How to hold C6 in head/mixed voice for longer?

[musicavenger27]

So I'm a tenor, and whenever I have enough adrenaline I can sort-of sing a C6...It's my absolute highest note... but only for a second or less. It's a note I just can't hold for too long. Is there any way of better developing consistent range past Bb5?

[Danielformica]

Yep don't try so hard you need to let the voice fall into it up there not push into it or you will only get it once in a while. Back off the energy and let it squeak up there once you find it, it will get stronger

[Jens]

My approach to such notes is quite the contrary to the method formica describes. Both are valid however so you can try this out.

Find a hooty soprano headvoice, tweak it alittle more towards a chicken sound. Once youve found this high light slightly overexaggerated lightly chickenish sopranosound.

Try to get it up to the C6 it should be alot easyer than i approached from a mixedvoice perspective. After you secured this you add in abit of pharyngeal it's usually all it takes to beef such notes up.

I can make an audiodemo later if there's something unclear cheers

Edit: it should also be supported and let the volume scale so the c6 will be the highest in volume, no holding back

[Manolito Mystiq]

Hold the Bb5 and make little leaps to the C6, back to Bb5 and up and back. A C6 is doable in head, or you could try to do it in whistle.

[Danielformica]

jens we are the same your little chicken is the squeak i mentioned:)

[Jens]

Hehe kindo makes sense now when you say it :)

[gno]

The advice given is great. Just wanted to mention there is nothing magical about the C6. You're just not allowing it to go higher at the moment. To extend your range you need to work at it one note at a time. First tackle the B5. And don't spend too much time each day on your highest note. It will come over a few days. Once you got the B5, you can work towards the C6. And so forth.

[musicavenger27]

The advice given is great. Just wanted to mention there is nothing magical about the C6. You're just not allowing it to go higher at the moment. To extend your range you need to work at it one note at a time. First tackle the B5. And don't spend too much time each day on your highest note. It will come over a few days. Once you got the B5, you can work towards the C6. And so forth.

I can only get B5 today... Christ..

Well there is a little bit "magical" about the C6, I would argue... if the fact that it's the fabled "soprano high C" is not enough, then how about the fact that from B5 to C6 bridges the 1000 Hertz mark?

[ronws]

I can only get B5 today... Christ..

Which is more than 90 % of singers and 99.9 % of all the humans can do.

Oh, "the agony of defeat."

:D

[Jens]

Post a clip so we can hear how you sound/do it?

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if i may add, rather than think of the note as something you go up to, try to see it as a note you get off of a shelf....

you pick up the note from the top rather than go up for it.....

[ronws]

actually, I like to think of smaller for higher. Rather than imagining a 5th octave note as high, I think of it as more as smaller and within the "circumference" of my voice. Just smaller, rather than reaching.

If you imagine singing as reaching, then you will reach. Imagine bringing your voice in to a smaller focus, and you change your perspective.

Kind of reminds me of that saying ....

:D

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i'd rather think narrow my brother...i feel smaller implies a diminishment....

[ronws]

i'd rather think narrow my brother...i feel smaller implies a diminishment....

I am 6' 6". I can afford some "smaller." ;)