Improve Your Singing Range

When you're just starting out learning to sing, it feels good to find your regular register. You've got a comfortable range of notes you can sing, but getting outside that range and developing your other registers is the difference between good singers and great singers. If you want to improve your range, read the steps after the jump.

Steps

1. Warm up sufficiently before you start singing. To find warm-ups for singing, consult a local choir director or find a video on YouTube.
2. Slide up to reach higher notes. Using a piano, begin on a note a fifth lower than a note at the top of your comfortable singing range. Slide your voice up a fifth and back down to your starting note. Move up a half step each time until you absolutely cannot sing the note at the top. If singing a certain note hurts, STOP. The last thing you want to do is hurt your voice. It is okay if your voice cracks, these should be notes you're not yet comfortable singing. After a couple of days doing this exercise, you should find that you can sing some higher notes than before.
3. Slide down to reach lower notes. Repeat the same exercise, but sliding downward and each time going progressively lower.
4. When you are about to sing a note out of your range, take in a deep breath and let it all out at once while you are singing the note. E.g. (breathe in) la (breathe out).
5. If you have a naturally soft voice, try singing bolder to reach that note.
6. If you have a naturally bold voice, try singing softer to reach that note.
7. When you are going to sing a low note, do not ever put your head down lower to sing it! It makes it harder for the air to come out.
8. When you are singing a note that is high, raise your eyebrows and open your mouth as wide as possible.
9. Smiling makes your voice sound higher.
10. Do scales every day to get your voice used to singing out of your range.
11. Never push too much! It will damage your singing voice forever!
12. Breathe from your diaphragm. This is a muscle near your stomach that helps you to sing. Place your hands on your lower back. When you breathe in to sing, you should feel your hands move back. A huge part of singing is breath control, and if you can properly control your breathing, it will be that much easier to sing notes you aren't yet comfortable with.

Tips

• You should be careful of the food you eat. Eating sweet food or stuff with a lot of sugar can reduce the quality of your voice. Eating fruits can do wonders, especially citrus fruits like oranges and lemons.
• If you reach the note, do not try to reach it again that day. Try to see if you can reach it the next day.

Warnings

• If you sing from your throat and not your diaphragm, it could result in a trip to the doctors for a sore throat!

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