How to Hold Singing Notes – 4K

So I have a little story for you.

Many people think I was just naturally born with a high voice, and that is absolutely not true. I am high baritone at best!

Now for my story:

Many years back, I was in a professional band that enlisted extremely high range singers such as Steve Perry, Mickey Thomas, Brad Delp, and others.

I was the rhythm guitar player of the band and one of the main background vocalists.

But there was no possible way I could sing the high harmony of the kinds of songs that we did, except for singing it in a very hooty and fluty falsetto kind of sound.

It was at this point in my life, I was 19 years old, that I decided to take my voice as seriously (as an instrument) as I took my guitar.

I wound up studying with some of Los Angeles’ greatest vocal coaches, including the late Ron Anderson.

As do many people when they are trying to hit a high note, or hold a long note, they feel like they have to muster up incredible strength, cross their heart and hope for the best.

I had no idea that hitting the high notes or holding long notes was all about finessing the note and not pulling chest or powering through to get and sustain those notes.

Four years later, when I left the band, I started my own group and one of the songs that we did was Rosanna by Toto.

At the end of this song, the lead vocalist Bobby Kimball hits a couple of pretty high notes that I struggled with live, over and over and over again.

One day, I decided to just hit it in a falsetto kind of voice, like I had done previously in the professional band that I was in. I “gave myself permission” to hit the note with ease choosing a falsetto approach and the very advanced technique I had learned called “glottal compression” (this is a concept of holding your breath while you sing).

To my great surprise, I did hit those notes but I was also able to bring a lot of belted chest into the sound because I did not lock my body down with fear.

This became true for holding long notes as well. There was an art to relaxing the body but still making sure that you had enough abdominal strength to sustain the note while compressing air in the glottis.

In this video, we explore this concept together.

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