If not, skip to the head-mix section and then work on the strengthening section to build up to this. If you can get close to belting the notes in the chorus comfortably this way, read on. Visualize the sound traveling out of your throat, up and over and into your face. Start on a “na” (as in cat) sound and sing “into the unnaaaaaa.” You should be making a face like you’re biting an apple. Next, read this tutorial on retracting your false vocal folds, which will help keep your voice safe as you work toward this. You can try gently pulling a theraband between your hands for some added support.

If you try this, and you feel your throat getting tight or scratchy, please back off of this.įirst off, start in as stable a stance as possible, feet about hips distance apart. If you feel you’re ready to try belting the whole chorus, read this section. It may feel like you lack control, but it’s better to use this feeling of throwing and miss the note several times until you build up some muscle memory than it is to clench your throat and squeeze up to the note.įor “follow you”: fah-llow you.” Belting the Whole Chorus Make sure there’s a feeling of release and not of clenching. Visualize throwing the sound like you’re throwing a ball (overhand). The next tough one, “I’ve had my adventure,” already uses the “a” vowel in had. It starts before that, in verse 2 with, “Everyone I’ve ever loved…” Luckily, this section uses a number of vowels that can be modified toward “a” (as in cat), which tends to be the easiest mixed belt vowel for most singers.įor “Everyone I’ve ever loved”: A-very one ahve aver loved…įor “I’m sorry secret siren”: Ahm sarry secret sah-ren…”

Watch the full conversation in the video above.The hard stuff doesn’t even start with the chorus. “It’s the same high note in ‘Let It Go.’ It just sounds higher because it is a higher interval jump.” “We were going to do it lower and she was the one who said, ‘No, let’s take it up to my money note,’ which is an E flat,” Anderson-Lopez said. The highest note is actually the same note Menzel sang in “Let It Go.” Anderson-Lopez explained how the new song makes it sound more drastic. That is basically Elsa has left the building. Then ‘Into the unknooooown,’ that’s an 11th. ‘Into the unknown,’ you step a toe out but you come back to your boundary. “‘Into the unknown,’ da dun, that’s an octave,” Anderson-Lopez said. In the song, when Elsa responds “Into the Unknown,” her vocal range escalates each time. It means death or danger.” Anderson-Lopez said you can hear “Dies Irae” in The Shining too. “Composers from Sondheim to Berlioz to John Williams, it’s in Home Alone, it’s in Star Wars, it’s in everything. “We made the voice sing the ‘Dies Irae,’ which is a Gregorian chant from the 11th century,” Robert Lopez told Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro during their DGA Theater panel before a crowd of Academy and guild voters.

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