How To Sing / Low Notes / Extend Vocal Range / Rock the Stage NYC

In this episode, vocal coach Kevin Richards shows you a way to extend your lower range of notes. Remember they need more breath than mixed or head voice notes.

Tags: how to sing, singing, singer, low notes, extend range, vocal lesson, free lesson, vocals, voice,breath support, high notes, vocal range

[TotalSinging]

If your throat is getting sore from singing low for extended periods its because you're not using enough air and the vocal cords have to "squeeze" to make the notes happen.

Larynx should "float" in a center position - a little movement up or down is just fine.

[chadguindon]

I would say that this is useful for Tenors.

[novacti]

I turned 15 last month and I was able to go from a C2 that was a bit strainy and didn't feel that comfortable sing down to a relaxed B1 because of this technique. Thanks!

[xxChaosyelxx]

holy crap i did the warmup and i went back to a song i was havibg difficulty singing and it was so much easier to sing the low notes! i cant believe it actually worked haha thanks a lot!

[chrisgeisler]

I was classified as a bass-baritone (when I was still practicing daily as a voice major I had the D2 and was gaining ability to hit the C2 and lower). I am 30 and my voice is still changing and all over the place on bad days. I thought that I was over that. My voice professor was obsessed with my upper range. While we spent a little time on the lower end of my range, it felt like she didn't want to touch it. She went on about how she would start teaching me how to strengthen and extend that part of my range (which, as she described it-i am paraphrasing-was powerful, deep and had a deep resonance she was sure I had and could teach me the exercises to unlock once I was stable and could maintain constant airflow and tone) once I was where she wanted in the upper. I have noticed over the past two years that when I am warming down or vocalizing that I am starting to have more (or to be correct- a very significant amount of) resonance and vibration in my chest in fry (with closer and closer connection and sound to chest voice)-more than one would normally think or expect. I had downloaded a program to my now long dead computer to "measure" the notes I was hitting in fry. It is highly likely that it was calibrated an octave too high because I didn't think that I could possibly hit as low as the program said I was hitting in fry. I once took part in an interesting conversation in which I was told that if I had a significant amount of vibration/resonance in my chest when I sang or slid into fry that I could very possibly sing the notes that had that "significant" amount of resonance/vibration with proper training. Is it true that I could train my voice to do so with the proper technique and exercises?

[TotalSinging]

On a properly warmed up voice my complete vocal range is C1-D6. But "usable" singing range is generally F2-A5.

[kaa]

This was excellent Kevin! I haven't heard anyone else talk about this. I used the same low end training routine to increase my low end range at least 2 whole steps. The process reminds me of vocal fry . . . I presume due to the loose state of the folds. Great for choir basses, or voice over people who want to lower their speaking voice (I can speak in a lower voice as a result of the range increase). Thanks for all the great training tutorials! I count you among a very small number of skilled, knowledgeable vocal coaches on youtube.

[WeyounVI]

I can git a D#2at my lowest currently. my goal is to just get that one semitone down!I've been trying so hard it super frustrating

[theomaung]

Mr. Richard. I bought your BTC program and I realized that in the CD1 for chest voice, you use vocal fry in almost every exercises. Can you explain me how vocal fry can strengthen our chest voice?

[TotalSinging]

+Daniel Vera - notes in general or just low notes? Either way the answer is simple - sing a Middle C note - it should feel like its coming out of the center of your mouth (middle C = middle of the mouth). As you sing notes downward, keep the resonance in the middle space of your mouth; don't swallow the notes as that will sink them into your throat. Extreme low notes must go into the throat but even then, just allow them to only go right under your chin. Don't "press" them down deep into your throat.

[pablostilwell]

Been looking for something like this, thanks

[feryalcubukcucan]

Thank you for your considerate consideration. As a female with a natural low range, I hardly make low E. I am stuck at low F. Could I manage that  E with practice or is it my natural limit?

[chadguindon]

Cool. Very interesting information. I'm a high Tenor and find it rather easier to sing high notes. When I took training and sang in choruses, I have had the ability to sing Soprano, Alto and Tenor. I have always had trouble singing low. I wasn't hitting anything below C3 which is already low. Sometimes, I can get to the A2.

[beebourie]

I'm a soprano 1 and I'm trying to make it to alto :(

[ibrahimx]

The lowest note in my vocal range is E2, on some days I find it super easy to sing, I reach it with no fry or fatigue, on other days I can't hit it no matter what, I always stop at F2 or F#2 and it sounds like it's fried and hard to keep, same thing happens with my highest note, which is G5, I sometimes can reach it easily, no fry no nothing, other days I can't go past F5 and it sounds airy and hard to keep, and in both scenarios it hurts a bit to even try, but when I'm having a good day none of that happens, can you help me figure out how and why does it happen? and how can I reach these notes everyday the way I reach them in a "good" vocal day? Rock the Stage NYC 

[TotalSinging]

You are very mistaken - out of the all the exercises on CD1 only ONE uses vocal fry - "Fry the Frog".

How are "Minor Mine", "The Frenchman", "Who Gives a Hoot", "The Tilt", "Burning Bridges", "The Hetfield" vocal fry exercises?

[TotalSinging]

That's because Tenors and Sopranos are genetically geared for higher ranges and music is written for their higher vocal ranges. In classical, if they want someone to sing low notes, the find a bass or low baritone.

I'm not much into the high flyers like Carey, Christina, Lambert.

[MultiKamil]

I hope it will help me with time because my speaking voice lies usually from F#2 to G#2 but sometimes it goes down to E2 and I can't really go much lower than that. Most of the times my limit is on Eb2 and I feel then like I'm squeezing my throat really hard so maybe that low larynx may be a reason. Once I managed to relax my throat and go down to B1 but this was only once unfortunately.

[paulfoo]

When I'm reaching my limit, I can't put the voice in a "forward" position/without swallowing the notes. If I do, I always end up with the vocal fry. Is there any way to break that limit?

[TotalSinging]

where do I or people in general. I start hitting vocal fry about F2. Not much singing going on down there.