Vocal practices often focus on honing high musical notes, but a deeper range can also reach these notes. Hitting low notes will provide your vocals with fuller, richer sounds and make you become a more skillful singer.
How to sing with a deeper voice? There are three stages you should follow:
- Understand the basics
- Sing with a wide throat
- Add to your low vocal range
How To Sing High Notes With A Deep Voice
You should read all stages of singing high notes with a deep voice in a cautious manner since each stage requires some steps to apply.
#1. Understand the basics
- Establish standard techniques.
Singers generally spend years practicing to hone their skills. It requires you to comprehend your vocal range before trying to extend it.
If possible, you should ask for some suggestions from the professional vocal instructor. Their experience can give the most suitable and practical methods for you to improve.
They can also instruct you on how to protect your voice and prevent you from detrimental techniques. It is crucial if you are trying to expand your vocal range, as you will test your limits on purpose.
To look for the right vocal coach, you should research instructors in your local area on the internet. Meet with a minimum of three instructors to decide which one will work best with you.
- Utilize powerful breath support.
Even if low notes demand a smaller amount of air than high musical notes, it is still essential to improve strong breathing support.
Focus on balance, since too shallow breath can cause a singer not to hold a note, while too deep breath can lead to tension and pain. The extra tension can narrow down your vocal range because your vocal folds have to relax for singing low notes.
Frequent aerobic exercise can enlarge the lung capacity, which benefits any singer to hold more air. Simple aerobic exercise before your performance can also have positive impacts on the productivity of vocal warmups.
- Prepare one personal humidifier to keep your vocal folds lubricated.
Your vocal folds need to relax and loosen up while you sing low notes. To keep them fully hydrated, prepare one personal humidifier by the time warmups.
It is acceptable to use it after training your vocal cords as well. This equipment looks like the sauna for your vocals and can keep it stay in good shape.
- Do vocal warmups before singing.
Before your performance, remember to do some warmups first. An efficient vocal warmup can handle tension and make your voice ready to sing with your whole vocal range.
Take some breaths. Keep the body upright with both shoulders and chest in low positions and loosen up.
Keep breathing as usual and concentrate on all the muscles of the chest, neck, with shoulders. Do you find any tense? Continue breathing and pay attention to unwinding these muscles.
Practice a few musical scales. Sing some notes, and begin with lower notes and end with higher ones. Do one more time, from high notes to low ones this time. Practice this exercise with various sounds (like “oo,” and “me”).
Create the “kazoo” buzz. You round both lips and then breathe to make the “woo” sound at every pitch.
- Recognize your limitations.
Although there are some steps for you to improve your voice, take notice of your practical limit on how low your voice can sing.
The vocal range results from the unique anatomy, and it is not something that you can make some changes.
If you are born as a tenor, it is impossible for you to sing the lowest musical notes that the bass vocalist can. Rather than trying the impossible, sing with the vocal range you have.
Remember that the length of vocal folds will determine the vocal range. It normally gets related to the length of the neck.
The longer the vocal folds, the deeper the voice can reach. The man is likely to have bigger vocal cords in comparison with the woman. It is the reason why men typically own lower voices in their singing career.
#2. Sing with the open throat
- Always keep the larynx loosened and low.
The larynx commonly dips when you are inhaling. Keeping the larynx low is one key component of singing with the “open throat.”
Let your volume reduce when singing the lowest musical notes in your vocal range to make sure your larynx stays unwinded.
Loosening up your larynx can help take advantage of your full low vocal range. A lot of beginning vocalists often sing with the raised larynx. It will produce much higher, gentler sounds that lack depth.
The next key element of the “open throat” is the raised soft palate. Still, this habit is exceedingly important to sing high notes instead of low ones.
- Steer your voice from techniques to regulate the larynx.
Even though the longer larynx (the other name is “dropped” larynx) can generate slightly deeper sounds, learning to control your larynx can harm your voice.
Trying an artificially low larynx (or “depressed larynx”) is not our recommendation. Rather, you should practice regulating and releasing tension in all the muscles that surround it.
One more popular mistake is to use your tongue to bring low on your voice box. Although this action can technically make your larynx lower, it can cause all the muscles in the throat to stiffen. The final result is that your voice and vocal range get damaged.
Keep in mind that the best open throat does not have any tension. If you find that your vocal range suffers from strain, reevaluate your techniques.
- Start by feeling the voice box.
Gently put one hand over the voice box. If you cannot see the larynx, feel for a gentle bump at the head of the throat below the jaw. Ensure that your hand is slightly touching the larynx without any squeeze on it.
- Sing some different musical notes when your hand is still in place.
Take notice of any change in position that the larynx can make. Does it move up with your high notes?
If you find that the larynx slightly tilts or pivots, rather than moving up, then you have comprehended this technique. The larynx has to move gently for your vocals to change the pitch.
Always do not hold the larynx in place with one hand. Otherwise, this technique may trigger bruising or intensely damage your vocals.
- Attempt to sing without lifting up the larynx.
The position of the larynx is visible as one barometer to spot tension in the throat. Keeping all the muscles unwinded is a key for general vocal qualities and is intensely essential to achieve deeper notes.
If you are struggling with holding the larynx low, let’s try some deep breathing exercises. Inhale and exhale moderately while you feel the larynx with the hand.
When the larynx stays low while inhaling, take notice of what muscles in the throat and the jaw relax. Try to imitate this when you are singing.
It may take time to do it appropriately, especially if you are a budding singer. Do not get inadequate if you cannot do it immediately.
Massage the throat.
While you are singing low notes, all the vocal folds get shortened and thickened to produce sounds. These cords vibrate more slowly than they do when you sing high notes.
The best way to efficiently keep the larynx low is by relaxing its surrounding muscles. If you have difficulties in holding the larynx low, you can use the fingers or the electric massager to slowly work over the throat.
Press the fingers or the electric massager down but not too tightly. Slightly move the fingers sideways without turning.
Begin with the hyoid bone; its position is between the chin and the larynx. Massage these areas and the associated muscles.
- Massage the larynx with the hands and practice breathing exercises.
Put the back of one hand on one side of the larynx and slightly move sideways without turning. Next, take the back of the hand to keep it at the right and have some slow, deep breathing exercises through the nose. Repeat with the larynx held at the left.
Next is resonating in the chest. Put one hand on the chest, just right under the collarbone. Stay relaxed, then sing some low notes. Take one hand to feel all the slight vibrations in the chest while singing. Make sure the resonation does not happen higher up in the throat.
#3. Add to your low vocal range
- Decide the lowest point in the vocal range.
To learn to sing with lower musical notes without damaging the voice, the first thing you need to do is to look for the lowest note you are singing.
You can utilize the online pre-recorded tool or have your partner play some notes on the piano. You should start from C4.
Lower down the note until you find a note that you cannot sing, and it may cause pain. Then, the previous one is the lowest note of the current range.
- Do it step by step.
Do your best to sing the following-up note after the lowest one of the vocal range. Try working on one scale that consists of some other notes that you are working on. Practice these musical scales every day for about 15 minutes. Stop if you feel your voice begin to strain.
This exercise will help to strengthen the vocal flexibility that you can sing lower musical notes anytime.
- Perfect one note before you move on.
Before you go to the next low note, it is vital that you can continuously hit your fresh notes. If you cannot comfortably sing this low note, it is almost impossible to work on the next note.
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The Bottom Line
Working on lower musical notes will train your voice to produce fuller and stronger sounds and make you become a skillful vocalist.
Exercise for a deeper voice often requires carefulness and resilience, so you need to do it step by step. You also need to pay attention to your practical limit to avoid any vocal damage.