Right now I just sing along to Sarah Brightman and try to force my voice to higher notes; it's not long at all but it hurts and my throat tenses up and I deal with the pain afterward. I do it because it seems to be working, I can sing at higher ranges easier than i could 2 days ago, but seeing as how everyone says that it's apparently very damaging to your voice, I should prolly stop. How do opera singers usually go around doing this?
warm up. WARM up.. WARM UP!!!!! I had about seven years of voice previously.. and no matter what, if it was practice, a group rehearsal or performance you MUST warm up if you want to avoid damage and get the best range. To extend your range it's not that difficult, however you have to slowly work at it up or down. The key is being able to sing WITH OUT strain or tightening of the throat. To get the best quality and tone you would do better to work on relaxing your throat while you sing. the sound come from the vocal chords not the throat and air must be able to move as freely as possible. Best wishes!
Two words: MARIAH CARRY! What I learned from her is that having a high voice doesn't always work.. You need to push that air out when you sing high, and when you sing any note really. NOT ALL girls are soft spoken, I have learned this from life. Talking like a girl is one thing... Being yourself but more feminine is another thing, So DON'T use a fake voice or persona all the time(not saying you do), just talk like a girl for like 4 hours strait, Don't forget and if you do..OH WELL, keep going, Keep going, keep going. Persistence is your best bet for your voice to change. REMEMBER use your air and talk with poise, dignity, Confidence, and DON'T GIVE A CRAP what other people think.. Just DO IT! lol sorry for yelling.
Quote from: ~RoadToTrista~ on February 10, 2013, 06:10:34 AM
Right now I just sing along to Sarah Brightman and try to force my voice to higher notes; it's not long at all but it hurts and my throat tenses up and I deal with the pain afterward. I do it because it seems to be working, I can sing at higher ranges easier than i could 2 days ago, but seeing as how everyone says that it's apparently very damaging to your voice, I should prolly stop. How do opera singers usually go around doing this?
If you can match the pitch that Sarah Brightman is singing at, you're already there. There are cis women that can't hit those notes. So kidding aside because I know that's not the case, opera singers take years of voice training to be able to do it and they take their time getting there.
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. That's pretty much the short answer.
When my voice first changed, I was completely unable to sing in the high range anymore. But then after years of singing in choir, years of vocal warm-up exercises where you go up and down a scale slowly increasing the pitch by one note at a time, and doing that with a ton of different vowel sounds, eventually after months and months of work, it does start to stretch. I began my life with a changed voice as more of a baritone. But after YEARS of purposefully singing high notes, working on scales and stretching exercises, and still attempting to sing along to the same unchanged-voice songs that I used to be able to sing, even though they really didn't sound good anymore, eventually my range did once again stretch. And while I still can't sing the same soprano notes that I used to be able to, (damn it...) I can at least sing notes in the alto and first-tenor range comfortably again, while I had pretty much lost those notes when my voice first changed.
So, yeah. Practice, practice, practice, and above all, give it time! It's like learning to play a musical instrument. It takes a LOT of work to get the muscles to work in the way that you want them to, to build up the tone and the memory required. But just like the instrument, it's worth it in the end.
I got nothing, but I'll just post something so that I can be notified of new responses. No point in starting my own thread and making y'all repeat yourselves. :P