From the course: Vocal Lessons: 3 Expanding Your Range

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Are you straining to sing?

Are you straining to sing?

From the course: Vocal Lessons: 3 Expanding Your Range

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Are you straining to sing?

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- It's not uncommon as you go for singing songs that have wider ranges to run into strain. Strain basically is, as you I'm sure have experienced, when you feel like muscles are pulling up, or you feel like you're pushing against a ceiling in order to get that higher note. There's two aspects to this reality: one is mental, the other is physical. And you might ask, which comes first? The chicken or the egg? The way you're thinking, or the physicality? We've covered a number of aspects of this within the head and chest voice dilemma, the beginning of the last section of vocal exercises I spoke about register break and what that really is. Right now, we're just going to take a look at one very particular area that is so common, we've touched on it a little bit, we're gonna draw it front and center now. And that has to do with thinking up for pitch. These next series of exercises will help you in the journey to think of sound, just a sound, and not reach up or down. When you're reaching…

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