Improve Your Singing Range

Normally you will find articles or reviews on how to increase vocal range honing in on adding more high notes to your vocal vocabulary, leaving the Barry Whites in the dust. But in this segment we are going to discover ways in which to add low notes to your arsenal using chest voice.
Everybody uses their chest voice for normal speaking. In actual fact, it is possible to learn much about your singing voice from your speaking voice. The way you employ your speaking voice can either help or hinder your singing voice.
Let’s begin by exploring the speaking voice. Make various non speech sounds: laugh, yawn, sigh, cry. Use a piano or any type of instrument  to find the closest pitch you just made. Now speak a few monosyllables along the lines of ahh, m-hmm, ooh. Once again, find the same pitch on the instrument.
Now speak a few easy sentences, something like "my name is_____" or "I love to sing". Once again, find the matching pitch. Ideally, the pitch should be the same for speaking as it is for monosyllables or non-speech sounds, but some of us try to speak with a lower pitch than is normal for his or her voice. This is not a healthy thing to do.
Continue exploring your voice by speaking monosyllables at various pitch levels on a piano. Find the lowest pitch it's possible speak without sounding croaky. The gravelly sound is called "vocal fry" and isn't beneficial to sustain. Your ideal speaking pitch should be about four to five steps above your vocal fry level.
The next thing you need to do is to speak or read a paragraph out loud. Try out with higher speaking pitches to determine how high you can actually go. Along the way, note where your voice is most at ease and where you start to hear and feel strain.
When using your "chest voice", you will feel vibration (resonance) in your chest when producing tones in that pitch range. Put your hand lightly on your upper chest, with your thumb and fingers resting on your collarbones. Do a yawn-slide (exhale on the syllable "hee" or "hoo" while sliding from the top of your range to the bottom). Your hand should feel vibration as you slide downward into your chest voice.
Although it seems like the resonance is happening inside your chest, it's actually happening within your throat and mouth. The vibration you are feeling is the result of air moving from your lungs and across your vocal folds.
A simple low-range singing exercise is the fifth slide. Starting within the comfortable middle part of your range, use the buzz (puckered lips vibrating as air is expelled) or a syllable like "vaw" to sing the starting pitch and slide down five steps. In the key of C major it would be G-C, so-do. The slide should be smooth, not bumpy or rasping. Start each repetition a half-step below the previous one.
If you feel bumpy or creaky sensations as you descend the scale, you’re probably holding some tension. Take a breather and do some face and neck relaxation exercises. Gently massage your face and throat, after that try again. As you descend the scale, close your mouth a little from its starting position. After that, sing an octave scale up and back down, again using the buzz or "vaw". As you go up the scale, let your jaw to drop and your mouth to open a little wider, then reverse that as you come back down. It may be helpful to imagine your tone on a path leading away from yourself, with low notes nearest and high notes farthest away. Perhaps even move one hand away from your body as you ascend the scale and back to your side as you descend.
The arpeggio is an extra helpful exercise. Sing do-mi-so-do-so-mi-do on a vowel sound, something like "oo", "ee", or "ah". Begin each new arpeggio a half-step below the last.
As with any singing technique, adding to your lower range will take time and effort. If you are patient and persistent, you will see positive results.

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