If you sing rock, J-pop, or other vocal-heavy songs, you’ve probably had moments like these.

When the original singers or utaite hit high notes, they sound open, sharp, and sometimes even like chest voice, but when you sing, your voice goes thin, your throat hurts, the note won’t go up at all, or you’re wiped out after a single line — that’s the kind of high notes many people end up using.

This isn’t a problem that comes simply from being bad at singing. Most of the time, it comes from not knowing, and never being taught, the right order.

Put simply, what do many people who struggle with high notes do when they go for them? They make sound without understanding their breath. They try to raise the pitch by narrowing their throat. That might get the note up a little. But that approach hits its limit quickly. Your throat tightens, your sound thins out, high notes don’t last, and when the pronunciation or rhythm changes within a song, everything can quickly fall apart.

In other words, everything happens for a reason. If you keep singing high notes in a way that doesn’t work for high notes, they’ll keep not working. It just won’t work.

That’s why this course doesn’t start by blindly belting out high notes. First, you understand your breath, build a baseline for vocal fold contact, and train your body to keep the sound steady even as pronunciation changes, then you move on to high-register vocal folds, mix voice, belting, and applying it all to choruses. Order matters in vocal technique. Skip steps, and you’ll eventually end up right back at the start.

You can also take Practical Pitch & Rhythm Training for Singing, where you apply each week’s technique to real pitch, rhythm, pronunciation, and phrases. For those aiming to record covers and upload them, we also offer recording, home recording, and mixing courses, and if you want your sound checked personally, you can move to a plan that fits.

In short, this isn’t an online lecture where you watch videos and figure it out on your own but an online Regular Course designed so you can follow along like at a real academy, based on your goals and how much guidance you need. For details on what each plan includes, please see Enrollment.

To some, 24 weeks may feel long and daunting. Let me be honest with you. Things won’t change overnight like in anime. And everyone starts from a different place.

But vocal technique has an order and rules. You understand your breath, build vocal fold contact, free up your pronunciation, condition your body for high notes, and then apply it all to real songs. If you know the right order and steadily build up the practice you need while checking your sound, your sound is bound to change. Building up step by step while understanding the principles is the fastest way to improve.

This 24-week course isn’t for the naturally gifted — it’s for ordinary people. Once you know the method and learn in the right order, anyone can step into real change.

Step one is establishing a solid baseline for your sound. Through breathing, vocal fold closure, falsetto, vocal fold stretching, pronunciation, nasal·oral resonance, and vibrato, you’ll understand why your voice gets blocked, leaks air, or feels tight — and grasp how sound really works.

Step two is conditioning your body for high notes. Through high-note fold closure, forward and back placement, chest·falsetto·head voice·mix·belting, and high-note pronunciation, instead of forcing high notes, you’ll build a body that’s ready for them.

Step three is bringing it all together in real songs. Copy training where you hear and match instantly, high-note agility, connecting into the chorus, changing your expression with different tones up high, live singing, and all the way through recording and posting your cover.

In other words, this course isn’t about learning to hit a high note just once. It’s about understanding the skills the songs you want to sing require — and making them usable in real songs.

Let me introduce this course’s reference song. It’s my own song, 'Unfinished Light'. Its chorus climbs to C5.

But the goal of this course isn’t to hit C5 once and call it a day. After all, a song isn’t just one note sung one time, right? What truly matters is being able to sing that C5 chorus inside the song — connecting, sustaining, articulating, staying on the rhythm, and adding expression— that’s where we’re headed.

That’s why this course starts with breathing and moves through fold closure, pronunciation, high-note fold control, mix, belting, copying, agility, and carrying it all into live singing — you’ll acquire every bit of it.

This isn’t an audition. Just follow along at your own pace from Week 1. First, you’ll start by understanding why your throat tightens on high notes. Then, little by little, you’ll learn to hear your own voice, find the problems, and know what to fix first. Not everything changes at once, but if you know the order and follow it, singing becomes far less overwhelming.

Singing and high notes aren’t reserved for the naturally gifted. Learn in the right order, record, check, and practice again — and your voice can change.

If you don’t just want to sing along, but truly want to express yourself with your own voice, I’d love for you to start this course with us. See you in the Week 1 lesson.