Can you increase your vocal range?

Yes , you can! You have a vocal range that you are usually comfortable to sing in. As you get more confident in singing, you will eventually reach a point you wonder if can you increase your voice range to challenge yourself bit. 

Increasing vocal range should be taken as a good challenge for yourself but not strain your voice. You can’t go right to 6 octave of change right away. Here are some of few and better ways you can right away implement so you can still sing healthy range while increasing it. 

1. Incremental 1%

I hope you been recording yourself singing ever since you start singing. If not, I got a post about different recording app you can use. If you have been recording, increase your vocal to 1 octave. Use the vowel “hummm…..” To ascending key.

What an octave mean? 

Octave in relative to the piano key is 7 white keys and 5 black keys. There are 8 octave all together in a tradition piano. The keys to the right is higher octave while the key to the left is lower. This is the simplest way I can explain to you what octave means.

Practical way is to use a keyboard, you can find it online option that allow you to follow play the key yourself.
OR

Go to YouTube and search for “vocal warm up 1 octave” or “two octave warm up for  pitch accuracy”

1 % increment can easily mean it’s all about muscle memory. Again, learning how to sing is about skill, not much talent, choosing the right song.

2. Proper Warm Up

Warm up is a MUST step to get your voice, body ready for singing. Skipping warm up might lead you to injury. Do your usual warm up with either a lip trill or hummm. If you already consistent with warm ups, it might be great to lengthen the time or add in another type of warm up. This way you are giving your vocal a chance to explore more than what it already know. 

3. Recording your journey 

I wish I knew this. I was blindly always singing from sing a long to karaoke and was always being praise that I can sing that I never once consider to record it! Now I am getting more serious about learning how to sing better, reading music notes and exploring vocal production so I document everything!

Use any type of voice notes, recording you have that is easy access. No worries if you don’t have a voice recording app , here is a post which I have research about other option you can record your journey. 

4. Rest

“You can only train as hard as you recover” – Tom Brady

This is so true. I use to drive myself to do more thinking it’s really good for me. For example going to the gym. Now I realise working out lesser helps me recover better with no injury.

This goes the same for your voice. It’s part of your organ and supported by muscles. Nothing kills a journey more than injury and also feeling tired, coughing which leads you to zero days of learning how to sing. Make sure hydrate keep your diet as healthy as possible!

Generally you want to make sure you are increasing vocal range for the right reason. Maybe you want to feel inspired to sing a certain song that is not in your comfortable range or maybe it’s to challenge yourself. Hopefully not because you are trying to copy and exact artist voice that you admire. Your idol may not have the same range as you.

So what would you do to increase your vocal range? If you have been a seasoned singer, let us know what have you learn while increasing vocal range on the comment below! We would love to hear from you.