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High Notes: A Singer’s Guide

During my first voice lesson with a new student, I always ask, “What are your biggest technical questions for me about your voice?” And the number one answer—regardless of voice category—is always: “How can I improve my high notes?”

For many singers, high notes are a source of frustration, apprehension, and even discomfort. How can high notes be sung with confidence and technical balance?

High Notes: A Singer’s Guide is a 2-hour seminar and vocal exercise routine—delivered live, via Zoom—that will explore how high notes can be produced comfortably, efficiently, and freely.

You will learn:

  • Ten body movement and monitoring tools that can help you achieve appropriate body support and breath pressure during high notes

  • The single-most important vocal exercise you can perform to help you learn how to drop “vocal weight” as you ascend in pitch

  • A five-point checklist for optimizing your resonator during high notes (e.g., facial position, jaw, tongue, palate)

  • A four-step process for learning how to pronounce with comfort while singing in high tessitura

  • The seven most common warning signs that your high notes are out of balance…even if they sound good.

The seminar includes:

  • 90 minutes of interactive presentation by Dr. Julia Nielsen, including opportunities for discussion among participants

  • 30 minutes of singing vocal exercises related to optimizing high notes technique (participants remain muted)

  • Ample time for Q&A

  • 25+-page seminar booklet, delivered electronically, including handouts and the notated vocal exercises

  • Unlimited access to a video recording of the seminar for 30 days after the live event (through January 9, 2024 PT)

 

Date: Saturday, December 9, 2023
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm (PT)
Cost: $80

Level: All levels

Recording available! All Co-Vo seminars are recorded. Within 24 hours of the live event, all registrants will be emailed a link to the seminar recording, which will remain accessible for unlimited viewing for an extended period, through February 9, 2024 (Pacific Time).

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