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For people who can sing in whistle register ONLY!?!?!?!?

I want to know how you get the sound all the way into the top of your head?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: So, are you asking how you can sing in your "head voice" or highest range? Your highest and lowest notes of your range will come from the same technique.

First and foremost, make sure you are breathing correctly to support the notes. Also, be very careful NOT to strain your neck upwards when "reaching" for notes. You should have good posture, be standing, and actually tilting your head slightly downward.

As for a method to achieve a solid head voice: My HS Choir teacher taught us to first, force a yawn. As you yawn, notice the open feeling in the back of your throat. It's the little flap between your nasal cavity and the roof of your mouth - it's an open valve of sorts. (think it's called the velum?) Now, without yawning, see if you can recreate that open feeling.

She had us imagine that there was a space big enough for a cantaloupe or a softball between the bottom of your mouth/jaw, and extending up to the roof of your nasal cavity. Envision this big open round space. Now, breathing from your diaphragm, air is going to come up from the bottom of your lungs, and it will travel into the top of that open space, and it will spin around before you release the sound.

Now, before you try this and end up shouting,... imagine that the sound isn't coming from your mouth. As you produce a note, imagine that the sound (and all that oxygen whirring around in your head) is going to shoot straight out of your eyes like a laser. The slight downward tilt of your head will help you "feel" that. Practice "shooting" the sound, then backing off and "floating" the sound to achieve different textures for different song / phrasing styles.

Try singing in the middle of your range this way - and work your way up, you can eventually "float" into your head voice, and with time, you'll expand your range.