Adding high notes is what mostly discussed in articles that talks about how to increase vocal range and ignoring altos and basses. Lower voices, this one’s for you! We’ll explore some ways to add low notes by using your chest voice.
When you talk, most of us uses the chest voice. In fact, your speaking voice can teach you a lot about your singing voice. You can either help or hinder your singing voice just by the way you use your speaking voice.
Let’s start by exploring your speaking voice. Try making various non-speech sounds: laugh, cry, yawn, sigh. If you have a piano or pitch pipe available, find the nearest pitch to the sounds you made. Now speak a few monosyllables: uh-huh, mm-hmm, aha. Once again, using the piano or pitch pipe, speak a few monosyllables and match the pitch you produce.
Now speak a few simple sentences, such as “my name is_____” or “I love to sing”. Like the past exercise, find the matching pitch. Many people try to speak at a lower pitch than is natural for their voice when ideally, the pitch should be the same for the speaking as it is for monosyllables or non-speech sounds. Doing this is not recommended and is not healthy thing to do.
Continue exploring your voice by speaking monosyllables at various pitch levels on a piano. Find the lowest pitch you can speak without sounding gravelly. “Vocal Fry” is the term used for the gravelly sound and sustaining this is not healthy. Your ideal speaking pitch should be about four to five steps above your vocal fry level.
After that, try reading a paragraph or speak some sentences. To find out how high you can go, experiment with higher speaking pitches. Along the way, note where your voice is most comfortable and where you start to hear and feel strain.
You will feel vibration or resonance in your chest when you use your ‘chest voice’. This is when you produce tones in that pitch range. With you thumb and fingers resting on your collarbones, put your hand gently on your upper chest. Do a yawn-slide (exhale on the syllable “hee” or “hoo” while sliding from the top of your range to the bottom). As you slide down into your chest voice, you should feel the vibration from your hand.
You must know that the resonance is happening in your throat and mouth although it may feels like it’s occurring in your chest. The vibration you feel 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 in the comfortable middle part of your range, use the buzz (puckered lips vibrating as air is expelled) or a syllable such as “vaw” to sing the starting pitch and slide down five steps. That would be ’so->do’, or G-C inf you’re doing it in the key of C Major. The slide should be smooth, not bumpy or creaky. 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. Pause and do some face and neck relaxation exercises. Try doing it again after gently massaging your face and throat. Close your mouth slightly from its starting position as you descend the scale.
Next, using again the buzz or “vax”, sing an octave scale up and back down. As you go up the scale, allow your jaw to drop and your mouth to open a bit 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. You can move one hand back to your side as you descend and move it away from your body as you ascend the scan. Well, that’s one thing to try out.
Another helpful and related exercise is called the arpeggio. Sing do-mi-so-do-so-mi-do on a vowel sound, such as “oo”, “ee”, or “ah”. Start each new arpeggio a half-step lower than the last.
As with any singing technique, adding to your lower range will take time and effort. Don’t worry, you will definitely see positive results if you are patient and persistent.
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