If you've ever listened to someone do a cover tune on a show like American Idol, or The Voice, and you find yourself getting chills all over... chances are, they're done what I like to call "breaking the ceiling".

This is where we find the top note of a song, and we intentionally go higher than the original melody. Typically, we will do the following things:

1. We will hold that high note longer than is written

2. We will have Morph on that note. (Remember that cool morph stuff from early on?)

3. We could go softer on that note instead.... often the softer version will come in a song after we've already done the louder/morphed version.

4. We will riff our way out of that note on the pentatonic scale

5. We will add every last one of our super-power vocal embellishments around that moment in a song!

What happens when we break the ceiling?

1. More drama/excitement is added

2. The audience gets an unexpected moment of musicality (when it's done right, there's often spontaneous applause here!)

3. You get to show off your own voice, and not just an imitation of what the original singer did with the song.