Ep 76 How To Train My Voice to Sing Higher #2

Ep.76:How To Train My Voice to Sing Higher
#2 - A Simple and Powerful Help

The main reason many of us have difficulty
singing higher is that we’ve never been

taught how to do it.

This video continues coordinating the internal
muscles of the larynx so you can sing higher.

Get ready for the next essential exercise
to make you successful.

Hi! I’m Chuck Gilmore with Power To Sing.

How To Train My Voice to Sing Higher

Every voice is unique and one exercise may
work better for you than another. Here is

a powerfully simple exercise to help you retrain
and coordinate the internal muscles of the

larynx.

The exercise is called Bubble Lips or Lip
Trill. I’m told “lip trill” translates

better into other languages.

Let’s break bubble lips down into steps.

Step #1: Locate your jaw line with your fingers
and gently lift the skin upward. Why? This

will take the weight of your cheeks off of
your lips.

Step #2: Gently blow air past your lips just
hard enough to cause them to bubble or trill.

Don’t blow too hard. [Demo] You what the
minimum air blow needed to cause the bubble.

[Demo]

Step #3: Say “uh”. “Uh”. Make it an
easy relaxed “uh”. Now combine the “uh”

with the lip bubble, like this. [Demo]. Make
it relaxed, with the least amount of air,

and the slowest bubble that you can. Like
this. [Demo]

Step #4: Do do it with the 5-Tone scale. Men
begin on the G below Middle C. Women begin

on Middle C.
Let me demonstrate. I’m using one hand so

I can play the piano with the other. You use
two. [Demo]

You go up 6 half steps and back down to your
starting pitch.

How To Train My Voice to Sing Higher - Bubble
Lip Benefits

Here are some benefits. Don’t be fooled
by the simplicity of this exercise.

This will help you coordinate and balance
your airflow with your vocal cords. It will

disengage the outer muscles surrounding the
larynx.

It helps isolate the external neck muscles
from the vocal cords, so the cords can function

freely without external squeezing.

The air resistance created by the vocal cords
and the lips creates a gentle back-pressure

on the larynx. This helps keep the larynx
low.

The vibration or resonance can go higher while
the larynx stays down so we can vocalize on

the high pitches easily.

The vocal cords are allowed to thin, tense
and stretch as the pitches go up. The mass

of the vibrating vocal cord is reduced. This
makes it easier for the resonance to shift

easily from chest into the head cavities.
It helps the vocal cords to stay connected

in head voice.

When I did this exercise the first time, I
remember being surprised. I may have vocalize

this high before, but it would have been in
falsetto.

I thought, “How can I be vocalizing this
high without going into falsetto?” This

was a new, different and exciting feeling.

This feels different because you don’t disconnect
into falsetto. If you disconnect into falsetto

try this:

Try bending 90 degrees at the waist while
looking down at the floor. Like this. [Demo]

Try adding a dopey feeling to your bubbles.
Find it like this. [Demo] Then do the bubble

lips.

Bubble lips, and “goo” from the previous
video are two simple but powerful exercises

to train your voice to sing higher.

These exercises will help you whether your
vocal type is pulled chest-high larynx, flip-falsetto

or light chest-no chest or Mix.

These vocal types describe what you tend to
do when you sing. Do you know your vocal type?

You can get your vocal type by visiting PowerToSing.com
and taking the vocal test, which I call the

PowerTest.

Take the quiz and discover your vocal type.
Then visit the Knowledge Center and watch

the videos to learn all about your vocal type.
You can download the free exercises designed

for your specific vocal type. They’ll help
you begin improving your voice rapidly.

I’m Chuck Gilmore with PowerToSing. You
can sing higher with beauty, confidence and

power.

I’ll see you inside the next video.