Why Your Vocal RANGE is CAPPED (And How To Fix It)

Limited range is a problem EVERY vocalist struggles with at various points in their journey.

You struggle with a vocal range cap if:
You are constantly lowering the key in songs you want to cover.
You avoid writing melodies that cover lots of notes because you are tired of struggling.
Your throat tenses up even as you're preparing to hit a higher 'problem note'.
Your voice gets tired easily when singing in your upper chest resonance.
Lots more reasons...

Let me show you an extremely simple exercise that will help you break through that vocal range brick wall! Any vocalist can do this and get benefit from it, regardless of your voice type!

[BettyTheRaccoon]

Me: I wish I could improve [insert skill here]
Chris: Releases the wished video.

[randolphgallagher]

This a very helpful exercise for me. I was disgusted with my limited range since I was trying to sing everything in my chest voice. I discovered that I have a much better range than I imagined. Delightful!

[psychlyeslg]

It's amazing how you didn't hit the table with the guitar

[TheRaf]

Awesome, Chris! I realise now that I'd been doing this before when trying to reach higher notes, now I understand why it actually works!

[WhaleBlueEye]

You nailed it here. It’s not easy to embrace the vulnerability of head voice and to instead fall back on pushing chest voice with poor results. Early 20 yr old Gnecco was the only guy I knew who was willing to go there. I recall him doing a lot of falsetto on stage that eventually blossomed into the force of nature it is today. Thanks!

[benjimartinnc]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm a second tenor, and I sing in head and mixed voices a lot, and I get a lot of compliments on the way I hit the high notes. Also, I'm working on improving my lower register by practising stuff by people like the Verve Pipe and Johnny Cash.

[blueckaym]

I really like how Chris is not just explaining, but also demonstrating every step!
I've watched plenty of vocal coaching vids and often you see some demo of a voice position, but it's from an already trained voice that you just can't reproduce if you're newbie like me (esp. when it's out of your speaking registry), and are still left in the dark, or very likely convinced that nature didn't give you singing voice.
But I love how Chris demonstrates every step of the process, and gives us the milestones on the way that help us find the solution!
I haven't tried this method yet (just saw it now), but I'll definitely try it out.
I'm kinda stuck up to F4 (though last year after some fixing some health issues it seems I got an extra semitone or two, and can occasionally reach F4# & G4, but still not in a usable way), and even got (ulgy!) falsetto on few occasions only. I also definitely can feel being tied to my chest-voice. I also like it :) which I guess is the reason I instinctively try to push the chest-voice high ... but it just doesn't work.

[timo.bass]

I'm just 2 minutes in and this guy has already helped me a lot

[mortenfrantzsberg]

This is gold. Can't believe i almost skipped this video. I have a fairly decent high range but i always seem wear out my voice within about 30 minutes. Just realizing that what I've been doing is pushing my chest voice and wearing out my chords because i push them too hard when hitting high notes. Doing this exercise i could instantly feel how my throat was waaay more relaxed and it was much easier sustaining a clean note. Going to try this out and see if it doesn't help me during longer partice/jam session.
Thank you for making these videos Chris. It is nice to be able to have such a great vocal coach even though we are in way different places on the planet.

[tat_dad]

Chris I gotta say I love your videos. I've been trying ti find my singing voice since I was a kid and haven't had much luck. I just turned 40 and finally realized I got three inner voices and didn't know I could mix them until the other day. It has lit a fire in me and I've been playing music non stop. I can't belive I can access these highers notes with my mixed voices it's amazing. Thank you so much!

[skatepark]

I’m surprised you haven’t setup your own vocal academy yet, you’re a better teacher than Ken Tamplin. It’s great for us that you haven’t, but if you did, I would probably buy it.
You’re THE only vocal coach that I have ever understood what they meant and took real value from.
Thanks Man!

[Invictus___me]

at 0:06 the way you said wall is a perfect example of how to get Mixed Voice I think (just tried it myself)... see your teachings are paying off !!

[BIKRANT]

You exactly know what problem I'm going through eveytime you post. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! 🤗😍

[fakemikasa]

Your channel is a very helpful channel for a Bass/Baritone person like me.

[HeWhoLaugths]

You've been coming out with some real banger videos recently. It's like your message is getting clearer

[MirA]

So I use my headvoice all the time. It's what is easiest for me to access.
But somehow I forgot how to do it and cannot access it and just ended up getting really scared I messed up my voice.
But this actually helped me a lot!

[rivenempire]

Thank you Chris, this really helped - I've been hitting that wall and have been doing it wrong the whole time, my falsettos always were weak and never used em, thanks for showing me the power. i'm very excited!

[jamanz]

Good one! This is my biggest challenge, often can't find the flip or head voice but this helped

[WhaleBluePRS]

There are a couple exercises in Chris' "Aggressive Vocalist" course that use the "flipping" break shown here. The course is worth that alone. It's helping me access my mix better than the other approaches I've been working with the past year or so. As a bonus, even though I'm not interested in aggressive vocals per se, I might be able to do that at some point and it becomes another "tool in the toolbox" that's worth the time and effort. Anything to unlock that ever elusive (for me) mixed voice is good!

[SamGibson]

I think you should have a ‘fundamentals’ or ‘gold nuggets’ playlist for some of your videos. This one’s been so interesting and useful for me.