The techniques for high-pitched singing at the Eighteen Bends of Mountain Road include breathing, lip vibrato and humming exercises, combined chest and abdominal breathing exercises, raising hands, *** chanting, etc.
1. Start with the breath
First of all, you must master the correct breath for singing, and the breathing movement must change from the chest posture to the combined chest and abdomen posture. To practice, lie flat on the bed, relax, and breathe naturally, with your hands flat on your abdomen. Your breathing when lying flat is a natural chest-abdominal combined breathing. Through this practice, you can find the feeling of combined chest-abdominal breathing.
We are going to make some strange sounds and do some stretching exercises like bending the body forward. Remember to relax your shoulders, take a deep breath, move forward, open your mouth wide, stick out your tongue, pronounce words, and touch your teeth to see if they are open. These moves may look ridiculous, but they are useful for opening up your voice quickly.
Next, you need to stretch your body. You can swing left and right, twist your waist, etc. You can do it in conjunction with the above actions. After doing these warm-up exercises, you can start humming low, take a deep breath, and then hum from low to high, making your voice sound like an alarm.
2. Practice of lip vibrato and humming
When we practice this, we must completely relax our bodies. Let your muscles respond instinctively. Wrinkle your nose while doing humming exercises. Hum a note and follow the scale from bottom to top.
For those who want to make their voice smoother and want to learn to sing well. Labiodental and humming exercises will be done tomorrow. Only by practicing this continuously can your muscles form memory. It eventually comes out naturally when you sing.
3. Practice combined chest and abdominal breathing
After you find the feeling, start practicing combined chest and abdominal breathing in various postures such as sitting and standing until you get rid of the past Thoracic breathing is a combination of chest and abdominal breathing in a natural state. Then, there is the method of vocalization. Many people say that vocalization is produced by the friction of air against the vocal cords, coming from the throat.
But this method is very hurtful, and if you can complete the high note by just relying on the air impact of the throat, there is no need to practice breathing. Qi starts from the Dantian, the throat is stable and swallows down. Relax your whole body, and then practice from the scales until any pronunciation does not cause physical tension (often manifested as muscle tension, raised shoulders, and larynx shaking).
The correct pronunciation method is to use the whole body and only the abdomen as a support point for the breath, and open the throat as much as possible to facilitate the strong passage of airflow. You may have to exert force on your face and cheeks, but this is to ensure correct pronunciation, not to help with pitch.
4. Raise your hands
Point your hands to the sky while singing. Raise it quickly when singing high notes. Some people may not believe it. In fact this method is very useful. Those classical musicians who raise their hands when singing musicals are not trying to cater to you but to hit the high notes.
Raising your hands will naturally lower your muscles. And your intention will move upward, and your abdominal muscles will naturally push your breathing upward, making it easier to sing high notes. You can try it.
5. The vaginal cavity
Finally, there is the vaginal cavity, which includes oral cavity, chest cavity, and head cavity. Oral tinnitus is actually something you are born with, so you don’t need to practice it deliberately. As long as you can open the throat cavity as mentioned above, you can do it.
Chest chirping is the easiest to practice, that is, the sound must be sung into the inside of the body, and the chest cavity serves as the chirping wall to emit the sound. This kind of sound is the most stable, but it usually cannot support high notes.
However, it is still recommended to have stable chest ringing before trying head ringing. However, head ringing is really difficult to describe in words, so , this is the one that takes the longest time to practice and is also the most difficult to practice well.