I downloaded the “Jesse Nemitz Top 7 Secrets of the Super High Mix” while it was on sale the other day. I watched the video and listened to the exercises and thought I would give them a go.
Sadly, I realised I wasn’t ready and ended up with a sore throat and had to stop singing for a day. It was only really yesterday that I went back to singing without any discomfort. I think I learned my lesson.
The problem is, going back to the lesson 2 exercises today, driving to work as usual, I was running through the lip roll exercise when I realised that I couldn’t hear Brent’s voice over giving me the pitch. I thought he said A flat but I thought that I was finding it really hard to pitch where I normally would find it easy. I restarted the exercise with the thought that the exercises from Jesse Nemitz’s programme had messed with my range.
It had.
I redid the exercise, volume slightly higher. He did say A flat but – oh my god – it was the A flat above the male top C. I then did another arpeggio – A – and then my voice gave out. That makes a full octave increase over my normal singing range. So, ok, it isn’t a ’singing’ pitch up there, but each foray into those heady heights will strengthen my working range which I wish to include top C in eventually.
I’m not advocating Jesse Nemitz’s product, but I just think approaching the exercises from a different angle did free up my voice a bit.
What I will advocate is, doing the exercises in a less ‘focused’ way as I have done driving to work, gives you a really good way of practising in a relaxed way allowing you not to ‘overthink’ the exercises and get your muscles in a twist.
