So you want to sing high notes easily - but you're finding it hard to get a full, ROCK sound without sounding like an Opera singer or a hooty owl singing in falsetto.

There's an important key to singing high notes, especially high ROCK notes, that many people overlook.

It might even be something you've never heard of before.

Sure, there's support, twang, edge, mixed voice, belting, cry - all that stuff is great.

But none of this is going to make you sing high notes easily.

Because the balanced relationship between your pitch and your vowel is really the true key to singing high rock notes.

"vowels??" I hear you say "what does A, E, I, O, U have to do with high notes you maniac?"

Well for starters, AEIOU are just written representations of your phonetic vowel sounds.

Take a bunch of different words that have an "A" vowel in it;

Hard, Hat, Away, Always, Anything <- they're all pronounced DIFFERENTLY, right?

So, those vowels you learned when you were a kid are actually useless in a phonetic sense, because they're not phonetic representations of how these sounds are spoken.

When we talk 'vowels' in singing, what I'm really talking about is resonance and frequencies.

An "AY" vowel like the word "hey" or "head" is a combination of two frequencies, something like 500hz structurally and 1.8k in clarity.

These frequencies are a derivative of your fundamental frequency - literally the 'speed' at which your vocal folds vibrate at.

Now, your PITCH or the 'note' that you're singing is a direct result of your fundamental frequency - an "A4" note is 440hz - 400 revolutions of the soundwave.

Now, an AY vowel is a derivative of this main frequency - and the sound 'rings' in different spaces of the voice to accentuate accompanying tones and sounds at the same time as your pitch.

No doubt you're starting to see where the conflict of interest is when it comes to pitch and vowel, right?

If the frequencies of our vowel are derived from our pitch, then what happens to our vowel when you change the pitch?

All hell breaks loose.

You break, flip, shout, strain, struggle or completely crap out on what you're singing;

Because the vowel you're asking for can no longer be derived from your fundamental frequency.

So we need to COLOR each of our vowels as we ascend in range to cater for these shifting frequencies.

It's called Vowel Modification, and here's how to do it;