Hi you all,
As you can guess, I am in the Dixie District.
I am not expert in extending range. On my own (with some work shops
by the society), I know the only way to up range is up. Therefore, good head
tone learning is essential to increase range. Leaning how to sing a warm tone
which is part of head tone process will enables you to get a better head tone
sound. The down side is you cannot sing above P to MP level depending on
strength of you voice when singing a warm sound. You will know when you have
warm sound if you feel warm moist air on hand as you sing. You can go very high
with less of the head tone sound. One choir director at a church I attended
said you most see you self pulling your tone through your head like a string.
Practice singing high is a good way to get better. Once you feel you are
catching on, try higher parts like baritone, lead, and later even tenor.
After years of doing the above, I usually can manage 3 octaves without a
problem.
I recently was trying tenor in some weird arrangement and hit a high E Flat.
Being a screamer note, I actually got reasonable volume. I actually believe
with more work I can increase my range. I have no incentive now since I have
enough range to sing to nearly all barbershop arrangement in all four parts.
A note about going lower. When I started singing bass in a church choir
in the mid 80's, I had always sang tenor. I knew I could probably sing bass
cause I found I could hit some of the lower notes. I found out you can add few
notes by singing melody in church an octave down. It seems going lower is
more natural for most people than going high. So pure practice singing lower
notes will add range. Going higher is not as easy, but you can add a lot more
to you range by concentrated on going high.

Don Widenhouse
BASS RTP
LEAD Sir Walter








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