Is it possible to sing higher?

[BlancoNino]

It seems like 99.9% of the music I listen to isn't hard for me to sing, but the singers always hit some really high note that's impossible for me to hit without using falsetto. Do I just need practice or are these notes simply out of my range? What's the trick?

 

[lozina]

did you try squeezing your cajones?

 

[moshquerade]

i can kick you in the groin if you'd like.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i can kick you in the groin if you'd like.

Thank you ma'am, may he have another?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i can kick you in the groin if you'd like.

Thank you ma'am, may he have another?

Animal House!

 

[leftyman]

Helium

 

[irishScott]

It's possible to improve the sound of one's existing range with training, so that note that currently sounds like a tire squeal can eventually sound like a real note, but your physical range is determined by the physiology of the vocal cords, so you can't add/take away notes from your range without some really fvcked up surgery.

<----------Classically trained singer

 

[BlancoNino]

lol you guys are priceless.

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i can kick you in the groin if you'd like.

At least your in the right area sweetheart :evil:

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
It seems like 99.9% of the music I listen to isn't hard for me to sing, but the singers always hit some really high note that's impossible for me to hit without using falsetto. Do I just need practice or are these notes simply out of my range? What's the trick?

In all honesty, it is probably both.

You can expand your range with vocal training but many of those rock singers are successful for a reason. Vocally I was considered to have pretty good range as a tenor but I couldn't come anywhere close to hitting some of the notes as say Steven Tyler.

That being said, if you go to a rock concert A LOT of the time the lead singers can't even hit the notes that they do on the CD's. You can record for days or weeks to get something just right but it's a whole different story at a concert.

 

[BlancoNino]

Originally posted by: thepd7
In all honesty, it is probably both.

You can expand your range with vocal training but many of those rock singers are successful for a reason. Vocally I was considered to have pretty good range as a tenor but I couldn't come anywhere close to hitting some of the notes as say Steven Tyler.

That being said, if you go to a rock concert A LOT of the time the lead singers can't even hit the notes that they do on the CD's. You can record for days or weeks to get something just right but it's a whole different story at a concert.

Yeah I've noticed that. Sometimes after a couple of weeks of practicing vocals for a couple hours a day I can start to come really close. I have my dads voice and he's got a pretty good tenor range...then again he's been singing for years. I'm guessing it's mostly training and experience and vocal strength that I lack.

 

[Steve]

Vocal training and exercises to stretch your vocal cords. My karaoke strategy is to sing a fairly high song early on to stretch the vocal cords, then the rest of the night my lower range songs boom low and deep. Singing along in the car helps. Unrehearsed I can almost span three octaves, but that's quite a bit of falsetto too.

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
i can kick you in the groin if you'd like.

:gift:

 

[Rubycon]

Wear stilts or climb a ladder.

 

[trmiv]

Cut your balls off and you can be a castrato