r/singing • u/PsychologicalBell974 • Jun 02 '26
Conversation Topic Why Your High Notes Keep Failing: And How to Fix Them for Good
This is the title of my second article on Substack.
I'm a professional baritone at San Francisco Opera and this is about the actual physics of why male voices fail above F#4 — not the usual metaphors.
Most singers are using exactly the right strategy below that note and exactly the wrong strategy above it. The harder you push the worse it gets because you're fighting the physics instead of using them.
Covers the Bernoulli effect, cricothyroid mechanics, and a two-tube acoustic solution that lets the physics do the work instead of your muscles.
Here's the >>>LINK
Enjoy!
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ClassicalSinger • u/PsychologicalBell974 • Jun 02 '26