hair."
Either one. "Sing way oh way oh. Way oh way oh way oh way oh."
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