{"id":95,"date":"2025-11-22T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:49:29","slug":"the-high-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/22\/the-high-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"The high notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might be an idea to read the article \u201cthe jaw – do\u2019s and don\u2019ts\u201d <\/a>before this one, since reaching the high notes and a relaxed jaw go hand in hand.<\/p>\n

Once you have the knack of opening up the jaw when singing high ( which is mainly simply relaxing it), experiment with the vowel sounds and the shape of the mouth. \u00a0For many people, a wide rather than a long shape works best (try to keep the lips as relaxed as possible). \u00a0By this I mean a relaxed \u201csmile\u201d, getting wider the higher you go. \u00a0The trick is to keep the lips relaxed, reflecting the shape at the back of the mouth, tongue down. Like you have a \u00a0\u201chot potato\u201d in your mouth, everything expanding in your mouth to get away from the heat.<\/p>\n

Vowels when singing high<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take a song that you\u2019re working on with a difficult high note, for example a word with an \u201ca\u201d vowel (\u201ctake\u201d, \u201cmake\u201d etc). Starting low in your range, sing gradually up the scale, changing the vowel to a rounder shape as you sing higher and higher, i.e. to an \u201ceu\u201d or \u201co\u201d vowel. At the same time relax and open the jaw, focusing the note in the mouth. \u00a0Putting a \u201cg\u201d in front of the vowel can also help \u201cga, ga, ga, geu, geu, go, go\u201d etc.<\/p>\n

Also, experiment with the larynx. It can help to imagine that you have a ligament within the larynx, that\u2019s moving very slightly as you sing, the larynx itself staying relatively still.<\/p>\n

This makes the changes the larynx is having to make to find the tuning of the song much more subtle.<\/p>\n

Related articles:<\/p>\n

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    It might be an idea to read the article \u201cthe jaw – do\u2019s and don\u2019ts\u201d before this one, since reaching the high notes and a relaxed jaw go hand in hand. Once you have the knack of opening up the jaw when singing high ( which is mainly simply relaxing it), experiment with the vowel sounds and the shape of the mouth. \u00a0For many people, a wide rather than a long shape works best (try to keep the lips as relaxed as possible). \u00a0By this I mean a relaxed \u201csmile\u201d, getting wider the higher you go. \u00a0The trick is to keep the lips relaxed, reflecting the shape at the back of the mouth, tongue down. Like you have a \u00a0\u201chot potato\u201d in your mouth, everything expanding in your mouth to get away from the heat. Vowels when singing high Take a song that you\u2019re working on with a difficult high note, for example a word with an \u201ca\u201d vowel (\u201ctake\u201d, \u201cmake\u201d etc). Starting low in your range, sing gradually up the scale, changing the vowel to a rounder shape as you sing higher and higher, i.e. to an \u201ceu\u201d or \u201co\u201d vowel. At the same time relax and open the jaw, focusing the note in the mouth. \u00a0Putting a \u201cg\u201d in front of the vowel can also help \u201cga, ga, ga, geu, geu, go, go\u201d etc. Also, experiment with the larynx. It can help to imagine that you have a ligament within the larynx, that\u2019s moving very slightly as you sing, the larynx itself staying relatively still. This makes the changes the larynx is having to make to find the tuning of the song much more subtle. Related articles: The jaw – do\u2019s and don\u2019ts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-learn-to-sing","category-level-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singingfromthecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}